Why the Tudors fell for courtly love
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Catherine of Aragon, You Know, Is She a Princess?
Catherine of arragon was someone need of rescue, you know, almost like a princess in a tower. She had a very bitter time, from which the new henry the eighth swanned in and rescued her. And if she was older than he, if she was more experienced in the ways of the world than he, that all worked for the courtly fantasy. Trouble is, it's when fantasy its reality thut, that courtly love lets women down.
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