![]() ![]() ![]() Henry: It isn't rape we are to be married. ![]() His personal interactions with Lizzie remind me of a frustrating high school crush – a total posturing asshole most of the time, but then, when you least expect it, surprisingly gentle. For all that he's a leader on the battlefield, he's alarmingly easy to lead at court. He's such a contrast in decisive force and bewildered naivete. Jacob Collins-Levy (and Emma Frost) give us just enough of a sense of Henry to want more. If I were her, I'd be more concerned about his weird relationship with his mother and that little stunt backdating his reign than the fact that he killed my uncle/loved. Henry's a complicated character, although we've only started to see that.Īs much as Lizzie rails against her fated husband, there's little evidence that he's quite as bad she complains he is. ![]() He has not won, this moment, he has not won. The way she dealt with Henry's assault highlighted both her strength and her fragility. She's having to decide how she's going to handle things, and her reactions feel authentic. But she's still the girl who lived a good chunk of her life hiding in sanctuary at Westminster Abbey and has just lost her first love. She is now facing marriage and becoming Queen, something that would empower her under normal circumstances. She, in the parlance of a patriarchal society, became a woman when she lost her virginity to her uncle. ![]()
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