#* system

[id: a photo from Anna, Duchess of Cleves by Heather R. Darsie. It reads:

“It has been repeatedly asserted that Elizabeth I chose never to marry because of what happened to her mother Anne Boleyn, what she saw happen to her stepmothers Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, and Katheryn Howard, not to mention the ill-treatment of Katherine of Aragon, and Mary I's diminished position in the realm after her marriage to Philip Il of Spain. But what if there was more to it than fear of what had gone before? What if Elizabeth had a role model? A woman who was independent, prudent, intelligent, bold, tolerant, and managed her own affairs?

“Anna is just such a figure for Elizabeth I. Despite the annulment, [text cuts off here]”. end id.]