“My father is the biggest piece of shit to walk the face of this planet. He’s a duke—” “Wait. But you’re a lord?” “The sons of dukes are lords until their fathers die and they inherit the title. That’s not the important part. My father is a fucking duke. Do you have any idea what kind of pressure that puts on a person? He has my whole future planned out for me. Once I’m done at Wolf Hall, I’ll be banished to Oxford, where I’ll have to study politics and world economics just like he did. Then I’ll have to become a cabinet minister, just like he did, too. Have you ever heard the term, you can’t
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