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Lena asked this question about The Boleyn Inheritance (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #10):
What was the relationship between Anne and her brother in the beginning? I'm getting a sense of incest coming from the brother but it never gets explained.
Emiloid If we're talking Anne of Cleves, I think her brother definitely has a weird obsession with her body. It's ambiguous whether it's sexual per se, but he…moreIf we're talking Anne of Cleves, I think her brother definitely has a weird obsession with her body. It's ambiguous whether it's sexual per se, but he definitely feels a need to possess her, and his bodily obsession is part of that. Anne was the only sister who would stand up to him when they were kids, and that always bothered him, and he always looks for some way to reign her in.(less)
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