Thomas Wolsey has never shied away from who and what he is. And he knows he's amoral and he certainly knows that his ethics have never been...anywhere really. Which is perhaps why he's been undone by his own bloody ethical constraints. Because he couldn't do it. He'd done everything else (he'd dragged Catalina Tudor's name through the mud, he'd dragged Senator Buck out of the state house in disgrace and he's certainly done enough to make sure that rat Pierre never threatened Henry Tudor Senior for a moment. He hasn't regretted any of it. He came from nothing and he'd built himself a nice little power base and then some.
Until Harry (Harry who he'd practically raised. Harry whom he'd guided into politics) had asked him to do something that could not be done. And then he was done. Done and done.
The fall of Wolsey, the hatchet man of the Tudor Administration was spectacular. After his well publicized failure to oust Attorney General Fisher (who had refused to lead an investigation into Catalina Tudor among other offences) and his deeper failure in the management of his divorce, Henry Tudor had rapidly lost patience with the man whom he credited with creating his political rise. Wolsey resigned only hours after the Fisher-Campeggio report was leaked to the media, along with details of his extra martial affairs. The ruin, in short, was complete.
(Maker Of Kings - The Life of Thomas Wolsey).
It was a golden childhood. Margaret knows that. She was the youngest - a baby born in the White House to a pair of doting parents who hadn't expected to have another child so late. She has only dim memories of her mother but she remembers a wonderful woman who always always had time and patience for her children. She remembers a father who doted on all of them. She knows there were other aspects to their lives but it hadn't touched her then.
She remembers brothers and a sister who adored her. And then, then it changed. After Arthur. After their mom died. After she graduated and married Charles and Henry slapped her and then, then she's scared of her big brother.
That Henry Tudor was influenced by his mother Elizabeth can be seen in his early life and writings. That her death (& his fathers subsequent non involvement in his life after the double tragedy of losing his wife and son) impacted him deeply is true, but does not imply causation in regards to Tudor's subsequent disgraceful conduct. Governor Tudor had influences but above all, he formed himself.
(Dynasties Children - A Portrait of Arthur, Henry, Mary & Margaret Tudor)
