Anne Had A Strict Upbringing
Anne of Cleves was intelligent, as her later life would show. But her education wasn’t nearly as extensive as Katherine of Aragon, nor as worldly as Anne Boleyn’s. She had a basic education for a noblewomen, but her family was strict. She wasn’t taught the artistic things Henry valued, like music, games, dancing, and singing.
Nor was she taught English, which would make her married life difficult. She was smart enough to learn, but her ultra-pious childhood house rules banned such frivolous things. Most disastrously, Anne married Henry without knowing mechanics of sex, a deficiency Henry didn’t bother correcting.
