Anne of Cleaves is my favorite. She not only escaped Henry with her head still attached to her body, but she became an independently wealthy woman who lived life on her own terms. That was so rare in Tudor England. She played it perfectly.

@gidzmobug2323

8 ай бұрын

The independent wealth came with strings attached: Anne had to remain in England.

@suemcgregor9248

7 ай бұрын

Also lived the longest

@suemcgregor9248

7 ай бұрын

​@@gidzmobug2323that may well have worked for her

@rolandrothwell4840

7 ай бұрын

I so agree 👍 Anne of Kleve was so lucky. Nonetheless, she had the German protestant princes backing her. Henry had to treat her gently because her relations were too powerful. If he executed Anne the Protestant league would have been pushed into the arms of the Habsburg emperor

@gidzmobug2323

7 ай бұрын

@@rolandrothwell4840 That was also the same reason why Henry did not execute Katherine of Aragon: he didn't want her nephew (the Holy Roman Emperor) declaring war on him. Henry was already at odds with the Church because he had broken away from it. If Spain started something, then every other Roman Catholic nation would pile on (Henry was, by this point, seen as a heretic).

Ignored, beheaded, died, annulled, beheaded, barely survived and only because he died

@esmewetterwachs7462

11 ай бұрын

Annulled, beheaded, died, annulled, beheaded, survived - because he died ^^ He never divorced anyone.

@julietpinto1180

11 ай бұрын

Oh. But

@nikkisiddall5955

11 ай бұрын

😊t😊😊

@nikkisiddall5955

11 ай бұрын

5

@nikkisiddall5955

11 ай бұрын

😊5😊

Jane just died before she could make Henry mad enough to have her executed about something

@sirantywanty

2 ай бұрын

HELP MEEE 😭😭😭

@eduardpena6580

Ай бұрын

Because Jane gave Henry a son she was safe if she had lived and probably would have had more children.

@theraven6843

Ай бұрын

Well, we will never know, will we 😮

The narrator at 29:53 was wrong about saying Anne of Cleves outlives Henry by 5 years when it's actually 10 years. Henry VIII died in 1547, Anne of Cleves died in 1557. Also towards the end of the video, it says Katherine Parr died in child birth "few years later" after Henry died but it was actually later the following year.

@NickMaybrick

11 ай бұрын

Ikr. And I'm gonna sound picky, but the narrator also says Henry executed a "few" wives even though it's bleeding obvious from the programme's title that he executed a couple, not a few. Nor was Wolsey sentenced to death. Nor was Henry unconscious or brain damaged in the jousting accident, according to the most reliable sources. Katherine Parr didn't survive Henry by a few years. She died the year after his death. It's meant to be a documentary, not historical fiction, where you can play fast and loose with facts.

@onagaali2024

8 ай бұрын

@@NickMaybrick Exactly but these shorts especially if dealing with history need to have irrefutable facts not inaccurate information. The films and multiple TV series already do it enough with their fantasy/fiction twists to the historical accounts. If you're going to put something on social media it needs to be accurate. Inform and educate people with facts not lies.

@AnOldFashionedWoman

8 ай бұрын

@@NickMaybrick, quite a lot of historians mention Henry's jousting accident and unconsciousness, including Suzannah Lipscomb, Lucy Worsley and even David Starkey.

@gidzmobug2323

8 ай бұрын

​@@NickMaybrickWolsey was on his way to the Tower on a charge of high treason. This carried a death sentence. Some think that the 1536 jousting accident did something to Henry that affected him during the rest of his reign (I am guessing a concussion).

@jessicaperez1370

5 ай бұрын

Katherine Parr was not the first protestant queen

Henry blamed everyone for his failings & never himself!

@Headpfones

11 ай бұрын

Henry didn't think consequences applied to him

@aprilgrant1957

10 ай бұрын

Sounds like a former (thank heavens) president who-shall-not-be-named.

@tooter1able

9 ай бұрын

Don’t we usually refer to that as someone who is “emotionally disturbed”

@margaretlouise6200

3 ай бұрын

@@aprilgrant1957 The once and future....take it to the bank.

I love that owen said that there was smelly ugly person in the room and it wasnt anne of cleves. You know what they say when you point the finger there are always 3 pointing back at you!

@NickMaybrick

11 ай бұрын

I love it too but Owen totally ripped that quote off from another historian. Can't recall her name off the top of my head.

@margaretlouise6200

3 ай бұрын

That's something Henry never understood. To me, he was one of the most obnoxious people from history. One wants to see him cast out of his kingdom in his petticoat. He wouldn't do as well as Elizabeth in those circumstances.

Henry was more influenced by wanting his own way than he was by Anne Boleyn or anyone else. He was a gigantic toddler who died a well-deserved painful miserable death. After all the fighting for Henry to divorce Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn only lived 4 months longer than Catherine did. Anne of Cleves was the luckiest of all Henry's wives. Can not even imagine having to copulate with that ulcerous bulk.

Anne of Cleves for the WIN!! I adore these ladies, all of them, even the shamelessly scandalous ones, but Anne Of Cleves, she is the one I not only adore, but i respect and admire her tenacity and her intellect as well!🥀

While wealthy men and women were dying left and right in the castle peasant farmers were chilling in their herb gardens

I love Tudor history ❤️

@slitaku

11 ай бұрын

same

@KourttneyL

10 ай бұрын

Me too!!

@HelenTudor-Douglas

9 ай бұрын

Me too! It's in our DNA. My family is from Henry VIII's sister, Queen Margaret Tudor of Scotland.

Jane was the “little nun”. Katherine the Humanist. Ann the Reformer. Catherine Parr the Protestant.

“Bedheaded” is a great typo 😂

@theraven6843

Ай бұрын

Hahaha!

As a psychotherapist, I find Henry’s narcissism and his wives’ personalities so very interesting!🎉

@direfranchement

11 ай бұрын

Henry wasn’t a narcissist. He had a traumatic brain injury. Scary to think that you’re charging people for your services.

@wlenore8071

11 ай бұрын

@@direfranchementyou’re entitled to your opinion. Sorry you have so much anger over a Henry VIII comment…

@direfranchement

11 ай бұрын

@@wlenore8071 As an alleged professional, you should be more responsible in casually labeling people, dead or otherwise.

@wlenore8071

11 ай бұрын

I think I’m entitled to my Opinion and you can have yours. Thanks! 😊

@direfranchement

11 ай бұрын

@@wlenore8071 No. You introduced yourself as a “psychotherapist”, and your “opinion” under a (likely false) claim of professional credibility like a diagnosis. That is wrong.

Catherine and Arthur had a final, proper Wedding at St Paul's and moved to Ludlow together.

Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing.

Wolsley wasnt sentenced to death. He wasnt even tried.

Crazy to think there have been 3 Tudor kings, and 9 queens.

@lesleymay8006

9 ай бұрын

Glad you're not including Jane Grey.

@cristianpeck877

8 ай бұрын

she was a queen though@@lesleymay8006

@nonbinary6834

3 ай бұрын

⁠@@lesleymay8006Nine days

@lesleymay8006

3 ай бұрын

@@nonbinary6834 not crowned or anointed so not true monarch

Henry the Eighth was NOT divored; his marriages were ANNULLED.

@direfranchement

11 ай бұрын

Same difference.

@glen7318

9 ай бұрын

not at all. an annulment is a declaration that a marriage never existed, a divorce is the ending of valid marriage@@direfranchement

@direfranchement

9 ай бұрын

@@glen7318 WRONG.

@Trouble_Bubble36

3 ай бұрын

@@direfranchementNope that’s correct. Google it ass

@glen7318

2 ай бұрын

@@direfranchement please dont say such foolish things. An annulment is permitted in the Catholic Church, because it is not a divorce, It is saying that there was no valid marriage. A divorce is saying that there was a legal marriage and now for various reasons it has been ended.

It amazes me that people doubt Catherine and Arthur didn't have sex. She admitted it herself, before one of her ladies interviened and claimed she was still a maid. Her lady said the language barrier explained why she said she had lost her virginity when she hadn't. Obviously, Catherine figured out why she had to say she was still a virgin and held onto the claim until her dying breath

Disappointed that a channel who uses the most prominent historians in the UK has misinfo. Oh, and caught the scene in "The Other Boleyn Girl" again, i.e. Mary's wedding.

Anyone else notice Benedict Cumberbatch at 22:30??

@donnawaldron3261

10 ай бұрын

I did a double take

@shamaal123

8 ай бұрын

Yep a scene from the Other Boleyn Girl

@HAI.1

6 ай бұрын

Yes saw him too

@GROK99

5 ай бұрын

I hit rewind. So cool to see him. Thanks for pointing it out.😎

Good stuff! Thank you!

I love reading about the Tudors; and even so the science wasn't up,to par back then to reckonise it's the man's sperm that determines the gender of a child. So many women killed because men took centuries to figure out why they have nipples.

I love learning about our history, good and bad

This is just a shorter version of your documentary series about Henry. If you're recycling videos it would be nice if you said so.

Is there not an episode 2??

I love Catherine's courage the most. Imagine she was pregnant and lead an army and she freaking won!

@goochmcduck4285

27 күн бұрын

Her mother was a warrior and Queen , guess it ran in her blood. What a woman and so beloved by the ppl. The ppl always hated Anne for that reason, damn home wrecker coming in. Idk if you were even allowed to say no to a king.

She paid the executioner 😩

Does someone know the name of the ending song? I could not find it anywhere...

Isn't it hilarious all the karma involved in this story?

Hard to believe that Catherine's parents sponsored Christopher Columbus' trip to the discovery of North America.

@hazelpearson7807

8 ай бұрын

Why hard to believe, it makes sense being a Spanish adventurer they would support him.

@GROK99

5 ай бұрын

You mean rape the new world?

Jane had a miscarriage also before she gave birth to Edward, why didn’t Henry just get rid of her?

“Anne of Cleves lives a LONG and happy life after the annulment…” The woman DIED AT 41!!!

@erint520

10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, the Tudor life expectancy was about 35 years. 41 is long for the period, sadly

@rolandrothwell4840

7 ай бұрын

41 years was a grand age in the 16th century. If you remember many peasants died by 25 years. Anne of Cleves was a lucky woman and happy princess. She had got a private fortune and some lovely properties to boot in her settlement

The rhyme I was taught was divorced beheaded survived, because of course, 2 wives outlived him

@hazelpearson7807

8 ай бұрын

That’s only 3 wives, he had 6. The rhyme was... divorced beheaded died divorced beheaded survived....but there were no divorces, annulments so would be...annulled beheaded died annulled beheaded survived

@lesleymay8006

8 ай бұрын

@@hazelpearson7807 yes the sequence happened twice

@ryotterox6652

6 ай бұрын

​@lesleymay8006 but the third wife didn't survive, she died. Jane Seymour.

@lesleymay8006

6 ай бұрын

@@ryotterox6652 survived Henry because he didn't get bored and get rid of her. Died in childbirth not executed, fate of a lot of women then and now.

@lesleymay8006

6 ай бұрын

@@ryotterox6652 2 wives who survived AND outlived him, Ann of cleves and Catherine parr

Divorced, beheaded, died. Rinse repeat.

@nonbinary6834

3 ай бұрын

And divorced, beheaded, survived- Henry died before Catherine Part,

the title says, "Divorced Bedheaded...not beheaded😀

where can i watch this version of henry viii

Okay, why is Anne at 13:33 wearing the French hood hanging off the back of her head, held on with 21st century bobby pins😅

@slytheringingerwitch

11 ай бұрын

Because she was a time traveller perhaps?

@NickMaybrick

11 ай бұрын

Cos it's a pretty crap doco? Getta load of the obviously fake beard Henry in middle age has too!

@sharoncatwoman

11 ай бұрын

@@slytheringingerwitch lol, if so she could have brought ovulation and pregnancy tests with her. Not to mention coffee, chocolate and toilet paper 😀

@slytheringingerwitch

11 ай бұрын

@@sharoncatwomanTotally. She missed a trick there.

I live near Henry viii home. I was fascinated by his era.

Catherine of Aragon sister Juana The Mad is technically violent, their parents are 2nd cousin and Juana descendants are inbreeding. Like Juana had to see her own grandson marry her own granddaughter or grandson marry great granddaughter (uncle & niece) so that is why King Charles II has a weird, tragic and unstable life

The actresses for Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard should have swapped their roles.

The music is quite annoying. Otherwise it would have been great

Every show or movie that ever portrayed Queen Catherine of Aragon has her dark haired and dark skinned when she is described as having strawberry blonde hair and pale skin. Go figure Hollywood.

Just occurred to me: was Henry a virgin himself when he married K of A????

So sad for these women!

Anne of Cleves is definitely the luckiest of all the wives. She was a clever German frau to have got such a good settlement, both in terms of property and monies.

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Yep. I'm ready to consume this content right..... Meow!

We all know why he could not have a son was because he had syphilis

Henry was such a narc

anachronism at 36:31,..no stick incense in Europe during Tudor times...neither were glass chimney kerosene lamps...

Today our Henry is Orangesama bin Chaos.

Much overstated and incorrect information

Bedheaded?

I'm with Henry on that one, no way would I become a protestant they are too boring.

I love the tudors

So, basically, divorced/annulled, beheaded, and díed...divorced/annulled, beheaded, survived... he's Henry VIII, he had six sorry wives, many say he ruined their lives... (AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO EVEN KNOWS THE REFERENCE?! LADY-)

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I don’t woo

divorced, beheaded, resurrected