Idk why but Henry 8th is always entertaining

@triciamills309

Ай бұрын

I've always been fascinated by the Tudors but especially Henry VIII. I think because the reality of his reign was as dramatic as any play written by Shakespeare. Every day under his reign, be it wife, courtier or peasant you were hoping to end the day with your head still on your shoulders.

@el_aleman

Ай бұрын

And he was just as unstable and murderous as any ruthless mob boss in history. I can’t imagine being in a court walking on eggshells knowing if you were going to “get whacked” on the chopping block for the slightest infraction.

@dionnegonsalves8188

Ай бұрын

​@el_aleman ... Henry: my way or the highway kinda king! If you disagreed with or disappointed him, your OUT! 😢

@onagaali2024

Ай бұрын

True.

@mrskenscott9643

Ай бұрын

​@el_aleman TRUE. But he wasn't too much different than most European monarchs of the time. His evil deeds were just on public display more than the others.

He bought the drama and I’m here for it 🍿🍿🍿🥤

In spite of Henry VIII being a tyrant, he remains the most fascinating king to me.

@user-fq8rs7rz3i

25 күн бұрын

Nah, the Plantagenets were the really fascinating ones. The Tudors had nothing on them. In my humble opinion.

@made-line7627

Сағат бұрын

The far-branching family tree is full of fascinating people, for sure​@@user-fq8rs7rz3i

I think Jane Seymour dying as a result of childbirth must have taken him back to his mother's death and that's why he grieved so hard.

@direfranchement

Ай бұрын

Another queen that perished in the foolhardy pursuit of a male heir, or in the case of Elizabeth of York, a male spare.

@danawhiteside2301

22 күн бұрын

Agreed ❤ Good point

@danawhiteside2301

22 күн бұрын

Agreed ❤ Good point

I’m so glad the narrator said it was Anne of Cleaves who rejected Henry, not the other way around. He was indeed a repugnant sight. And he stank due to the wound in his leg. The arrogance and vanity of the man!!!

@Thefruitspeaks

6 күн бұрын

Correct. She wasn't privy to his game, rejected him, and it hurt his ego. At least she survived his ire.

@vickywilliams8320

5 күн бұрын

Wrong.

@Linda98671

12 сағат бұрын

I was always so glad she lived out her life in comfort. One of his wives who succeeded !

@made-line7627

Сағат бұрын

​@@Linda98671She definitely came out on top in that game 🎯

Henry went from being a good Monarch to a disgrace and criminal.

@user-fq8rs7rz3i

25 күн бұрын

That’s putting it mildly. I always feel such loathing when his name is mentioned. So glad his line ended with Elizabeth I .

@made-line7627

Сағат бұрын

Relatable

I didn’t know Catherine of Aragon had the sweating sickness too. Since they’re still not sure what exactly it was, I wonder if that led to some of her fertility problems. 😢

@el_aleman

Ай бұрын

I’ve read in medical literature that it could have been Hanta virus. It is spread through the inhaled aerosol of rodent urine and feces that would be readily available in castles and dwellings in those days ( i.e. inhaled “kicked up contaminated dust”). It can present in pulmonary (pneumonia) and renal (kidney failure) forms. And of course, fever is going to be the most obvious sign and symptom.

@williamegler8771

Ай бұрын

The problem was probably more with Henry. Because of all his marriages and affairs he only had four children that survived in a couple of his wives never even became pregnant.

@lsherriejoseph7619

Ай бұрын

There is a possibility that some of her fertility problems had to do with the time after Arthur's death and before her marriage to Henry. She was in a state of diminished finances and wasn't able to eat or care for her health as needed, which suffered during this period. She was very fertile in the meaning that she and had no trouble getting pregnant, her problems where carrying them to survival.

@onagaali2024

Ай бұрын

Katherine of Aragon had the sweating sickness around the time she was briefly married to Henry VIII's older brother Arthur in Spring,1502. She recovered and survived, Arthur did not.

@user-fq8rs7rz3i

25 күн бұрын

@@williamegler8771 4? Are you including Henry Fitzroy?

I love Anne Boelyn and Elizabeth ❤

@katemaguire958

21 күн бұрын

Me too

Interesting that no one has mentioned seeing Benedict Cumberbatch at 35:06.

@AndreaDamery

21 күн бұрын

I think it was a scene from “The Other Boleyn Girl.” I can’t be certain as there are so many other movies and shows in my mind re Tudors. Lol

@Samsmom50

17 күн бұрын

@@AndreaDameryHe played William Carey! You are right! It was William and Mary’s wedding!!

@AndreaDamery

17 күн бұрын

@@Samsmom50 woo hoo. See. We were paying attention 😆

Heinrich den VIII als Tyrann zu bezeichnen ist sehr hart. Er war ein Regent in seiner Zeit, in der es so zu ging. Die anderen Monarchen standen dem nicht nach. Außer, dass sie nicht ihre Ehefrauen haben köpfen lassen. Darin hat Henry ein Alleinstellungsmerkmal. Die Fixierung auf einen Sohn ergab sich aus dem geltenden Erbrecht / Thronfolge. Für die Historiker und uns, wird er immer eine interessante Person bleiben.

Henry was a hunter, once a woman was caught and known she was discarded.

@SuperGreatSphinx

12 күн бұрын

Artemis

@martyvirtue4051

3 күн бұрын

I would call that a narcissist…

@stung3848

2 күн бұрын

@@martyvirtue4051so would lots of us

@martyvirtue4051

2 күн бұрын

@@stung3848 not the first responder Alexandra

@daniellefrancis1476

Күн бұрын

@@martyvirtue4051not sure that word existed in those days! Bad behaviour by men was just expected.

Very interesting content

From the pope. Normal people in those days didn't even have church weddings. A man and a woman would just decide to be married to each other and that was that. There was also what was called wife selling at the time.

@Jolene492

17 күн бұрын

They did marry in the church, thats why Henry started the Prodestant faith coerced by the mistress. She wanted Henry to divorce but in the eyes of the church they wouldn’t grant it. Average age to marry was 25. Britain was mostly catholic in those days. People dud have wedding blessings and ceremonies 😊

@deborahproctor9538

17 күн бұрын

Because they were noble. Most peasants didnt

Happy birthday henry for the 28th. I think your the most fascinating/ misunderstood monarch England ever had or will ever have again

@user-fq8rs7rz3i

25 күн бұрын

🤣😅😂 Sooo misunderstood.... When? He was an homicidal maniac. Glad it all came to nothing, I’m just sorry he never knew!

@user-zy2ke5xh9z

2 күн бұрын

I think you are or I think you're . Don't post anything until you've learned correct grammar.Please.

I would argue that in Henry’s mind, his sexual relationship with Mary Boleyn would not have put his relationship with Anne in the same condition as his relationship with Katherine of Aragon. The scripture he argued from was very specifically about taking your brother’s wife as your own, and how that is a sin. On the other hand, having sexual relations with two sisters doesn’t seem to have been considered a sin, because that’s literally what Jacob did in marrying Leah and Rachel.

@user-fq8rs7rz3i

25 күн бұрын

But Jacob was a jew not a catholic. Vastly different religions.

@RiseeRee

22 күн бұрын

@@user-fq8rs7rz3i That kind of doesn’t matter since it’s still in the Christian Bible. Henry VIII was arguing from Leviticus in the first place. That’s the Old Testament aka the Hebrew/Aramaic scriptures; Christianity didn’t exist when the scripture Henry used was written.

@spookyariel1

20 күн бұрын

Bigamy is everywhere in the bible. Women are basically chattel in the bible.

I totally think Catherine and arther consmated the marriage

@SuperGreatSphinx

12 күн бұрын

Eros

Thank you for this fast moving very interesting history. Henry the 8th…was despicable, I felt sorry for anyone in his line of vision!

Poor Catherine of Aragon had about 17 pregnancies.

Great man.

One sick puppy.

The making of a phycho king...

The portraits of Henry VIII reminds me of a fat Prince Harry...just saying...

@gailobrien9380

28 күн бұрын

True!

@nigellee9824

27 күн бұрын

No relationship, none at all….

@Jackiegee60

27 күн бұрын

Prince Harry, also known as the Duke of Sussex, is indeed a descendant of King Henry VIII, albeit distantly. Let me explain the connection: Margaret Tudor Margaret Tudor Queen Margaret of Scotland: Queen Elizabeth II is descended from Henry VIII’s sister, Queen Margaret of Scotland, who was the grandmother of Mary Queen of Scots. Mary’s son, James I of England, had a daughter named Elizabeth, also known as the Winter Queen. Elizabeth married Frederick V, the Elector Palatine. Their youngest daughter, Sophia, married Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover, and was

@Jolene492

17 күн бұрын

@@Jackiegee60prince Harry isnt a pure blood.

@martyvirtue4051

3 күн бұрын

@@Jackiegee60o please.

Wait before Mary and Elizabeth became put on the line of succession to the throne were woman allowed to be heirs to the throne?

@RiseeRee

Ай бұрын

France had Salic law, but there was never a law that women couldn’t inherit the throne in England. The main issue came from the idea that according to the Christian faith, women had to be obedient to their husbands. In that case, the realm would be ruled by a monarch that was bound to obey either a foreign prince, or a noble subject. Both of those circumstances could be problematic. A domestic marriage could lead to infighting at best and civil war at worst, with other noble families getting shunted to the side in favor of the consort’s family. On the other hand, being enthralled to a foreign power could mean being drawn into wars and other issues that really had nothing to do with England at all. The Cousins Wars were pretty much over with the marriage of Henry VII and Princess Elizabeth of York, but in Henry VIII’s reign, there were still people who thought others had a better claim to the throne than him. I think avoiding civil war and cementing the Tudor dynasty as the one and only rightful royal line was heavy on Henry VIII’s mind. After all, he was alive during uprisings of pretenders to the throne coming against his father. And after all, he was only the second Tudor King after centuries of Plantagenet rule.

@saikoneko1937

Ай бұрын

Yes. Empress Matilda. She was supposed to be Queen of England after her father's death. But Stephen claimed the crown instead. Turned into a bloody mess till Henry II forced Stephen to appoint his as Stephen's heir.

What's up with Anne's head dress? It was at the wrong angle and her face was covered.

I can’t cope with the yank accent…

@user-fq8rs7rz3i

25 күн бұрын

Why? He’s doing quite well. He even said ‘fortnight’. 🤣

Queen Elizabeth of York almost *certainly* DID NOT--despite the “charming, quaint little picture of Elizabeth ‘raising her children and being their first tutor” at Elpham that Starkey proposes--the Queen almost *certainly* would not have “taught the young Henry VIII to write.” The fact is that **she had far, far too many public duties (being one of the strongest supports of her husband Henry VII’s claim to the throne) and would have been **FAR, FAR too busy** to have acted as “tutor” to her younger children. It is possible--perhaps even probable--that the similarity between her and Henry’s handwriting (in which the r’s look very much like zed’s) came about bc they both were taught handwriting by the same tutor or group of tutors. The fantasy Starkey likes to imagine of Elizabeth and her younger children being “an intimate, familial society of royal women surrounding The young Henry VIII and deeply affecting him psychologically” has been debunked many times by serious historians less anxious for the camera’s limelight than Starkey…

His bday is coming up soon. 🦀❤️

The echoed voice at the beginning sounds like he locked himself in the bathroom.

WE HAVE GOT ANOTHER ONE NOW , JUST WATCH , HE LOVES THE WEF BUT HE DETESTS US THE COMMON PEOPLE .

Am I the only one to think that the historian looks like Henry

@user-qh2vu7kw8w

21 күн бұрын

Yes

F O R G I V E N E S S

Can you imagine what the tabloids would have to say if he lived in our era! What a great King, does what he wants and doesn't give a damn what everyone else thought

@user-fq8rs7rz3i

25 күн бұрын

Great??? He’d be loathed like he was in the latter years of his reign. Thankfully the Royals had their wings clipped long ago.

@catherineannelockman3805

21 күн бұрын

Kind of like prince Harry today...

They couldn't cast an actress to portray Catherine that looked like the historical and contemporary accounts of her.

@monicacall7532

Ай бұрын

Which Catherine are you referring to? Wife 1,5 or 6?

@user-fq8rs7rz3i

25 күн бұрын

And one of them was a Katherine with a K!

The suggestion that King Henry VIII’s beginning to style himself “Emperor in His Own Realm” was “the place where the British Empire really begins” is ABSOLUTELY SILLY, and reveals that the ostensible “historians” consulted in this video are **certainly NOT** CULTURAL historians. Nor do they seem to have any, *ANY* understanding of the subtleties of theology and sovereignty at stake in the founding of the Church of England (or Anglican Church, called the Episcopal Church in America) with the passing of the 1534 Act of Supremacy by Parliament. When Henry styles himself “Emperor in His Own Realm” after the passing of this Act and the creation of the new Church of England, what Henry *meant* in early Tudor terms is that 1) He, The King, was the Supreme Head on Earth of the English Church, and that 2) Henry’s clergy (nor any other of his subjects) could no longer claim to recognise **any authority outside the sovereign borders of England--such as the Pope’s episcopal authority and authority as Christ’s supposed Vicar on Earth--as being in any way higher than the King’s authority, in both civil and ecclesiastical matters.** Henry’s expression, thus, is 100% concerned with the Kingdom of England’s *sovereign* right to make its own King the absolute head of its own Church. It has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do in 1534 with dreams of an eventual overseas empire. Such ridiculous comments discredit this video quite seriously.

Once again, it is 100% INACCURATE to say that Katherine Parr was England’s *first* Protestant Queen. That honour--if honour it be--belongs to Anne Boleyn, obviously, for whom Henry VIII had broken England’s ties with Rome and had established the Protestant Church of England. Anne was theologically quite well-read, and had always been sympathetic to Lutheranism. This video has a confused and confusing notion of what the term “Protestant” means. At times it means “all non-Catholic Christian denominations.” At other times, though, the video seems to think of the term “Protestant” as a synonym for the much, much narrower term “Calvinist,” which it certainly isn’t. True: all Calvinists are Protestants, but not all Protestants are Calvinists.

Henry Vlll is a fascinating man.

I wonder what Henry would think if he knew the truth, that it's the male sperm that chooses the sex of the child?

U.K today i would be Catholic the Pope say yes to divorce of Catalina de Aragon ; probably?

@CountessKitten

Ай бұрын

Absolutely

@Dee-mj3pu

Ай бұрын

Henry wanted an annulment from Catherine of Aragon. (Not divorce.)

@user-fq8rs7rz3i

25 күн бұрын

@@Dee-mj3puNot after the marriage produced a child!

Are you not going to EXPLAIN *WHY* Henry VIII sought the “approval” of another King, Francis I of France (who in addition to having traditionally been England’s enemy, was also a *Catholic*)--are you not going to explain *why*--given some of the archaic customs of the early modern period, which had lingered on from the Late Medieval Period--Henry would seek the approval of King Francis I of France for his marriage to Anne Boleyn????? Theoretically, tho Henry *was* a sovereign ruler, a small part of the territory he ruled over--the French city of Calais on the Channel--was technically--according to the medieval traditions of feudalism--a “fief” Henry held of the overlord of All of France, King Francis I. This meant, paradoxically, that though Henry and Francis, as kings of sovereign nations, were equals; Henry was simultaneously King Francis’s “vassal,” and needed his feudal lord’s permission to marry. It was all mere empty propaganda designed to replace the lost traditions of Roman Catholicism with the already long-dead traditions of feudalism…..

Lunatics

@user-fq8rs7rz3i

25 күн бұрын

Yes, thats organised religion for you!!!

What happend to brains back then? After failed attempt number 1 you have damned your soul to hell might aswell do it right? I would say get 10 woman that are pretty. Make them all pregnant. Marry the one that gets the boy. Save the 2th and 3th maybe even 4th because Child deaths are very common. If your first one dies replace him with the others. And hope she have more baby boys after but, you have atleast your heir sorted.

@user-fq8rs7rz3i

25 күн бұрын

The buggar had two boys, but one was outside marriage. Both died young. So glad Elizabeth 1 ended his line.

The man only had 2 wives.

@user-fq8rs7rz3i

25 күн бұрын

I’ve heard that, but which ones? Opinion’s differ on the subject.

@AndreaDamery

21 күн бұрын

I suspect the answer is first and the third.

The actor playing the king looks less than zero like him. Poor costuming and makeup as well.

@DaisyChain3339.

8 күн бұрын

At least he is White, I saw a few shows that make him, Ann Boylen and King Edward blk.

Tired of hearing about his wives. That part gets so old.

The Tudor dynasty is still around

@williamegler8771

Ай бұрын

The Tudor Dynasty died out with the death of Elizabeth and it was replaced with the Stuart Dynasty.

@amandasaggers2079

Ай бұрын

The Tudor bloodline is still around but not directly to the ruling monarchs of The Tudors. They stem from his sister’s Mary and Margaret and possibly Catherine Carey (Mary Boleyn’s daughter) but if she was, Henry’s he never claimed her. So that’s just a speculative bloodline to Henry.

@sidepai

Ай бұрын

​@@amandasaggers2079There's also Henry Fitzroy (sp on the last name?) who was an illegitimate son of Henry and one of his mistresses that was acknowledged by Henry, but couldn't inherit due to his illegitimacy.

@RiseeRee

Ай бұрын

@@sidepaiYeah but he died without issue, so he can’t be counted in the people that carried on the Tudor bloodline.

@sidepai

Ай бұрын

((EDIT: I'm aware now that he died at the age of 19 without children. Please stop commenting about it. Thank you!! 😊)) @RiseeRee ahhh so he didn't have any children? Didn't know that as they just bring up him being an acknowledged illegitimate child. Nothing else beyond that. Learned something new today, thanks 😊