"The accusations don't have to make sense, they just have to sound scary." Boy, does this ring true... for so many things, even today!

@Siansonea

Жыл бұрын

Weird how Tudor people sound just like 21st Century people in a lot of ways, huh?

@portzblitz

Жыл бұрын

Right! Trumpism exactly. Including the new right-wing industry gold rush happening right now where grifters make a pretty healthy living just feeding off the fear and entitlement of his cult following. DEFINITELY scary 🫣

It's crazy to think that most people will readily call Henry VIII a violent, untrustworthy, mean spirited and abusive man, but then take everything he says about his ex at face value. Thank you for making this video.

@sleepingkirby

7 ай бұрын

I had a really good English teacher in high school (Yeah... English, not history). He took the time to talk about Henry VIII as well as brief (a week) history of England at that time prior us learning Shakespeare. He made sure to say "This was what was said about , but we'll never know for sure."

@riggs20

4 ай бұрын

I’ve never heard anyone give any credence to what he says about his wives. Everyone knows he was a lying, cheating brut.

@lopnezk1320

3 ай бұрын

What would have happened if someone spoke against Henry? Pretty scary to do that

@igorlopes7589

2 ай бұрын

People don't hate Anne because they trust Henry, they hate Anne because they love Catherine. Most people jus hate Boleyn because she was living stereotype, actually *multiple* stereotypes: the evil stepmother, the younger women who steals your husband, the oppotunistic -gold- throne digger. She destroyed the lives of Catherine and Mary, people hate her for this.

I LOVE that book. I think it's where I first encountered the theory that Anne of Cleves was not unattractive (contemporary sources described her as reasonably attractive, and Henry never punished Holbein for misleading him), but that she dealt Henry's ego a serious blow when she didn't swoon over the "handsome stranger" who came to her in disguise. Instead, she treated him like the middle-aged man he was (remember, this was a nearly fifty-year-old man, making a political marriage, who honestly expected Anne to "know him for her true love") and he never got over it, projecting that rejection back onto her because he couldn't handle an honest opinion. (Remember how he described her? Fat, unattractive, and smelly? Who else could that apply to?)

@EH23831

11 ай бұрын

He was a typical narcissist

@tremorsfan

11 ай бұрын

If I had a time machine I would like to see the moment he tried to kiss Anne of Cleves.

@jeplica7011

11 ай бұрын

Plot twist, he systematically dismantled everything required to live a life with the amenities that facilitate hygiene, grooming and a peaceful and healthy life, and then reports how gross the girl he makes sure stays borderline homeless

@GoddessNeith

10 ай бұрын

yeah, he liked 'em young, pretty and kind of vapid. especially young. she wasn't impressed with him nor was she a teenager.

@shahnazbi8346

7 ай бұрын

True he was indeed a fat smelly narcissist.

I've always hated the whole 'Oh Anne didn't reply to his letters because she was a devious little minx who knew it would inflame Henry's desire further and blahblahblahblah' and I've just always found that to be so stupid. I think Anne was very much making the best of a complicated and crazy situation. I'm sure she was very much convinced that once Henry heard her 'No I won't be your mistress. If you want THIS you'll have to be single and free to marry' he would back down and leave her be. How was she to know he was going to tell the pope to fuck off, divorce his wife, make his currently only surviving daughter illegitimate and then be all 'TADA! Single as a pringle! Now can we get married?'?

@Print229

Жыл бұрын

Or her family put her up to it. 😢

@PeachysMom

Жыл бұрын

@@Print229 or both

@dugebuwembo

Жыл бұрын

I still struggle to understand how a teenage girl could be beheaded by a well known adulterer like Henry 8th, it's so hard to reconcile the way patriarchy was so extreme in Britains past!

@1607hannah1

Жыл бұрын

​@@dugebuwembo Anne Boleyn wasn't a teenager when she was beheaded, she was likely in her late 20s or 30s (some even think she may have been in her mid to late 30s). Unless you're thinking of Katherine Howard, who was definitely still a teen at the time.

@dugebuwembo

Жыл бұрын

@@1607hannah1 👌🏿 ok

Catherine of Aragon was not a teenager when she married Henry, she was in her twenties, Henry was still in his teens

@JDraper

3 жыл бұрын

Huh. You are totally right; I don't know why I wrote that. I'll put a correction in the description- thanks for the heads up!

@catherineaustin2

Жыл бұрын

I think I understand what happened. Catherine had still been in her teens when she married Arthur, and had to wait longer than she would have liked to marry Henry. So, it is true, she was 23 when marrying brother #2, but she had been a teenage bride first.

@dstinnettmusic

Жыл бұрын

The Middle Ages were weird if Crusader Kings is any indication

@dstinnettmusic

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewjohns1758 I don’t question how this could happen to one child. I don’t quite see how this happens to so many children….

@FrancesLocke

Жыл бұрын

@@dstinnettmusicmost people couldn’t swim. My understanding is that swimming is mainly a modern pastime (depending on time and location of course). Even sailors often lacked swimming skills.

I'm gutted by that ending. You, are extremely smart, talented, well-read and have a very nice way of speaking. Never stop what you're doing. - A random fan.

Great telling of Anne's story. Given the sad litney of miscarriages stillbirths, and infants born who don't survive, I'm interested in the theory Henry had the genetic disorder Kell blood group antigenicity. It really is a good fit for the whole male heir issue he had. Then his jousting accident and the issues surrounding it explain a lot of his erratic behavior after. It must have been a weird sensation for these women to be the object of Henry's desire - on the one hand, as a noblewoman of Henry's court, you're probably from a very politically savy family, so the idea of being queen is like winning the lottery - on the other, after Katherine is put aside, it's very obvious being Henry's queen is an extremely dangerous position to obtain. I'm sure there must have been some real cognitive dissonance going on when he starts making his affection known (and probably intense pressure from social climbing parents).

@MorganChaos

10 ай бұрын

I am SO CONVINCED that Henry was Kell positive. He had a female ancestor, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, who may have introduced it to the bloodline -- all her female descendants had basically standard fertility (that is, some didn't marry or didn't have surviving children but no more than in the general population) but most of her male descendants struggled in the same ways Henry did. There's a straight line of mothers from her to Henry. Kell positivity fits this, as a Kell positive mother's immune system won't attack a Kell positive (or negative) baby's blood, but a Kell negative mother who's been exposed to Kell positive blood before (like during a previous childbirth of a positive baby) has antibodies against a Kell positive baby's blood and will give birth to severely anemic babies (if they survive that long). Most of the time, a Kell- mother and a Kell+ father can get one healthy pregnancy, then + and - mix during birth, mother develops antibodies, and subsequent pregnancies suffer. In rare cases, a first pregnancy can sensitize the mother and cause the issues -- also, we're talking about the 1500s, so a first pregnancy can fail for a million reasons that have nothing to do with blood type. Catherine's first baby was stillborn at 6 months, so she definitely got sensitized during that birth if she wasn't already. And there's a chance for a baby to inherit a copy of the Kell- gene from the father, so that baby can be born healthy -- Mary was probably Catherine's only Kell- pregnancy. a d d i t i o n a l l y Kell positive men can suffer something called McLeod Syndrome (or disorder idr). It's rare, but its symptoms match Henry post-jousting accident, the accident happened around the usual time of onset, and the symptoms include things like seizures and involuntary muscle movements which could absolutely cause you a serious accident if you had them while jousting. I think the most major point against this is that McLeod Syndrome is really quite rare, being present in less than 1 in 100,000 people in the population, but the incidence of Kell positivity is more like 10,000 in 100,000 so it's not like the absence of McLeod is proof of the absence of Kell positivity. I am full conspiracy string board about this IT ALL FITS

Seems her fate was sealed the moment the King knew about her. Poor girl. It's really unfair how she was shouved into a situation she had very little control over.

@Codeexcited

8 ай бұрын

I mean she could have just been a mistress like her sister. It's not ideal(the sister was eventually married off below her station) but was an option.

@mlatham23

7 ай бұрын

Why should she have to do either?

@sriharshacv7760

2 ай бұрын

@@Codeexcited Had the same thought. I guess most women of higher pedigree would hate the idea of marrying a man of lower rank. This is true even today.

Henry could have used Spock's advice to Ston. “After a time, you may find that ‘having’ is not so pleasing a thing after all as ‘wanting.’ It is not logical, but it is often true.”

I love the Henry the 8th wives as Pokemon cards edit lol that's a good way to teach kids

You stole my attention, then left speechless. Great job PS. The cards were hilarious 😂

@godlessrecovery8880

Жыл бұрын

Gotta get rid of them all!

@Growmetheus

11 ай бұрын

Each one was individualized!

So interesting! I'm wondering if Anne insisted on marriage to Henry thinking it would stop the harassment since there was no way the pope would let him divorce Catherine never thinking it would cause that whole mess.

@zubetp

Жыл бұрын

yeah that's what i always assumed. suggestions that she did it as part of some kind of ongoing manipulation tactic always struck me as deliberate misinterpretations of her actions. if someone asked me to clean their toilet and i said "sure, for a million dollars!" i wouldn't say that intending to extort a million dollars from them lmao. i would just assume they'd ask somebody else.

this book sounds REALLY good. Anne Boleyn has always been my favorite of Henry VIII's wives, i think that's because i was so interested in Queen Elizabeth I and I wanted to know more about her mother. Anne's story breaks my heart. "the accusations don't have to make sense, they just have to sound scary." that's too true and even more heartbreaking.

Your longer form videos are terrific, I hope you will consider making these again!

I don’t know when I started to think of Anne as very wronged. I learned Tudor history like most, but I also did read a lot on my own back in school. But I have had the opinion, for a very long time, that Anne wanted nothing to do with Henry originally. She did not set out to be Queen. He wore her down, and left her with no other choice. It would have been him, or a nunnery. And Henry would probably not even allow the nunnery.

Poor Anne was doomed from the minute Henry decided to pursue her.

I think it's a bit simplistic for Karen Lindsey to assert that the only reason for Anne to ignore Henry's letters was that she wasn't interested. She may have been personally conflicted, or have disagreed with her politically-minded father, or have been considering what other suitors were available. The Boleyns were a minor aristocratic family but Anne was now one of the most marriageable women in England. Becoming the King's mistress for a couple of years would not prevent her from subsequently marrying but it would definitely damage her marriage 'value' and rule out a match with a top-tier nobleman.

@marywenzel3199

Жыл бұрын

Anne was in love with Henry Percy, Duke of Northumberland and the two were secretly engaged. Anne’s father and uncle were determined to make a Royal connection for favors and pushed for her to take up with Henry the King. Interestingly, the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took place on the anniversary of Anne’s execution-19 May. I think HMTQ was sending a message, along with sending Wallis Simpson’s funeral limo to fetch the bride.

@zubetp

Жыл бұрын

sure, but also, anne's older sister mary had JUST been the king's mistress very shortly before this. i think it's entirely possible anne wasn't interested because she'd just seen it destroy the reputation of her sister.

@user-uu2cj9ct3j

Жыл бұрын

Agree, I also find it a bit simplistic. She is considered a pawn of the men in her family, and more likely than not was acting on their orders more than anything. I doubt she had too much say in the matter.

@geodkyt

Жыл бұрын

The theory proposed by the author makes total sense. Henry VIII was not the sort of fellow one would feel comfortable giving a flat no to. By this point, Henry wasn't the most laid back of guys. Disinterest, combined with a reasonable and healthy fear of retaliation from the literally most powerful man in the kingdom, and an absolute monarch.

@eldupont3095

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you, but I also think what you said more or less boils down to 'she wasn't interested' or 'she was more interested in exploring other options.' A truly interested person would likely not have held out for so long before accepting. The fact that she didn't respond for years definitely smacks of reluctance.

What many people dont't know is that Henry Vlll was planning on having his marriage to Katherine of Aragon annulled before he ever became interested in Anne (Mark Holinshed has the whole story on this on his YT channel).......as Henry wanted a son and Katherine was in menopause by now. So he sent Wolsey on a mission to France to cast about for a French princess or noble woman for him to marry and King Francis was aggreeble and assisting with this mission.......but when Wolsey returned he was amazed to find the king chasing Anne Boleyn....but he was hoping it would be just a fling like all th kings other affairs, and he had reasons for not wanting the king to marry Anne and he prevaricated and did all he could to prevent the marriage, but he underestimated the kings determination to marry her. By the time he woke up to it it was too late, Wolsey had failed the king and was on the way out.....the king had also embarrassed him before the French king who had helped Wolsey in the mission to find a French bride.

In 1970 i was a freshman in high school when i saw the movie Anne of the Thousand Days. I didnt know anything of English history so cannot attest to the movie's accuracy, but WOW I was blown away by Genevieve Bujold's performance as Anne. As you tell tha story I am reminded of the lasting impression Bujold created of Anne as a young and fearless woman who took on the most powerful men in the world.

@lisasharf1442

Жыл бұрын

I love that movie, though I haven’t seen it in years. Do you remember, “The month is May.”?

The explanation of ladies in waiting taught me something new!

Your storytelling is excellent! This video blew my mind! And made me want to get that book! Thank you for this! (Subscribed!)

I actually lived in a all village near Gainsborough, & we also did a lot on Tudors & visited the Hall a couple of times in Primary school. It’s a lovely place, & we did that dress up dinner that they do which was really fun. I always take history as only partial because it favours the people who talk-upper class/victors/men basically anyone who is prominent at the time. So many voices are lost. Thank you for a great educational video 😊

I’ve horrible history’s song stuck in my head now lol. This was brilliant. Thank you! Buying that book now

I always imagine that one of the reason Queen Elizabeth refused to marry and have a child was because her father beheaded her mother for the sole purpose of continuing on the Tudor monarchy. So, she decided, to get back at him, for it to end with her. The daughter he left motherless because he so badly wanted to continue on the Tudor line of kings. I feel like its a very fitting revenge. I have no idea if this has any historical backing but an idea I love anyway lol. Im sure it was also because she didnt want to share power but I feel like its very possible getting back at her father for murdering her mother is also a reason.

@theshadowling1

Жыл бұрын

Nah. We know for a fact that Elizabeth loved her father, she idolized him. There's a reason she matched his religious views, and spent most of her childhood seeking his approval. The main issue around her marrying was the fact that she couldn't marry in England (Too much power to a single noble), and outside, the options were France (ancient rivals), or Spain, the current global power who would utterly subsume her government.

@TheDesertMarmot

Жыл бұрын

@@theshadowling1 Plus two of her stepmothers died in childbirth. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to risk marriage after that.

@thenablade858

8 ай бұрын

@@theshadowling1Agreed. People put too much emphasis on Boleyn’s death for Elizabeth. Elizabeth probably blamed Cromwell misleading her father. Elizabeth stayed single simply because A) She could keep her power, B) Using the possibility of marriage alliance was good politics, keeping people on their toes and C) Possibly Catherine Howard’s death, and Anne of Cleves being independent and wealthy after her divorce might have influenced her.

I grew up in Virginia and literally every year we went to Jamestown (an English settlement) and I have been there so many times I know my way around the place and the same thing for colonial Williamsburg. We love our local history here in the states but hearing about the revolutionary war and the civil war every year gets a little old. I wish we had done more on world history but really our history classes usually began every year with the crossing of the mayflower or some other story about colonialism and ended with is entering the Second World War.

@danielas6211

Жыл бұрын

Actually, you will find that the Revolutionary was a war between Englishmen. Our type of Democracy is based on the ideas of Englishmen of many ilks & centuries. The Colonists were demanding their "Rights as Englishmen"; ideas that had fomented for the 500- 600 years before The Declaration. The "London Company" were investors in Virginia settlement for the potential profits and most all the "east coast" was called "Virginia". The investors were well to do noblemen, gentry & major tradesmen biggest investor was Thomas, Lord Delaware. He was one of the few to actually come to Virginia as Governer, 1611, but 3 of his younger brothers, who were not the Heir, were already in Jamestown! They all sent their families & got land grants for sponsoring settlers. Then the Virginia Company investors established the "New England Company" for the plan to cover more of the sea coast with some groups of settlers having an eye on something more than serious profit, unlike the Jamestown group, some were seeking asylum for their beliefs. ANYWAY...I live in Virginia & you can't throw a stick & not hit an early decendant. Some went to Plymouth, etc., also. This place is brimming with Bolyns, Lancasters, Tudors, Shakespeares, Chausser's in-laws, you name it... & all those decendants are still here! Cool history ours too! It doesn't get taught much, but there are some great really true wild ol' stories!

@ccutehoney

Жыл бұрын

I’m from VA too and yes its kinda of amazing though if you get your degree in history and your concentration is early American history lol. Everything happened in VA and everyone important is from VA so I didn’t have to go very far to get information for my dissertation 😂

Thank you very much for this history lesson. Very entertaining and much more real to me than that old Six Wives of Henry VIII that appeared on Masterpiece Theater on PBS in the 1970's.

I so thoroughly enjoyed that! As a child and teen, I would go with my mom to visit her sisters in the East end of London and we could walk to the Tower of London. I became very fascinated with the whole Tudor period and I was always a fan of Anne Boleyn and could also run down the names and dates of ole Henry's wives. Such a captivating commentary and look forward to checking out your other videos!

You are the most entertaining history guide I've had the pleasure to hear! Thank-you very much.

Very Nice! Do Elizabeth Woodville next! I love the War of the Roses....(I know, that's Tudor propaganda...)

So where I grew up (Reno, NV), every year we learned about The Donner Party, which is extremely grim, and we read Patty Reed's Doll. I feel your...well, maybe not pain. But I feel ya.

"Ya bringin' this up NOW?" hahahahahaha

Found you through shorts and have now subscribed. Excellent!

Fantastic video, and you've sold me on the book (despite general Tudor overdose!)

"the only historical site in my hometown" can you imagine. I mean, I'm American so...... it's a bit different. But seriously. I can't imagine having any kind of historical sites in a hundred mile radius. Also I learned about Henry VIII's wives largely through listening to the SIX soundtrack and doing research from there😂

@bingdinggold1877

Жыл бұрын

There's many historical sites around you I bet, some are simply marked by a single sign. I'm in the random south and come across a lot just driving around

@TheSuzberry

Жыл бұрын

Depends on how recent we can go for history.

@cgopop

Жыл бұрын

There probably is more history than you would realize. Americans don’t talk about the fact of our history much so we often don’t know how close we live to it.

@CMansfield

Жыл бұрын

Although it’s better now, British people have not been as mobile as Americans. There are almost certainly a large number of historic sites close by, but perhaps the school outings were booked as a matter of habit and with the idea that if it was good enough, that was good enough. I once lived in a village in Bedfordshire and met a woman waiting for a bus to take her to Bedford. She was nervous and I asked if I could help. In the course of our conversation I learned that her husband had died and she needed a death certificate. It turns out in all her 60 to 70 years she had never left the village on her own, and those trips were huge occasions for her to remember. Many more people own cars these days of course. But still not as many as in the US. 😊

@BritIronRebel

Жыл бұрын

I live in Pennsylvania where there's historic places everywhere. Obviously, not as old as British history unless I got to a nearby spot that has native American called Meadowcroft Rockshelter. It's the site of one of the earliest known places of human habitation in North America.

You are the best! Wonderful job, J. Draper.

Found you from TikTok. You are so fun to watch!

your channel is absolutely fantastic. you pack so much into such short videos, which makes it less overwhelming to start watching than, say, a forty minute video on the same event in history. kudos!

Wonderful presentation and material - you rock!

Thank-you for making this video, its so nice to hear about history from such a different perspective!

Oh, and I truly love your voice. Your videos are delightful.

I'm playing catch-up with these videos and really enjoyed this one. The Wives of Henry VIII trading cards made me laugh. Even though the story told was very sad. Looking forward to more of her work.

Love your videos, thank you so much for making them. Bringing interest and joy as always xxx

Fascinating, well done!

What a haunting end. Your channel is fast becoming a favorite of mine.

No idea how only now I've just got to this meeting. Brilliant, as ever.

I feel like all of the surviving daughters and mothers should've gotten together and formed a support group. lol

@Sauvium1

Жыл бұрын

If haven’t heard of Six the Musical, definitely go check it out. It’s about the six wives, their stories and what their lives my have been like without Henry in them. But as a singing competition. (It’s better than it sounds - I swear!)

I know it's been like 3 years, but I wish you could make videos on all of them! I would try to read the book but I have ADHD and textbooks bore me to death-- even if I listened to it as an audiobook I would probably be more focused on whatever else I'm doing while listening to be able to truly pay attention. And you're so good at teaching history in an interesting way! I've watched tons of documentaries about Anne Boleyn, but none of them ever seem to bring up the possibility that she just wasn't interested in Henry. At best they characterize her as a woman who fell in love with a King and wanted that perfect fairytale picture of being his Queen, and at worst as some sort of power-hungry, manipulative succubus who felt no title less than 'Queen' would befit her. Although I do love it, not even the musical 'SIX' brought it up. It makes me wonder what other parts of these womens' lives, personalities, emotions, beliefs and motives have been buried under the rhyme.

@EH23831

11 ай бұрын

Hmmm - if you can read novels more easily, try The Other Boleyn Girl by Philipa Gregory (she’s written about many medieval/Tudor women)

@testosteronic

8 күн бұрын

I also have ADHD and was thinking the same thing lol

Honestly all of your stories are amazing. I watch tons of history stuff and at this point I thought I'd run out of good stuff but then I found you. Its excellent to watch while getting stuff done and so interesting

I reeeeelly like your channel - your presentation style and deep information. Just discovered. Subscribed and shared. Bingeing!!

Such a great channel !

I’ll admit I’d never thought about that way before, and after consideration I have to say it makes sense. Very well done!

Wow. This is wild. Thank you for sharing, you're a wonderful story teller

Excellent, many thanks!❤

Hello ,I just found yor channel . I guess you could say I am really late for the party. Well I have watched several of your videos. I just wanted to say all of them are so very interesting. Some of them where not only informative but also very funny. You have special talent of making learning enjoyable. I want to thank you for such great work you have done in each of your productions.

I live in Grimsby not far from Gainsborough. I really enjoy your enthusiasm for history . Im 26 and have always loved history

great post keep it up

Thank a lot J,I’ve always been a History addict and you’re another big supplier👍

Enlightening! Thank you.

AH! Loved the way you made this! I normally don't have much of an intrest when it comes to that time period, but I do love hearing about the six queens. (Thank SIX the musical for that lol) Like, I knew 'Don't Lose Ur Head' did Anne Boleyn dirty, but i didn't realize how dirty it did her. I would love to hear about the other queens from you! That or I get the book myself somehow-

That was such a joy and educational.

Love your channel. 🖖

Wonderfull narration

I was trying to place your accent...as a fellow east midlander I find it very easy on the ear....Great channel..we'll done

There's always more story. Thank you.

Superb video J. I enjoyed visiting Hever Castle her family home, down on the Kent/Surrey border. Those Tudor mannequins with her old clothes - creepy. And oh, so you are a Lincolnshire lass. It gave me inverted vertigo, so flat. 👍🙂

Youre voice helps me sleep. It is pleasant to fall asleep to. Thank you.

You are the first and only person I ever knew to have a Blue Peter badge. I KNEW one day I would find someone who had one! 😊

The third time I've watched this and it is still fascinating! Good job Ms Draper! (If this sobriquet, moniker, title? Is appropriate.)

Today I just found you! Just brilliant.

Love you content and style

@FMOAB

Ай бұрын

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Loved this video! It's so sad what Anne went through, but it doesn't surprise me at all. If women are dealing with this in modern times, it was even worse back then

Beautifully said, as ever

i'M NOT CRYING, I HAVE METAL SHAVINGS IN MY EYE.... Subscribed...

Really dislike that I have but one like to give. Thank you for sharing this story in the way only you can.

Love your look and hair Drapsey 👍❤️

Also, Henry slept with Anne's sister before he went after Anne! I'll bet Anne's family had a LOT to do with her consent and "plot" to marry.

Thanks!

That was good. Enjoyed thar.

Congratulations on the Blue Peter Badge!!! Wow!!! 😍💙

The story of Catherine of Aragon was genuinely sad. There was clearly a lot of love at first but it was taken over by bitterness and pride by Henry. Then again, if not for that, England would be very different now. Even if the crown had ended up going to the Stuarts, George I never would have been king later down the line as a Protestant king wouldn't be needed. But even before that, if Protestantism hadn't been introduced, the Puritans wouldn't have gained as much power potentially avoiding the civil war but more likely ending with something more akin to the French Revolution, a true class war, and we may well not even have a monarch now. The butterfly effect is crazy.

That sounds like an interesting book! I've become interested with Henry's wives since "Six The Musical" came out, but haven't read much about them, except for this book of the writings of Katherine Parr, which was somewhat interesting (I think I liked the letters better than her longer works honestly).

This was super interesting! I'd happily watch one of these for each wife. Watching Six the musical has got me into the wives of Henry VIII

After watching this video I grabbed a copy of "Divorced, Beheaded, Survived" and loved it! I would love to know what other non-fiction history books you recommend!

HA! It took me a minute to realize you didn’t grow up in that house, with the way you said that! Wow, I thought, she must have come from some kind of swanky lineage to have grown up there! Yes, I’m American, well, from the USA specifically, so this is why I wouldn’t know that house from any other that any of y’all could potentially have grown up in! You’re fantastic! As a life-long Anglophile, thanks to literature, Brideshead (the original!), Monty Python and PBS, and a keen history fanatic, I find your videos very interesting! Oh, I forgot to mention “Tipping the Velvet,” how silly of me! TTFN Sistah!

Growing up around history can be fun. I'm from Philadelphia, and there are all sorts of historical sites there, including one or two within walking distance of where I grew up.

Here in GA USA we also had to do local history but not every year. We did it in 5th and 8th grades

The connections between his English wives is usually ignored. Attention has been paid to his mistress Mayr Boleyn being sister to his wife, Anne. Anne and Mary were first cousins to Katherine Howard, and they were all 3 of them 2nd cousins to Jane Seymour. His last wife, Katherine Parr, married after his death to Jane's brother. Such a very shallow gene pool, that one.

Fascinating.

In one of Alison Weir's books she points out that Anne's French executioner would have had to have left home before her trial was over in order to get there in time. She really didn't stand a chance.

I was surprisingly old when I realised it was called the 'Old Hall' because the Hickman family moved out of it in 1720 to go live in Thonock Hall 🤦 (it thus being the 'new' hall lived in by the Lords of the Manor). I'd not been hugely into the history of Gainsborough though until I got older and got a bit nostalgic about it.

When Queen Victoria came to the throne, I believe, she gave Anne Boleyn a proper royal burial and service in the chapel at Tower Bridge.

I really want to go to Lincolnshire one day, get a feel for the place as that's where my family came from before migrating to Australia. I'd love to visit all my ancestral home towns. ❤

Thank you for including some balance to the history we were taught at school (I am British and as an adult am horrified by the amount they didn't teach - I guess because they have to ensure we're all believers in the patriotic sovereignty etc), I hope it has improved. Could you please do a video on Henry the 8th and mental illness (as I've read it is believed he suffered brain damage falling from his horse, after which his temperament, appetite, etc, changed). Obviously this isn't to downplay the awful things he did, but I feel mental illness for people in power is definitely important to discuss. I would also love videos like this on all Henry's wives.

Makes me want to rewatch The Tudors.

Congrats on the Blue Peter badge, that's quite the honour!

I've really been enjoying the dialogue on this issue from Natalie Greuninger (her podcast is Talking Tudors) and have been wanting to buy her book on the last 18 months of Anne's life. She doesn't put Anne on a pedestal, she recognizes her faults, but she also tries to give Anne the benefit of the doubt that history has rarely ever afforded her. I'd highly recommend her works if you're interested in Anne Boleyn as more than a 2D side character in Henry's story.

Thank you. For so many years I’ve been outraged that it’s only men I find .. well, 99:1 men to women in most sciences, most interviews, most of channels that produce scientific content of any discipline and then all of the historical and famous founding .. fathers of every amazing thing in history. 99:1 You have helped so much in sharing this information. All of the women who were there along side the men with historical credit and all women right now who are incredibly brilliant and not encouraged in present culture still. We are raised to find the man more credible than the female. It’s a huge frustration to me and failure in all education systems. How can any of us actually believe anything we are taught in school when 50% of the notable historical population just.. are never mentioned at all in history.

All Henry ended up doing by executing Anne was ensuring her place in history and popular culture. If he had just divorced her, her impact wouldn’t be as strong as it is today. She’s been an almost constant figure in the popular imagination for 500 years.

😂 at first I thought you said you grew up the that Tudor manor loll

I have always thought of Anne as the most influential person in modern history. Because of her influence on Henry, via the books she gave him, the reformation began in England. Then, she produced Elizabeth, one of the most effective and wise rulers ever. All this led eventually to the industrial revolution and the whole modern world.