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  • Why she pulling her PJ front of king?

  • lord...THE WOMEN IN THE KINGS LIFE ARE ALL SO AGGRAVATING!! JEEZ!

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  • The word tea not was popular for there times :) because it was this Portuguese queen to introduce this habit in England, the five hour tea. I`m shore that 95% British don`t know.

  • "my god they've brough me a bat to marry."

    that's so cruel.

  • @ItsMoriashkiBitches yet very funny! I like the "would the Princess care for a mug of beer?!"

  • you just see him look and think 'What the hell is wrong with you hair'

  • Is that the same woman that was with him in Taming of the Shrew? Sorry, never seen this before, I was perusing Youtube and came across it :)

  • I was in stitches laughing at Princess Catherine's hair the first time i saw it! XD

  • pobre portuguesita :( pero con ese pelo pense que era española

  • Tea is the agricultural product of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of various cultivars and sub-varieties of the Camellia sinensis plant, processed and cured using various methods.

  • "Tea" also refers to the aromatic beverage prepared from the cured leaves by combination with hot or boiling water, and is the common name for the Camellia sinensis plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. It has a cooling, slightly bitter, astringent flavour which many enjoy.

  • The term herbal tea usually refers to infusions of fruit or herbs containing no actual tea, such as rosehip tea or chamomile tea. Alternative terms for this are tisane or herbal infusion, both bearing an implied contrast with tea.

  • Was that Darth Sidious in the background?

  • "do we have tea?" "the drink is not very popular in England."  Lol...skip 200 years

  • That hair is scary.

  • 1;35 The maids they crossed themselves before they exited the marriage chamber.

    7:50 struck me as if (suddenly) he was in the confessional speaking those words. ...one king to another.

    "How will I ever win toleration for the Catholic faith in England while the people believe it demands such cruelty?"

    His forefather's Church.. - how could he do otherwise but uphold that trad.?- and his mother lapsing Catholic ;-)

  • 6;04 Is this what you really want?..

    I was just half listening, not watching...

    thought he was kissing her...

    (Little America... down Argentina way)

    The queen insists...

    (Nevermind.. blah blah..I think I only saw the last ep of this)

  • "Tea is not popular in England."

    "Would the Princess care for a mug of beer?"

    priceless

  • Wow, His Mom is a total Bitch ! Religion is overrated.

  • I feel so sorry for her. Idk what's worse being rutted like an animal like that, no feelings involved. or being left alone as yr husband leaves the marriage bed to go to his mistress

  • someone either really hates portugal or really hates shirley henderson!!

  • I'm so glad I like Diana Rigg from past dramatic enterprises because if this role was my first encounter with her, I would have a hard time coming 'round to liking her. She is formidable, that's for sure.

  • Poor Catherine... I speak portuguese (im brazilian) and so I understood how pious she was I feel bad about how she was bullied by Charles's mistresses just for not being a whore like they are.

  • Henrietta Maria is a fucking bitch. A regular Lady Macbeth. She badly influenced Charles I, she is trying manipulate Charles II, and she won't even go see her dying son, Henry.

  • Charles' mistress is ugly. 

  • im glad I was not born on those days,,,but who knows and maybe i did what im afraid to do now!!

  • "they have brought me a bat" classic :|

  • This episode had one helluva thumbnail!!!

  • Catherine of Braganza - the originator of the Afro.

  • @WayToSaveTheWorld LOL! BEST QUOTE EVER!

  • YEESH!! She sounds like a martian! Poor thing.

  • 5:35 Oh shut up you self pitying social climbing TROLLOP!!

  • There are no better actresses than Shirley Henderson. None.

    Helen McCrory is ace in this too. They eclipse Sewell and Graves.

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  • @Rotebuehl1 agreed.

  • Poor Catherine of Portugal! She came straight away off a nuns monastery just to become queen consort of England! She had no clue of whatsoever, although she spoke lots of languages, but not English! In the course of times, however, she became a clever and shrewd political woman, demanding her husband's loyalty and that of her new protestant fellow countrymen! She even adopted that dry biting humour of the English towards her women rivals!

  • "They've brought me a [what?] to marry?"

  • @Guitcad1 a bat! LOL :-]

  • @Guitcad1 a bat, joking about her hair.

  • @Guitcad1 ..a bat! That's a historical quote! Hair fashion in Portugal was completely different from english at the time! To Brits, that hairstyle of hers looked like a flying bat with open wings! When Charles first saw her, arriving with all that dowry & enormous amounts of money saving him from getting broke, he almost had a stroke. "They brought me a bat to marry" he terrified & spontaniously exclaimed!

    We in Portugal sometimes call Catherine by Catarina Morcego, Catherine, the bat. ;-)

  • @ChaosDynamics Hearing that was a big shock to my system.

  • 7:44 Was there some way Cromwell could've chopped her and let Charles off the hook?

  • @Zeruel3 Oh, I agree... Someone build a time machine and chop it off!

  • Nevertheless I do congratulate Shirley Henderson! Portuguese is a very hard language to learn and it is usually hard for English speakers to pronounciate the words correctly!

  • My God! As a portuguese woman I think they should have at least picked a portuguese actress for the role of Catherine! Would have worked much better! I can hardly understand what she is saying!

  • @anatinoni I think she was a very good casting choice, she plays the role very well. Catherine grew on the English people and nowadays she's remembered very fondly as one of the better consorts, I think she got her own back in the end

  • @anatinoni

    I reckon they couldn't and wouldn't take a Portuguese actress! First, they don't know there are any Portuguese actresses at all! Then, it might have been also a major problem a foreign actress working in an English production, because of union rules... But I agree in both topics: yes, a Portuguese girl would have matched much better, even concerning accent authenticity in English! It would be 100%! And yes, inspite difficulties, Shirley managed it very well! Congratulations, Shirley

  • i didnt almost recognize her Diana Rigg she looks so damn old

  • *blink blink* Catherine of Braganza is Moaning Myrtle?! Whoa. I recognize the face.

  • Did the producers think so little of the viewing audience that they felt they had to make Catherine look so ridiculous with that headdress? Did they think that was the only way people would realize that this was supposed to be a silly, tragic, pathetic character?

  • @Guitcad1 Headdresses like that were actually popular about a decade earlier in Portugal and Spain. (1650s going by wiki images). So there is a reason for putting it on there.

  • @Guitcad1 Well, if the Dirk Stoop portrait of her is true to nature, she did have a rather similar hairstyle in the early days. This is only little exaggerated.

  • Horrible woman! apparently Catherine of Braganza was so upset at the idea of her being principle lady in waiting she had a nosebleed. Not suprising really

  • Brazilian Portuguese Is the older than Portuguese from the mainland

  • Why the fuck does Catherine speak with a Brazilian accent? And all of her Portuguese courtiers?... For fuck sake, they should have brought it at least correctly.

  • @AvatarMarxon90 Is it grammatically correct though?

  • @darkhyena Grammatically yes, but not the accent unfortunately. 

  • @AvatarMarxon90 Would you translate what she was saying to him on their wedding night when he got up to leave please? Thank you. :) Songs

  • @Songsmirth Well, as you can see, she is praying: "I plea for your help oh Lord, so I can fulfill my "duty" - Jesus, Joseph and Mary, I ask your help to conceive a son, in order to make my husband happy". If I understood well, that's what she says...

    When Charles says he will consumate the marriage later, she says: "My mother taught me the duties to my husband. If you are patient, I will certainly learn how to satisfy you." (...) "Have I done something wrong? Am I not beautiful enough for you?"

  • @Songsmirth It's really interesting, and there's an obvious explanation to the manners of behaviour and dressing, of the Portuguese Court. The dressing is explained by the fact that Portugal had recently got out of the Iberian Union (personal union of crowns under the Spanish Habsburgs). Portuguese fashion was obviously influenced by the Spanish... which remained for some time after the breakaway with the union (even in noble/ royal classes).

  • @Songsmirth About behaviour... I've "heard" some worst things. When I went to the Mafra National Palace, the stories were horrendous. For example, the King lived in one tower with his private court, and the Queen in the opposite tower with her court. The King would then cross the whole palace with his court in order to have... sexual relationships with his wife. But before they had to pray, a priest would spread incense in the room, and bless the royal couple for the... effort.

  • I cannot imagine what she must have felt like. Being married by proxy at 23, which apparently was far too old for the era lol.

  • A Catarina a falar parece a bicha do demónio! :D

  • could any one translate what she says at the begining

  • @paintw1zard1377 At the beginning? Well... she asks for tea. If you're for the prayer - it's basically something like this: "I ask of you, Jesus, Joseph and Mary, help me completing my duty, and bearing a son to please my husband." After Charles calms her (basically telling her they won't have sex), I only caught some parts "Be patient to me, as I am certain you've been to others"; "Have I done something wrong? I'm not beautiful? Please tell me. (she cries)".

  • @paintw1zard1377 Anyways, considering the transformations of Portuguese language throughout the centuries - her Portuguese, as well as the Portuguese of her companions is terrible. Not even near of what ancient Portuguese would sound like. It sounds a lot more like Brazilian Portuguese. It's terrible!

  • @AvatarMarxon90

    ...well, maybe 17th century Portuguese qas closer to nowadays Brazilian Portuguese? What would you say?

  • Charles 2nd is one of my favorite english kings, a very smart man who actually listend to parlament

  • God, the parallels between Barbara Villiers and Queen Henrietta--I'd never noticed it before, but they're both borderline personalities. No wonder the King fell so hard for his mistress; she was just as difficult as his mother.

  • great acting by dame Diana, but I was wondering , was Queen Henrietta such a fire-brand as portrayed in this, or was there a bit of dramatic license taken by the writer and director in that scene?

  • From what I've read (incl. the book this show was based upon) Queen Henrietta was not a firebrand as such--but could be conniving, cruel, hysterical, demanding, etc.. She acted more fearfully in her early life, but later in life was more inflexible and bitter. (I'd also read she was supposed to be stupid, but that's one thing Diana Rigg would be incapable of playing, imo.) So, I think this is a good portrayal--but I could be wrong; it's been a while since I read on this subject.

  • @BrachiatingApe

    Thanks for the reply :)

    The show has certainly stirred my thirst for a better knowledge of the period and the characters featured in it.

  • Enit I Agree, I Love Queen Henrietta Maria Lol! I Dont Want Her To Have Been So Mean =[ Lol

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  • Had a laugh when he said, "the drink is not popular in England" referring to tea.

  • The poor princess's words have moved me: "My mother has assigned you as my husband...If you are patient with me, I will certainly learn to satisfy you"

    "Am I not pretty enough for you...?"

    Poor girl! a bit of a heart breaking scene!

  • Catherine would know about losing siblings. Before her marriage, her older brother, her older sister and her father all died in a matter of a few months

  • I've studied the restoration period & I thought I knew a little about Catherine of Braganza. But I never knew about that, at all.........How sad for her. Thanks so much, for letting us know about that. Thumbs-up !!!

  • Why you're most welcome! If you have any questions about portuguese history, I would be more than happy to clear up doubts.

  • well of course not! But it doesn't make it any less funny! :)

  • this is just my opinion the late queen henrietta maria of france was not so strict and rude she did not always were black she was very colourful and artistic and very fationable back in those days. thats my opinion.

  • Absolute monarchy is a monarchical form of government where the king or queen has absolute power over all aspects of his/her subjects' lives. Although some religious authorities may be able to discourage the monarch from some acts and the sovereign is expected to act according to custom, in an absolute monarchy there is no constitution or legal restriction on the monarch's power.

  • the hot prince is dying @ 14! huhuh

  • "My god, they bought me a bat to marry" This has got to be the funniest quote I've heard from a real historic king xD LOL his laugh at 6:18 was like "YES! Gotcha bitch, time for second round" btw Charles' mother is a bitch >>;

  • its unlikely he said that, but it does reflect the real fellow's sense of Humor-he had a hell of a funnybone :P

  • This is a good production. It was Catherine de Braganza who populised tea consumption in English society from about 1662 onwards.

  • I llike how Narcissa Malfoy, Tom Riddle and Moaning Myrtle are in this movie. :p

  • I knoow, right? It's cool~ I was just thinking about that xD

  • Toleration is not weakness but modernisation. i admit i'm a catholic and an irish one. but i believe all religion should treat eachother with respect. if we were all like Charle's mother the world would be destroyed.

  • Agreed, nationalist19.

    Principles are made for people, and are not to be upheld at people's expense.

    Too many evil people have pretended to be principled, and have misused the power they have gained by fraud and deceit.

    Good people use principles to make everything better, without regard for their own comfort. These are real heroes- great because they are good.

  • she is so amasing catherine i feel so sory for her she couldent undrstand english and

    tha stupid babara made fun of her.

  • "My god, they bought me a bat to marry"

    Favourite line, ever! :)

  • lol "i have no posistion, other than on my back" greedy cow! she so had him wrapped round her finger, shame he got bored with her antics XD lmao

  • i really felt sorry for Catherine. she never had any children, but his mistress Barbara gave him 6. i wonder if it was destiny b/c of his infidelites that he never had a legitimate heir.

  • Catherine was very petite & after a near-fatal miscarriage never conceived again: charles cared for her a lot & it might be by mutual agreement that they chose not to try again. she hated the mistresses but grew to realise she had to join in the fun & know when to turn a blind eye. if charles had wanted a legit' heir, he could have divorced her & married again. the royal couple had a lot of respect for eachother & it turned into one of the most successful royal marriages in english history :o)

  • @kkittycat1984 - Catherine's miscarriages likely had less to do with her size & perhaps more to do with the intermarriage that went on in her family's royal house.

  • @sweetab24 did you see the look she gave the king's mistress! it was like her eyes went straight to her. as if she knew immediately that this was her comptetition

  • It is legend that Catherine of Braganza made tea popular in England. She is one of my favorite Queens. Thanks again so much for posting this! :)

  • @audie83 favourite, you meant?

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