The Wives of Henry VIII (episode1, part1/5)

[1976valy]

Catherine of Aragon was blonde! Why do producers insist on representing her as a dark haired, dark eyed woman!

[Chrisiant]

Yes, in the one portrait I've seen of her with her hair loose as a child, she was almost auburn, and quite pretty. Perhaps the producers find that a dark haired Catherine contrasts better with strawberry blonde Henry.

[1malaquias]

Thanks, This really helped!

[loveshistory012]

I hate when people pick who was the best wife or who Henry loved the most. I feel for all of them they all had their issues and talents which were mostly Henry's fault. Catherine of Argon: devotion/virtue, Anne Boleyn: Courage/wit, Jane Seymour: quite/discrete, Anne of Cl eves: kindness and support Catherine, Howard: youth, and Catherine Parr: wit and patience

[Chrisiant]

@loveshistory012 Yet Henry said that he loved Jane best, and she's the one Queen he was buried beside as per his wishes.

[CanvasIAD]

oh what lovely tea and sandwiches my darling.

[littleangel7900]

GOD BLESS YOU YOU ARE AMAZING

[sickntired2008]

Very interesting, visually appealing and informative. Thanks...I Love It!!!

[calihartley2010]

I am amazed at the comments about the actresses here. Please shut up and learn some history. These women are made in the image and likeness of God. I wonder what the people who are commenting look like!

[rdc197810]

@calihartley2010 You don't have to be perfect looking to notice that someone isn't pretty.

[calihartley2010]

@rdc197810 Well then why announce it to the whole world like she is the only ugly thing?

[Varney86]

@calihartley2010 What do you look like? It's just Youtube, people are going to comment how they like, if one likes it or not. Don't like it, best not to read the comments. I do think the actress are pretty in there own way.

[calihartley2010]

@Varney86 good, but it is ones duty to point out to people that they are wrong and that they are mean. That may put some sense in their heads.

[TheVideoCat]

Henry well-built? As in...obese?

[Dimetri91]

@TheVideoCat Henry VIII only became obese in his 30's.

[NYCBlonde]

@TheVideoCat Henry was called the most handsome prince in Christendom. He was tall, athletic, red hair--gorgeous. It was only later in life after a severe fall that he stopped exercising and got fat.

[KatLeFay81]

Almost all of the actresses in this series are far from attractive, in any sense. Surely, they could've done better...

[calihartley2010]

@KatLeFay81 i think the girl who plays Catherine is pretty.

[Jakegothicsnake]

@calihartley2010 She's not too bad to look at. Although I do think a little thinning on the eybrows would make an improvement. :)

[NicolaWriter]

For a man that had no use for girls,isn't it rather ironic that his wives and daughters are rather MORE well known than he is?

Hell,his first two wives,QUeen Katherine and Queen Anne are arguably more well known and discussed than he is!

Not to mention his daughters,Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth.

[NFitalianGuy]

In the begining of the clip as Catherine walks it looks as though she had a stick up her butt. The actress didnt look like she would be of spanish descent.

[1307]

HAHAHA dos semanas en la cama..... :)

[bloodncorsets]

Thanks for uploading this documentary! I can't decide who is my favorite of the six: Katherine of Aragon or Anne Boleyn. They were both amazing! Kate Parr was pretty fabulous too.

[zombiefucku]

royalty is such a stupid idea

[calihartley2010]

@zombiefucku you are stupid

[Iusedtobeacat93]

I so love the dresses they are wearing. I have to say that this period, the Elizabethan and the 18th Century are my favorite considering fashion. I'm not so much keen on the Edwaderian or the Victorian era in regard to fashion unless Early Victorian.

[Mercades57438]

i like this video a lot cause it a school project

[christinahale14]

This is my favorite documentary by this Historian and narrator...

[The0rdinary0ne]

I just dant get enough of this part of history. Reading all the books and articles, watching "The Tudors" over and over, watching all i could get about it on YT and still I never get tired!

[perlarmz]

AHHHHHHH I remember this was my telenovela when it came out. For five sundays in a row I would race to the tv and put it on PBS

[choperchic24]

I wish i knew what Catharine and her lady in waiting were saying, my Spanish is terrible.

[Graham6762]

@choperchic24 She asks what the letter says, then Catherine says I am too be remarried to Henry. She then says, when will you be married and she says soon, then she says, are you happy and she says yes and my mother also.

[federiv]

@choperchic24 In their first conversation Catherine is wondering about the possibility of Arthur visiting her that night. During the second one she is telling to her lady in waiting that the English king has proposed a second marriage and she is so happy because her parents will be thrilled :-)

[hoiiooiiooiiooiiooii]

Thanks for uploading.

[BDollScream]

Poor Katherine. She was doomed from the word go.

[KDVx3]

I read some of the comments before I started watching this and I was juuuuust about to type that the ladies in this show aren't as bad looking as the ones in Elizabeth I: A Virgin Queen. (THOSE were some barkers!!!)

Then the very first princess, the Spanish one, smiled (0:55). I overlooked the holy-shit eyebrows but the gap big enough to drive a double-decker bus thru when she smiled... What is wrong with the casting directors on that side of the pond!!??

[calihartley2010]

@KDVx3 other than her smile i think she is pretty.

[JinxxyToxicValentine]

i loved arthur :')

[HerMajestyRosemary]

I'm sorry, but this Catherine is urking me. Ugh. D:

[calihartley2010]

@HerMajestyRosemary goodness please be charitable. i would like to see what you look like.

[animefreak927]

i love this special!!! ^_^

[trentsgirl28]

I love it because it's David Starkley and I'm a history dork!!

[goddessOfThEniTe]

I cant imagine those poor girls having to...have intimicy with that fat old smelly king.

[shyfly825]

@goddessOfThEniTe He wasn't always like the King that we all remember. He was once a young, fit and handsome Prince and later King.

[CherryBlossomBlyue]

So I am suprise at David Starkey, Being a Tudor Historian he should have gotten Katherine of Aragon's Physical Potrayl right. Then again maybe that wasn't up to him

[shyfly825]

@CherryBlossomBlyue I'm sure he didn't do the casting of the actors. That's not about of his job description as a historian. LOL

[KLL81]

Why do they choose the UGLIEST actresses to portray these women? BLACH! They don't even come close to what their portraits portray!

[CherryBlossomBlyue]

@KLL81 I knwo right the chick that plays Katherine ewww

[calihartley2010]

@CherryBlossomBlyue wow i would like to see what you look like.

[Jakegothicsnake]

Catherine of Aragon's actress sounds young, but looks late 30's early 40's!

[pookoos]

Oh thank you for uploading... I have not seen this version! Thank you thank you!

[starrynightz]

Thank you

[MysteryChocolate]

Why is it in almost all documentaries and film, Catherine of Aragon was portrayed as a dark-haired and unattractive, wasn't she supposed to be a redhead and beautiful, at least in her youth?

[diddims]

@MysteryChocolate I know! Katherine, in her portraits, could almost be mistaken for British with her blue eyes, peaches and cream complexion, and red hair, was certainly fair (in her coloring and physical attraction)

[Jakegothicsnake]

@diddims Yes, and in one portrait of her portraying Mary Magdalene, she looks lovely! Catherine's actress needs to man-scape those eyebrows and get some braces!

[CherryBlossomBlyue]

@Jakegothicsnake I agree

[diddims]

@MysteryChocolate I know! Katherine, in her portraits, could almost be mistaken for British with her blue eyes, peaches and cream complexion, and red hair; she was certainly fair (in her coloring and physical attraction)

[2011stockholm]

@MysteryChocolate I always wonder the same thing! She was described as being "the most beautiful creature in the world" in her younger years. I believe Thomas More was quoted as saying, and I'm paraphrasing, "no one could compete with Queen Catherine in her prime." It's like these casting directors have never seen her portrait, and assume all Hispanics are dark, when that is far from the truth.  This is a good series so far, though.

[CherryBlossomBlyue]

@2011stockholm Yeah if you just ignore the physical potrayl inaccuracies and focus on the historical info it's a decent series.

[Jakegothicsnake]

@MysteryChocolate Funny, I always pictures Katherine of Aragon as more of a strawberry blonde.

[rdc197810]

@MysteryChocolate I didn't know about the red hair - but I always pictured her as beautiful, she is always described as beautiful in books and historical accounts. She somehow always appears dowdy in movies and tv shows though, its strange. I guess they want to make Anne Boelyn look prettier by contrast

[amelitaz]

She's 16 ...scary

[islandCutiiie]

thank you thank you thank you i cant tell you how addicted i am to this entire era!!!

[ChristineScholz]

oh she looks so young :( poor thing. she looked like a child, she was only 16 when she was married!:(

[maennerschreck289]

@ChristineScholz on the other hand, 16 was not an unusual age for a girl/woman to get married in those days, sometimes even younger (as far as i know girls were considered marriageable at the age of 13). for example, even empress elisabeth of austria (sisi) 350 years later was only 16 when she got married. if your life expectancy is at about 45 years you don't have much of a choice i guess...

[ChristineScholz]

they had lip stick back then really?

[TudorRose85]

Katherine looks old for 15.

[kiddooo10]

because they were so young, it isn't unlikely that katharine and arthur faked having sex and planned to wait for a few years, which is how her marriage wasn't consummated, and she therefore denied henry viii his annulment

[hjb103055]

If you haven't seen it yet watch Lady Jane with Helena Bonham Carter made in 1986.

[shaybean54]

thanks for posting!

[4263484]

the spanish queen katherin is ugly

[pollutedmizuno]

@4263484 That's bad casting. She was considered very beautiful while she was still young. Not so much once she was older, though, no.

[Bottebuh]

@pollutedmizuno Somne people are just to dumb to understand it.. Because they have watched The Tuors(No offence i LOVE that show) they'll think they know everything, and actually think that, the people looked like that. "Why is she so pretty? On the tudors she is ugly? i don't understand it"

[ChristineScholz]

@4263484 well its not really her so...

[sakitakono]

Until 2:36 I feel like the narrator is going to start yelling at the viewer. lol

[babybookworm003]

I am reading six wives by david starkey i think this documentry is based on the book

[LexieCasteel]

@babybookworm003 It was, I have the same book.

[animefoxify]

Which wife of his died in childbirth? I'm not sure.

[benikitsune]

@animefoxify

# 3 jane seymor

[kerinapetshop]

@animefoxify jane his 3rd wife

[KarineG4]

@animefoxify Jane Seymour 

[scorpianofthesun]

I was Queen Catherine of Aragon for a history project nine or so years ago. I learned so much about her. She struck me as a very strong woman. The way she stood up to Henry VIII regarding her marriage with him was very admirable in my opinion. This was a time when woman had almost no voice of their own.

[kerinapetshop]

@scorpianofthesun yes but she had more of a voice because of who she was

[Ladissea]

Is the Queen, Lover, Mother, Outcast, Victim, Survivor about each wife individually or all the wives together?

[DravenWolfe]

@Ladissea I believe it was about each lady individually.

[havemycake]

i would say them it describes them all. they were all loyal to him. it was henry would was obsessed with an heir and rid of them to get his way.

[Ladyjaxs]

Thanks so much for posting this, I love this documentory

[haroof]

Arthur wasn't sick with TB on their wedding night. Why he didn't consummate the marriage is just weird considering how they seemed to be attracted to one another.

[leelee94565]

they were not allowed to...they married em off...but they didn't let them act married

[YeOldeTune]

Why do I love this story so much?

[haroof]

Because it's about sex, power & greed.

[HATEtoFeel1]

@haroof yeah and telling muslims they're total scum.

[Bloombaby99]

@haroof : That's so true...that's why we humans are so complex.... :)

[PrincessKarrah]

@haroof and really good looking people all four of the media food groups

[56labeba]

@YeOldeTune mabye because it is soooooooooo awesome because i love it so much too

[tricia101181]

@YeOldeTune maybe you were there in a past life?

[YeOldeTune]

@tricia101181 Hi Tricia.

I don't think so because I do not believe in reincarnation.

[CherryBlossomBlyue]

@YeOldeTune Because it's an awesome tawdry tale

[WarRogers]

Yes! This looks REALLY GOOD 5/5

[sunflower3540]

Another spectacular documentary. :-)

[kathycks]

amazing first!!!!!!!!