HenryVIII part2

[mak34237]

Henry VIII of England AKA King of Badassery!

[Saymwen]

Why so many people wanted to be King or Queen I do not understand, when there was little guarantee that your head would remain stuck to your head..always a plot!

[azerty12321]

@Saymwen i think what people wanted was power... plus in those times if you weren't rich or powerful life was really hard...well it was for anyone but a great deal harder for the poorest

[Saymwen]

@azerty12321 yea I get you but I would rather live in peace, than be at the mercy of someone always plotting against me.

[KDVx3]

What sucks most in my mind about Henry and Katherine is that they WERE happy once. Katherine loved him unconditionally and well, he did stay with her for 15+ years so he must have felt SOMETHING. Then that slut comes trolling along and poof, the fairy tale is over. And the death toll begins...

[2011stockholm]

that scene in the bedroom with Henry and Katherine almost made me cry. Wow.

[georgetteduncan]

All that Katherine suffered for that man. I've always felt such pity for her and Anne of Cleves.

[LiveFreeLoveWell]

What does she say from 1:09 to 1:11? When Henry asks her "What is this?" and she replies? I've played it over and over and I can't make it out, and I can't guess as to what it is so I really wanna know lol.

[Starlilica]

@LiveFreeLoveWell She says, "A hair shirt."

[UndeadTurk]

Ray Winstone did the best performance of Henry VIII ever.

[Brownlyne]

This is the special that aired on PBS/Public Access. Though I liked "The Tudors",

this seems a bit more authentic.

[NeroFirefox666]

I remember watching this six years ago, in year 8. At 13 I guess my friends and I were more interested in the fact we recognised David Suchet from Poirot than actually learning about a king who married six wives and made a new church! :)

[jursee33]

imagine the state of the world now had Henry been killed at that point. What an impact.

[Tekirai]

actually henry was the rightful heir because of the fact he indeed had planagenent bloodline inherited from his mother who was a plantagenent princess

[Tekirai]

*points* is that the lady that plays bellatrix?!?!?!

[iloveHBC1]

@Tekirai Yes my lovely lol Helena Bonham Carter she played Bellatrix :) A year late

[Tekirai]

@iloveHBC1 omg she's one of my fav actresses!!!

[iloveHBC1]

@Tekirai hehe same she is fantastic :) xx

[ligreekguy]

Poor Catherine. She did not deserve to suffer so much.

[recessionlover]

That fight at the end was a bit weird. They're dressed in mail. True, contrary to popular belief, the English army incorporated crossbowmen throughout the middle ages, but didn't Henry VIII ban the crossbow, to get his subjects to practise with the longbow. And what was the purpose of that fire arrow? Well, I suppose it did look like a cold day...

[ligreekguy]

Henry VII was only fifty two when he died in 1509, but my God, the movie depicts him like he is eighty!

[ShaunPalmerr]

he was 55 when he died

[ligreekguy]

No, Henry VIII was 55. His father, Henry VII, was 52.

[ShaunPalmerr]

yeah i no henry viii was fifty five when he died i wasnt talking about henry vii

[loopynutcase]

@ligreekguy But back then they did age quickly

[laurenlfc48]

Henry VIII was born in 1491 and dies 1547 - but he had not had his 56th birthday he was 55.

[DuttyGyal718]

true but he wasn't exactly healthy when he died. I think that sickness has the tendency to make you look older.

[Thejmackie]

the girl who plays anne is so not right 4 that role!!!! anne boleyn is supposed 2 have a thing on her neck & an extra finger!

[Jamestopboy]

She did not have those things... the only confirmed thing is a growth of extra nail on her left hand little finger

[Goldilocks88]

if you know anything about anne boleyn you would know that everything you named about her have any sort of deformity were rumors started by those who disliked her.

[ligreekguy]

What is really interesting about Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour is that both were relatively older when Henry married them. If Anne was indeed born in 1501 rather than the previously believed 1509, then she was in her 32nd year when she married the King and gave birth to Elizabeth (though she was in her mid-twenties when she and Henry began their affair). Jane was a relatively advanced 27 when she married Henry.

[Agenteee]

Katherine of Aragon wore the "hairshirts" - they were designed to slim a woman's figure down, but if you were very religious, it was also seen as a garment to enforce suffering.  KoA wore it for the latter reason.

[ligreekguy]

Poor Katherine, she did not deserve what happened to her.

[liz2saintvideos]

I ment to say What happened to KoAs back

[liz2saintvideos]

What about to KoAs back

[TheAnnoyingThing1915]

6:04

Ohhh right to the head

[Forcroi]

is that Kapsbergers canaries playing at 3:00???

[severyn1982]

i wanted to cry at 2:46

[SJJGautham08]

The part with the Plantagenets claiming that Henry VIII had no legitimate right to the throne is completely false. Through his mother Elizabeth of York, Henry VIII was the legitimate heir of Edward IV, and thus also the legitimate heir of the Plantagenet throne, even though he wasn't part of the patrilinial Plantagenet line.

[recessionlover]

As declared by Shaw in 1483, Edward IV's marriage to Elizabeth Wydeville was bigamous. Therefore The Tyddir was a usurper, and his "queen" was a bastard. Therefore Henry VIII had no right to be king, and the royal bloodline was held by the de la Poles.

[IloveRichardArmitage]

I'm impressed that they showed Henry and Katherine in a loving relationship. I'm sick of too many films making it seem that they were never happy together because they were.

[DuttyGyal718]

me too. dont get me wrong, i love anne and ALL of the tudor queens, but its nice to get more on katherine of aragon. its like they cut her short. Hey she was a queen too!!!!

[pacomerode]

"she was a queen too"???? SHE was the queen!!!

[DuttyGyal718]

eh. yes. She was THE queen until the NEXT Queen replaced her, and the Next queen replaced the last according to henry. That title was earned but with a heavy price. Luike I said, I LOVE ALL THE TUDOR QUEENS. From KAty of Aragon, to KAty PArr.

[pacomerode]

LOL

katy?

you talk about "the tudor queens" like them were "the zeigfeld girls" or some kind of bitchies around Henry, but honestly... not Katherine of Aragon: she was the Queen since born whoever the prince she married. Her mother, Isabel of Castilla, had not daughters... had QUEENS, and when Arthur prince of Wales died, Henry married her, because SHE was QUEEN, she didn't need to earn any title, she was the title. From Boleyn to Parr maybe, but not Katherine

[DuttyGyal718]

The title of queen was given away by henry to whomever he deemed earned it. Like I said, that was why he had 6 queens. ALL of the Tudor wives paid a price of sorts for that title. KoA. Was banished into lonliness to try and hold onto it when Henry gave it To Anne

[pacomerode]

Caligula's horse was appointed senator. did the other senators became horses because of this? did they loose their condition as true senators because a tyrant imposed that stupid law? was the horse really a senator? Katherine of Aragon defended her right as true queen against a demented's whim. Boleyn was a horse wich just became a senator when Katherine died, and by that time Anne had already lost Henry's favour

[DuttyGyal718]

Actually, yes. The horse was appointed senator by a nut, so that would make the horse a senator by LAW. Henry changed the law to suit his own wants because he made himself head of the church, which is why all of the Tudor queens became queen because of this. Same applies to Katherine. Henry had a motive which is why he married her in the first place.

[Jamestopboy]

the prices they paid

KoA: Banished into loneliness

AB: Beheaded

JS: Died of childbed fever

Aoc: Divorced, Lived

KH: Beheaded

KP: Out lived Henry

[HedebBast]

As the old childs rhyme goes '...Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived...'

[Jamestopboy]

to put it simply, Katherine of Aragon kicked ass

[HedebBast]

I totally agree...I have the upmost respect for her. Of course Henry always claimed the Jane Seymour was his only true Wife.

[TheAnnoyingThing1915]

They were happy together until Henry went bonkers and killed her

[nitanewsreader]

@IloveRichardArmitage Yes they were in the first few years, but Henry had never experienced crazy passionate love till Anne Boleyn, and his first marriage was arranged. He was fond of Queen Katherine, but not in love with her

[Ladissea]

Has Catharine ever looked like she actually did in real life? I must say I like Anne's speech about why she is marrying Percy. And I never heard he was engaged, I heard that they got in trouble for not asking the king's permission.

[IloveRichardArmitage]

Yes I heard that too. That the King influenced by Cardinal Wolsoley refused their request. I also read that Anne's own family were not happy with the engagement since it was really a sudden, secret elopement. And Anne did generally love Percy as far as I know.

[katharinethequene]

And they get Catherines apperance wrong YET again!

[astrofabio68]

agree.. She is preseting always like her mother, ugly or like and old woman..

She actually was the pretiest henry`s wife and only five years older...

and she had raid hair and blue eyes like her mother Isabella I of Castille

[katharinethequene]

I know! She was considered one of the prettiest princesses in Christendom! But I have only seen one production where they have gotten her apperance correct, it was Frances Cuka. Annette Crosbie was close but her hair colour really wasn't red at all it was just really light blonde

[Tekirai]

@astrofabio68 yup the english blood because if you look closely at the family tree katherine and henry are cousins f my memory serves right. *thinks*

[astrofabio68]

@Tekirai my father's family iare basque desndent and he is blonde and my mother ancestors are from Castille and their had blue eyes and light brown hair..

no tall the spanish are like moors.....

[Tekirai]

@astrofabio68 intresting there was alot of different appearances back then. wasnt there visigothic bloodlines flowing through spain also? and the moors came up from like northern africa and turkey too *i get CONFUSED w/the geography @_@*

[scorpianofthesun]

I thought that Percy was betrothed to another woman, and that's why he and Anne were seperated?

[IloveRichardArmitage]

Yes he was betrothed to another woman but it was really Anne he loved hence the secret elopement that wasstopped by both Percy's father and the king influenced by Wolsoley

[Lilgirl8x]

Helena can be a rockstar and a princess at the same time!

[seramyu2005]

Helena <3

[koolbeanz3716]

thank you. I needed to watch this for history! good quality

[golygfa2004]

Thank you so much for uplaodeing this film love it it's BRILLIANT :-)

[harrysfan101]

thanks for putting this up ive been looking for it EVERYWHERE :D

[GKL1410]

Thank you so much for uploading this, Helena is one of Britain's best actresses and I love anything to do with the Tudors

[CultofSkaroGirl]

I'll second that! She is awesome! The Tudors were awesome!

[mpershern]

@GKL1410 ya, theres something about the drama of the tudors that pulls people in. I love the Tudor era, and also the time of Marie Antoinette.

[londonchick2]

Thank you so much for uploading this. Helena is my favorite actress and Anne Boleyn is my hero.Thank you so much