We asked members of Historic Royal Palaces staff which of Henry VIII's wives as the best. Here, Chief Curator Lucy Worlsley argues that along with being seen as the most important of Henrys wives -...
We asked members of Historic Royal Palaces staff which of Henry VIII's wives as the best. Here, Chief Curator Lucy Worlsley argues that along with being seen as the most important of Henrys wives - for being the only one to provide a son who survived infancy - Jane Seymour is also the most interesting - for achieving the rare feat of preserving her reputation as unquestioned to the very end!
Next year Hampton Court Palace will be home to rarely seen 16th-century portraits of each of the women in Henry VIII's life mother, sisters daughters and wives - and will be joined by evocative objects intimately connected to their fate.
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i think u give henry too much credit. he was an easily influenced man...even though i dont care for anne i can respect her in some ways for she knew this & deff influence henry to do alot. i dont think henry would break away from rome if it werent for anne...he was scared to do it in the first place for he was highly religious (not that he acted like it) & because it can bring war with the catholic countries if u broke away. & he wasnt looking for a way to discard cat for a long time he didnt
It's interesting what u say about Anne and her being truly religious or not.I don't agree with you,because the fact that she was a reformer,doesn't mean she wasn't deeply religious,because she was,it's just that she was more free-minded than most people,and had her own thoughts about religion,and she tended to believe more in God than the Catholic church's dogmas.But your view makes an interesting point also!That's why it's good to talk and argue(peacefully!!)about it!:)
thank you everyone is getting mad at me and giving me some thumbs down but i think ppl are taking somethings out of content or just mad cause i dont like anne. I'm not saying she wasnt religious i just dont think she was as religious as she claimed to be and did use the reformed faith for her advantage
Oh yes Jane was the best wife because she had a son .. -_- .. because its not like she just got lucky... I think Jane would have been gotten rid of just as quickyly if she had a girl.. or no children at all... so saying she was the best wife because she had a son is ignorant... Henry only loved Jane because she had a boy, no more, no less.
I dont know which presentations to believe when people are discussing the looks and beauty of all of the queens. I have read up on every one of henrys wifes, For example some books say that Jane was a beauty and Henrys favourite wife where as others and this report say that she was plain and quite large. Even old tudor paintings appear quite different sometimes. Most of the time facts do mach up but it is very frustrating when they dont ,lol,
Excuse me, but I do read my history books, and no I didn't get my knowledge just by watching the Tudors. In fact I was reading up on this stuff way before the show even started, And just because we have a differenc of opinion on things, don't automatically assume that I just got my info from the show!!!
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why cant we go back in time and see :P