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First video of yours I've ever seen and it was wonderful! Subscribed immediately, can't wait to see more 🏵️

Love the reaction and the series while historically maybe not perfect the acting by Jodi Colmer is top notch. Defiantly an excellent successor to TWQ's Rebecca Ferguson in terms of reflecting the leading females personalities and steel.

I'd love it if you also would react to older Tudor movies like "Anne of the thousand days", "Young Bess", "A man for all seasons" etc.

Salut, Estelle! Anne here in Los Angeles - saw firebrand last night in the cinema and my jaw was ON THE FLOOR !!! I could not believe how perfect the performances were. Jude law maybe gives the best performance of his illustrious career. I actually hasn’t read Fremantle book prior so I was surprised by the ending - and satisfied greatly !! It is a fine example as I say as someone who consults on historical productions of the team knowing the rules so well, that they’re able to break them. :) brilliant film, brilliant performances I want to see it again and again. 👏🏻👏🏻 also, as a lifelong champion for Anne Askew she gets her dues here, the firebrand title easily attributed to her as well as Parr, I think it’s meant for both. Pleasant surprise. Did I say Jude law was OUT OF THIS WORLD?! ❤👏🏻 Another great video from Dr. P, merci!

I think Wolf Hall does a great job of showing Anne Boleyn mastering her private emotions in a highly stressful situation. There are numerous occasions throughout the show when her humanity is shown - perhaps the problem is that some people don't like the intellegent, scheming, and narcissistic human being that's being portrayed. It's not like there's any shortage of primary sources that present this view of Anne Boleyn. Of course, these sources tend to be biased against her but that doesn't make her portrayal in Wolf Hall unhistorical. As to a telling of the story from her point of view, if there's been one of those, there's been a hundred. I don't see there being much to gain from yet another portrayal of the same well known story from the same well known perspective.

There is part of me that always feels sorry for Henery VIII. Can you imagine people being able to smell you coming down the hall? He must have been very aware of it.

I think one of the interesting things that I learned was that she thought that after the death of Anne Boleyn, she would be treated better by her father, but she learned quickly that it wasn't the case. She learned his behavior was still erratic and unpredictable.

I need to point out that, though Isabel was perfectly capable of high-handedness, she was also perfectly aware of the importance of diplomacy and that her trademark self-reminder was "con blandura" - "with tact". It feels to me that, especially toward the end of this scene, we are not seeing Isabel as she would have acted toward visiting monarchs (much as I despise Henry VII, that's what he is here). Also you are correct - neither Henry nor Elizabeth visited the Iberian Peninsula. And Isabel and Fernando did not ever go to England. You are also correct that there was a friendly correspondence between Isabel and Elizabeth. Also, the language to be spoken here would actually have been Latin, which Isabel took pains to learn in her adult life precisely for important meetings and paperwork. Henry, Isabel and Fernando would all have known Latin, and presumably Elizabeth would have had at least some knowledge of it. So the basis of this scene is unnecessary. It is, however, a good, strong scene, and it plays well.

Well, it looks silly, fun, fictional and I'll absolutely watch.😁

well, I'm not really a fan of The White Princess, even though it used to be my favorite in the saga, but now my favorite is The White Queen, because it's more accurate and overall more respectful to the actual story (even though on costume level I prefer TWP, and I can blame it on obvious stinginess of BBC🤣) And the meeting between Elizabeth of York, Henry VII and Isabel Of Castile, although it's powerful scene, I kinda don't like it after revisiting after so many years, because I just unconsciously compare everything about that sequence with the Spanish TV show Isabel. have you watched it?

This was brilliant!! I’ve seen the White Princess and am glad to know the is some historical accuracy. Please make more!!❤

This series looks absolutely horrendous, but yes, absolutely review each episode!

I'm English. This isn't anti french. It's anti history.

Jane Grey could have saved her life by converting but she wouldn’t do it. I don’t think Mary was the villain in this story.

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Waiting patiently for you to do a review of Shardlake! I loved this mini series.

I really liked the format of this video. Hopefully they don't try to demonetize it because i actually prefer this style personally.

Can I just say, it was wonderful to see with my daughter and granddaughter. We laughed and had fun. We were three generations of women who played with Barbies. It was just a silly fun movie not to be taken to seriously. Behind the scenes you teach your daughters there worth. There is an incredible speech by America about trying to be a woman that my daughter cried through. Is it wrong for just once us women get to have a little “dig” at the men?

Glenda Jackson was my first foray into the Tudors, so she will always be one of my favourites!

Most shows make a caricature of Anne.

If I had been Catherine Of Aragon I would have given Henry what he wanted. Anything to have my daughter back.

Genevieve’s performance was incredible. Richard Burton on the other hand….They said he was so drunk through most of the movie.

Natalie Dormer killed it in Game Of Thrones. The Tudors could be silly but Natalie Dormer pulled it off!

This is like Argo. Ben Afflect took one of the proudest moments in Canadian history changed it to the Americans being the hero and accepted an Academy Award! We wept in Canada and no one gave a s%$t!

This was an awful movie. It irked the amateur historian in me. Phoenix was much to old. The battle scene’s with the English forming “square” was pretty good.

there’s a new trailer to the second season of the serpent queen, in which queen elizabeth I apparently comes to France to catherine de medici’s court, which frankly is bonkers to me. wonder if there’ll be a video on it. thumbs up for this video in any case!

They were ruthless. The Spanish Inquisition was them.

Plssss make more videos about this serie

Queen Izabella I of Spain (1451-1504) was a powerful Queen.

Enjoyed this. Ali 🌸

I love seeing more about Elizabeth of York as I wrote my master dissertation on her. I'm not a huge fan of TWP but I guess if it gets people interested in her as a starting point then that's good.

I would love more of this kind of reaction video! I’ve never seen The White Queen but I absolutely love Elizabeth of York. I really liked Amy Licence’s biography of her.

I love TWP and TWQ but i do agree that the fantasical aspects were someqhat unesessary and a tad annoying. But the acting, the sets, the script, the costumes and the overall portrays were exceptional.❤❤

I don't like TWP but I agree with your assessment - and I LOVE the actress they picked for Isabella of Castile.

It is a great point that when you actually act out the written account of Thomas Seymour cutting Elizabeth's dress it is so bizzare and uncomfortable and you just can't understand what is going on in Katharine Parr's head - why is she laughing? Even by the standards of the day it would not seem a normal thing to do. Is it, possibly, a kind of a neurotic reaction because she knows what this is about but cannot bring herself to acknowledge it and that is why she is awkwardly laughing along?

There is a TV version of the this book, which is very unconventional and low-budget, but it is quite the opposite of this movie's approach - the movie tries very hard to make it clear who is evil and who is the salt of the earth, whereas the show is smoother around the edges and more human. A side note - huge fan of Eric Bana, but this got to be the blandest Henry the VIII I have ever seen. On one hand it is to be expected because by design of the story he is less of a character and more of an element, if you will, of the story. But Henry VIII is such a Character that it takes an actual effort to water him down this much.

I agree with your choice of Genevieve Bujold's portrayal of Anne Boleyn...even if the costumes were a bit too gaudy for my more elegant tastes in that film...which I loved as an eager boy...always fascinated by screen versions of real people. But Nathalie Dormer failed for me: I think I would have sent her to Tower Green if I'd been Henry! Let's just say the 'chemistry' with J.R.Meyers? was too 'sexualised'...(& he wasn't big enough to recreate HVIII). And I too, have often reacted chemically with actresses on screen!. I thought Claire Foy was very good...& Helena B-C...though, so often, it seems that merely wearing Tudor costumes & speaking in the King's English, is enough to transport them back to the royal court & beds...& scaffolds! Alas, the 'actresses' need something beyond mere appearance to capture the real Anne Boleyn...and I look forward to reading your interpretation of such a 'legendary' figure in English history. I'm sure you will have a new perspective on her without you losing your lovely head!

As a straight 'disciple' of Dr David Starkey, a Tudor expert...I must express myself as a 'proper little Renaissance man' (his words, not mine!)...Lady Estelle! You really get to the nub of the true history of the whole Reformation in England & France. Your brilliant contributions only add more to the debate which has raged for centuries over Henry VIII's six wives...& from a French perspective too! You have a style all of your own in your 'broadcasts', madame...quite the fine lady of a royal court...full of intriguing insights, hidden meanings & individuality & enthusiasm. If you had been at Greenwich Palace or Hampton Court...at that time...I can only imagine the influence you might have had on the King himself...let alone the male courtiers! Keep up the flag of historical research & vivat regina...Catherine, Anne or Jane...though Estelle might prefer to keep a distance...& keep that wonderful head! (I hope you see my point!)

I didn’t care for this movie at all. I love Natalie Portman though.

I love natalie portman, I thought she played a good Anne, Unrealistic, actually. Although I loved the movie, I cannot picture women of that time acting like Anne did because they probably would have been burned as a witch. and I love the actor who played Henry- even though he's an actor that looks literally nothing like Henry, and Henry was a fat king.

I’m excited for the film as well and just purchased Disobedient!

Ceci n'est pas un Napoléon (cit.)

Oh dear. I'm not sure about this. I'll watch the first one, but I don't think I'm the audience for this. I don't even know who the audience for this would be. Hmm.

The show is based on a popular YA book which also depicts talking animals so if you’re looking for historical accuracy you won’t get it from this show 😅 There is also a book from the same authors called My Plane Jane about Jane Eyre and My Calamity Jane. The series is called The Lady Janies.

As soon as I saw comedy history that's a no from me 🤔

To me this looks like a Bridgerton treatment. Yuck!!! I have a problem with playing loose with history and blind casting. I am a women of color and blind casting does a disservice to those who don’t know history. It makes the past seem like “what are you talking about out. In the past everything was fair!!! I saw it on TV!” 🤦🏽‍♀️

It looks ridiculous. Ill probably still check out an episode (because I could be wrong) but, I am not expecting to be impressed.