A Review of: The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn (1970), Part 1
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- Sources:
Clips and Audio:
- "The Six Wives of Henry VIII", BBC, (1970)
- "Wolf Hall", BBC, (2015)
- "Jouyssance vous Donneray" from the soundtrack of "Henry VIII and his Six Wives", David Munrow, (1972)
- "Here's a Health Unto His Majesty", version made by myself in Musescore 2
Literary Sources:
- David Starkey, "Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII", Chatto & Windus, (London, 2003)
Online Sources:
- 'On the Tudor Trails' article about Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford:
onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2012/...
- The Anne Boleyn Files articles on the love letters of Henry VIII and the May Day Joust:
www.theanneboleynfiles.com/re...
www.theanneboleynfiles.com/1-...
- Claire Ridgeways' video (Anne Boleyn Files)on Henry's jousting accident:
• January 24 - Henry VII...
- Execution of Carthusian Monks, British Museum:
www.britishmuseum.org/researc...
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Better pin a comment here about future parts. The BBC is terrible for copyright and in the past I have had hell and all dealing with the copyright claims on these videos. For now, the full reviews of this series are on hold whilst I focus on my other videos (mainly the Tudor Rants and others). I am currently doing a quick review series of Elizabeth R and after that I may do some quick reviews of this series as well to give everyone a brief overview of the remaining episodes to keep you all entertained.
I will definitely return and finish off the full reviews of this when I feel a bit braver and perhaps find a way to edit the clips down enough! Can't say when that will be, but I think the rest of the year might be taken up with Tudor Rant videos and the like.
What about perhaps doing a review without using scenes themselves, only mentioning them? Those watching will get what you're referring to, and those who've not watched can get the context if they have even a rough understanding of Tudor history.
Look forward to it! Dorothy Tutin is the star here, though I like her even better as Henrietta Maria.
what was that part about it being unwise to pay a Musician with gold coins?
It is important to highlight the presence of JANE PARKER, it has been said many times that she hated sister-in-law, but there is no evidence of this🤔hated her husband George Boleyn❓maybe it's just part of the fiction in the movies🔮🦄Through the centuries, she is remembered as «the Infamous Lady Rochford»🎭
Hope you can finish off these reviews soon. Really enjoyed them!
Keith MIchell is THE all-time portrayer of Henry VIII-nobody else even comes close! RIP Keith Michell!
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Completely agree. And I like Keith Michell even more now that I know he’s Australian.
I also agree I was just married when I watched this on TV, I remember going to a exhibition in London of the costumes👏👏👏
I like that this Cromwell is asked why he stays at court and he answers "what other kennel could contain me".
I found that "pray for a son" part weirdly terrifying, maybe the camera angle but it's also the message, and you see it from Anns perspective so even not being a woman I can FEEL the fear, the message is "pray for a son...because your security depends on it, god knows what happens to you if you fail"
Exactly! A very foreboding scene that certainly stands out in my mind as well as Anne's desperate & haunting cry "I must pray to God to give me a SON!."
Dorothy Tutin....was superb as Queen Anne Boleyn.......she did the finest acting in this role as Queen.....
I didn't love the script, but she captured Anne's charm, dignity, bravery and spirit very well
I agree Dorothy Tutin did a fantastic portrayal.
Unfortunately she was obviously too old, although an excellent actress
I agree!
She is my Anne.
Finally watched this complete set and fell in love with it. From Henry to his wives, each had something devious about it. My favourite thing is how the actor for Henry sort of rolls up his sentences like he's about to swing for a punch: "WeeeeeeLLLLLLLLLLLL Madam, I am grateful for your hospitality this day." He's charismatic and terrifying: you want to love him but should definitely avoid him at all costs. Cranmer, Norfolk, and Cromwell all done expertly too.
My only complaint was the Anne of Cleaves Episode. The whole German King with the 2 wives sneaking in, everyone meeting in the Queen's apartments, Anne proposing the annulment. It felt like they were trying to guess what happened in real life, or to condense a lot of history into one scene.
oh and one final thing. Thank you for recommending/introducing me to it.
Keith Mitchell is superb in this series. How he plays Henry from being the charming young attractive renaissance king to the fat paranoid tyrant is excellent. He IS Henry to me, a big, powerful man who commands a room. The actors who play Anne and Cromwell are also excellent. I particularly like how Cromwell is portrayed as a horrible, self-serving sociopath.
It's a pity there are so many important events that happened during this time that were omitted in the series. I do find Anne quite an interesting person in history, and would have liked another episode dedicated to her (or at least another half an episode). The death of Catherine of Aragon and Henry's head injury when he fell from his horse are incredibly important in the fall of Anne. Henry's jousting accident and head injury also changed him as a person, especially as the fall opened up an old leg would that became very painful and cause him years of distress and he was never the same man again.
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@@gilsonserafim7300 what other series do you have?
His performance is a masterclass in acting!
It's been 84 years... since your last review of the series
"She was called the series of dreams, and it was. It really was."
@@The_Laughing_Cavalier 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
In all seriousness, though, I would love to see you review the rest of this series sometime soon. 😉
Also I'd love to hear your thoughts on films like Anne of the Thousand Days (with John Colicos as my personal favorite Cromwell), Mary Queen of Scots with Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson (which reminds me, could you please also finish reviewing the Elizabeth R series?), and A Man For All Seasons. I love those! Thank you. 😁
@@AishaVonFossen I have a new series I am working that will structured similarly to my rant videos, but will be praises instead, one of which will cover the 1970 six wives series (I am dialling back on reviews like these where I show clips since they keep getting me copyright claimed whereas the rant/praise structure with me talking and only having five second clips means I don't get claimed). I have a bunch of stuff to deal with before then though sadly, including a quick review of the Channel 5 Anne Boleyn series. Will definitely cover most of those you list at some point in the future.
@@The_Laughing_Cavalier Wow, that sounds great! I look forward to those in the future. Thank you! 😃
Also I grew up on a lot of historical films like that so, in my own way, I'm pretty familiar with Tudor history (at least Henry VIII and Elizabeth I's reigns). I recently discovered your channel and I greatly appreciate hearing someone else share their thoughts on these other than my sister and one friend. It's fun to know there are more people out there who still like these. So it's fun getting to talk to you, thank you for responding. 😉
Cromwell was such an absolutely disgusting, vile human being. Not only was he a traitor in his own right, but he was an enabler that helped turn the monster that Henry became into an even worst monster.
Whoever found that actor to play Cranmer is a magician.
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Es igualito. Y después dicen que la reencarnación no existe
Thank for sharing this. Im hooked now with Fall of Eagles (1974). Seems that the BBC during this decade was preparing for something as remarkable as I, Claudius
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Bernard Hepton who played Cramner was actually in I, Claudius.
Wolf Morris was indeed the best Cromwell I've ever seen but Leo McKern also made an excellent Cromwell in A Man For All Seasons.
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@@gilsonserafim7300 Henry V111
I’ll just throw James Frain in there for good measure. I thought he too played an excellent Cromwell.
Don't forget John Colicos from Anne of The Thousand Days.
Nice to see someone so like Cranmer's portrait actually portray him. My direct relative Dr Rowland Taylor was living in Cranmer's house around this time. So I guess I'm more invested in accuracy than I may otherwise have been in his case.
El era muy extraño. El personaje quiero decir. Vivió en una época salvaje. No tenía carácter según se dice de sus datos biográficos. Pobresito como murió,era algo horrible.
Well frankly I am thoroughly disappointed by the complete lack of authentic 16th-century microphones shown in this episode, a real let-down after the last one haha. That said, fantastic video and just left me wanting more once again :)
That’s a switch casting older women for roles. Usually they cast women who are 10 or more years younger than the character.
This series was on TH-cam and some wankers forced it down.
BBC no doubt, I have had a bit of copyright trouble uploading these reviews!
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I really enjoyed your this review. This was the first series I ever saw on Henry VIII and the history of his six wives. I wish the series was ava for viewing on You Tube.
Pure quality! I don't think I'll ever tire of watching this.. hasn't been bettered to date. 🤗
I am LOVING this Henry
Damn, I just noticed I accidentally called Mark Rylance 'Mary Rylance' at 8:18!
Hey I just wanted to ask if the Cromwell in this series is in anyway related to the traitor Oliver Cromwell of Civil War fame (or infamy if you ask me).
I believe Oliver Cromwell was related on his mothers side to him (can't remember off the top of my head but I think one of Thomas Cromwell's wards adopted his surname after marrying a niece of his and his granddaughter married Oliver Cromwell's Dad).
@@The_Laughing_Cavalier ah okay. By the way I just wanted to say that your review of Cromwell was very well done. Keep up the good work man.
Awesome stuff as always Cav. Love your stuff, pleeeeeease keep it up. There’s so many great movies, series, and miniseries I’d love to get your take on.
I feel strongly that the ulceration turned into osteomyelitis, an infection of the bone which I know from personal experience is excruciatingly painful. It's extremely hard to heal and they didn't have IV antibiotics then.
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@@gilsonserafim7300 Thank you so much. I was able to to locate them and have watched the, and will rewatch. If only they would start producing quality programs like those. I even watched I, Claudius
Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Better New Year than 2020.
I'm glad I've found your channel. I have this as well as other history videos to look forward to.
Glad you are enjoying it. I'm currently working on a few videos at the moment (think there is a post on my community tab a few weeks back that lists what I have got planned for the next few months).
Hhw would Henry have reacted if he had known that it is the father, not the mother, that determines the sex of a child? From what we know of Henry, he probably would not have believed it because nothing is ever Henry's fault.What a horrible man=child he was.
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brilliant and intelligent review of a classic series loved it ,well done.
I as 9 years old when I watched this series with my family and from then on took a huge interest in the Tudors; particularly Anne Boleyn. I can’t seem to find the series here on TH-cam. Excellent critique!
Thank you for this... I watched this in my early adolescence. I love the background your content gives this series. Because of that, I am a new subscriber. Greetings from British Columbia, Canada.
For those of you who remember the “Mary Tyler Moore show,” a scene in which she is talking with her grumbly boss, Lou, about what he did the previous night and he gripes that his wife insisted on watching some historical drama on the public TV, “the six wives of Henry the eighth or the eight wives of Henry the sixth….” so the fact that this show was mentioned on one of the most popular sitcoms of the time shows how popular it was in the USA!
Surprisingly, she lived over a hundred years to be another queen, of Henrietta Marie !!!
On the day Anne had her final miscarriage she had walked in on Jane Seymour sitting on the kings knee......she had known of his attraction to Jane for some time but had hoped it was one of his passing fancies, now she was confronted with evidence of his affection for Jane. This information was given to the Lady Mary 10 days after Anne's execution by the woman who had been nurse maid and governess to all the royal children - Lady Bryan, who had been in charge of Lady Mary since she had been bastardized and sent away from court.....now they were close, and Lady Bryan had been one of Anne's ladies in waiting in the Tower after Anne's arrest. She and her family were also close to Jane Parker (George Boleyn's wife) and Janes parents. They knew more about Janes unhappy marriage than anyone, and after visiting Lady Mary and imparting the real cause of Queen Anne's marriage, she went to visit Janes parents too. It was a small world.
I don’t think it was the same day as the miscarriage, but it was all within a short time frame. Henry had his jousting accident a day or two before Anne’s miscarriage and I doubt he was well enough to be flirting with Jane Seymour on his knee a day or so after he nearly died. I think the Seymour incident must have happened first, then the jousting accident, then the miscarriage. What a terrible amount of stress Anne must have been under. First she sees her husband with another woman, then he nearly dies (and just imagine what would happen to her, with so many enemies around her, with only an infant daughter and an unborn child to rival Mary’s claim to the throne). No wonder she miscarried so soon afterwards.
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I'm just bookmarking this because every time Henry says "By God, I'll take you!" it's hilarious.
Jonathan Newth is in my family (my maiden name is Newth). Pretty awesome he was in this series! I enjoyed the videos for each wife and the actor playing Henry is spot on I think! I do agree that the whole dowry issue with Catherine went on and on for too long though.
I remembet watching this in the 70's it was very popular. My husband and I went to see an exibition of the costumes in London.
Can’t wait for part 2
I was about 10 when the program came out. It was a special night for the family. Pop black came on first [Snooker] We all sat around the tv then I think Henry started at 9 pm. We had jacket potatoes and my dad's home brew. I had to have lemonade in mine, but it still made my head spin.
What a good memory! I loved this series (I was 5 at the time) but my Mum bought them on video and I inherited them..I really don't think this has been bettered to date 🤗
The video is great. Really enjoyed it. I loved the series when I was younger, and think it is by far one f the most accurate portrayals of the king and the wives. However, from what I have read since over the decades I am not sure Anne was as fearful as this so early on, and had no idea of the plot against her. Although we now know she was executed, no woman had ever been been beheaded in England to that point and so I doubt this possibility ever crossed her mind.
Oh yeah, in fact I would say there are Queen consorts who have actually done far worst that got off lightly (Edward II's wife Isabella was basically allowed to live quite conformable on her estates despite deposing her own husband!) And as we know, the charges against Anne were sketchy at best, I believe it was in Chapuy's letters that he claimed members of the court were taking bets on whether George Boleyn would be found innocent, and the majority were betting he would.
Still, the scene was apparently based off of Charles Wriothesleys Chronicle, although it was written nearly a quarter of a century later:
onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2011/10/18/anne-boleyn%E2%80%99s-arrival-at-the-tower-of-london/
I will have to look through the state papers (which are all online) and see if there are any proper contemporary sources that describe her arrival at the Tower.
The Laughing Cavalier It would be interesting. There is so much legend about Anne I think it really difficult to determine fact from story.
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Anne spoke to her chaplain, Matthew Parker, a few days before her arrest, imploring him to look after Elizabeth. She knew the end was near, even if she struggled and waivered on believing she would be executed or simply cast off and banished.
Thank you for putting Henry's desire for a son into context. Not only with the Matilda incident but also that England had just ended an era of war and despite Henry being a warmongerer he didn't want it in English soil.
Jane and George didn't have kids....so what. Perhaps they were incapable! Why jump to he was gay and she disliked him.
I never knew Henry questioned Norris.
It actually goes a bit deeper then that. Society of the Tudor era was highly stratified. In the case of women they usually went from being ruled by their fathers or brothers to their husbands (except if they took holy vows-interestingly being a nun was a way for women to pursue power in their own right although they were still subject to male priests and clergy). All this is to say that even a Princess or Queen in her own right would be subject to her husband if she married (as she would be expected to) and this presented a problem. In the case of Henry’s daughters it would then become a question of who they marry. Marrying a foreign Prince (as Mary did when she married King Philip the II of Spain) ran the risk of compromising English autonomy and alienating your subjects. However marrying an English nobleman wouldn’t be much better because you would run the risk in choosing of alienating the other noble houses. Elizabeth ultimately got around all of this by choosing to dedicate herself to the throne and never marrying, but that did mean she was unable to produce an heir and the Tudor dynasty ended with her (though she had James VI on hand as her successor).
All this is to say that even if Henry had been confident in his daughters’ ability to rule, to his mind as women they were destined to be ruled by their husbands and thus a male heir was seen as a safer bet.
Love this my favorite was the Anne of Cleeves episode wish you had a breakdown of it
On the day Anne miscarried at about 4 months pregnant, she had caught Henry dallying with Jane Seymour on his knee. This information came from Lady Mary herself, who had friends among the queen's ladies. Anne had also witnessed expensive gifts coming from the king to Jane, including a pendant with his picture in it. They really did have a fight where Anne snatched that chain from her neck and injured her hand. There were lots of forces and cliques working against Ann and the Boleyns. They had to go to make way for Janes family, for her brothers to be promoted to positions the Boleyns had held. Anns miscarried baby was described as a beautiful boy.
The portrayal of Henry was the best I've seen. But, I felt that the actress playing Anne Boleyn was not young enough to portray her at the age she would have been.
So glad I discovered The Laughing Cavalier. I would love to know where I can locate the music in the background. Fabulous.
If you mean the bit that plays when I am talking about the stuff the series missed, that is from the soundtrack of the filme "Henry VIII and His Six Wives" (1972). I bought the DVD of it a while back, it is a pretty great soundtrack.
@@The_Laughing_Cavalier I'll look for that. Love the music of David Munro.
So thrilled at the new review! Despite her age, Tutin's portrayal is one of my favorites. Of all the upcoming reviews, I am curiously looking forward to hearing your opinions on Katheryn Howard. I much prefer the younger actress they chose for the film version with Mitchell.
Many thanks. Yeah Lynne Frederick portrayed Katheryn in the film version and is the best actress to have portrayed her IMHO (I briefly mentioned that film in my Tudor Rant video). I think the episode in the TV series on her is probably one of the weaker ones of the whole series, particularly since the actress was nearly thirty!
@@The_Laughing_Cavalier Couldn't agree more.
One for Catherine Howard's episode too please.
That one is on the list, although since she was his fifth wife I still have to cover the rest of Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves before the Catherine Howard episode. In the meantime I might do a history video about her.
@@The_Laughing_Cavalier great 😀. Just please don't put that myth about her saying she'd rather had died the wife of Culpeper. There's no evidence of that happening in real life.
I agree
Love Part 1 on your review of "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" but where is part 2?
Keith Mitchell was the best actor to play Henry VIII. May God rest his soul.
Due to copyright I have put it on hold for the moment (the BBC is absolutely terrible to deal with in regards to copyright and I don't want to get my channel deleted!).
There is a post on my community tab going into more detail, but basically my plan is that I will do an hour to an hour and a half long video at some point covering all six episdoes in one (it will be part of a series called 'A Praise of Tudor Dramas' where I will also cover Elizabeth R, Shadow of the Tower etc.), which will be with less clips (to avoid copyright) and more of me talking, but that won't be for at least a year since I have a backlog of videos to get through till then.
I want to be able to watch this series again, I have no idea how I could get a copy.. the actor who played Cromwell was brilliant
DVD is the best bet, you can usually find some second hand copies on eBay or Amazon. I think I heard Britbox or something had it on there for streaming, but I don't know since I don't have it. BBC 4 recently showed the series again but I think it is long gone from iPlayer.
@The_Laughing_Cavalier .. I am in Australia so I had a quick look on ebay, there are 2 copies available in Aus for about $30 each.. quite pricey, but I'll get to it. There is a scene in one of the later episodes where I think Cromwell ? (Forgive me if I am wrong) grabs the hand of ? and says something like 'I know these hands have done such terrible tbings and will quite likely do more, but why do I find such comfort in them' I must have watched that scene 30 years ago.. but just thinking of it gives me goosebumps.
Ann never paid money to Smeaton. He was in the kings household and paid by the king. He only ever played for Ann and her ladies once, while the king was in the room above Anns chamber. So he was never alone with Ann at any time and he was not part of her inner circle.
True, he was an innocent victim but he was a silly fantasist infatuated with Ann Boleyn and that's why they were able to create suspicion about his relationship with the queen. He paid the price for not knowing what a dangerous game court politics was.
@@MrWig100 I doubt hat he was infatuated with her. He hardly ever saw her. I read about that speculation in Alison Weirs book about Anne. Many of these stories are second and third hand and more. Told decades later. Even a hundred years later. He supposedly only ever spoke to Anne once. I doubt it was to flirt with her. He was just expendable in the eyes of Cromwell - a nobody. Cromwell had a lot against Brereton who had been a thorn in his side for a long time and used this fiasco to get rid of him. Weston was a known womanizer as was George Boleyn who it appears his wife hated him. Sir Henry Norris had enemies and the king should have known this - his most loyal and longest serving servant. Later Henry did acknowledge how these men came to fall with Anne. He referred to it when the court infighting became too much and faction was fighting faction. He also warned Jane Seymour, twice, not to meddle in politics and referred to Anne Boleyn and her failed delegation to Germany to court the Lutherans support for England against France and Spain. And his marriage to her.
@@juanitarichards1074 You've obviously read more about the incident than I have. The only Alison Weir book I've read is one recently about Queen Mary. I am reading about the English Reformation at the moment and the author mentions Smeaton and his infatuation once. He may not have been too concerned with the details since it wasn't particularly relevant to his main thesis.
@@MrWig100 Alison Weir "The Lady in the Tower" The Fall of Anne Boleyn", and "Mary Boleyn: The Great and Infamous Whore" - which she argues against that theory in a very compelling way. I have read her book about Mary and her books about Henry Vlll and his court. I've read every book by every author I can get my hands on. Alison Weir puts forward all the arguments, gossip and varying stories and figures out which are most credible. Who were witnesses there at the time. Like the story that Smeaton was tortured. There is no evidence for this as witnesses at his execution said he walked unaided to the block and had no visible injuries. Whereas Anne Askew had been racked and couldn't walk and had to be carried to her execution in a chair, as did the elderly infirm Cranmer. But some kind of pressure was brought to bear on Smeaton, such as: "subscribe Mark and we will see what comes of it". He may have been promised his life in return for a false confession, where he was made to implicate the others. But he was tricked. The king himself questioned Norris and offered him a pardon if he confessed to adultery with the queen but Norris refused, saying he would never condemn an innocent person - the queen. But this only made Henry more suspicious, that he was standing up for the queen, and he had Norris taken to the Tower.
You dont give enough time to read the captions. :/
I pause the video.
Great videos! Will you be uploading your videos on the rest of the episodes from the series?
Slowly but surely I will, they do take a little while to make, plus I have to deal with copyright issues (currently in the process of dealing with a claim on this one) but I do plan to look at the entire series.
@@The_Laughing_Cavalier understood thanks so much for making these videos and all of the time and effort you put into them.
Lady Rochford played by actress Sheila Burrell, who was a cousin of Laurence Olivier.
Just watched first 2 episodes on BBC4, and hard to believe Annette Crosbie (COA) was 35 at the time, whereas Dorothy Tutin(AB) was 40.
Great video. Any update on when part 2 will be uploaded good sir?
A fair way off yet I am afraid, since sadly the BBC love to copyright claim these ones! However, I will be doing some quick reviews of the rest of the series (using screenshots) some time in February for the 50th anniversary of when it aired (or so is the plan!)
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This series is back on Amazon's BritBox, and I've re-watched it for the first time since childhood. Back then, while I knew the broad strokes of the history and enjoyed watching for confirmation of what I knew, I was mostly blind to the acting quality and discussion of politics.
My conclusion now is that the Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn episodes--while both filled with good acting--are actually the worst episodes of the six. My favorite is the Anne of Cleves episode; it's funny, sophisticated in its political analysis, and the character of Anne is so charming. It's an excellent self-contained play. The Catherine Parr episode is probably my second favorite. And the Jane Seymour episode is just delightfully odd and off-putting, almost as if David Lynch wrote that one.
Thanks for these two delightful reviews you've done; I wish you'd reviewed the others, too.
I doubt Anne would have been allowed to speak so rudely to Henry. She does portray her well.
I'm very interested in History and the Tudor period. I saw this film and also the series shown in the 70's I'm from South east London area Mr Greenwich what has a lot of Henry V111 history around here At.Alpheges church where Henry and Elizabeth 1st were both christened👍
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Great review! I love how you go into both the historical and acting aspects of the series. btw would you recommend Wolf Hall?
Yeah I think it is a pretty good series. As I mentioned there are some errors (Lady Rochford being one, although I think Hillary Mantel herself said she knew she got it wrong but needed the character to be that way) but compared to all the other Tudor related dramas we have had of late, it at least tries to resemble the era. One criticism I might have is that Cromwell is perhaps a little too sympathetic since so far we have barely seen his involvement with the monasteries whilst people like Sir Thomas More are perhaps a bit too negatively portrayed. I will probably give that series a review at some point as well.
The Laughing Cavalier Will “Bring Up The Bodies” ever get made? Has anyone heard?
18:00 I see your point. This was actually one of my least favorite episodes, but to ur point of how Anne felt towards Catherine and Mary, or if she felt sympathy towards them - the answer is quite frankly and plainly no. Anne is even on record saying of Catherine "I would rather see her hanged than acknowledge her as my mistress." Even after Elizabeth was born, she gave special instructions for Mary to become maid in her daughter's household, with further instructions for them to hit Mary, and curse in her presence - especially if Mary ever brought up her mother, or her former title of princess.
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Anne actually tried to pass an olive branch to Mary after Katherine's death and I believe she said her greatest regret was her past cruelty to her. That doesn't excuse her behaviour, but I think it can go a way for us to at least forgive her for it. If we think of everyone around the king, they all were pretty ruthless and ambitious, or at least self interested. If you have one person with the power to make or break people on a whim, everyone around him is going to be corrupted by that. You could even take the view that had Katherine and Mary not been so stubborn and self-interested, and recognized for the good of the kingdom it was important for Henry to have a male heir, they could have both been treated much better. I think there's plenty of blame to go around to everyone, but the worst of them all was the one with all the power, Henry. After all, things didn't improve for Mary after Anne's death, only when she finally bent to Henry's will. Was Anne the one who made Mary's life miserable or was she only a convenient scapegoat because no one really wanted (or dared) to blame the king?
@@graphiquejack Anne certainly did her part to make sure Catherine and Mary were disrespected, scorned and miserable. I have never understood the argument that the terrible treatment both endured was to some measure their own fault due to their “stubbornness.” It’s called deeply held religious conviction and the belief that you have well and truly been his lawful wife and true queen for decades - not his whore or concubine. And in a time when being labeled a bastard was truly shocking and diminished your perceived value in society, it is perfectly understandable why Catherine would fight to keep her only surviving child from being labeled as such - particularly as she knew it to be a lie.
Do you know of any good books (fictional or non-fictional) about Sir Francis Bryan aka The Vicar Of Hell? It’s incredible to me he doesn’t have a book or film about him.
I have no idea if anyone has done a book on him specifically. The Anne Boleyn Files do loads of articles on the Tudors so might be worth asking there (think I linked them in the description).
Are you ever going to review the rest of the series?
Eventually I will, my main problem is the BBC copyright claims these videos to hell and back, meaning I am very reluctant to upload in case they turn around and strike my channel. So far I have fought the claims off but one day they may not be so merciful. I will explain a bit about this in Tudor Rant 3 which should be coming out within a month.
Please do a review of Anne of a Thousand Days. :-)
I will definitely do a quick review of it at some point, although I will have to get it on DVD first!
@@The_Laughing_Cavalier Well, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm really enjoying your videos. :-)
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Can’t understand why this drama is no longer available on You Tube?
BBC are very strict with copyright and take down stuff all the time. You would have thought they could perhaps rebroadcast these dramas themselves so the general public could see them, but apparently not.
Because the BBC are greedy.
It’s on Britbox.
@@theresapierce3934 not greedy, their budget has been attacked by successive governments. They are consequently obliged to maximise their income as best they can. One can only hope for a spectacular downfall of Nadine Dorries.
Maybe the series should have really been called how Henry the VIII got rid of his wives🤷♀️
"Six Weddings and Many Funerals"!
The Laughing Cavalier yeah huh? And nothing in between!
Lol
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I just signed up for a free trial of BritBox so I can watch this series!
Anne Boleyn giggle sounds like Betty Rubble. Henry laughs like Precious Pup.
When will you review the other wives?
At some point. I get a lot of copyright problems with these full reviews (since the BBC are the worst company on the planet!), but I will probably be doing some quick reviews without footage of the rest of the episodes in the near future.
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Please, do publish part 2!
i have a three question, do you think Henry Viii really believe Anne Boleyn was Guilt of what she was being accused of or he just want using this as a way to get rid of her ? Also do you think their was part of Henry who feel bad about What he done to His first wive and Mary his daughter ? Did you think he really love Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn or he only care about himself ?
Historians do debate this but from what we can tell, he pretty much convinced himself that Anne was guilty. Yeah, deep down he still loved Catherine (right up to 1529 he still got her to do sewing for him, even when the legatine court was going on!). Difficult to say with Mary since we don't have as many of his private letters and have to rely a lot on ambassadors.
Addendum: What do you think the possibility was that Henry had osteomyletis? Having had that and 6 months of iv antibiotics to get rid of it, the descriptions I've heard sound plausible that that was the possible cause of the leg pain and ulcer.
I've never heard of that condition until now and since I am not a doctor I can't say I am afraid! He had a jousting accident back in the 1520's that caused the initial injury that later came back and became ulcerous so it i possible but I would have to read up about it more.
@@The_Laughing_Cavalier Haha. My husband is a surgeon. I had a severe fracture of the leg and the orthopedic surgeon was a staph carrier and we didn't know until too late. I know what bone cancer feels like. It's something you don't wish on anyone.
@@saradecapua3264 Sorry to hear about that, hope things are better now.
@@The_Laughing_Cavalier Thanks. I'm fine now [I'm a human walking disaster}. I feel that would be a possible diagnosis for the leg ulcer and the possibility of diabetes would be feasible. I felt JRM, although not looking like Henry, had an intensity that gave him something of a pass.
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sorry, I got one more question, what do you think things would have been like If Henry has married Anne Boleyn When Catherine of Aragon has died instead trying to get annulment, like would Anne stilled be behead and what people reaction toward Anne be if annulment and split from the church has never has happened for her get the blame ?
Depends when Catherine dies. She might have died in 1536 historically but that may have been brought on by what Henry had done to her. Anne would be getting on a bit as would be Henry, although both are still capable of bearing children. Henry marrying her might have caused a bit of a stir since she was basically from the gentry rather than nobility or royalty, she would still have plenty of enemies and would try to get Henry to support France, which would annoy the HRE. I would probably have to sit down and think a bit about what would happen to be honest!
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where did you even get it ???
I always thought that the actors who played Cranmer, Cromwell and Norfolk looked like the portraits of their historical counterparts. The actor who so brilliantly played Cromwell in Wolf Hall was Mark Rylance not Mary Rylance as you had written on screen!
Please look at the comment I made 4 years ago...
you know I get the point she forgot her hood/hat in the sean but you would you think somebody like everyone else in the sean who was working on it, they could have said were your hood.
but then again if they're in the bedroom she could have taken it off if she in her own bedroom
The handkerchief thing never happened, they have gotten that story mixed up with one about Elizabeth l. And in any case, the queen and her ladies were expected to favour various knights and tie their ribbons and things to their lances before a joust. No, Norris was arrested because Smeaton, under some compulsion had confessed and he had been made to name others......he named Norris and the others......A note was sent to the king at the joust imparting this news......when he received the note the king jumped up leaving the queen there with no explanation and began riding back to Whitehall, it was only then he sent for Norris and questioned him closely on the ride but Norris denied it and offered to fight in any place to prove his innocence. The king offered him pardon if he would confess but Norris still refused. Thus he was arrested and taken to the Tower, and George Boleyn was the next to be arrested.
Does anyone know where I can buy this series?
I got my DVD from eBay I think, you can usually get copies fairly cheap from there.
@@The_Laughing_Cavalier I am in Australia though. I even wrote to the bbc
@@12from121 Hmm, not too sure then. I don't think the BBC even has a store here in the UK any more, I had to buy the 'Shadow of the Tower' DVD from Canada! The BBC also loves to copyright clips of it, so I doubt you will find it here on TH-cam. It really is the sort of thing they should make available on some sort of streaming service.
@@The_Laughing_Cavalier exactly it is 50 years old they won't let you buy it and get copyright happy. It is so superior to all the modern revisionist Tudor drama. I keep searching. Happy to pay no where to buy! Love your channel mate.
@@12from121 I’m in Australia as well.
Ebay was the only place I could find this. Just make sure you get this DVD in region 4 format.
I always wonder what does Cromwell know about Jane Boleyn????
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Please review Elizabeth R
Part 2?
On hold for the moment. I have said this a few times now, but the BBC are terrible with copyright claims so I have to be cautious when I do these, not to mention I am busy right now editing Tudor Rant 4, the rest of the Waterloo review and the Q&A video, with more stuff on the way after that.
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Keith Michell was Henry in the life but it's strange that I could not stand either Dorothy Tutin or Charlotte Rampling as Anne. I have both versions
You can see her lace front @20:05
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We know this, can we get on with it?
I didn't know King Henry had another brother
Oh yeah. His brother was married very briefly to Queen Katherine. He died shortly after they married and all the problems started then. What happens to the dowry, was the.marriage.consumated, Henry VII wanting his younger son Henry to marry some other princess other than Katherine, etc.
This lady Rochford is creepy
Dorothy Tutin is the best Anne Boleyn much better than Geneviere Bujold.
Anne had more than one miscarriage....one that occurred neat full term......and the king began to believe she would never give him a living son, and Anne was approaching the age that Katherine of Aragon went into menopause....
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This is sort of a dick thing to do - don't you think dude? Kind of hard up for attention.
About :55.....I swear I thought that was Natalie Dormer. 😳😯
All you have to do is give me a son. Ha ha ha. What a humbug. He cheated her also if she had given him a son
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But her position as queen would have been secure.
MARK Rylance, not Mary, please!
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@@The_Laughing_Cavalier At 8:19 where you compare performances of Thomas Cromwell, in a heading.
@@janderson6257 Yes, I didn't noticed I had made a typo till I had uploaded the video. I left a comment 4 years ago about it.
@@The_Laughing_Cavalier My inner proofreader took control of my brain. Just found your series today.
@@janderson6257 No worries.
I don't condone what Henry did to Catherine, but there's A certain chance Mary couldn't have any children due to some reproductive issues.
Too old to be playing anne boleyn
It depends how old Ann was at the time she married Henry. I'm no expert but Wikipedia says she was born some time between 1501 and 1507 which puts her maximum age at around 35 when she died. Dorothy Tutin would have been around 40 when the play was made, perhaps a year or so younger, so I wouldn't say she was too old. If Ann had been born in 1506 then Tutin would have been a bit too old. Either way it was a fine performance.
The series was made for a time when we had much smaller-screen TVs, so the age difference doesn't show as much. Besides, the performance was very strong and might not have been within the range of a younger actress.
I cannot imagine any of the wives being better cast than in this series. I cannot imagine anybody from the time surpassing Dorothy Tutin. She held me spellbound when it was first broadcast.
the jousting injury was serious you knob....he was unconcious for 2 hours....i'd say thats some pretty serious head trauma.
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