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[shadowkat]

Enjoying the Tudors even if it is historically inaccurate in places, grossly so in some, not so much in others. Also, Gabriel Anwar of Burn Notice is portraying the combined roles of Henry's sisters Mary and Margaret Tudor. Mary was married to the King of France, who was 30 years her senior, and died of natural causes after one year - when she married Duke of Suffolk, Charles Brandon in secret. While Margaret was married to the Portugese King. In this series, Margaret marries the King of Portugal who is 30 years her senior and she suffocates, then marries Charles Brandon in secret.

Also Henry the VIII weighed over 400 pounds when he died. They had to move him about by mechanical means. I've been told they won't do that in the series, since Rhys Meyers is a sex symbol.

Ah, well, most historicals take liberaties with the time period for dramatic effect. I rarely read them for historical accuracy. Actually, history is not always accurate since the interpreters often take their own liberaties in their interpretations. Good historians question their interpretations.

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I think this is one of those cases where it works better if you don't know the history that well.

I checked on Wiki and discovered various weird changes regarding the Duke of Suffolk and Woosley. Historically Woosely reconciled Suffolk and Henry, while in this version...Suffolk has been convinced by Boylen and Norfolk to conspire against Woosley to regain the King's favor.

So, I've decided I'm not going to know what happens next by checking the history books - because the series already veers so completely from it.
William Compton in the series is portrayed as gay, while there was no evidence that he was historically.

It's obvious a series that is rather loosely based on history, like historical romance novels. ;-)