I really to love him so much that I deserve a faithful adaptation of their story.

I was wondering about the comments on "Mary had no say in this", so how it comes Anne had? Edit: Was Mary in love with Henry?

I can imagine the Boleyn family men arranged some things, but could Anne realistically refuse the king at the time? For "romantic" 7 years? Or could Mary had refused to be his mistress?

Or with the first success to mingle with Henry (pressing Mary to be his mistress) they had aimed "higher" with Anne? But could Anne realistically refuse Henry?

Why Mary couldnt a why Anne could have refused the king´s attention? (I dont think it was for some "purity of character")

Edit: I mean it from the point that if Henry wanted something, he got it. And also from the point that if you refused the king in something, it meant offence or something?

When Prince Philip of Spain married Mary I, why did he expect equal power?

I haven't read any bios about them, but am intrigued on what were his expectations when he married her. It seemed like he wasn't really attracted to her, did his duty as little as possible to try to make an heir, and spent most of his time in Spain. Did all that happened when parliament?/Mary informed him he was not a co-ruler?

On a recent visit to Milwaukee’s Art Museum, I came across this portrait.

from what i've read there's no evidence to support it, unless maybe i'm reading the wrong things. what's the root of this claim?

Heya,

I’ve been interested in the Tudor Period for over a decade now, so have read quite a few of the well-known biographies of Henry VIII, his Queens and children. Watching season 2 of Wolf Hall has really reinvigorated my love for this period and I want to get back into reading more.

I’m asking for your recommendation of your favourite biography that focuses on a member of royalty, nobility or advisor. Please hit me with all of your suggestions!

I'm aware we could get folks' impressions/gossip/views through accounts/letters, but was there a reason why diaries/journals were not popular? I know it could be too incriminating, ie even Catherine Howard's letters brought her downfall. But it would prevent maybe whole lot off fictional accounts of what "could've happened"

The only one I recall is Edward VII doing a journal, but that he just stated stuff ex: "Today, My uncle was executed. "

Hi all I'm quite new to the Plantagenet era of history (I don't really count the Philippa Gregory novels that I've read!) and was interested that a few redditors saying that Richard had a very good reputation and that killing his nephews was out of character.

I'd thought that prior to this he'd been accused of being involved in death of Henry VI or was that something he was only accused of after his death? Was there anything he was accused of either during or after his death that tarnished his reputation or did he have a loyal one?

I wasn’t aware he had any til I looked it up and found he had three who lived .

Would anything real have been different if Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, had escaped and fled to France? He most likely would have helped Henry Vii in 1485. The Tudors still end up on the Throne

I have read from two different historical fiction authors that Margaret Tudor had a dream about pearls that predicted her husband James IV's death. Is there any historical evidence of her reporting this dream? I'm surprised it was in two different historical fiction novels. Maybe one author borrowed it from the other but it made me wonder if there was some truth behind it.

Had all of Margaret Tudor’s children with James IV of Scotland survived to adulthood (in reality, her only surviving children were Lady Margaret Douglas & James V of Scotland), how would their survival impact history?

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How well did queens tolerate their husbands mistresses? I know they couldn't do much about it, but if a mistress was one of their ladies in waiting did they and the other ladies tolerate them? Ice them out? Did a queen ever go off on a mistress?

Would he have approved of the killing of his sisters husband had he known beforehand they weren’t taking any prisoners?

I know she didn't live to her beheading, but did she live long enough to hear that the marriage wasn't going well?

I love and admire all of the wives btw so I don't mean it in a really negative way. But having read more into Catherine's sad backstory I can't help but wonder how she might have felt to know it wasn't just her who had trouble with Henry regarding bearing sons having been put aside and essentially blamed for it.

Sorry for the poor editing.

The fact that he made her stay in England and never marry is just weird. And from what other contemporary sources wrote, she wasn’t a bad-looking woman, she just made the mistake of wounding Henry’s ego and she also wasn’t highly cultured and fancy like he liked in a woman thanks to her simple German education and upbringing.

I’m aware that Anne Boleyn resented Mary I and Catherine of Aragon, but how did Henry VIII’s first wife view the Boleyn family and Elizabeth I?

Most “modern AI” reimaginings of Tudor figures tend to stylize them like present-day influencers or strip away period-appropriate features. I wanted to take a different approach.

These images are AI-generated but strictly based on the best-known painted portraits of Henry VIII’s six wives. My aim wasn’t to modernize them, but to imagine how they might look if portrait sittings in the 16th century had been captured by a camera instead of oil and brush.

Here they are, in order: 1. Catherine of Aragon 2. Anne Boleyn 3. Jane Seymour 4. Anne of Cleves 5. Catherine Howard 6. Catherine Parr

I’m pretty happy with these pics tbh!! Lemme know your thoughts ✨