Historical Inaccuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 1, Episode 10

• The King's council is shown meeting in the Great Hall of the palace when I think they avtually met at Westminster.
•  The protestant reformer, Simon Fish, is arrested for heresy by Thomas More and burned. Fish was indeed arrested for heresy but died of plague before he could stand trial, in 1531.
• Anne Boleyn is shown dining with Henry in the great hall, and again she is wearing a rediculous head-dress which would not have been fashionable or seemly at the time. 
• Henry tells Anne that he is giving her Wolsey's old palace of York Place. This did indeed become a royal residence, and was re-named Whitehall. The series has consistently shown Whitehall to be Henry's palace from the start, even though he did not aqcuire it until the 1530s, and he had many palaces which he lived in on a sort of 'rotation' basis.
• Wolsey is shown being forcibly arrested by guards and the Duke of Suffolk He was actyally arrested, very civily, by the young Duke of Northumberland, acting on behalf of the King. Wolsey questioned Northumberland's authority and initially refused to go with him.
•  Katherine tells Chapuys (who wasn't leaving, just having a few months break) that she could not condone a war to help her. Chapuys actually spent the next few years constantly pestering both her and the Emperor to agree to a war to overthrow Henry. Thankfully, the Emperor was never interested.
• Wolsy commits suicide whilst a satirical play about his life is performed. The play 'On the Cardinal going to hell' was actually performed as depicted, but Wolsey did not kill himself. He died of what is believed to be dysentry whilst staying at Leicester Abbey on his way to London to stand trial. 

Historical Inaccuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 1, Episode 9

• Henry's sister Mary (not Margaret) did in fact die of tuburculosis. However, she died in 1536, not in 1529 when this episode was set. 
• Wolsey is removed from office by Norfolk and Brandon, and told to go to the house at Jericho. He actually went to one of his own houses at Esher, which was in a state of some neglect.

Historical Inaccuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 1, Episode 8

Firstly, I did not find anything majorly wrong with episode 7, as it was focussed on Henry's fears about the sweating sickness. In fact, the portrayl of Henry's worries about illness and death, and his ametuer efforts to prevent them, was very good. Below is a summary of the innacuracies in episode 8.

• In the first scene, Henry and Katherine are sitting for an artist. No joint painting of Henry and Katherine exists. Of course, this does not mean that one wasn't produced but, during the time when this episode was set, Henry would not have agreed to be painted alongside Katherine as he no longer thought of her as his true wife and Queen. 
• The scene where people are dancing in the great hall brings up a point about costume. The dresses the ladies wear are more Elizabethan than Henrician in their design. The most notable thing about this is that they do not have long, flowing sleeves. Henrician dresses had sleeves which were so long they almost touched the ground and, which for the richest, contained many layers of sumptuous fabric. It's a shame that little details such as this, which are not hard to do, were ignored during the making of the series.
• Katherine is visited by Bishop Tunstall and Archbishop Warham, and accused of perhaps plotting against the King. In reality, she was visited by a large delegation of Bishops and other notable figures, and this was not the only time Henry attempted to intimidate her in this manner.
• Anne Boleyn makes a new motto, which should have read 'that's how it will be, grudge who likes'. She only kept it for a short time, after she learnt that it was part of a motto for the court of Bourloigne, part of the Emperor's territory, and people were mocking her for it. 
• Thomas More brings Bishop Fisher to Queen Katherine. Fisher was actually already a part of the Queen's legal team, and she had known him for many years. She had written to him asking for advice when the issue of the divorce first arose, to which he publicly replied that she should obey the King, but he privately begun reading arguments against the King's case. He would always remain an increadibly steadfast supporter of the Queen.
•  Henry and Anne play cards, and Henry remarks on Cromwell's mission to the Pope. It was actually Gardiner who wrote the lines about paster-noster and creed when he was sent to the Pope to persuade him to act on the divorce.
• A small matter, but in the records of the Legantine trial it states that Katherine was wearing a red gown, not the purple/blue in the series. 

Historical Inaccuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 1, Episode 6

• Thomas Boleyn talks to Henry about things he found out in his post as Comptroller of the Household. This is set after Boleyn is made Lord Rochford. In reality, he had to resign his post as Comptroller when he was elevated to the peerage, as it was not seemly for a Lord to have a 'proper job'. He complained about it endlessly, as he had derived substantial income from the office.
• Wolsey is shown walking into the throne room and past the throne without doffing his hat. Everyone was meant to doff their hat and bow at the throne, even when the King was not there, and the throne room was strictly guarded and off limits to all but a very few people.
• In the final scene, Anne Boleyn is shown wearing a rediculous head-dress, which certainly would not have existed at the time. Women did wear head-dresses, but these were meant to be demure and certainly not as elaborate. The most common types in England at the time were the 'gable hood' (worn by Jane Seymour in her portrait) and the 'French hood' (worn by Anne Boleyn in her portraits).

Historical Inaccuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 1, Episode 5

• George Boleyn calls Anne his 'little' sister. In reality, George was actually the youngest of the three Boleyn children, with Mary being the eldest, then Anne. 
• Henry was indeed angry with his sister Mary (not Margaret) for marrying Charles Brandon, but this did not take place as the same time as he was beginning to seek his divorce. The whole episode with Mary and Brandon actually occured before 1520. By the time this series was set, they had been married some years and had children.
• The scene where Henry and Anne are dancing whilst Katherine is in the room brings up an interesting point, which is that Katherine and Henry continued to live together for the first few years of their divorce proceedings, as if nothing was happening. This got more and more bizarre as Anne gained influence and was given her own suite of rooms at court, where people would come to visit, and the situation only ended when Henry finally sent Katherine away in 1531.
• At the end of the episode, little Henry Fitzroy is dead of the sweating sickness. In fact, Henry Fitzroy lived until 1536, when he died of what was believed to be tuburculosis. He was a teenager and, after the downfall of Anne Boleyn, starting to look like the only possibility of a male Tudor inheriting the throne. He had been married to the daughter of the Duke of Norfolk, but the marriage was probably never consumated as they were both teenagers. Henry's 'nutiness' at the time is illustrated by the fact that he ordered Norfolk to bury Fitzroy without ceremony, but then flew into a rage when Norfolk carried out this order.

Historical Inaccuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 1, Episode 4

• As a point of interest, Henry did not adopt the title 'your majesty' until the 1530s. Before that, he used 'your grace'. This would have been confusing in the series as the Dukes were also addressed as 'your grace', so I can understand why they used the other one.
• Henry addresses his sister and wishes her well for her trip abroad. Then everyone kneels on the bare wooden floor to pray. This would not have happened. The religious service would have taken place in the palace chapel, not in the great hall, and Henry would have observed the service from his 'closet', which was a private area in the chapel just for him. He never would have knelt on the floor. 
• Henry is shown going into a church service with his wife and sitting on chairs near the altar. Again, Henry would have observed church services in this 'closet', with the Queen also having her own closet. They would have only gone into the main body of the church to recieve holy sacrament. As an aside, Henry often conducted state business during these services, as it was perhaps the only time when officials like Wolsey would find him sitting in one place! 
• Anne Boleyn is shown travelling to her family's home in a carriage which would not have been common until the 18th century.
• Wolsey mentions a new 'visitor', Marguerite of Navarre. Marguerite was actually sister to the King of France, and as such, any visit by her would have been an occasion of much formality and not one which Henry would be unaware about. All of which is somewhat irrelevant, as she never did visit England. 
• Thomas Boleyn tells the Duke of Norfolk that Wolsey has just appointed himself Bishop of Winchester, as the previous Bishop died. The series has the date of this wrong. If we are to assume that the episode is set during the early-mid 1520s (Henry not yet persuing his divorce etc), the current Bishop would be the elderly Richard Fox, who did not die until 1528. Wolsey did appoint himself as Bishop in 1529 but only served for a year.
• Henry is once again shown dining in the great hall without the canopy of estate, which he would have dined under. The canopy of estate was a highly important indicator of his status (and also that of royal children, who also dined under their own canopy). 
• Thomas More talks about his friendship with the King and how, if his head were to win a castle, the King would have it cut off. This anecdote was in fact told to his son-in-law, William Roper, and not at the court.
• The jousting accident where Henry was hit in the face occured when he was jousting against Charles Brandon, not Knyvet. 
• The scene where Margaret Tudor meets the elderly King of Portugal is completely false, as it was actually Mary Tudor, Henry's younger sister, who was married to the King of France. I mentioned this in my comments on episode 3.
• Margaret did not smother the King of Portugal. In reality, Mary was married to King Louis of France for only a short period of time before he suddenly died, of what people at the time thought was over-exertion in the bedroom.