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.