Monday, March 28, 2011

Historical Innacuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 2, Episode 3

  • William Brereton is again depicted as some sort of Papal/Spanish spy or assassin, when he was nothing of the sort.
  • Katherine of Aragon is shown still resident at 'The More', when she was actually moved on from there to a succession of more remote properties.
  • Henry is shown next to Anne in her cornoation procession. In reality, he was not there. The whole process of the coronation was soley about Anne and she went through it alone (she of course had servants etc near her).
  • No one was shot during the procession.
  • Anne was indeed crowned with the crown of St Edward (which was a huge crown - she swopped it quickly for a smaller one) but Henry did not participate in the ceremony. Apparently he watched, secretly, from a side chamber.
  • I'm not sure that Henry had a mistress at the time of Anne giving birth to Elizabeth. There were constant rumours about his possible love affairs, mostly from the Imperial Ambassador, but since Chapuys would say anything to discredit Anne, not all of the rumours had actual basis in fact.

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