Historical Innacuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 3, Episode 4

• Aske is hanged in chains at York. He was haged in chains but, as far as I understand, this meant he was left chained to the wall to die of exposure/hunger etc, instead of being traditionally hanged with chains round him.
• Francis Bryan is sent to aprehend Reginald Pole, taking a rather young Thomas Seymour with him as some sort of aide. Thomas Seymour was an important man in his own right and would not have been suitable for such a role. The mission itself also did not occur in real life. 
• Edward Seymour is shown waiting in the Queen's chamber as Jane is in difficult labour near by. In reality, the Queen went into seclusion towards the end of her pregnancy and only women were allowed to attend her until she had given birth. 
• Bishop Gardiner is seen baptising Edward, when it was Archbishop Cranmer who did this (he seems to have disappeared after series 2). Also, Henry would not have attended.

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

• Hans Holbein, the painter, has a slight altercation with another man, who is meant to be the fiance of Lady Miselden, Henry's mistress. As Lady Miselden is a fictional character, this did not happen, although Henry's statement about seven lords not being equal to one Holbein is accurate.
• Suffolk is shown implementing punishment on the people for the rebellion. In fact, as stated previously, it was the Duke of Norfolk who was Henry's representative in the North. 
• The poker in the bum scene is rather unnecessary. I'm not sure if Constable was tortured but, if he was, it probably wasn't by Edward Seymour and a red hot poker. 
• Henry did not visit Aske in prison, as is depicted.

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

• When Brandon is arguing with the man about the cannons (or lack of), there is a large coach in the background. This type of coach would not have been around until the Victorian era, many hundreds of years later.
• Lord Darcy of Pontefract Castle is shown talking to, and then joining the rebels. The actual truth of Darcy's situation was much more complicated. He did indeed write many times to the King, asking for more men to hold the castle. Henry ignored him. However, Darcy may have gone along with the rebels fearful that, if he did not, he would be killed. 
• Lady Miselden, Henry's supposed mistress, is a completely fictional character. Henry did not take a mistress in the time he was married to Jane Seymour, although he was overheard making remarks about other 'beautiful' ladies etc.
• When Francis Bryan goes to touch Lady Miselden, she remarks 'you cannot touch me, for ceasar's I am'. This was actually a refrain from a poem by Thomas Wyatt (another character who has disappeared after season 2), and the poem is believed to be about Anne Boleyn.
• Robert Aske is shown with his family when, in reality, he was unmarried.

Historical Innacuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 3, Episode 1

• Sir Francis Bryan is introduced as a character when he had in fact been present at court for a number of years previously and had been, at one time, close to the Boleyn family. He did only have one eye and was a notorious trouble-maker.
• After the scene in which Henry celebrates his marriage to Jane Seymour, the story cuts to events in Yorkshire, where the common people rise up against religious changes. This makes it seem like these things were happening around the same time. However, Henry married Jane in May but the uprisings did not begin until October 1536. 
• Richard Rich tells Cromwell that they have taken possession of monastic wealth worth 'many millions of pounds'. The wealth from the monastaries was great, but not the great. There was no concept of 'millions' of pounds in the Tudor age.
• When Edward Seymour is shown receiving his honours, Brandon is standing (once again) on the dias behind Henry's throne. Again, this would not have happened. The dias, throne, and canopy of estate were visual symbols of monarchy. If Brandon had stood there, it would have communicated that he was on the same level as the King, which would have been treasonous. Also, I swear that the door into the throne room has been replaced by a curtain in between series 2 and 3.
• In the scene where she talks to abassador Chapuys, Jane is shown wearing an elaborate lace collar, which was not in fashion at the time. That sort of collar is instantly recognisable as belonging to the Elizabethan era instead.
• When Jane is talking to her ladies, and then Lady Rochford, she is wearing a rediculous head-dress made of pointy bits of metal. This would never have been worn. Also, her ladies are wearing odd sort of flat 'bonnet' hats. In reality, since Anne Boleyn had favoured the 'french' head-dress, Jane ordered her ladies to wear the traditional English 'gable' hood instead.
• Cromwell is shown recieving offices and the title of Baron of Wimbledon. Again this means that the timing in the episode is wrong, as this was done in July and not at the beginning of the northern uprisings (shown alongside), which were in October.
• Henry appoints Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, as commander of forces against the rebels. In fact, it was the Duke of Norfolk who was appointed. For some reason, Norfolk has been written out of the show after series 1, even though he was an increadibly important figure in Henry's reign. In all the scenes that follow to do with the rebellion, Brandon's actions are meant to be what Norfolk actually did.

Historical Innacuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 2, Episode 9

• At the opening of the episode, Henry's doctors are telling him that Anne's miscarried baby was somehow 'deformed'. The only evidence of this being true is the account of Chapuys, who stated that she miscarried a 'shapeless lump of flesh'. However, the bias of Chapuys against Anne is well known, and there is nothing to actually suggest her baby truly was deformed. 
• When Anne confronts Jane Seymour about the locket, she is wearing a ruffed collar which was not actually in fashion at the time. This style of dress was much more indicative of the Elizabethan era than the era in which Anne was queen.
• When Chapuys is talking with Cromwell, he refers to Anne as Queen. Chapuys actually refused ever to refer to Anne as queen, always calling her 'the lady', and in his private letters 'the concubine'.
• Thomas Boleyn is shown walking through the throne room and across the dias where Henry's throne was. In reality, he would not have been permitted to do so.
• In the episode, Brereton actually confesses that he slept with Anne, in order to fulfill his assassin mission of having her killed. In reality, he did not confess because he had not done anything. He was brought down by Cromwell because he was a powerful figure in his local area. 
• It's a shame that the episode did not show the trial of Anne, or of George Boleyn. Both defended themselves with great merit.
• The men were executed on Tower Hill, not within the walls of the Tower as depicted. Anne may not have been able to see them from her room.

Historical Innacuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 2, Episode 8

• Jane Seymour is shown becoming a lady in waiting to Anne Boleyn when in fact she had held this position for a few years already. 
• Anne is shown as being pregnant again. However, the timing of this is wrong. Anne miscarried her final pregnancy on the day Katherine of Aragon was buried, in January 1536. She was executed in May. Katherine died in the previous episode and, by looking at Anne's tummy, we surmise that this episode is set several months after. However, this does not fit with the actual timeline of what happened. There is actually no reason for the show to change the real timing of the events; the fact that Anne miscarried when Katherine was buried could have made an interesting scene. 
• Anne is shown performing the traditional role of washing feet of the poor and giving them maundy money. This also doesn't fit with the timing of her still being pregnant, as she miscarried in January and Maundy is the day before Good Friday in easter. 
• Henry did indeed suffer a jousting accident in 1536 (though I'm not sure he was jousting against Norris), but it was in January. Again, therefore, the timeline in the episode is not accurate. 
• Anne was told the news of Henry's accident by her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk (who seems to have been cut out of history after season 1 of this show). She later blamed his crass manner of telling her as one of the reasons for her miscarriage. 

Historical Innacuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 2, Episode 7

• Henry decides to visit Wolf Hall, home of the Seymours, whilst hunting. Wolf Hall was actually too far to visit on a normal hunting excursion, but Henry and Anne went there whilst on progress in 1535.
• Whilst at Wolf Hall, Henry is introduced to Jane Seymour, wife number 3. However, Henry would have already known Jane as she had been a lady in waiting to Anne, and to Katherine previously.
• The celebration at the end of the episode seems to be for May Day. In reality, Katherine of Aragon died in January (Henry and Anne did celebrate this), and Anne was executed in May, so the timing in the episode is wrong.

Historical Innacuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 2, Episode 6

• Firstly, there were no major inaccuracies in episodes 4 or 5.
• Cromwell takes George Boleyn to see a printing press, which he describes as a 'new weapon' against the papacy. However, the printing press had been around for several decades already.
• George Boleyn is shown marrying. In reality, he and Lady Rochford were married in the mid 1520s.
• When Anne confronts Henry about where he's going, she's wearing a rediculous, almost see-through outfit, that certainly would not have been worn at the time.

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.

Historical Inaccuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 2, Episode 2

• The first thing to point out is that the timeline in this episode is horribly mixed up. At the beginning, you see that it is snowing, and that the court is exchanging Xmas gifts (which were actually exchanged during New Years). We surmise that it is Xmas 1532. However, this scene precedes those where Anne is created Marquess of Pembroke (happened in September 1532), and where Henry tells Anne about the trip to France (happened autumn 1532 after she became Marquess). Thomas More is also still the chancellor, when he had already resigned because of the submission of the Clergy.
• As above, the scene where Cromwell and Cramner are talking is marred by confused timeline. If it was during the winter of 1532, then the old Archbishop Warham would already have died, in August, and Cranmer would have been named as Archbishop, although it took him some time to come back from his post abroad.
• When Anne finds the cards in her rooms, she is finally wearing the right sort of costume! Not an inaccuracy, I know, but worth mentioning as the costumes in the series have tended to be inaccurate when it would be so easy to have just made them properly.
• When Henry confronts the church members about their oath, Cromwell and Boleyn are shown standing on the raised platform that holds Henry's throne, under the canopy of estate. They never would have stood there, as this area was reserved for the King only. 
• Henry and Anne attend a sermon by a friar, William Peto. Firstly, Henry is not in his private closet, as he would have been. Secondly, the sermon was given at Easter 1532, not Xmas.
• When Anne is made Marquess, she is given lands worth £100,000 a year. This was an unbelievably large sum for that time, and the actual figure would have been £1000.
• Mark Smeaton talks to Mary Boleyn whilst they are in France, and she mentions that her husband is dead. Her first husband, William Carey, had actually died of the sweating sickness in 1528, several years before this episode is set.

Historical Inaccuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 2, Episode 1

• Parliament is shown meeting at Westminster, but they use the same set as they did for the Legantine trial at Blackfriars. Parliament itself looks very small; I'm sure it was made up of more members than are shown in this scene.
• During the Parliament scene, it looks like the members for the House of Commons and the House of Lords are all in the same room, when they would have met seperately. Henry is not sitting under a canopy of estate, which he would have been. There are also several men seated behind him on a raised platform when, in reality, no one would have sat higher than the King.
• Warham says he will put Henry's new title to Convocation (parliament of the church), but then conducts a vote right there. Convication actually met seperately from Parliament so there was actually a lot of running back and forth with messages etc, and many delays.
• The arial view of Rome apparently shows buildings which were not built until much later.
• The pope suggests assasinating Anne Boleyn. No such plot was ever concocted, so the following scenes about it through the series are complete fabrication.
• Cranmer is introduced to George Boleyn when the two would have known each other already, as Cranmer was a friend of the Boleyn family.
• Boleyn is shown hiring Bishop Fisher's cook to poison him. There was actually an incident where poison was put into soup at the Bishop's household, and several poor people supping there died. The Bishop became ill but survived. Thomas More was not dining there at the time, as the series depicts. However, there was no proof that the Boleyn's were behind it. The cook said he'd put it in as a joke. 
•  Thomas More was not present when Katherine left the palace.

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.

Historical Inaccuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 1, Episode 3

• Henry tells Charles Brandon that his sister, Margaret, is to marry the King of Portugal. This contains several inaccuracies. Firstly, Henry's elder sister Margaret was married to James IV of Scotland in 1503. His younger sister, Mary, had been married to the aging King Louis of France, not Portugal, but this took place some years before the series is set (Louis is dead and Francis I is King in the series). 
• Henry makes Brandon the Duke of Suffolk. In reality, he did this after the French campaign of 1513.
• In the masque, the castle is defended by ladies, when in real life those parts were played by boys from the chapel royal. Henry takes the part of 'honesty', when he actually played 'amourness'.
• Thomas Boleyn gives William Cornish, the pageant master, some money for putting Anne in the masque. Anne would actually have been chosen because of her own merits.
• Brandon did not accompany Mary to France (not Margaret to Portugal, grr). He was sent to pick her up after her husband died. At that point they married in secret. At the time the series is set, they were already Duke and Duchess of Suffolk, Henry had forgiven them, and they were happy. 
•  The emperor had already visited England briefly, as King of Spain, just before the Field of Cloth of Gold. He did then visit again in 1522.
• Henry's interest in Anne did not begin until several years later, in about 1525-1526.
• St. Paul's Cross, in London, looks like it's in a farm, when in fact it was a well-known public preaching point where people would often gather to hear preachers.
• They keep showing fireworks, when I don't think England had fireworks at this time. 
• Richard Pace, the secretary, was not arrested. He did, however, have a bit of a nervous breakdown and was removed as secretary.
• Traitors Gate wasn't called Traitors Gate at this time.

Historical Inaccuracies - 'The Tudors', Series 1, Episode 2

• Henry arrives at the Field of the Cloth of Gold with a small retinue. In reality, both he and Francis arrived with hundreds of people and it was feared there would be a battle.
• This is going to be a running theme of annoyance, but the clothes are very innacurate throughout all series of this programme. For example, Francis is shown wearing ermine, as he would, but Henry is shown in very 'relaxed' clothes. In reality, Henry would have 'dressed up' and worn fur also, as only royalty were allowed to wear ermine. 
• Little Princess Mary meets the Dauphin. In fact, her comment about wanting to kiss him took place at a 'proxy' wedding in London, when she asked the French representative if he was the Dauphin. She did not actually go to the summit.
• When Francis presents Henry with the jewelled necklace, the camera pans to show a black gentleman in the audience. Sadly, he would not have been there, as black people were thought of as infidels and inferior, and there were very very few of them in England or France at the time. 
• Mary Boleyn is shown wearing purple. In fact, only royalty were allowed to wear purple.
• In the series, the Field of Cloth of Gold is set whilst Henry's mistress, Bessie Blount, is pregnant with his child. In real life, she gave birth to his son in 1519, a year before the summit.
• Buckingham is shown taking pledges of allegiance from nobles. His conspiracy was actually stopped before it got that far.
• The Duke of Norfolk is shown giving Henry a new year's gift. There is a little confusion because the series keeps the same actor for this role throughout, when in fact one Duke of Norfolk died in 1524, and his son succeeded him. 
• The Duke of Norfolk says his father was executed by Henry VII. This is not true. The 1st Howard Duke died at the Battle of Bosworth fighting for Richard III. The 2nd died in 1524, and the third lived until the 1550s. 
• Buckingham's trial is depicted as taking place in the hall of the palace, when it would have actually taken place somewhere else, most likely in the Tower of London or at Westminster.
• St. Peter's Bascilica, in the Vatican, is shown, when it was not built until much later.
• Thomas Boleyn and his daughter, Anne, are shown talking in the courtyard of somewhere that looks like a prison, and I think this set is actually re-used for the Tower of London when Anne finds herself there in 1536.

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

• The ambassador who is murdered would certainly not have been Henry's uncle. Henry had only one, bastard, uncle at this time (Lord Lisle), who was mainly in charge of Calais. 
• Whitehall Palace did not exist until the 1530s, when this series is set in the 1520s. It was originally Wolsey's palace of York Place, until Wolsey fell and the King took it and renamed it.
• At the council meeting, Henry says the King of France has 'bullied the Pope into declaring him defender of the faith'. In fact, the French Kings had been styled 'most christian king' for many years. 
• Henry's mistress, Bessie Blount, did not at this time have a husband. She was married off after her affair with the King. 
• At the tennis match, Charles Brandon points out Buckingham's daughter. Although Brandon had a complicated martial life, there is no record of him ever having an affair with one of Buckingham's daughters.
• Wolsey, after talking to secretary Pace, enters the King's throne room. In real life, all who passed near the throne were required to bow and doff their hats, even if the King was not in the room. 
• Henry decides not to shave until he meets Francis. It was actually Francis who instigated this vow.
• The French bishop mentions the papal election, and assures Wolsey of the support of the French and 'with the support of your own cardinals' Wolsey will be elected. I'm not sure which cardinals he means, as Wolsey was the only English cardinal.
• Queen Katherine says Wolsey has dismissed her Spanish confessor. This was not true, as Katherine could not confess in any other language apart from Spanish, and retained a Spanish confessor until her death.
• Buckingham says Thomas Boleyn has come from an 'old' family. In fact, the Boleyns were a relatively new family, who had worked their way up through advantagous marriages and royal service. 
• Buckingham did not talk to other nobles about his conspiracy. The evidence, such as it was, came from his servants.
• Thomas Boleyn was not the ambassador to France at this time, although he had been previously.