Oh, I didn't know that. I was stuck waiting at my daughter's school today for 2 hours and thought I'd watch a little Tudors on my iPhone, and wouldn't you know there was a naked scene within 5 minutes of the start of the episode, with all kinds of little tykes running around behind me. I turned that off real fast!
Well, what I can remember that galled me the most was the way they screwed up the siblings of Henry VIII.
In historical reality, Henry had two sisters who survived to adulthood, an older sister named Margaret, and a younger sister named Mary. For diplomatic reasons, Margaret was sent off by her father, Henry VII, to marry the king of Scotland. Margaret's granddaughter was the hapless monarch known to history as Mary, Queen of Scots, whose son succeeded Elizabeth I on the English throne, so that it was from Margaret's marriage to James IV of Scotland that the house of Stuart ultimately derived its claim to the throne of England.
Meanwhile, for the usual diplomatic reasons Henry VIII essentially forced his younger sister, Mary, to marry the elderly king of France. Mary, meanwhile, fell in love with Henry's buddy Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk. When Mary's French royal husband promptly died, she and Brandon married, initially without Henry's permission, though eventually he accepted their marriage. Mary and Charles had a daughter, Frances, who married a certain Henry Grey, who became duke of Suffolk by marrying Frances. Henry and Frances had a daughter, Jane, known to history as the unfortunate Lady Jane Grey, "the nine-day's queen of England."
I love Tudor period English history. Genealogy was politics, and vice versa!
I think I remember being told that in
The Tudors, Henry's sisters got conflated into one, called Margaret, who was sent of to marry the king of Portugal?
