This narrator has a great voice for historical documentaries. It is clear, captivating, and commands one's attention.

I love tudor history its truly fascinating

This is a breath of fresh air after the previous documentary i just watched on henry vii. Props to the cameramen, editors and many experts.

The pain he would have been in would be beyond excruciating. Leg ulcers are more painful than kidney stones. And nothing to even take the edge off of his pain and nothing to cure the infection.

that was incredible! i was hooked from beginning to end. thank you

Catherine of Aragon did actually conceive more than one son. One survived for 7 days and I think there were another two (?) that she miscarried or were stillborn.

This is possibly one of the most interesting programmes l have seen on Henry V111 ...having read much about him it was good to know that inadvertently he left important legacies..including historical fascination with his reign for ever ...

Fun fact: all of Henry's wifes and himself were related, although you have to go back 200 years to find the common ancestor, Edward I.

This was a great watch, thanks for posting

Brilliantly made documentary.🙌

Keith Richards playing Cromwell it's a good performance

Think this documentary has its facts slightly confused - if i remember my history classes correctly, Richard II was actually the most tyrannical king England ever knew, and he was also the one that started the whole " your highness/majesty" crap too.... just saying...

I am not a religious person but only limiting the Bible to Latin is a way for the church and the priests to maintain a monopoly. Translating the Bible into all languages makes sense. Other professions - religion is a profession, look at how rich and influential Iran's mullahs are - such as Lawyers and doctors use Latin as a way of trying to exclude people.

THANK YOU...!!!

As an historical graduate and student of Early Modern England, I would like to congratulate PDS on this episode. It includes testimony from respected historians and covers the entire reign of Henry 8 with very few contentious assertions. Well done. ,

What goes around etc.

Great doc! Though history sometimes makes us mad, I wish Norfolk got his due 😅

Very good presentation TY to all who contributed to the production....

Brilliant and compelling, thank you.

Poor Anne thought she had a handle on the king..until it came to her head on the chopping block. Seems to me she was an excellent manipulator in the beginning when she had the kings ear but when it came to lies against her, she could not manipulate any longer. Tho We do thank her for our dear Queen Elizabeth the 1st..what a historical and fascinating woman! I hope both Henry and Anne are very proud of their daughter 👏👏

Oh dear, was expecting more, it’s yet another talking heads programme))

I have read works by T. Borman and R Hutchinson but of them all Professor MacCulloch's biography of Thomas Cromwell is masterful.

A Paranoid Ruthless Tyrant just like Joseph Stalin

"He was a man of an unbounded stomach". Queen katherine

“She wanted to be queen”. I believe this is a false accusation. I believe she truly loved her betrothed and wanted to marry him. She went into a fit when Henry forced them to split and I believe she wanted away from him in earnest when she fled his presence. Slowly but surely he made himself her only option and eventually she grasped the chance. That said, no, it wasn’t her initial intention, how could it be. In catholic Europe, divorce was unheard of. She would not have expected Henry to get him and she didn’t want to be a mistress. You can’t treat her intentions as if she knew marriage was a possibility, she had zero reason to believe it was even remotely possible. We know it - she didn’t.

Anne's 'heading' to the scaffold....i see what you did there lol

I can well understand the desire to want to better yourself but pretty much anyone close to the King risked death due to his capriciousness. I suppose the people you don't hear about are those that choose as much as they were able to steer themselves and their families clear of the same even if in his orbit.

Very much like Domald Trump in personality

The actor playing Ann is a babe.

Anne didn't pursue the king.

45:25 This is a very inconsiderate view of Catherine Howard. First of all, she was just a teenager and Henry was 49 going on 50, so while sex outside of marriage is obviously a sin, of course she wouldn't be interested in a man years younger than her. Second of all, Thomas Culpepper was known to have raped a villager's wife and killed her husband when he tried to stop him, for which he was pardoned by the king. Also, historians speculate that he was blackmailing her and she was just telling him what he wanted to hear, albeit it is somewhat possible that they could've been in love. As historians they should've delved more into her story and studied it more rather than just calling her a foolish silly girl, summarising her story, and moving on.

Sounds like a complete narcissist

Oh the likes are hidden so we can't see people's views

It is almost like you are talking about Trump

That background'music' is revolting

Well at least Henry VIII held court indoors eh? I mean how else are some people since then who are tyrants outside too supposed to get away with what they do while blaming everybody else except Henry the VIII and themselves too while NOT taking proper responsibilty for their own choice of which set of hats to wear all at the same time too. For example a priest offering a re-baptism of the mother of his children n a very slippery river bank during a flood with 2 infants looking on at the time. Or how about a tyrannt who decides to become both a gender expression policeman and executioner both at the same time. Every woman during their lifetiime has a story about a male tyrant like that. A lot of men during their lifetime too has a story about a female tyrant like that who only once or who more than once always held court indoors only too instead. How does a personality best described as being tyrannical get planted and then formed? Could that have at least something to do with what is called human based only respector of persons? Respector of persons human nature which enables some of us to recognize our marriage partner for life. Turned into something else. Something else which fails to recognize how the word was made flesh in its fullest sense. A tyrant cheats himself or herself of being able to look into the heavens when outside resting without feeling bitter and resentful about anything written down about what he cannot see there yet too. Plato was like that. So was a lot of tyrants who insist they are the best interpreters of the bible around. As if they could be better at that than both Saint John the Baptist and god himself too..

Henry needs cloning and replacing Charlie boy.

Henry was and unstable, insecure, horrible man

Henry was not the king that insisted on being called 'your Majesty' that was Richard ll.1377- to 1399. Richard ll was vain to fault. His courtiers hated his arrogance. 'Your Majesty' is French derived. The nobles of England only spoke in French then and Saxon English was only used by the plebians but was making inroads to all levels of Société. All landed gentry only spoke French. French was falling from favour by the English by then. I watched this rubbish documentary and after about fifteen minutes in as the infantile rambling sent me to the wine cellar.

What makes Catherine Howard "a silly, silly" girl, please? A statement like that discards the whole documentary. The statement is outrageously unprofessional for a historian.