Anybody watching The Boleyns:A Scandalous Family?

[XanaDUer2]

Is on PBS. If you like Lucy Worsley, you'll love this. It's on demand if you miss it.

[zuul]

1. I've been watching it.

[walkingman]

2. Yes - enjoyed the series. I have seen a lot of movie and documentaries

about Henry VIII and the various queens but never knew that QEII is a direct descendent of Mary Boleyn - Ann Boleyn's sister. I think the royal families history is fascinating.

[XanaDUer2]

3. I didn't know that either! Nt

[wnylib]

7. The Boleyn women produced

long lasting queens, didn't they?

[walkingman]

9. THey did, QE 1 and QE 2 both had reigns of historical significance. Ann Boleyn changed the world.

The fact that Henry VIII wanted to marry Jane Seymour changed the world. In order to marry her, he had to get his marriage to Ann Boleyn annulled led to the establishment of the Church of England, breaking away from the Roman Catholic Church. IMO, the fact that Henry VIII did not want the Catholic Church telling him what he could and couldn't do was also part of it.

Remember, Elizabeth I chances of ever becoming the queen were slim once her half-brother Edward was born in 1537. She was then third in line behind her Roman Catholic half-sister, Princess Mary. Roman Catholics always considered her illegitimate and she only narrowly escaped execution after a failed rebellion against Queen Mary in 1554. I think by Elizabeth I securing the Church of England probably saved England from religious wars like those which France went through.

[wnylib]

10. I'm familiar with the Tudor background

and politics. Terribly sad and indecent that Henry sought charges (and probably made up some of them) to execute Anne and get her out of his life when he had little use for her. His obsession with a male heir is ironic, to say the least, since it was Anne's daughter who was the longest reigning of his children and the best one among them.

England had a long history of power disputes between the monarchy and the Church before Henry VIII. Consider Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

[XanaDUer2]

4. Kick nt

[Trueblue1968]

5. I LOVE IT. I am a 100000000000% FAN of Queen Ann Boleyn...... I HATE HENRY VIII'S GUTS

been studing History -- England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales & France for 50+ years. Also love reading about Romanov's,

[XanaDUer2]

6. I love it, too

Did you see that QE2 is a descended from Mary?

[wnylib]

8. Henry was a misogynistic prick

And sadistic tyrant.