I think it's exceptionally easy to criticize Henry for his decisions when they are the same decisions made by real parents just on a grander scale. Although they don't show the sons born to Catherine of Aragon, by the time this show starts, he's lost three sons already. Fitzroy would live longer than shown here but also die before Henry. Edward outlived him by only a few years. Imagine the pressure of carrying on your legacy, your family, and add to that the weight of a crown. Henry was desperate for a SON to survive him, like most people. Even in our time we have parents who press their children to provide them with grandchildren. At their core, Henry's decisions were what he thought would make the world better for those he loved, even though his own issue took issue with his rationale. Concomitantly, people swirled around him with agendas of their own, and those subplots are difficult to miss, corrupting his reasoning and leading his aim astray. Was Henry right? not necessarily. Can we empathize with his state of mind as he goes from wife to wife really in search of a son? conceivably. Should we forgive him? Absolutely. He was, after all, a man, a man for whom a quiet life was never going to be part of his story.
He murdered two of his wives? And abandoned another two? Also executed thousands of people including the people closest to him. There’s no defending Henry the eighth. No amount of context humanises his actions. The things he did like put Anne Boleyn to death simply weren’t heard of, even in those times. He was EVIL.
It got a lot right I mean In Henry's Evil mind from hs warped perspective both Anne and Catherine Howard were as guilty as sn and he was the vvictim Henry was so good at being "the victim"! whn in reality he was anything but
thing is he knew Anne was innocent and one of the menconvicted with the young Howard girl confessed after alleged torture Anne was still Queen right up to her arrest even to her death possibly and Anne atleast was given a trial though not a fair one Catherine How ard was immediately stripped of all her priviledges and title and whatever and taken to the tower like a common street criminal and Catherine Never even got her day in a court she never got a trial that junk about him being inconsolable that Catherine Howard had betrayed what a performance Henry here is your Oscar I am not buying it then he has Limestone and or Lye poured over her grave to dissolve Catherine Howards remains as if she never existed catherine howard should have never been in that position in the first place they were not married out of love she was pushed into that marriage that got her killed she was a kid still so someone besides Henry also has her blood on their hands alot of people who pushed her into that position and also she was never properly protected before she ever met Henry
Henry played victim in most of his marriages he claimed in his divorce Catherine of Aragon "tricked" him by claiming she and Arthur never consummated their marriage his argument that he can annul the marriage on grounds of incest because Catherine was married to his brother Arthur which Henry knew that when they were married and Catherine and Arthur never consummaetd the marriage they got sick soon after and then Arthur died leaving her a widow at 15 Henry twisted a bible verse in Leviticus to try to get the pope to let him out of his marriage Pope said nope then he was th victim of Anne which he knew was not true Cromwell helped him so Cromwell also has Anne's blood on him boy I bet he felt stupid when Henry had him beheaded later on after the Anne of Cleves fiasco which again Henry played the victim then with Catherne Howard Henry threw in the crocodile tears this time inconsolable my foot ! by now he was used to throwing disgusting out rageous alleagtions and lies at his wives so do we really know if Catherine Howard did anything of what he said especialy if Dereham was tortured to confess that girl was traumatized she may have been promised to Culpepper before she got with Henry but why does what happens before matter
Though I hate Henry for what he did to his daughters and wives, I pity him, He never expected to be king, and the way his father treated him made him the way he is, same with his daughter, Mary
I know Henry was evil and sadistically cruel. But, you say that is funny someone who is physically/mentally ill and when he died he never got to see his kids again 😭
@@Quirky_Ventriloquist ummm… this edited ending of this is funny. When did I mention his mental illness or him dying and leaving his children?!! 🙄 jeez. And FYI I have watched and enjoyed the tudors many times. Don’t tell me what I should and shouldn’t know. Good day
All da people died in that TV show 🤧. In the last three episodes I understood that the best of all characters is Henry Cavill. I didn't like the character who was soldier and who died of arrow while the walls of Bulon fell. In the scene which showed how Henry 8 was dreaming about his young years was very nostalgic and made me cry 🤧, but killed so many people. Brigitte was the best actress 😍, but sadly she was not respected in the ending and sadly the character was fiction made for the TV series. Let's make TV series about the life of Brigitte! Even if she was fictional character, she deserves her own TV series!
I actually fill bad for Henry I mean if it was my opinion it was all Anne Boleyn fault and I think what did not help is how much D Trail was in that court
I think the King should've had one last knock-down, drag-out fight with Sir Thomas More at the end. And More should've told him the 1500s version of "so how did things go for you after you executed me over a piece of ass you wound up beheading within 3 years anyway...dumb ass!"
