To me Claire Foy is the best Anne Boleyn. She behaves like what Anne Boleyn was said to be like, a very flirtatious woman who knew how to use her beautiful large eyes to her advantage. Claire does this to perfection. Love how she bats her eyes, etc...
She didn't mock him, it was more of a compliment, plus she was flirting/teasing him. Tudor society was very very class ridgid, to even notice him, who was a servant in her livery, and chat with him was a huge act of condescention that's why her snobby ladies in waiting and courtiers are sneering out of jealousy when she talks to him. In real life Mark Smeaton was a Belgian musician who was supposed to be sleeping with her, he even confessed too. She was said to even have given him expensive gifts.
Lady Rochford in Wolf Hall strikes me as very angry, jealous and pitiable. We have to remember that she was in a marriage that was very unsuccesful and was with that tied to the Boleyn cause. This might have been the reason why she acted so rude and confessed that her husband had an affair with his sister. But in the end, she had a fate as doomed as the family she married into.
@@Theturtleowl Yeah, she was accused to acting as a go between for Catherine Howard and her lovers. In both the Wolf Hall novels she is depicted as really bitter because she is trapped in a loveless marriage. She's just like that in Philippa Gregories novels' 'the other Boleyn girl', and 'the Boleyn Inheritance'. Historically her and George's marriage was considered to be a failure but why it was so has never been established. The rest is just speculation and the novels really do capitalise on that.
Is it just me or are the veils and french hoods in this show a little off? i always assumed the french good veils to be rather thick and made of linen or velvet not a more chiffon-like matter and these one look rsther flimsy and Annes look somewhat flat? Am I wrong or are they just nkt great?
This is interesting: I looked up the headdresses of this era on Google images and I think the one's shown in this series are remakably accurate. One style I haven't yet seen is the one with a stiff border surounding the face looking almost like a church or house, with a veil attached which would go down perhaps half way down her back.
Hillary Mantel's treatment in the book shows Smeaton foolishly admitting he loved Queen Anne (that is, when he is being questioned by Cromwell). A few minutes later he realizes the trouble he's gotten himself into and tries to run away, only to be caught a moment later.
Yep, unfortunately the portrayal of Parr was going poorly. I think it was interesting to portray Parr in a ambivalent state as she has constantly turned a blind eye to Thomas Seymour's awfulness, but the thing missing was Parr's equally caring side for Elizabeth and why she was an inspiration for the future queen.
Anne hit her because she could feel her position deteriorating, so she felt she had to give a show of force to counteract that. If Jane would have actually hit her back we cant know, but she felt comfortable enought to threaten it was because she could also read the signs of a queen losing power. "You're no queen" also means her body is not REALLY sacred.
Anne Boleyn comes across as real vile and full of overconfidence. Hubris supreme at a great height...and a great fall...remember to greet the sword with a cheery smile...
Correct, I am insulting Gemini’s for their knack of getting away with murder whilst living mostly charmed lives and only very occasionally does their endless yapping actually incur beading.
