Anne of Cleaves is my favorite. She not only escaped Henry with her head still attached to her body, but she became an independently wealthy woman who lived life on her own terms. That was so rare in Tudor England. She played it perfectly.
I so agree 👍 Anne of Kleve was so lucky. Nonetheless, she had the German protestant princes backing her. Henry had to treat her gently because her relations were too powerful. If he executed Anne the Protestant league would have been pushed into the arms of the Habsburg emperor
@@rolandrothwell4840 That was also the same reason why Henry did not execute Katherine of Aragon: he didn't want her nephew (the Holy Roman Emperor) declaring war on him. Henry was already at odds with the Church because he had broken away from it. If Spain started something, then every other Roman Catholic nation would pile on (Henry was, by this point, seen as a heretic).
The narrator at 29:53 was wrong about saying Anne of Cleves outlives Henry by 5 years when it's actually 10 years. Henry VIII died in 1547, Anne of Cleves died in 1557. Also towards the end of the video, it says Katherine Parr died in child birth "few years later" after Henry died but it was actually later the following year.
Ikr. And I'm gonna sound picky, but the narrator also says Henry executed a "few" wives even though it's bleeding obvious from the programme's title that he executed a couple, not a few. Nor was Wolsey sentenced to death. Nor was Henry unconscious or brain damaged in the jousting accident, according to the most reliable sources. Katherine Parr didn't survive Henry by a few years. She died the year after his death. It's meant to be a documentary, not historical fiction, where you can play fast and loose with facts.
@@NickMaybrick Exactly but these shorts especially if dealing with history need to have irrefutable facts not inaccurate information. The films and multiple TV series already do it enough with their fantasy/fiction twists to the historical accounts. If you're going to put something on social media it needs to be accurate. Inform and educate people with facts not lies.
@@NickMaybrick, quite a lot of historians mention Henry's jousting accident and unconsciousness, including Suzannah Lipscomb, Lucy Worsley and even David Starkey.
@@NickMaybrickWolsey was on his way to the Tower on a charge of high treason. This carried a death sentence. Some think that the 1536 jousting accident did something to Henry that affected him during the rest of his reign (I am guessing a concussion).
I love that owen said that there was smelly ugly person in the room and it wasnt anne of cleves. You know what they say when you point the finger there are always 3 pointing back at you!
That's something Henry never understood. To me, he was one of the most obnoxious people from history. One wants to see him cast out of his kingdom in his petticoat. He wouldn't do as well as Elizabeth in those circumstances.
Henry was more influenced by wanting his own way than he was by Anne Boleyn or anyone else. He was a gigantic toddler who died a well-deserved painful miserable death. After all the fighting for Henry to divorce Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn only lived 4 months longer than Catherine did. Anne of Cleves was the luckiest of all Henry's wives. Can not even imagine having to copulate with that ulcerous bulk.
Anne of Cleves for the WIN!! I adore these ladies, all of them, even the shamelessly scandalous ones, but Anne Of Cleves, she is the one I not only adore, but i respect and admire her tenacity and her intellect as well!🥀
@@wlenore8071 No. You introduced yourself as a “psychotherapist”, and your “opinion” under a (likely false) claim of professional credibility like a diagnosis. That is wrong.
It amazes me that people doubt Catherine and Arthur didn't have sex. She admitted it herself, before one of her ladies interviened and claimed she was still a maid. Her lady said the language barrier explained why she said she had lost her virginity when she hadn't. Obviously, Catherine figured out why she had to say she was still a virgin and held onto the claim until her dying breath
Disappointed that a channel who uses the most prominent historians in the UK has misinfo. Oh, and caught the scene in "The Other Boleyn Girl" again, i.e. Mary's wedding.
@@direfranchement please dont say such foolish things. An annulment is permitted in the Catholic Church, because it is not a divorce, It is saying that there was no valid marriage. A divorce is saying that there was a legal marriage and now for various reasons it has been ended.
I love reading about the Tudors; and even so the science wasn't up,to par back then to reckonise it's the man's sperm that determines the gender of a child. So many women killed because men took centuries to figure out why they have nipples.
41 years was a grand age in the 16th century. If you remember many peasants died by 25 years. Anne of Cleves was a lucky woman and happy princess. She had got a private fortune and some lovely properties to boot in her settlement
That’s only 3 wives, he had 6. The rhyme was... divorced beheaded died divorced beheaded survived....but there were no divorces, annulments so would be...annulled beheaded died annulled beheaded survived
Her mother was a warrior and Queen , guess it ran in her blood. What a woman and so beloved by the ppl. The ppl always hated Anne for that reason, damn home wrecker coming in. Idk if you were even allowed to say no to a king.
Catherine of Aragon sister Juana The Mad is technically violent, their parents are 2nd cousin and Juana descendants are inbreeding. Like Juana had to see her own grandson marry her own granddaughter or grandson marry great granddaughter (uncle & niece) so that is why King Charles II has a weird, tragic and unstable life
Every show or movie that ever portrayed Queen Catherine of Aragon has her dark haired and dark skinned when she is described as having strawberry blonde hair and pale skin. Go figure Hollywood.
Anne of Cleves is definitely the luckiest of all the wives. She was a clever German frau to have got such a good settlement, both in terms of property and monies.
So, basically, divorced/annulled, beheaded, and díed...divorced/annulled, beheaded, survived... he's Henry VIII, he had six sorry wives, many say he ruined their lives... (AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO EVEN KNOWS THE REFERENCE?! LADY-)
