Henry VIII's OTHER Children 

Makes you wonder how different things would have been had baby Henry lived to adulthood. Would any of Henry's other wives ever married him? Would Mary, Elizabeth and Edward still been born? What would King Henry IX been like as a king?

I find it so amazing that King Henry VIII went through so much trouble to ensure the continuation of the Tudor line, just for Elizabeth I to decide she will never marry and have children...😅

The Pope: No divorce, incest fine though.

Henry didn’t want bloodshed for his succession but literally divided a whole religion in his country for it….. what narcissism will do to a man

I can't believe Catherine of Aragon couldn't spend any time with her son to bond with him before he died. No wonder she grieved all her life.

Henry: is given the thought of marrying his children together Also Henry: beheads Anne for incest accusations

Henry: *kills Cathrine Howard because she was not a virgin* Also Henry:

Currently 37 weeks pregnant and I’ve know about baby Henry, but hearing it again while pregnant just makes me want to weep. Poor Catherine, you feel that little life grow inside of you, moving, kicking and even having hiccups. Even 500 years later it is tragic I hope they were reunited in heaven.

I love how Elizabeth seemed to enjoy collecting her half siblings like they're Pokemon cards.

Funny that every single child Henry claimed as his own (all legitimate children and the one illegitimate child, Henry Fitzroy, he pushed so hard to succeed him) never had children of their own.

Lord that dude "Thomas" lived quite a life. How the hell did he live for so long to do so much and I do feel sorry for his abandoned wife who lost all her fortune because of his actions.

Should a paternal test kit exist back then, the royal lineage would have been longer than the circumference of the Earth.

Elizabeth seems so kind. She took care of her half-siblings as she was appointed to serve her family as well as her country. Or maybe she helped her half-siblings to get them to stay loyal because she was all alone during her reign. But it was helpful and kind no matter what was the reason.

i remember my principal used to brag about being Henry VIIIs descendant like its something to be proud of.

I watched a thing on Henry the 8th (I am, I am). They said that prior to the death of his son, he was a well liked and intelligent man. The dramatic change in behavior afterwards was huge. They say he completely changed for the tyrant we all love to hate. Experts think that the jousting accident that caused him injuries that prevented him from ever competing again also caused brain damage. Minor brain damage can cause a shift in personality and could explain how he basically went from agreeable and beloved king to tyrant basically overnight.

Random fun fact: I’m actually a descendant of Richard Edwardes. I’ve been tracing our family tree, and it turns out he is my 13x Great-Grandfather on my maternal side. I’ve been an avid fan of Tudor history since I was about 10 or 11, so finding this out was honestly amazing for me. It’s a shame there’s no concrete proof that he was indeed fathered by Henry VIII. Still, it’s surreal to think that there is even the slightest possibility that Henry is my 14x Great-Grandfather!

The way she explains, it just makes it easy to understand, and you also do not get bored. Also, I love it how here I find people like me who are just impresed and respectful when it comes to history. I don't find many people to share this passion with, but knowing that you care makes me really glad, so thank you for chosing culture and history!🥰

The irony! He desperately wanted a legitimate son but had so many illegitimate sons.

I feel so sorry for Catherine of Aragorn. She was so in love with Henry, she was fierce, feisty and ended like a nun, in the middle of nowhere... She lost almost all her children, she must be heartbroken many times, in many ways...

Why hasn't someone written an insane historical novel about Thomas Stukely? It could almost be a comedy: Thomas is Forrest Gumping his way through 16th Century England, Ireland, and Europe.

So Elizabeth was best friends with her half sister Also didn’t know he had that many illegitimate kids

Queen Elizabeth II is a direct descendant of Catherine Carey and thus Mary Boleyn through her mother Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. If Catherine Carey indeed was fathered by Henry VIII, then his bloodline lives on through the current monarch.

I don’t know why, but I can never get enough of the Tudors. Thank you for another fantastic video!

Now we just need Usefulcharts to make a family tree video of Henry VIII to see who his living heavies are, assuming there any present day.

I don’t like Henry for obvious reasons

No one: Henry VIII: But wait, there's more!

I think it's not illogical at all to rule out Mary Boleyn's children as possibly sired by Henry VIII. I don't know why a lot of historians tend to do so since the husbands of Royal Mistresses would often make claims on royal "bastards" as their own in exchange for money and favours.

I can’t imagine what it was like for the husbands of these mistresses to deal with children the king fathered. Even the most well-meaning stepfather might have found it hard to get his head around the fact his wife got knocked up by the king and he can’t do anything about it

That cannonball from Elizabeth was straight up karma for Thomas!

Have you thought about doing a video on the Dudley's? The family was tightly wrapped in with the Tudor's and had a great deal of influence with the crown.

His legitimate children wanted for nothing? Are we forgetting the time Mary and Elizabeth spent ostracized from their father while he was angry with their mothers?

Im a descendant of Catherine Carey I didn’t know she was possibly King Henry VIII’s child so cool.

I wonder if the idea that his mother wasn't constantly there for baby Henry that resulted in him being more prone to getting sick. Children separated from their mother at birth experience higher levels cortisol and other health effects. That is why 'kangaroo care' for premature babies has been significantly important to helping them survive.

I knew about Henry Fitzroy and his first son with Catherine of Aragon and of course Ed, Good Queen Bess, and Bloody Mary. but I didn't know there were other children.

My heart will forever hurt and mourn for Catherine of Aragon, her baby boy, and Mary I.

I've often wondered did Elizabeth I end the Tudors Dynasty on purpose as payback to her father?

You have to respect Thomas's hustle. Boy just wanted his coin!

The story of Henry VIII and his 6 wives just goes to show that truth can indeed be stranger than fiction! If someone had made the story up, I think people would have said it was too far fetched to happen. Especially, when Henry became angry with his 6th and last wife Katherine Parr, and issued a warrant for her arrest, which someone - who was obviously sympathetic to Katherine - managed to drop somewhere where she would and did find it. Poor Katherine was, of course, terrified by this, but her Ladies-in-Waiting and the young Elizabeth, who loved her stepmother very much, dried her tears and dressed her up; and told her to find Henry and beg his forgiveness. Now, I'm not trying to excuse Henry's behaviour in any way, but one of the reasons for his short temper was the constant pain he suffered from his ulcerated leg. The "treatment" for this involved cauterisation, which, in practice, meant applying a red-hot poker to the ulcers!!! Doctors in the 16th century believed that wounds should be kept open, which lead to constant infections and Henry VIII nearly died several times of septicaemia. Katherine was a very good wife to Henry VIII because, by then, he was old and sick and he needed a nurse to look after him. Katherine was the only person at court who Henry allowed to dress and bandage his leg., which "stunk like rotten meat" according to Elizabeth. Katherine was a very intelligent, interesting woman who wrote several published books on religion and she was very much in favour of the new religion of protestantism and the idea that the bible should be available in English, not just Latin. She used to take Henry's mind off the pain he suffered, by discussing religion with him. But he thought she was "meddling" when she begged him to show mercy to a woman named Anne Askew, who Henry had had tortured on the rack in the Tower of London. After Katherine pleaded with Henry to be merciful he said: "Doctor of my body you may be, but Doctor of Divinity you will NEVER BE!!!" But, after finding the warrant for her own arrest Katherine did find Henry, in one of the rose gardens, where she fell on her knees and begged his forgiveness, saying: "Your Majesty, I am only a weak woman and I need Your Majesty's guidance and wisdom in all things. The only reason I discuss matters of religion with you is because I want to take your mind off your terrible pain." Henry immediately forgave her and said "We are friends again my sweet Kate." So, when the guards arrived to arrest Queen Katherine, they found her sitting hand-in-hand with Henry and he had the nerve to tell them off, even though he had ordered them to arrest Katherine. Thank God she outlived Henry (she must have jumped for joy when the old bugger died!!!)

Now this might be a bit of a weird suggestion, but would you consider making a video about the Princesses of Wales? It might be interesting to see what the Queens consorts’s lives were like before their husbands ascended the throne.

Lady Jane did not "try to take the throne" - she (and her male heirs) was willed the throne by King Edward VI because he wanted a protestant monarch. Lady Jane was 15 years old and did not want the crown, but it was forced on her head by her ambitious relatives including her F-I-L Northumberland. She was executed along with her husband, two of his brothers and the former Archbishop of Canterbury. Her F-I-L had already been beheaded. Jane's father was also beheaded for treason after he tried to raise an army against Princess Mary on Jane's behalf. Ambition usually did not go well in Tudor England.

The Duke of Cornwall just looks done with life already...

Another excellent video Lindsay, i I couldn't help noticing, the little things like Henry being away celebrating the pregnancy of his mistress while Catherine was having a miscarriage. These smaller things just go to show the extent that he was a cruel man through and through

"He gave not a fart". I think I just found my new catchphrase. Lindsey, I love your videos!

The interesting thing is that Katherine Carey is an ancestor of Elizabeth II, so the modern-day royals might be descended from Henry VIII

With the ability to determine lineage through DNA these days, we can only imagine the truths that would come about now. If the royals allowed their own private genealogical investigators to pull samples from the crypts, that would be the most interesting of all information. have thought about it with my own Sicilian lineage.

Given how many children Mary’s kids have, Anne Boleyn should be pretty fertile, since these things run in the family. So I guess the reason she’s just not delivering is because of the stress then.

Hadn't heard of any of his children but Catherine Carey, Henry Duke of Cornwall, and Henry Fitzroy before this. Thanks for another great one, Lindsay!

King Henry goes through wives, trying to get a healthy heir, but I bet he never thought he might be the one with the problems downstairs...

Such a great recitation of the Tudor legacy and Henry's other children. I was excited to learn that my own children are decendents of Catherine Knolleys through their father's maternal grandmother. Also I find it fascinating that Elizabeth I and Phillip II were not only world rivals but brother and sister in law through Mary Tudor. Since Mary had imprisoned Elizabeth, no wonder it was easy for them to become enemies.

The fact that skill share doesn’t have a course on how to be into royalty saddens me

Excellent, as always! You are unfailingly informative and entertaining, managing in this case to make what can be confusing family connections simple to understand.

The drawing for the "lavish christening" for Henry's first son is actually a drawing of the lavish christening of his lather son with Jane Seymour.

This is actually really interesting and something I never knew. I thought he only had the three children. So Mary in addition to having two half-siblings had a full brother and if he did father his sister-in-law Mary Boleyn's children then they are Elizabeth's half-siblings and first cousins as well as another set of full-siblings fathered by the King.

Fun Fact: my 12th great grandfather was the inventor of the flush toilet,John Harrington, and his father married to Etherelda Malte Henry's illigitmate daughter!

Love these longer videos! They keep me sane during menial tasks at work

If baby Henry lived into adulthood, none of the kings shenanigans would have occurred. The blood shed would be significantly less,and hed be happy. Who knows what would have happened if this was the case.

“Became the stuff of legend... and memes.” Ah yes, because memes are the real legends here.

This is so great and such a unique topic. I consider myself well versed in Tudor history and I learned something new. Nice job.

As a tudor nerd, I know a lot, and this video has provided me with the first new information about Henry the VIII that I have heard in years. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Henry VIII. didn't actually divorce Catherine. He rather wanted the Pope to declare that his marriage to Catherine was invalid. The reason he found was that she had been married as a child to his brother, who died as a teenager. The marriage to a brother's widow was not allowed at the time. The question was, if Arthur and Catherine had slept with each other and thus consummated the marriage or not. Though Catherine maintained that she had never slept with Arthur and thus had not truly been his wife, the powerful and fearsome King Henry found of course several false witnesses who testified otherwise.

So super excited for this episode!!!☺️ I was actually just thinking that I would love to learn more about his other children, besides the ones that are well known of, as well as just Henry Fitzroy, because that's the only one of the illegitimate children we only hear about... But I knew of course there had to be more!! So thank you thank you thank you for doing this episode!!! As usual and as always I am so delighted by your Channel ☺️🙂☺️

Thank you SO much!!! Keep diving into all this.. because I'm watching!!!💕

Thank you for doing this as no other historian i have ever watched has talked about these other people.

Wow this was an interesting video. Since i learned about Henry VIII on this channel, i never knew he had other illegitimate children at all. Great video.

I'm so fascinated with the stories and narration of the British royal lineages in the mediaeval and middle ages.🙂

loving the longer videos 👏👏👏

OH OH I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE

This video was sooo informative. I had never heard of most of the illegitimate children.

I'm a huge history buff ..especially everything Henry the 8th . This was extremely informative... keep up the good work!

Henry Fitzroy: *dies at 17* Canadian author in the early 90's: but what if... vampires

Catherine of A likely had a balanced translocation which caused genetic disorders in all but one child. Her sister Joanna the Mad of Castille had porphyria. The sisters were great great great granddaughters of John of Gaunt, the common ancestor of all the porphyric royals of Europe.

Henry VIII was a very naughty boy.

Love the content on European royals! Great intimate information about the Monarchies that ruled over Miedeval England and the continent. It is not always great wars or conquering kings that pave the roads of history! It is amazing how much more subtle events literally change the course kings,queens and countries! Well done!

Great video. You know someone is a legend when they are still talking about her 500 years later.

Thomas Stukely needs a TV series!

You are the best at what you do!

Man, can you imagine how incredibly Different history would have gone if only Prince Henry had lived? King Henry and Catherine were an incredible Power Couple of the time, if Catherine had given him an heir that didn't die He would've stayed in love w/ her and they would've continued to rule together. Who knows what they would've accomplished together as a single unit.

Wonderful video, thank you so much Lindsay 😘

Thanks for the awesome videos

Thanks for a very entertaining video you definitely brought a big smile to my face keep them coming

I love learning new info about the Tudors.

I love love love your presentations!

The portrait you show of Catherine of Aragon is in fact of Mary Rose Tudor - Henry's sister. It’s in the National Gallery in Washington, on loan from Vienna. Michel Sittow.

Margaret Beaufort is the most underrated human being of all time

I love the british royal history, when I find something interesting I always search lindsay holiday’s channel if she has it

Hey! I love your videos I binge-watch them so much! I had a suggestion could you make a video about Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria

Excellent! Loved listening to this. Brava!!!!

40 seconds in and already a mistake! Catherine Carey and Henry Carey are not the children of Henry VIII, they were born wayyyy after Mary’s affair with henry.

I enjoy reflecting how Henry VIII thought so little of his second legitimate daughter, but she far outshone Edward VI.

I just found you and "history tea time" is the pop culture/historical crossover I didn't know I needed!! I'm cackling at this name!!

I love your voice. It is perfectly suited for narration. I could listen to you all day.

Thanks for the fresh take on Tudor history! Most of these illegitimate children were news to me.

I always wondered if Fitzroy was the only one. Thanks for this documentary.

I have really enjoyed this. It was fascinating! I've watched it 3 times now!

LINDSAY HOLLIDAY: You are an excellent presenter. Thank you very much for making and sharing this wonderful program.

Henry Viii was the definition of a hypocrite and karma punishing him for how flawed of a person he was.

I think it very likely that Catherine Carey was Henry’s daughter. Catherine’s daughter, Lettice Knollys, bore a very strong resemblance to Elizabeth that suggested they were more closely related than being only cousins.

I truly love all your videos thank you so much for making them.. some the illegitimate Children look so much like Henry it’s hard to deny Them

What a gem this production is ! A treasure of little facts I've never learned of before ! Thank you for this interesting and very informative piece .

Love your vids Lindsay keep it up