King Henry VIII's 6 Wives - The Six Queens of England 

In real life, your dog would probably have liked the king. Henry Vlll has been judged very harshly by history but in his own time he was revered and admired. He was also quite the sportsman and had dogs, horses, etc. So, sorry...your dog probably would have found him to be quite agreeable.

@@tdsims1963 I am aware of Henry's love for dogs and you are right my dog would probably love him. I just thought it funny that he didn't like Henry's appearance in this video.

@@tdsims1963 he was such a nice sociopath . He only wiped out every Catholic in the North Of England in response to the Pilgrimage Of Grace . That was pretty much all of the North as it was a heavily Catholic area . For a nice man his list of victims is well in the 5/6 figure range .

Your dog probably thought: "More than I can chew" :-)

@@libelle8124 Probably. 😀

But how bizarre it is to make your ex wife sister. Just don't get it.

i might rather be pretty and get my head lopped off than just dismissed from the whole thing because i was so ugly

@@jgunther3398 this is a subjective thing. From her portraits I don't find her ugly. This is a heavy word. Nobody can be ugly. It was just king's ego which got crushed Infront of anne.

There may be a lot of truth in the rumour that Henry was unable to consummate marriage by this time. Anne was by no means the Flanders Mare, just propaganda to protect his reputation. Saying that, yes I agree, she was lucky.

@@malcolmabram2957 but he consummated catherine howard.

She and Henry apparently had a really good relationship too, the first years. I feel so bad for what he ended up doing to her. If only they'd had a son, but then again, that would have changed world history. No Elizabeth I, a Catholic England for much longer...

@@monmothma3358 if only their son didn't die ☹ or if only prince arthur didn't die, history would've been very different and less bloody

@@_c-yq4xo Naw, not less bloody. Just different. History is bloody by its nature.

@@lilacfantasy4 it really would've been less bloody tho. if either prince arthur or henry and catherine's son, also named henry, had survived, things would've been extremely different. first off, henry wouldn't have had to remarry at all, that means no beheading anne boleyn nor catherine howard and their alleged lovers. henry wouldn't have asked for a divorce - meaning he wouldn't have had to create the church of england. (1) their son would've been king henry ix, and mary would've never sat on the throne - queen mary i ordered for the execution of hundreds of protestants in the name of catholicism; she also ordered the execution of her cousin, lady jane grey, as well as her husband, lord guildford dudley, because she was a protestant threat to her throne. (2) since anne boleyn wouldn't have been henry's queen, that means no elizabeth i - the same elizabeth whose rule saw the executions of hundreds of catholics, as well as the beheading of queen mary i of scotland, her cousin. (3) now, if prince arthur became king instead of henry, the lives of the thousands of people henry ordered to be killed would've been spared. 16th century england would've been more peaceful, and would've had less religious wars + no succession crisis that resulted in hundreds of deaths - royal, noble, and common blood combined. no henry viii, edward vi, lady jane grey, mary i, no elizabeth i. there would've been no need for the catholic, stuart rulers of scotland to come down to england, that means less lives taken as well. england's history would've still been bloody, but considerably a lot less.

Anne Boleyn looks better, Catherine's proportions look a little weird, Jane was certainly the most plain though.

Run away!

Not just that he was in awful physical condition from Anne Boleyn onwards and I don’t just mean him being overweight.

She wasn't keen, it must be said. But she was pressurised into it. Especially as the man she wanted to marry was sent abroad (Netherlands, I think).

strange that therewere nopregancies with henry,but catherinefell pregnantwith her fourth husband

The latest wife cheated tried to have a child with someone in the kingdom they were caught they called her old maid she should have listen to him just said she could have kids let him move on.

It might be the hill I'll die on, but I agree with you. I'm going to defend Anne/Anna till my dying day!!! She was too good for Henry 💁🏻‍♀️

I always questioned Henrys conclusion that Anne should have fallen in love with him as a beggar. If she had as much smiled at him as a beggar, he would have been angry and probably accused her of adultery.

And I don't think she ever regretted dodging that particular bullet.

I think Anne was the cleverest of all his wives.

Why she even agreed to marry him? Was it a forced marriage ?

Even the other that people say could be her may be Anna of Kleave. Because it was a gift set on the playing card 4 of diamonds. And Anna was wife #4 and it resembles a side veiw of the Holbein portrait of her.

Thank you. I've been seeing that a lot. But it was nice to see Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell's picture done.

So isn’t the portrait of Catherine Howard the real Catherine Howard? I heard that people weren’t sure what she loonies like but they guessed that that painting was of her.

The picture of a young Catherine of Aragon looked like her sister Juana.I thought Anne of Cleves had fair hair.

@@peterkarpinski3769 I agree. Catherine and Juana looked very much alike and not at all like the older portrait. From the portraits I've seen all the Castille-Aragon children had blue to blue-grey eyes and red to strawberry blonde hair and you're also correct that Anne of Cleves is described as having "yellow" hair.

Oh yeah the men had it easy in the 1500’s - sat down watching cable TV and having their wives serve them tea and biscuits. 😂

@@tmahe28 very hard times for men too, especially the really dumb ones

@@tmahe28 they didn't have to worry about losing their head.

@@Lisa-df3iu yeah it was only women got executed in the 1500’s. 😂 When ‘bloody’ Mary and that nice Queen Elizabeth took over, they showed the men what it was like to have compassionate and caring women in the throne 😉

@@tmahe28 stop whining...women have always had it worse. Period!

Heck yes, make the French royal family one happen.

I don't know if you're in the states, but I'm an American historian who failed every history class. The method of teaching is just bad. We're taught basically to memorize a bunch of names & dates, and it's strictly American history, with bits of our allies & enemies over the years. Even "world" history was centered on western history, with mentions of a handful of other countries - the pyramids in Egypt, the great wall of China, but little about the context or the people. History is written accounts of human stories. It's rarely unbiased because we have to rely on whomever was writing and keeping it, but it's still exciting and fascinating. Humans don't change. 6,000 years ago people had the same set of emotions, the same desires. All the joy and scandal and pain and love that makes us who we are had existed for all people everywhere throughout time. There are so many stories for young minds to embrace. Lust & loss, sex, violence & laughter that they can identify with, IF they hear the stories behind the names & dates. I was the kid who got in trouble for asking how Columbus could discover a place if people already lived there. And for bringing up Vikings in Canada..My mom loved history & told me stories to encourage my interest, but when I brought up Sally Hemings in American history, I again got admonished. I loved human stories, so I went into Anthropology. The way history was taught, I just didn’t see the connections. It was boring. But, I studied it on my own. Academically I went from Anthropology to Archaeology, but then developed a disability & became unable to work as an Archaeologist. So, I went back to school & got a degree in history. I found college history courses to be amazing. I don't know if it's ego & ideas of exceptionalism. Maybe we weren't willing to own our mistakes and failures. I don't know if we think we're protecting kids from the sex & violence of the past (the stuff they often want to hear the most about). In the 80s & 90s, it was really bad. It just wasn't about the stories. It's gotten better. I have a he junior. It's a little less western exclusive & a little more inclusive. There are teachers trying, successfully, to get kids into it by giving them something to relate to. It's far from perfect & the standardization makes it difficult for teachers to focus on areas they feel passionate about (as college professors do). It's why I don't get into teaching. It's constricting. But still better than when I was a kid. I think most historians would say they weren't inspired by what they learned in school. I wish I could change that.

Excuse me but you’re not white. It is not your hystory.

You are a handsome man and you love history? Uhhh can we link up?

Have you read Austin Dobson's Four French Women? A really fine 40 or so page biographical paper on the Princess de Lamballe-- a lovely soul but what a fate!

Most definitely

Really horrifying thinking of those teenage girls marrying the beast. He had a stinking open sore on his leg that never healed. God knows what he smelled like, plus violent temper. Horrifying.

Christianity was a really impractical religion when it came to securing heirs for a king, Henry was desperate and did whatever it took in an attempt to get an heir. Islam was certainly more practical for rulers back then, being able to take several wives.

@@randomnordmann4020 , а вам известно, что наложницам гаремов часто делали аборты (без наркоза!), а всех братьев ждала смерть, - после воцарения старшего из них. И какой смысл наделывать много наследников, - чтоб принести обильную кровавую жертву власти?

@@user-gc3ug2tl3d Securing male heirs was very important in Medieval and early modern times because if you did not your country was at risk of becoming a lesser partner in a personal union. A few dead wives/sons vs a whole country subjugated by another for centuries. It's a matter of perspective, I would expect a Russian to understand this.

She was far more brilliant than he was.

I never understood the obsession with everything passing through the male line when the only parent of absolute certainty, in those days (and indeed until and including when Charles married Diana) was the mother. There's at least one English king, way back, who it is believed was NOT the son of his royal father. If everything passed via the female line there would have been no need for the obsession with Royal brides (including Diana) being virgins and having to be inspected to make sure they were.

@@shirleyswaine4701 Considering male preference when it came to inheritance, this "obsession" made a lot of sense actually.

Henry knew his Tudor dynasty would die out if he didn't get a son, which is exactly what happened when Elizabeth died and the Stuarts got the throne.

@@randomnordmann4020 No, it's that very obsession that makes no sense, whether it's in a royal family or a commoner.

Remember we don't know what she looked like. I hate to be the nay sayer, but we just don't have any portraits from her lifetime. Henry had them all destroyed. We have a coin, that imo doesn't look like the portrait used here (it's the standard & a beautiful painting but she didn't sit for it). the famous B necklace painting was created somewhere in the 16th century, by an unknown artist, probably after the scandal had settled, possibly even after the reigns of Henry, Edward Vi, Lady Jane & Mary I, when Anne's daughter took the throne. It may have been commissioned by Elizabeth, who was a toddler when her mom died. The painter probably never laid eyes on Anne. But, it's the resonating interpretation of her that we have. I'm sure there's similarity. It doesn't really matter what she looked like, this gives us a chance to imagine & connect with the woman in a way that doesn't happen without the visual. It's nice to have, I just feel like people need to know it's not a contemporary portrait. It sucks to live with the unknown but Anne deserves the blank truth over a probably fictional image.

@@gypsydonovan Queen Elizabeth I also had a miniature painting of her in a ring that she kept. I believe that painting was made after she was killed, though, as well. I think The Moost Happi medallion is the only contemporary image made of Queen Anne during her lifetime that we have at this time.

Anne boleyn authentic face and beautiful eyes

It had been noted by people in her time that she was not of great beauty but did have wit and charm.

​@@gypsydonovanElizabeth never showed any interest in Anne and was not very fond of her during the short time she knew her and it is unlikely that she would commission it, but it would be interesting, there is also a dress-style painting of Mary I of England from the late 16th century , maybe she could have ordered them.

Add yet when she has portrayed in movies and TV series, it is always as a black hair brown eyed caricature of someone who is Spanish

@@el_aleman Actually I've seen a recent documentary where they cast an actress with the right coloring. Henry: Mind of a Tyrant. Also, The Spanish Princess on Starz was accurate on the way she would’ve looked (unfortunately that's all it was accurate on, except that Arthur and she consummated their marriage because I believe they did. She was politically savvy. Her parents are my ancestors.)

@@NessaBear90 What were your ancestors names (surnames I mean) my great great great grandmother was said to be a Spanish princess, she was said to be an Anna, and I can't be sure of Carlos or Gonzalez . anyway I had the family ring but it was lost in a move years ago. I can't be sure if it was lost..or stolen. the loss makes me cry to this day.

@@NessaBear90 Thank you for that, I looked it up and 👍 yes they got it right. She was truly a warrior queen like her mother. I am of Spanish decent too, if you look at the picture attached to my name you can guess my family’s name. I don’t have any relatives from Mexico, Southern America or the Caribbean, we are European imports. That doesn’t make me any lesser or better, it just gets old in the states when all people of Spanish descent are thought to be dark featured with brown eyes. Looking forward to my retirement in Europe 🥂🍾

Достойная дочь достойных родителей!

He would not have cared or taken responsibility. Henry was always the kid who yells,"It's not my fault!". Take a look at the current Prince Henry's behavior as a point of reference.

In "Reality," Ann Boleyn Should of had King Henry "Beheaded"!! HE Wasn't Capable of Producing a Son. Everything was the Fault of the Women!!

True. It was Henry's failure, not Catherine's nor Anne's. He failed all of his wives as a husband, and failed his children as a father.

Right. Off with his head.

@@maryellencook9528 rubbish

Good summary 😐

@@Perl_Kolesnikova1943 it's funny because that's what I was taught to remember the wives when I was in grade school!

They all look the same!

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Too true.....I, too, still enjoy seeing their faces come to life,@@grahaminvalencia

Anne boleyn authentic face

​@@anglonema probablemente no era así y la del cuadro no es ella

Thank you for your kind words 🙂

Elizabeth left her country bankrupt after 1589, she made England lose all its value as a power, and she was more bloodthirsty than Mary, she really was a "normal" queen, not great.

Yeah, apparently court factions wanted it to be Katherine Willoughby because she was old blood from Spain and in England. They thought she'd be easier to say back to the Catholic church than Catherine Parr.

I doubt it. She was good with him & knew when to back down and how to behave publicly. He had a legitimate heir. Both wives were killed for supposed infidelity & I don’t see Catherine doing that, even with her feelings for Seymour. He didn’t just randomly murder women. He fought with Katherine for YEARS trying to end his marriage & be with Anne. He seemed to have nothing but resentment for her, but execution never even came up. He was convinced of the betrayal of the 2 wives he had executed. A betrayal that in addition to being personally humiliating, could have led to another man’s child on the English throne. That’s what made it treason. If Jane had survived, she probably would have been queen for the rest of his life. Had he & Anna clicked, the same. I really don’t believe Anne was guilty of anything, but Henry could be manipulated pretty easily & I’m sure he believed it. Katherine Howard never should have been more than a well treated mistress & I genuinely don’t understand why he married her. She could have made him feel young & been his rose without a thorn without the marriage. I think she was just very light after he’d been through a very difficult period. I wish someone had stepped in, maybe her aunt Elizabeth (Anne Boleyn’s mom) & relegated her to mistress so any flings wouldn’t be a threat to the English dynasty. As long as Parr kept some distance from Seymour, I think she’d have been fine. Seymour probably would have married Elizabeth, and he was Henry’s friend & the heir’s uncle, so they’d have been around each other often but both were experienced courtiers who knew how to play the game.

He was too old, ill and feeble by the time he married Parr: she was his nursemaid and not expected to produce an heir.

If I recall correctly, he actually signed a warrant for her arrest after she had voiced opinions that differed from his regarding religion. One of her servants found the warrant and she was able to convince him that she had said what she said to learn from him and encourage discussion and he dropped the issue.

@@TheFellowshipoftheCats - I am not sure if their was a warrant but the courtiers reported to him that she was studying the New Religion emerging from Europe (Lutherism & Calvinism) and could very well have come to a bad end. She was also friends with the martyr Anne Askew I think her name was, who was executed for promoting the new religion. However, her nursing abilities impressed Henry as she was the only one who could dress his ulcerated leg painlessly and this probably saved her.

Although Catherine was brave, Anne Boleyn was still the most witty and smarter then all the wives.

@@autymiller not so. Catherine Parr was extremely smart. You name it, she did it. And she survived. She knew she could not say no to Henry's temperament and she she knew what to say and how to say it to soothe her husband's intentions. Besides being a queen and mother to his children, she was an author. With her wisdom she could have been anything if she was alive today. Anything from a politician, a professor of theology, a psychiatrist. You name it. The sad thing is that she was limited to what women were pushed into. Remember men considered them inferior. Or the weaker sex.

@@michellekinder3051 yes she was smart but anne was also too

She was probably redhaired, not blonde, but yeah

And she was supposednto be very pretty, and this reconstruction is 😵

I was waiting for someone else to comment on the ridiculously small mouths the women in the portraits were always given.

He had brain damage from a very bad fall at a joust. Unconscious for 2 hours. Never the same man again after that. He became very bad tempered for example.

@@ChalcedonXXX true. 24 years with Katherine, then the other 5 all within 10 years. I do believe when Katherine hit menopause he panicked about having a legitimate heir & turned to Anne. Then, the jousting accidents which definitely caused permanent chronic pain in a leg injury that never healed. The leg injury effected his mobility & the man famous for his athletic body (especially calves) started putting on weight which led to other health issues. He would have been in constant pain & have lost his confidence in his appearance, a combination which could make anyone bitterc& angry. But he was knocked out hard, accounts differ as to how long but it was enough to worry everyone he wouldn't make it and when he came through his personality was certainly different. He became a tyrant. He probably did have a tbi, but we can't be sure. But there's no question Henry was a different man after 1536.

He was a bright, charming, and handsome man when he was young. But injuries from jousting accidents crippled his leg and gave him ulcers that left him in pain for the rest of his life. It's possible that he also got brain damage from his jousting accidents, too. (This is heavily debated) His leg injury also prevented him exercising and contributed to his weight gain, as well as him also likely eating food for comfort as he got increasing sick and desperate. Of course, this doesn't excuse his behaviour. But it least it makes it more understandable.

@@gypsydonovan His physicians opted to keep his leg ulcers open which in my opinion was a serious mistake as they were infected. I'm sure the pain and the bacterial toxins would have affected his mood continuously.

I would find it an honor NOT to be loved by him.He is incapable or was. Even his dead rotting corpse farted for all to hear. Disgusting human being.

important????

In addition, his injuries from jousting probably made it difficult for him to get much physical exercise.

Thank you so much 😊

@@panagiotisconstantinou plz if possible make on Siddhartha Gautama(Buddha). He had blue eyes,curly hairs,protruding nose and many people have a misconception that he was purely East Asian looking like Chinese,Tibetan,Japanese. You can get idea of Buddha's looks from Lakkhana Sutta,Narasiha Gatha Plz

@@panagiotisconstantinou Thank you so much for doing this video and bringing these historical figures to life for us. It is truly appreciated.

Poor Anne...she died 19 May ( today ) 1536...

Not so, Cassandra! Catherine Parr had 4 [!!] husbands and a "good" life, as did Anne of Cleaves and (maybe) Catherine of Aragorn. Two (too many) were executed, and one died in child-birth, or shortly thereafter.

Jane was described a s being whey-faced.

👍💯

You are right. The portrait says it is a lady of 21 years and Katherine likely did not live for that long. It is not a portrait of Howard but of one of the Seymours, Elizabeth, Lady Cromwell.

I also thought that Anne of Cleves wasn't as ugly as history tells us. Didn't Henry say she had a face like a horse.

I saw it too 👀👀 I was wondering why she looked so mature instead of 17/18 years. But maybe that’s how she looked.all the same I really enjoyed watching them come to life😍

The pigments that were used in the paint tended to darken over time. So in her portrait it makes sense that her hair would appear darker than it really was.

He does have a video of Eleanor of Aquitane, Henry II, Richard the Lionheart, and John! :)

Remember we don't know what she looked like. I hate to be the nay sayer, but we just don't have any portraits from her lifetime. Henry had them all destroyed. We have a coin, that imo doesn't look like the portrait used here (it's the standard & a beautiful painting but she didn't sit for it). the famous B necklace painting was created somewhere in the 16th century, by an unknown artist, probably after the scandal had settled, possibly even after the reigns of Henry, Edward Vi, Lady Jane & Mary I, when Anne's daughter took the throne. It may have been commissioned by Elizabeth, who was a toddler when her mom died. The painter probably never laid eyes on Anne. But, it's the resonating interpretation of her that we have. I'm sure there's similarity. It doesn't really matter what she looked like, this gives us a chance to imagine & connect with the woman in a way that doesn't happen without the visual. It's nice to have, I just feel like people need to know it's not a contemporary portrait. It sucks to live with the unknown but Anne deserves the blank truth over a probably fictional image.

@@gypsydonovan there are two surviving sketches of Anne by Holbein. And the famous portrait we use today have three versions from different times but most likely are copies from an actual sketch that is lost today.

Thanks Adamandia! Is there any other topic about Tudor history you would like to see in this channel?

Claro, se dice que nadie podía competir con la reina Catalina, era muy preparada y virtuosa. Incluso no se dejo manipular por nadie, y dio un particular discurso cuando la calumniaban. Hasta el final, siempre decía que ella era la verdadera reina de Inglaterra, y la legitima esposa de Enrique VIII. Y como usted dice, era la más querida por el pueblo. Lastima que alguien tan admirable haya caído en las manos del rey Enrique, no valoró todo lo que ella hizo por el. Para mi, es uno de los personajes históricos mas geniales de los que he leído. Saludos desde Ecuador.

@@aarons2004 the coolest murderer.....yea

She was known as Bloody Mary. Research the Fires of Smithfield.

@@aarons2004 I think you meant "cruellist", not "coolest"? Henry was cruel, more so after the leg injury when he was in great pain.

@@patscott6365 Hello :D. When I said "coolest" I meant Catherine. She is the coolest character. Apologies for that syntax error. Greets!

Funny you shoud say that, because Henry was described as standing head and shoulders above the members of his court and his height was estimated at 1.88 m or 6'2. The field armour made for Henry towards the end of his life measures 1.84 m in height or 72 1/2 in. That's pretty tall even by today's standards.

henry was NOT short lol. he was extremely tall by the 16th century standard, and would still be considered tall today

He was 6'2". Not short.

REALLY?! I would never have imagined that Henry VIII was so tall!! His armor did not appear to be for a man who was 6’2”. It was clearly wider than the other English nobleman’s armor. What struck me also was the display of armor from Italian noblemen. They seemed very small compared to the others while the Germans seemed to be made for tall men. I need to go look up info on Henry’s stature. Of course, there was no info on his age when this armor worn. But it was made to accommodate a large mid-section.🤔 Anyway, it was a great exhibit!

I don't know. I think fear was part of that. She'd known Katherine and Anne. We don't really know what was going through her mind, and she died so soon into the marriage. Henry sad great at 2-3 year relationships. It probably would have turned if given time. I do believe her death & the birth of Edward made him permanentl idolize her but I hate when people say she was his true love. All relationships are great early on. He would have been dealing with chronic pain, a probable personality changing tbi, massive weight gain & other health issues with her if she'd lived, and I don't think he would have been pleasant in the long term.