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[@LilMonkeyFella87]

Divorced,beheaded,died,divorced,beheaded, survived. That's what happened to his wives in order. A phrase to remember what happened

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

...and "abschap" is the way to remember Aragon Boleyn Seymour Cleves Howard Parr.

[@LilMonkeyFella87]

@@jamesdignanmusic2765 I think its just as crazy he married 3 people called Catherine

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

@@LilMonkeyFella87And 2 Annes!

[@joycegibbs5267]

he has to produce male heirs & Anne couldn’t, so they concocted these affairs. Why would anyone want to marry him though?

[@chrissmith8773]

Didn’t you do biology at school? All eggs are X, sperm is X or Y. XX = female, XY = male. It was Henry’s swimmers that were the problem.

[@Ayns.L14A]

that and the fact he was full of syphilis.......which he picked up in France....

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

@@Ayns.L14Amakes sense.🤣

[@mango2005]

One of the reasons Henry VIII became "chunky" is that he had a serious leg wound from a joust where he was nearly killed. This may also have caused a personality-change, which may have influenced his later paranoia.

[@weejackrussell]

He also had a head injury at the same time which is probably more likely to be the cause of the change in personality. Infections could also cause him to have periodic episodes of strangeness and personality changes! But he might just have been a rotter without any excuse for it! Most of the maltreatment of his wives was because of the overriding need for a male heir.

[@wildwine6400]

Just on his look alone, Henry VIII is the look I think of when I think "King of England". He was like 6 foot 2 , near 400lbs, huge chest, the beard, the extravagant clothing. A very striking look. He was a giant compared to the average man who would have only been around 5 and a half foot back then.

[@joycegibbs5267]

I went to The Tower of London & saw his armour the other day. The craftsmanship is breathtaking. He did seem pretty big.

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

*Being on a horse and trying to pole vault a human* is now my favourite way to describe jousting 😂😂

[@charlottehardy822]

I always loved Christina of Denmarks reported quote when it was suggested she be Henry VIII’s wife; "If I had two heads, I would happily put one at the disposal of the King of England". 😂

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Yes. But what she didn’t realise was, she wouldn’t have lost her head. He didn’t dare frame and murder his foreign born wives. But his English born wives were his to do as he wanted. However, she may not have survived anyway. Henry was riddled with disease and childbirth was incredibly dangerous back then.

[@charlottehardy822]

@@user-fq8rs7rz3i completely agree.

[@itsmegordy]

Pole vaulting on a horse would be amazing 🤣

[@mikefraser4513]

There was a good song about him in the 60s "I'm Henry the 8th, I am Henry the 8th, I am, I am I got married to the widow next door She's been married seven times before.. (They were all called Henry of course)

[@brigidsingleton1596]

She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam..😅

[@richardjames3022]

Never a truer word said than the last remark. Henry VIII had the undivided love/attention of his mother as is brother Arthur was away in Wales, learning how to be king. Henry commented he never got over the death of his mother and was always looking for a love similar to the love his mother given him, [albeit through rose-tinted glasses].

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

There’s another ginger Henry in similar circumstances. 🤣😂😅

[@brigidsingleton1596]

​@@user-fq8rs7rz3i MM Mama ?! Don't go driving so fast in your car... The dreadful paps will kill for a pic... Ginge & Minge... Click click click!!😅😂

[@joycegibbs5267]

I never knew that & I thought I knew a lot about him. He also had to produce male heirs ?

[@leehallam9365]

I think most Brits would say Lincoln or Washington to your opening question.

[@wildwine6400]

Yeah definitely, I'd even as say the average British person could not name the 4 presidents on Mount Rushmore. They might guess Lincoln and Washington but theyd be stumped at that

[@Loulizabeth]

​@@wildwine6400It would depend these days if they've watched the musical Hamilton or not. Plus how much KZbin videos they watch or books they read on History.

[@fyrdman2185]

@@wildwine6400 I don't think the average British person could name 4 important Kings or leaders of England or even anything remotely related to our history.

[@brianbrotherston5940]

Definitely BIDEN !! - I have forgotten the question .. .. ..

[@cireenasimcox1081]

Whenever I see an American cartoon presented as English history, I realised a coupla years ago that it's gonna be trash, so I don't usually watch - no idea what made me watch this - apart from the fact that it was about Henry. Henry is - as you said - known pretty much globally, so one doesn't expect anyone to tell porkies (lies) about him - as so many people (not just in the UK) are familiar with his story. As usual with these cartoons they present 500yr old history as a Las Vegas show and look at history through a contemporary lens, rather than positioning it as it was seen in the time it occured. (And how the hell did North Korea get into the story?) This stupid clip refers to "Tonker truck" battles and "Poor little UK?" and a people who "laugh at" Henry... while wondering why female offspring were not in the line of succession? A Bullshit "history" which does nothing to explain Monarchical rule or the influence Henry had...and how this contributed to our history.

[@billyo54]

You're right, but nevermind. It's good enough for Connor who has been watching these videos for years and still doesn't know Jack Shit about anything.

[@lem01uk]

Please watch a proper video about Henry (and Elizabeth I), these cartoon ones are a load of rubbish. David Starkey is really good.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

​@@billyo54 Poor Connor... He reminds me of the little train... "I think I can, I think I can..." Basically, as long as there's some decent grass somewhere in the video, he's a 'happy chappie'?!! History? Didn't he study it in College?! (I don't recall _whose_ history, but he retains a 'modicum of interest' in the subject... However, being an American ...he seldom seems to find the _right_ videos which will educate, as well as entertain him adequately...& Us too...?! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤔🇬🇧❤️🖖

[@joycegibbs5267]

I went to The Tower of London on Thursday, saw Henry VIII armour, stood where Anne Boleyn was beheaded & visited the church where she & her family are buried as well as a couple other Queens of his as well. Pretty incredible to think they were there & all the history there !!!

[@PhilTough-hn8qj]

In the end his daughter Elizebeth 1st did take the thrown and she was one of the best monarchs we ever had.

[@joycegibbs5267]

she loved watching animals fight though, so she’s lost some browny points !

[@PhilTough-hn8qj]

I don't think animal rights were top of the agenda for the Tudors but you might have a point.

[@weejackrussell]

I think people in the UK would immediately think of famous American historical figures such as: Men- Abraham Lincoln, George Washington or Theodore Roosevelt. Women - Pocahontas, Helen Keller, Harriet Tubman would also be on my list. But it could be a very much wider range, e.g. some of the famous cowboys, inventors, writers, pop singers etc. Currently Alexander Hamilton may spring to mind due to the musical. Which famous British women do Americans all know about? Would it be Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, Florence Nightingale?

[@enemde3025]

" Valentine's season " !? Henry VIII wrote the song GREENSLEEVES. Jousting was popular between the 13th and 16th century. They are still held today in historic UK settings. ANTI is pronounced ANTEE not ANTEYE. Don't they teach basic biology in American schools !? " RIP" !? R.I.P means Rest In Peace !

[@markthomas2577]

I think most Brits would know Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, probably in that order

[@brigidsingleton1596]

All I recall that Lincoln was the 16th ? But I could be in error... Dates & figures are my worst for remembering (I have dyscalculia so _anything_ arithmetic / maths wise is a _complete_ 'no go area' for me!!)😮😢 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤔🇬🇧❤️🖖

[@Thorium_Th]

9:25 Yes. The egg of a woman has an X chromosome. Sperms have either X or Y chromosomes, so egg + sperm = sex X + X = XX (female) X + Y = XY (male)

[@paulharvey9149]

03:35 - he sounds just like Donald Trump, doesn't he? I mean, just imagine Donald in one of those fancy Tudor outfits... Women had always been able to inherit the English throne, Connor - Henry had no need to change any of the succession rules for reasons of gender; but the system (until 2013!) was male-preferred primogeniture - the belief being that as "the weaker sex," women were inferior to men.

[@leehallam9365]

Henry was actually pretty romantic and not as sex mad as his reputation suggestsHe treated Catherine of Aragon badly, but that was because she wouldn't cooperate, and with her nephew controlling the Pope, he couldn't get his way. Anne of Cleves was much more sensible and was declared to be his sister. Anne Bolynne was the one who was essentially judicially murdered, the charges were all most certainly false. She had kept him waiting, then not delivered. Catherine Howard was guilty of adultery, and it came as a complete shock to Henry, it was not something he wanted, and adultery by the Queen was Treason as a child produced by it could become king. Execution was the law. Catherine Parr, had the odd dangerous moment herself as she was a religious radical and Catholics wanted her dead. Henry was her third husband, and after him, she married the man she loved, one of Jane Seymour's brothers, who ended up being executed, she had died in childbirth. I doubt Jane would have been in trouble had she lived, she gave him a son, that made her his favourite.

[@maggieellison1017]

At school we learnt the mnemonic 'divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived".

[@weejackrussell]

Jousting was popular for about 300 years, it went out of fashion just after Henry VIII.

[@claregale9011]

Liked his food that's for sure , I think he had gout and ulcers on his legs which apparently stank . Too much meat 🍖

[@Extra_050]

Henry VIII is famous (or infamous) because, wives aside, he was, perhaps, the last absolutist monarch in England we ever had (Charles I gave it a go much later, of course, but I think you've seen what happened to him). Furthermore, he was an improbable one: he was Henry VII's younger son and so was not groomed for the throne like his older brother Arthur had been. He had always been the extravagant spender, the dandy, the athletic muscleman in the background- like a sort of Renaissance equivalent of a pinup boy- as well as an intelligent reader and scholar. Then suddenly his brother dies (which is a shame; I would kind of liked us to have had a King Arthur outside of legend), his sister-in-law Catherine of Aragon becomes his own wife and he comes out of the shadows and into the forefront of English and European politics. A further reason for his significance is that even after his death, he thrust England into political and religious turmoil because of what he left behind. Though he split from Rome, he would never have used the word "Protestant": that was only really reserved for the ideals of Martin Luther and he remained staunchly anti-Lutheran. Still, even in his Rome-friendly days, the foundations for limiting clerical powers and converting disused monasteries into grammar schools had already been laid by his former Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey, so he just did more of that, with a few chopped heads for good measure. However, when his young son Edward VI ascended the throne, there was nothing to stop the the impressionable boy and hence the country from becoming more "anti-papal" and hence, more Protestant. Then, when the dying Edward VI tried to name his cousin Lady Jane Grey as his heir and she lost her head, Henry's eldest daughter Mary I ("Bloody Mary") tried to turn everything around again by making England Catholic again, marrying Felipe II and so becoming the first and only woman to be Queen of England and Spain at the same time. Her mercurial personality was so marked that burning for heresy almost became routine. Then, after she died, the least probable of Henry's children, Elizabeth I became queen, flipped England back to Protestantism and not only rejected Felipe's gestures but actually secured her place on the throne by fending him off in the Spanish Armada when he tried to challenge her. This and her extensive patronage to the arts provided stability for England- but not Scotland, since she also imprisoned and executed her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. No matter how you look at it, the spirit of Henry VIII lived clearly through each of them, with all his strengths and weaknesses. A final thing of note on Henry VIII specifically is that yes, he did enjoy jousting (which was still part of military training for royalty, though it was not strictly used in wartime by the time he was on the throne) and there is a record of him suffering a bad head injury during one such match. Recent examination of his skull revealed evidence of damage consistent with a badly mended fracture and it may have been this- as opposed to syphilis, as was thought for a long time- that made him increasingly erratic, paranoid and unpredictable the more he aged. He was also fond of football of all things as a younger man and it is possible he may have helped the invent the world's first football boots with the help of his personal shoemaker- but that's another story.

[@janicejohnson6372]

Henry was not some sex obsessed King he was a man who knew he needed to have a son to avoid chaos when he died

[@matthewjamison]

Henry was very athletic before he has joisting accident that wrecked his leg. So couldn't exercise anymore & just comfort ate. And he had a lot of balls to take on The Holy Roman Empire at the time. Him & his daughter (Elizabeth 1) reign was the start of British building the military/navy to dominate the world.

[@fyrdman2185]

Nope she destroyed England's navy through her funding of disastrous campaigns against Spain. The start of the English and later British building the navy to dominate the world was under Oliver Cromwell.

[@matthewjamison]

@fyrdman2185 You need to build one up first before you can destroy it. Which Henry VIII & Elizabeth did. I just mean before Henry Britains Navy was pathetic

[@fyrdman2185]

@@matthewjamison Henry VIII definitely built a great navy but specifically the legendary navy of the British Empire was started by Oliver Cromwell.

[@matthewjamison]

@fyrdman2185 Yeah, I get what you're saying dude. But Henry built the infrastructure/tradition of having a navy.

[@divid3d]

we know males are responsible for the sex of a baby because females don't have a Y chromosome to contribute. our sex chromosomes are XX and so our eggs are all X. males are XY, and each of their sperm contains either an X (making a girl) or a Y (making a boy).* *simplified explanation not including the various other chromosome configurations possible.

[@tonybaker55]

Our Henry was a bit of a lad in his day and then he met some woman who had been raised in the French Court and it all went southwards after that. Whenever I visit Hampton Court, I do get an odd vibe. Of course he should never have become king, if not for his brother's early demise. We would have had a real King Arthur if not. Of course Henry did eventually have a son, Edward VI, but he never survived long enough to become an adult king, but did reign for six years until his death aged 15. "Bloody" Mary I took over from her step brother and then came Elizabeth I, so no men involved for about 87 years.

[@williambranch4283]

He was psycho. Technically Catholic until he died. His son Edward and daughter Elizabeth were the Protestants.

[@josefschiltz2192]

Henry VIII was a . . . . expletive omitted owing to decency. Got that KZbin? I can do my own editing thank you!

[@brigidsingleton1596]

W⚓ ?!!😊😅😂 Ouch... Pain in the neck?!!

[@josefschiltz2192]

@@brigidsingleton1596 Stronger language needed for that SOB.

[@samrevlej9331]

Knightly tournaments became a thing in the 1000s and 1100s and jousting continued until the end of the 1500s, but I don't know enough to say when the peak of jousting was. The 1200s is often described as the "golden age of chivalry" (as in actual knights, not assholes with a fedora), but given how much manuals of chivalry were published during the 1400s and 1500s, I don't think there's a single period you can point to for it being more popular

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived. The Six Wives of Henry VIII* ... (I always forget some of their names so I won't further make a fool of myself by attempting their identities - but, 'Uncle Google' knows!!) (8th* to non-Roman numeral fans!!)

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

Washington or Lincoln, maybe JFK or FDR for the answer to your first question. Jousting was at its peak a little earlier, probably 1400s, but was still popular in Henry's time, and Henry was good at it... until an accident early ion his reign when he was thrown from his horse while jousting, and the horse fell on him. Quite a few scholars believe that he suffered a head injury in the accident which caused his character to change. Up until then he'd been a good leader but after that, well, as they say, the rest is history. And all egg cells have X chromosomes, sperm have either X or Y. So whether the baby is XX (female) or XY (male) is all down to the father's sperm.

[@joshuaminke6629]

every British kid, learned about this in school

[@gemma4401]

I wouldn't say Catherine parr went on to live her best life. She married an awful man who tried to groom Princess Elizabeth behind her back and then died from childbirth complications.

[@dominique8233]

Pole vaulting a human 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chrismackett9044]

These cartoons with their jokey commentaries seem to be made for five year olds.

[@wildwine6400]

Thats zoomer humour for you

[@mral8145]

“Is marrying him a death sentence?” Anyone that clicks on this and expects a ‘different’ answer is a fool and deserves to have their right to vote revoked! 😉 x

[@anthonymullen6300]

And here is something that people don't seem to grasp what made English kings was the lack of englishness the Tudors were of French descent like most of the English monarchs

[@fyrdman2185]

@@ClassicalGuitaristWannabe This is the most brainlet take on English genetics I've ever heard.

[@claregale9011]

We do know this , I'm of German descent.

[@gillianrimmer7733]

The Tudors were Welsh and the house of Lancaster.

[@Ben-xe8ps]

A pretty stupid video (the video being reacted to) which explains nothing and sounds as if it was intended for 5 year olds.

[@user-me4bd1vj2s]

What's jousting got to do with this video???

[@thomaslowdon5510]

Henry wanted an Heir to follow him. In tradition it must be a male.. His wives were not successful at first he needed them out of the way.. try again new wife..