Clare Cherry talks about George Boleyn

[@camillat984]

Great video! When you and Claire talk about George and Anne you get the feeling you're there in the 16th century with them!

[@anneboleynfiles]

Thank you!

[@jmmbarkovich8734]

Splendid presentation 👌. Another historical book to add to my wish list. Thank you.

[@ladymargaret778]

I definitely agree that Warnicke made humongous leaps in her biography. I read her book shortly after it came out and even then I said to myself: "when did National Enquirer reporters start writing books?" I was A) no scholar myself and B) not even 25 yrs old at the time, even so I knew much of what she wrote was to promote her radical feminist views, and not honest, detached, research. She had an agenda before she ever started writing and if it weren't for her comments on George, Ms Gregory would not have written what she did a few years later. Ms Warnick's reputation took a beating and even now, whenever her name is mentioned in the popular press, it's almost always attached with: "writer of a controversial biography of Anne Boleyn." "Controversial" is a word that the left leaning press in the U.S. uses when they mean: "we think it's caca, but we don't want to be sued"

[@businessfinancecoach]

I adore your argument, and information! I think people just want to give the king a reason!...crazy.. I HATED that part of the tudors - I'm glad you cleared this up :)

[@CCTippers]

It’s about time they told the Bolyn’s true story on film, tragic that they were treated and have been portrayed so poorly.

[@Lyndell-P]

🇭🇲🦘 So lovely to 'meet' you (Clare Cherry) via this video. Have recently purchased the book about George Boleyn, which you co-wrote with Claire Ridgway, and look forward to learning more about George. Your talk was most interesting. Thank you. 👋👍

[@UtahGmaw99]

Thank you for this. I have always been uncomfortable about the way George has been portrayed. The truth is enough. No need to make up crazy tales to make it more than it was.

[@kkay3784]

What is more mysterious to me about the demonizing of Anne and George's characters by the factions in their day, is the bizarre desire of writers, etc., do so in our modern time!

[@franm.8343]

It makes them money by publishing their theories.

[@phoenixmallen7508]

Thank you And so informative and rings truth. Mantles comments speak more of her foul mind than anything else. Much appreciated 🙏🙏😍❤️

[@sarahkelson8386]

Anne and George were both demonized. There were many people and many factions, all of whom had a vested interest in destroying the Boleyns. Both churches had reason to want to make them demons, Henry wanted them demons, so they had no better chance after death than before. Their names had to be blackened.

[@anneboleynfiles]

Yes, the incest charge was designed to completely blacken their names.

[@anneboleynfiles]

Yes, the incest charge was designed to completely blacken their names.

[@lauraroy9093]

I've always felt so sorry for George. The incest charge was a ridiculous. He was completely inoccent.

[@lauraroy9093]

Edit. Innocent.

[@anneboleynfiles]

Yes, it was definitely a way of blackening the Boleyn name.

[@anastasiaisabella7354]

I feel sorry for him and his sister Anne

[@jillniemczynski5517]

Hello! Loved this! Thanks! I'll have to get your book. 💞✌👍☺🏰👑

[@eej1983able]

Amazing how history can be twisted so much

[@Danielle-mg5lf]

“The main problem is people take “the other Boleyn girl” as fact not historical fiction! I wish that book/movie ever came out 😠. It totally vilified the character of both Anne and George, making them seem like awful devious people and shows only Mary Boleyn as the sweet innocent Boleyn!

[@JaneNBlake]

Same!

[@anastasiaisabella7354]

That is one of the reason why I don't read Philippa Gregory books

[@tammyz8566]

Thanks so much Clare.I truly enjoyed your video.I must say Iam fascinated by all things Boleyn.It is refreshing to hear fact.Why can the film makers not use researchers such as yourself to portray fact rather than obvious fiction.Iam interested in obtaining your book on George where can I purchase it? Thanks again.

[@georgiahicks4855]

so well said!

[@UAL320]

Nice RAF models! Everyone loves the Vulcan!

[@sueamos3860]

Very interesting thank you

[@jenrutherford6690]

Henry ,that dreadful despot, was good at gathering skilfull and intelligent people around him . He did not suffer fools and George had been in the inner circle as his father was.

[@pollydolly9723]

Thank you.

[@charlottebruce979]

So really we have very little evidence about George's real life, I suppose with that in mind fiction writers fill in the blanks' with sensationalism to sell books. It would have been great to have been able to read his poetry.

[@beth7935]

No, she's saying the opposite! She & Claire Ridgway were surprised by just how much information there is about him- enough to write a bio!- so fiction writers don't even have to fill in the blanks! They're just inventing facts, sometimes about things that can be proven wrong. Which is technically fine, but when they claim it's true & based on research... no. Mary Boleyn, on the other hand, IS a big mystery, so you do have to fill in some blanks there- but again, filling it with stuff like Henry fathering her children... I don't get why you NEED to make stuff up; isn't it sensational enough already?!! :D

[@Angel-nu7fm]

But didn't Jane confess to false testimony at her death?

[@anneboleynfiles]

No, that is a myth. We have an eye witness account of the executions and it does not back that up - see www.theanneboleynfiles.com/the-executions-of-catherine-howard-and-lady-rochford-an-eye-witness-account/

[@Angel-nu7fm]

Thanks, good article. Some historic license gets taken as fact....the article links to another at how disgracefully Catherine Howard's death was depicted....I am a history buff and like historical accuracy. Besides, like the Borgias, these people didn't need any dramatizing.

[@gidzmobug2323]

What about Catherine Howard's wish about being "the wife of Culpepper"?

[@beth7935]

@@gidzmobug2323 She never said that. Watch one of Claire's videos, or read the article linked above.

[@beth7935]

@@Angel-nu7fm YES!!! That's what I always think- isn't the actual story dramatic & sensational enough? How much more melodrama, scandal, horror & tragedy could you possibly want?! Or if you MUST change the story so drastically, present it as an alternative history & go for your life!

[@bridgetcooper6331]

She forgot her own words....these are books of Fiction.

[@missthunderstormable]

she is so politically correct lol