The Disturbing Truth Of Henry VIII Is Pretty Head Turning

[@GrungeHQ]

Which English monarch had the most interesting life story?

[@Norse77]

London bridge is located in Lake Havasu City,Arizona, you showed the tower bridge.

[@Norse77]

I'm a nerd

[@steveosullivan5262]

Without question, Henry the 2nd.

[@sleepystories8958]

elizabeth i

[@ninamorales7815]

Richard III

[@hannahstahl1857]

Doesnt matter how many times I’ve seen facts about Henry... I will still click and watch

[@senshine7925]

I find his children JUST as fascinating to be honest!

[@hannakhan3982]

Me too .

[@Butterflies-are-free]

Lol, same! 😂🤣😂

[@student05-bdes52]

Actually, Henry didn't get the Swordsman of Calais because he personally wanted spare Anne from having a painful death. He got the swordsman to give her a clean and un-botched death to avoid backlash and to keep his up image. Henry made Anne a crowned and anointed queen so that no one would dispute her as the queen (to no avail) and no queen of England had ever been executed before, let alone one that was anointed, so Anne's death sent shockwaves through Europe, even though most of the people despised her and considered the wonderful Queen Catherine to be the true queen. There was even talk that people suspected that Henry framed Anne just to get rid of her (which he did). So a botched execution, which was likely to happen with an axe, would have made Henry look really* bad. He felt that he needed to appease the people and appear merciful, which is why he ordered the sword. I honestly doubt he cared about Anne at this point, considering he caused her death, partied elaborately in the days leading upto her death, and seemed to want her memory tainted and erased after her death

[@pamelaevm880]

Very well said and so true.

[@student05-bdes52]

@@pamelaevm880 thanks

[@geezerp1982]

nasty shit, ann was very eager to please her king ! including sucking him off , which was a new thing back then

[@blackstan7620]

And he remarried like a day after her execution. Truly evil

[@nobonespurs]

her memory is of a victim, and he is regarded as a fat evil pig

[@Nurichiri]

Last time I was this early Catherine of Aragon was still married to Arthur, Prince of Wales.

[@SewPaMc]

Yeeeess!! Lol

[@leticiagarcia9025]

I felt so bad for Katherine Howard. Her family failed to protect her.

[@killawhatt8620]

Money. It’s all they were worried about.

[@isidroguevara4120]

If they protected her, they would've lost their heads also!

[@leticiagarcia9025]

@@isidroguevara4120 During her short life she was controlled by predators who wanted to advance themselves at her expense. Her family failed her for power.

[@eses5490]

Just like her cousin Anne. Both shared a similar fate. Both times the families chose their own money and prestige over protecting the young women. In fact they were probably nothing but pawns anyway.

[@leticiagarcia9025]

@@eses5490 Thomas Boleyn was a good father who wanted the best for his children. He started his career serving Henry VII. Thomas Boleyn still served Henry after his children were executed. He had no choice but to serve him for Elizabeth. Nothing was written on how they grieved. Thomas and Elizabeth couldn’t show bereavement at court. Surly they grieved privately.

[@renferal3774]

He was a right bastard. In The Tudors, I thought Sir Thomas More died with such dignity and grace.

[@bluelady4183]

Thomas Moore was just as bad burning people!!!!

[@tatata1543]

More was a torturer.

[@DBEdwards]

Sir Thomas Moore. A man of exquisite religious conviction but not practical

[@jodystimm2098]

*REN*, you are spot on. Henry was an evil despot& sinner&. he Nowhere,Nowhere could compare to THOMAS MOORE& that is why THOM. is a Saint& Henry is prob. in ??????. The king cared for niether God not man#####

[@jodystimm2098]

And. #Blue#. said. THOM. was just as bad as Henry. She needs to CK history. THOM. was not Christian at the time& when he realized what Henry was doing turned his life around......

[@ladycharlenegrace8023]

So the Nun spoke truly! In the end he died a looong horrible death and he couldn't run his kingdom- others did it for him. So he had lost his kingdom!

[@nolanolivier6791]

Given the dispensation of English monarchs for extreme weight gain, I'm not entirely certain it was much of a prophecy...

[@johncronin9540]

@@nolanolivier6791 Henry went beyond mere “weight gain”. He was morbidly obese. But his father wasn’t overweight, and neither were any of his legitimate children.

[@kenn1936]

400 lbs??? I am surprised he lasted so long!!

[@Deborahtunes]

He wasn't always at that weight. Only in his latter years...

[@ultimatebishoujo29]

@@Deborahtunes that’s true

[@queenelizabethiofengland7338]

Techically 300 pounds

[@bodhisattva2348]

🤣🤣🤣

[@TopicallyParotting]

He died at 55 or 56 not really that old sooooo...yeah

[@jeffmode6526]

I believe Henry's head injury caused him to change his personality. He had alot of people killed off. Some of them were his friends and relatives. He got rid of the Countess of Salisbury, a nun, and two wives.

[@MTSutoraifu]

"He probably died from renal and liver failure, leaving his sixth wife almost certainly breathing sigh of relief." yep ...

[@brianrodney5202]

...only for the unfortunate woman to later die in childbirth.

[@jeffreyc.5572]

...yep

[@karensimpson4869]

@@brianrodney5202 and then her 2nd husband Thomas Seymour fancied his chances with the future Queen Elizabeth 1st who was Catherine Pars step daughter . The young teenager Elizabeth lived with them and Thomas was supposedly a bit over friendly with her for a step father

[@ultimatebishoujo29]

@@brianrodney5202 oh yeah

[@brianrodney5202]

@@karensimpson4869 " a bit over-friendly " - how delicately put !

[@elisabethblackwood3921]

Katherine Howard wasn’t engaged to Culpepper, she may have cheated on Henry with him. She was, however, engaged to Frances Dereham before she married Henry.

[@ButtonsCasey]

There is actually some debate that says while Katherine Howard was in Anna of Cleves household she was engaged to Culpeper. She did deny being engaged to Dereham, even though they referred to each other as husband and wife. Some historians argue that if she had admitted that, it may have saved her life.

[@TopicallyParotting]

If she was engaged to henry when she was 17-19 then when was she engaged to Francis, the poor child was too young for this 🥲

[@atticusv668]

Spare a thought for all the women that had to sleep with a 400 pound tyrant who couldn’t even walk

[@neyneyNunya]

And he smelled because the wound on his leg never healed and was full of pus.

[@pamelaevm880]

Gross can you imagine how Catherine Howard must have felt!!!

[@theheard4740]

@@pamelaevm880 Yes a young girl who was fostered to a woman who exploited her innocence

[@susannebemis3311]

eww

[@blackstan7620]

And he was stinky cause of his leg ulcers that oozed stinky pus

[@Gaylafay]

TOWER BRIDGE not London Bridge at 4:04 time stamp.

[@stephenwodz7593]

Henry wanted an ANNULMENT, not a divorce! He always considered himself a good Catholic, and considered divorce a sin. His disagreement with the Vatican was over who the leader of the Church in England was.

[@DBEdwards]

In the end Henry was pragmatist. And establishing his own own franchise was clever. Was it not?

[@nobonespurs]

do these anglicans think they are moral?

[@Timbretwo]

This was the real Jabba the Hut. When you hear about munching on giant lamb legs in his hand and "boiling you in oil" as a joke. No, this is the guy. For real.

[@DBEdwards]

In early 1531, Richard Roose (also Richard Rouse, Richard Cooke) was accused of poisoning members of the household of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester for which he was subsequently boiled alive. Although nothing is known of Roose or his life outside of the case, he is believed to have been Fisher's household cook-or, less likely, a friend of the cook-at Fisher's residence in Lambeth. He was accused of adding a white powder to some porridge, which was eaten by Fisher's dining guests, as well as two beggars to whom the food was given as charity. The guests survived, but the beggars died. Roose claimed that he had been given the powder to add to the food by a stranger, and claimed it was intended to be a joke-he thought he was incapacitating his fellow servants rather than killing anyone, he said. Fisher survived the poisoning as, for an unknown reason, he ate nothing that day. Roose was arrested immediately and tortured for information. King Henry VIII-who already had a morbid fear of poisoning-personally addressed the House of Lords on the case and was probably responsible for an act of parliament which attainted Roose and retroactively made murder by poison a treasonous offence mandating execution by boiling. Roose was boiled at London's Smithfield in April, 1532.

[@TheMcKenzieHaus]

With Anne of cleves, he tried to surprise her by disguising himself and then tried to kiss her the first time they met. Anne was repulsed by him and ever since then he said he was ugly. But it’s more likely that Anne was turned off by him and didn’t hide it from him.

[@3John-Bishop]

Its a natural reaction to a total stranger trying to kiss you.

[@stephenparsons4398]

I think the pope had to take a stand because of pressure from his wife’s nephew, Charles V of Spain andHoly Roman Emperor

[@oldenweery7510]

Despicable man; on the whole, I much prefer the "Hennery the Eighth" of the old music hall ditty. Type in "Herman and the Hermits Henry the 8th" to see why. Stay safe, everyone.

[@student05-bdes52]

one of the most despicable pieces of trash

[@lucythemanxcat4898]

That’s not what the song is about lol

[@blankajindrich6849]

The video says that Anne’s boyfriend before marriage was also executed, but I thought that He was present at her trial - Henry Percy, the earl of Northumberland. Henry the 8th prevented them marrying because he became interested in Anne.

[@aprettygothichick]

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. That is an easy way to remember how each of his wives ended up.

[@Timbretwo]

Rick Wakeman wrote a song about each of Harry's wives and played the concert for the royal family not too recently. When all the 6 wives walked out in proper dress. Rick's tipsy son yelled from other balcony, "So which one's me Mum, Dad?" Regardless a Rick Wakeman show is a success

[@joeerickson516]

"Ouch!"

[@tessareynolds8377]

What an evil man.

[@colema007]

Lots of historic inaccuracies in this one..

[@michellepellegrino2496]

Yes! Anne Boleyn had to watch her uncle & former fiancé being executed? Errrr, no...never happened! 😵

[@skyfyres]

"London Bridge" =Tower Bridge

[@thehowlingmisogynist9871]

@@taykitrleevitt4314 - tell that to a judge and lawyers !

[@johnsaunders2109]

Presumably its an American site, so its bound to be inaccurste!!!

[@MovingOndaisy]

Due to Medical developments since the 1500's it's most probable that Henry VIII suffered brain damage after he fell from his huge horse whilst Jousting. The fact that he must have had contracoup injury and he was also unconscious for up to 15-30 minutes. Contracoup brain injury damage can cause personality changes (motor cycle accident sufferers who have same, often have personality changes that close family and friends do not recognise. Violent and un-inhibited behaviour is very common after such an injury. Information can be found at the Charity Head Way.

[@ButtonsCasey]

As true as that is, Henry had a lot of emotional and mental damage done at a young age, and frankly did not know how to be King of England. I do believe his head injury had something to do with the fast progression of his unstable mental state, I also believe that the boy who was never meant to be King of England, let power get to his head from an early age. He sure is a complex historical figure, that is hard to figure out.

[@MovingOndaisy]

@@ButtonsCasey Harry wasn't educated and trained to be king, that's true. Also his Father was a desperate skinflint and taxed everyone to the hilt. Harry had some very bad influences in his years after his Mother's death (Harry was spoiled as a young child and lives in a household of women) Historian David Starkey researched and found old documents throwing light on his tenderness and solicitude towards women from an early age (pressure of providing an heir and the fact he was spoiled as a child AND the fact he was absolute ruler did not help his increasingly ugly "brat attacks" like many Monarchs, even today ( Prince Andrew is a spoiled, lazy brat and Charles is a self indulgent foot stamper-who the hell needs 12 different honeys to choose from at breakfast, never mind send a private jet to get it) don't actually live in the REAL world do they. Much of the actual causes and reasons for Harry's behaviour will never be known (diary from what's written in his own hand) because everyone around him had a personal axe to grind and because of his Royal Isolation he had to believe what he was told by his Courtiers, which could have been any old manipulative crap! However the Tudors achieved remarkable history changing things, for one Henry8 established our Fantastic Royal Navy and also saved us from the terrible Roman Catholic Religion.

[@pamelaevm880]

And I totally believe and have experienced how extreme chronic pain can affect your life and attitude.

[@bkohatl]

He murdered 50,000 people and imprisoned 100,000 more, "legally," then seized their assets.

[@tooyoungtobeold8756]

murdered 70,000

[@kathys1285]

Wow he was right up there with Adolfo Hitler monster 👺 the devil evil down to the bone

[@Vivalarosa45]

I like her not. I LIKE HER NOT!!!

[@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752]

6:49 =Groom of the Stool isn't an excess... Every king has the closest nobleman with that title since time immemorial...... Being the Groom of the Stool meant you are his confidante and the closest to the king... The downside of it is that you are the keeper of his toilet...

[@johnsaunders2109]

Henry's arse must have been a delight!!

[@t.c.bramblett617]

English cathedrals and monasteries: "Wow, it's great that we have all this money and land!" Henry VIII: "It for me?"

[@MrTangolizard]

Better his than romes

[@t.c.bramblett617]

@@MrTangolizard From this vantage of history, I agree... it's not like he didn't turn around and spend it on a lot of frivolous shit either though. But I suppose it also went to help make England a superpower, so that's a win for them

[@MrTangolizard]

@@t.c.bramblett617 exactly he started what became the Royal Navy he freed people from paying Rome money in the belief that they would go to heaven if they gave money to the vicker in Rome (it’s sometimes called the first brexit) he got rid of a lot of the crazy number of saints days which were effecting the production and farming of England and they really were only set up by the church as a way of lifting money from the pockets of the poor and put them in Rome’s pockets he in fairness changed it from pay to go to heaven to good deeds get u to heaven

[@EzraMerr]

🤣🤣🤣

[@briannadickson8117]

I just don’t understand Anne Boleyn. He crashed her for 7ish years, fought for a divorce, they were married 3 years, she gave him one child, one still born, and got pregnant again all within 3 years. So he could chase her for 7 years but not wait 7 for a son? He was married to his first wife for 20 years. He didn’t make much sense lol

[@pamelaevm880]

Yeah I wouldn't mind knowing what went down with that. Maybe he wanted what he couldn't have? He really didn't give her much time to have a son. What really surprises me is that he didn't have a lot of illegitimate children. I think I've come across four to six trying to research it and even those are questionable.

[@loisb.5814]

Never a dull moment with Henry VIII.....English history had everything ! Mercy Mercy Mercy

[@johnsaunders2109]

The sad thing is that Henry is presented as a lovable buffoon not the vicious tyrant he was! Thats the English giving their kings a ' free pass' though! Its the same with other tyrannical kings like Charles the First. Kings get too easy a ride from the English, and we are continuing to this day! Our present ruler is also portrayed ad a merry buffoon, not the hard faced bastard he really is !

[@jenniferroach4153]

Spoiled rich boy given full power acting exactly as he was.

[@johnsaunders2109]

Sounds like Trump!

[@allies7184]

I wish they'd make a film where Richard III survived and went onto become king. His reign couldn't have been as bad as the Tudors. One was insane, the other loved killing wives and the 3rd one loved burning Protestants, all in all, I'd say Richard would have made a better king, perhaps.

[@pamelaevm880]

I couldn't understand his father's claim I've tried to work it out. Because he had an ancestor who was formerly the wife of a king of England? Other than John of gaunt I don't see how his claim came into play based on who his great-grandmother married.

[@TiaReshade]

@@pamelaevm880 Henry VII claim was a looooong stretch. His mother was the great-great granddaughter of Edward III through his third son John of Gaunt. Yet her grandfather was born illegitimate and later legalized by Parliament, but was barred from the throne by Henry IV 😂. Guess when all the legitimate Lancasterians died they went with the eldest illegitimate claim 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@pamelaevm880]

@@TiaReshade Crazy!!! Thank you.

[@randomnordmann4020]

@@pamelaevm880 Right of conquest. His claim was no weaker than William the Conqueror's.

[@vintaqe_vibez5978]

Didn't he have gout as well? Which is another reason why it was hard for him to walk.

[@tooyoungtobeold8756]

And syphilis.

[@Tlyna1952]

@Marydancer33 Inferred often but hasn't been proven.

[@MrTangolizard]

@@tooyoungtobeold8756 he didn’t have that , that was the king of France

[@trojanette8345]

BEST synopsis summary of the Tudor period I gave ever heard. You did a SMASHING job on this Historical compilation video!!

[@johnsaunders2109]

Only for Americans !

[@RiCHKiMMiNGS]

That's not London Bridge...

[@jeffmode6526]

CATHERINE OF Aragon, she should have caught the first ship Back to Spain after Arthur died.

[@eternalkingwolf8683]

TYRANT!!!!

[@johnsaunders2109]

Certainly not a Social Democrat!

[@khailygooz]

That was the tower bridge not the London bridge

[@mrkrzt]

Love the content of this video, good job.

[@kridge15]

So The bridge you showed wasn’t the London bridge...it’s the Tower Bridge (very original name I know) the London bridge is simpler and closer to the center of London near Parliament. It’s a common mistake for someone who doesn’t live/ hasn’t spent any time in London

[@johnsaunders2109]

Or Americans without a clue about History!

[@nobleactual7616]

4:00 Why did you show the Tower Bridge here it wasn't built anywhere near this time and it wasn't on the site of the London bridge

[@johnsaunders2109]

Because they're Americans!

[@Hardrada88]

It’s a bit confusing as to the mood swings but I think (possibly) three events could try to help explain the changes. He caught malaria, it was around the UK at the time and was worse in the hot summers. He has a bad jousting accident where he almost died and this damaged his head and neck and opened a wound in his leg that ulcered and never really healed and he fell from his horse in the new forest and again, hit his head getting stuck in a water-filled ditch and almost drowned. I wish we could examine his brain today as I think going from an athletic happy-go-lucky young man to what he became cannot be summed up with “he was a tyrant” etc. It’d be fascinating to study. With malaria you don’t seem to recover, every few years it can flare up. Bad fevers, hallucinations on an already (possibly) damaged brain..and the time as well. I played real tennis on his old court, brilliant game. Good writer of music too and patron of the arts.

[@destynwerk]

Thought I’d share that Catherine Parr is actually one of my great grandmothers of many generations. I descend from Catcherine Parr and Thomas Seymour (her last husband) Which makes King Henry III one of my half great grandfathers of many generations. I found this out on Ancestry.

[@karenfowler6968]

Catherine and Thomas only child mary died young. There were no other children so I don’t see how you can make this claim.

[@Sophie.S..]

@@karenfowler6968 Exactly - I was thinking the same thing.

[@pamelaevm880]

That had to be fascinating for you to find out! But it gave you a whole new outlook on English history and you did a lot more research. I bet you could tell us more and it'd be more accurate.

[@johnsaunders2109]

You and half the population of England!!

[@HolyChikin]

You neglected to mention that after he became head of the Church of England, he sacked the churches, and seized the land the churches sat on for the crown. Ouch!

[@pamelaevm880]

Yeah that was the least that bothered me about that King LOL I do think the churches were corrupt extremely corrupt. And thank God nowadays people don't believe you have to pay money in order to be forgiven for your sins. My goodness what did the poor people do in order to be forgiven LOL

[@shaunbang]

Nearly 500 million dollars back 500 plus years ago is just ridiculous. I truly hope one day humanity is able to stop hoarding and being greedy with having more and more but instead able to spread the wealth so more can live in comfort

[@catmom1322]

So, this guy commits adultery, starts a new religion in his sin, killed thousands of his subjects, killed his various wives...what could go wrong?

[@pamelaevm880]

And yet his daughter Elizabeth as a monarch had to be careful to not take a lover sexist much LOL I hope she did have some on the side

[@karriemburton9024]

What a terrible despicable man

[@Lalalovee_1989]

Actually the groom of the stool was the best job because you ended up spending a lot of time with the king in private . This way you had the kings ear ! And if you have the kings ear then you have power ! So wiping royal ass isn’t that bad 😂 . it was actually a very popular and honorable job title !

[@DBEdwards]

Hahaha! Very witty commentary and the narrative kept me rivetted all the way through. WHAT A FUNNY BLOKE THIS HENRY THE EIGHTH, IF YOU RELISH JUGGLING NITROGLYCERIDE AS A PAST TIME

[@ljhixon]

Btw, that picture is of Tower Bridge, not London Bridge

[@johnsaunders2109]

As if Americans would know !!!

[@edsaintlouis9686]

From what movie are the clips shown?

[@gillianbrookwell1678]

I love the series The Tudors with Jonathan Rees Meyers, I've watched it many times and never become bored with it.

[@jeffreyrobinson3555]

Two things I’ve noted so far, The pope was more concerned with Spain at the time and had no religious basis. Two, Henry’ father came to the throne after near a century of war. Had Henry not left a son the war of the roses could be back. The whole History of Henry is trying to secure a good English future

[@nikki9125]

That’s only Henry VII, his son made sure he would have no issues.

[@perrydowd9285]

@@nikki9125 On the death of Henry VII the future of The Tudors were far from guaranteed. It was Henry VIII who stabilised the monarchy.

[@jeffreyrobinson3555]

@@nikki9125 his son was Henry the Viii. Henry was cared worried about having a son. After Edward’s death there was much unrest. A little more backing for Jane over Mary would have been the war of the Roses again. Then with the death of Mary England again stood on the brink of war. Civil war stood at the wings, leading to Elizabeth killing Mary Queen of Scots

[@theburningskull3967]

I love your videos man

[@tonnelmiessek7079]

I would choose Henry the 7th and save my neck

[@nickmattio3397]

Wonder how many scalped PS5’s he got for Christmas...

[@aprilgosa5779]

Nothing Henry did caused much Backlash because if you dared disagree with Henry you lost your head literally

[@Karma-s1d]

Not so fun fact: some of his wives was actually related to him, like family

[@ronagoodwell2709]

Add syphilis to the list. And gout. Tooth decay. Chronic constipation. Foot fungus. The man was not well.

[@gigilaloo4474]

Church of England came about during the reign of Elizabeth I

[@bogdananderson1472]

A modern day Nero or Caligula.

[@karieschneider746]

There are a lot of mistakes in this video. For one, Anne's "former fiancee" was NOT executed. Harry Percy died a couple of months after the execution. He has been dreadfully sick for a long time.

[@sanoroo]

Good film, but ... the London Bridge you showed was not the London Bridge.

[@theresagoldschmidt8740]

Henry started doing things that weren't right.

[@jamieleejones795]

I think he looks like Conor McGregor at 400lbs lol

[@somyod2u]

No, no , no, he was handsome, dark-haired and slim all his life - or so the producers of the tv show " The Tudors " would have had us believe.

[@johnsaunders2109]

Help if any of us outside the USA knew who the hell Conor McGregor is !!!!

[@j.a.m5083]

The fact that you don’t mentioned the real story behind Anne of Cleves makes me think your wrong about everything else. And Katherine Howard wasn’t previously betrothed to culpeper she was betrothed to Frances Dirhum. Y’all if you guys are actually interested in Henry the 8th this channel isn’t it 🙄

[@DragonflyandTheWolf]

What's the real story behind Anne of Cleves?

[@j.a.m5083]

@@DragonflyandTheWolf um so it’s really long, but in short. When she first got to England she was staying at a castle for the night before going to meet him. He was like I’m gonna dress up like a present, go and meet her. Cus my true love should know it’s me. So she’s sitting in her room watching a bull fight out the window. And he comes in dressed like a peasant Tries to get her attention but she’s a princess and ignoring this ugly, old, smelly peasant. He doesn’t like that so he tries to kiss her. She understandable freaks out. He gets pissed cus of her insulting him.... and leaves the room and tells his people “I like her not” and after that point he punished her for the insult. It’s generally agreed she looked like her portrait, and was probably very attractive. I believe Dr Kat on KZbin has a video exploring this.

[@DragonflyandTheWolf]

@@j.a.m5083 Oh, I already knew about that. That doesn't seem like the "real story," just a tiny bit about the story that the guy in the video left out. And I agree that she probably wasn't ugly at all. Jane Seymour herself was said to be very plain looking but Henry didn't have a problem with her. Basically he pulled a Donald Trump. AKA, he got rejected by a woman so she has to trash talk her to everyone so they know HE rejected HER.

[@ButtonsCasey]

While at court (Anna of Cleves household) Katherine Howard had a relationship with a Thomas Culpeper, a gentleman of the king's privy chamber (her cousin as well), and rumors abounded that the pair were to be married. She did deny being engaged to Dereham, even though they referred to each other as husband and wife. Some historians argue that if she had admitted that, it may have saved her life.

[@chadvinder520]

To be fair to Henry he didn't start becoming a total tyrant until after his head injury. I think that can explain a lot if his crazy behaviour? Brain damage can change a person's personality.

[@NgaBalkan]

Jodie Turner as Anne Boleyn! 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@tubewae]

Just wondering why you show a picture of Tower Bridge when you say London Bridge. Tower Bridge was not even built until Victorian times.

[@tiffanye9403]

He dressed as a peasant and kissed Anne to test her she did not pass at all

[@WickedScott]

He wasn't all bad. He was the only English monarch to marry a black woman!

[@keatonalameda260]

can anyone name or recommend documentaries, series, or films around the subject of Henry VIII? Or ones on the topic of different royals in medieval times ?

[@hulCAWmanianUniverse]

literally Dong Zhou of the Three Kingdoms in a nutshell

[@Yasin_2312]

4:02 That’s Tower Bridge, not London Bridge

[@Angie2343]

He bequeathed all that money to his son...SOUND FAMILIAR?!

[@madelineslife4510]

if i saw katherine howards ghost i would hug it so fast and tell her that none of this was her fault

[@French-Kiss24]

Yes, funny and factual. But if people don’t know their English history, they don’t understand the man, or some of his very real concerns...like the probability of a continuation of the War of Roses. He was a serious and intelligent man who definitely had his flaws, but he wasn’t a careless wastrel as depicted here.

[@strange_and_magnificent]

Henry VIII also became an obese glutton. Didn't hear that mentioned and just thought I would add it in.

[@MG-mm5fh]

5:10 what show is this?

[@areiaaphrodite]

1. Actually Anne's uncle was executed years after her. The men she saw die before her own death was her brother but neither of the other 2 men were previously engaged to her. 2. Katherine Howard was not betrothed to Thomas Culpepper before marrying the King. She met him after her marriage because Thomas was in the King's service. She was engaged to Francis Durum before her marriage to the King and Francis was executed alongside Thomas.

[@chris210352]

Correct, but the name is not Durum, it was Dereham.

[@areiaaphrodite]

@@chris210352 thank you, sorry for the misspelling.

[@Orphen42O]

Although she may have had an intimate relationship with Dereham, it is unlikely that the couple were engaged because the Howards would not have allowed her to marry someone so low-ranking.

[@areiaaphrodite]

@@Orphen42O it wasn't an official engagement. In Katherine's own words they made a verbal agreement to be married one day and he gave her a token of some sort to confirm it. Back then, even a simple verbal agreement could count as a pre-contract.

[@Orphen42O]

@@areiaaphrodite It might have suited Katherine Howard's best interests to claim that this precontract made her ineligible to marry anyone else much less the King. If she was not really married to Henry, then she could not be guilty of being an unfaithful wife to the king. As a result, she may have escaped execution.

[@jomon723]

Nasty Man ......but he is honored so much 🙉

[@winnifredforbes8712]

He was a bloody swine!

[@johnsaunders2109]

Just misunderstood!

[@winnifredforbes8712]

Yah. Needed a therapist!

[@alishaanimations3058]

10:40 “Haunted gallery”

[@Nicknackwalker]

That isn't London Bridge, it is Tower Bridge built in 1886! London Bridge is now in America!

[@theresa42213]

The best thing that came out of the lives of those poor women, was _Wakeman's Tribute_ to them!

[@michaelwalton1450]

Head turning is easier when the head is disconnected from the body. 😂

[@michealschmidt908]

Henry with his fixer Cromwell accused her of adultery with three men by 9.45 she was escorted from the privy council to her rooms a great humiliation even her waiter no longer presented himself to her to say hope good the meal does you

[@selecttravelvacations7472]

He had to have been seriously diabetic in the end! Adding another logical reason his leg ulcerations would not heal.

[@TheKeithvidz]

his dad was a better monarch.

[@DJS11811]

That was a picture of te Tower Bridge, not London Bridge. It's a common dumb mistake.

[@tooyoungtobeold8756]

Mainly made by Americans.

[@TS-fz5fz]

What's more disturbing is that none of his guards ended him sooner. The English are something else

[@johnsaunders2109]

Why should they? He seemed to reserve his venom.for his near equals !

[@daman571]

Thats not london bridge 04:03

[@nancysrios]

I’m sure that food was paramount!

[@britishknightakaminininja1123]

The volume of nonsense, misinformation, and untruths in this video, less than 12 minutes long, is truly a testimony to the lengths some youtube creators will go to to make up a more click-baity video for their profit, at any cost, and without care or morality. Henry did NOT want a divorce from his first wife, he wanted an annulment. The difference is that an annulment means the marriage was never legitimate, while a divorce means she was his wife but it is over. Massive difference when the future of a nation is based on one's relationship to the last monarch. To Henry, the Pope's decision seemed a political betrayal - as you noted, Henry was Defender of the Faith, and the entire Catholic Church was very political at that time. The Kings of France and Spain were both at odds with England, and Spain had particular influence over the Pope and the Church, seen already in the time of the Borgias, but made impossible to miss in the time of The Holy Roman Empire, the Spanish Inquisition, etc. Effectively when The Pope refused to annul the marriage, making the kings deals and treaties with her relatives still valid in the case of a divorce, King Henry decided to divorce the Pope. At that point in history, and still for several generations to come, it was widely believed that Royalty had 'holy blood', and were in some ways descended from God. The Pope sanctified and confirmed this 'holiness' and the 'Divine Right' of Kings, and in return therefore had immense power. When Henry went against the dictates of the tyrannical Pope, he was Excommunicated from the faith, and all loyal Catholics were expected to help execute him. This threat transferred down to his daughter and later successor, Queen Elizabeth I, who spent most of her reign having to constantly fear Catholic spies, assassins and agents. Spain even sent hundreds of Catholic missionaries to Ireland to stir up hatred and revolt on England's doorstep, both prior to and after The Spanish Armada, and of course their agent Guido (Guy Fawkes), in constant attempts to kill the king, overthrow the legitimate rule of England and install some sympathetic Catholic puppet to the throne. Rather than a 'made up religion', all Henry did with the Church of England is take the Pope out of the picture, leaving himself the same 'Divine' being the Pope had originally endorsed him to be, and simplify much of the faith. Not to mention stopping huge wealth being constantly siphoned off to a politically corrupt Vatican that was actively plotting against England. Not so villainous really. After the Pope had declared, from a very safe distance, that the king was a heretic, excommunicated, and must be killed by any true Catholic, this really didn't leave the king with many options but to respond by outlawing the Catholic faith - those who chose loyalty to the Pope over their own king - and it became a rather bloody battle. But there don't seem to be many murders of Catholics who chose to leave the country (an easy enough matter on an Island nation with many ports), only with those who chose to act as hostile agents against the law of the land.

[@DBEdwards]

BULLOCKS

[@audreyroche9490]

It's protestant church of England

[@patmccaffery1543]

What a disgusting human being....a waste of human skin. The things he did to his 5 wives (& the one he never married) was nothing short of horrific. Let's hope he has entered the gates of hell and be punished for eternity......doubt it though..!!

[@deborahkogan8742]

Thank you!

[@AFRgrl23]

The commercial are out of control

[@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752]

9:16 =Hey! Anne of Cleeves is a beauty queen type, for God's sake! Historically, she is said to be tall and handsomely beautiful... It just so happens the king doesn't like her types... He likes petite women, not tall and bony types... Fortunately she's the only one that won the competition of best well-off ex-wife of the 6...

[@brianrodney5202]

If only Henry had fancied Anne of Cleves, she might have been able to provide him with many sons.

[@desvitaimanda4231]

@@brianrodney5202 I think I read somewhere that the problem started when Anne rejected the disguised Henry at a ball or something. She didn't know it was him. And he thought if it's love she would not refuse him. And the other source said there's certainly an ugly and smelly person in the marriage but it's not Anne of Cleves.

[@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752]

@@desvitaimanda4231 Its not a ball... It's their First Meet and Greet (at the border I mean). Henry who still hasn't outgrown his romanticist ideas ended up applying his Fairytales in real life and pretended to be a count believing that even in 'guise his chosen wife-to-be would definitely know it was him. Anne, being a sheltered princess who was probably sent a "photoshopped" painting of Henry, didn't recognize him of course and snubbed him which turned him off...

[@DBEdwards]

Just goes to show. When you deal with women for contract, especially ambitious ones, expect trouble. To be happily married take upon yerself a simple, homely wife. Her lack of sophistication will be compensated by enthusiastic love making. AND IN THE END you shall die a happy man

[@bryanstrickner8809]

Nothing you are saying, is new to anyone who reads so.ething more than tv guild