The VENGEFUL Execution Of Sir Walter Raleigh - The Tudor Explorer

[@browserrr1]

Skilled as he may have been, we all know that his endeavors were thwarted by the great Sir Edmund Blackadder who went on an exploration voyage and returned to the court with a stick that came back when one tried to throw it away.

[@deanthompson2687]

Crew M’lord?

[@ryans756]

Sounds like the result of a... cunning plan...

[@astralclub5964]

Don’t forget the fine wine “Baldrick’s Water”!

[@greengoblin876]

@@astralclub5964 Cappuccino with extra Froth ........Anyone , only problem is Baldric is on honeymoon with a Ravishing turnip .

[@sklauda1]

I just quoted Blackadder as I was watching XD.

[@markhughes7927]

‘I have a long journey to go therefore I must take my leave of you..’ ‘This is a sharp medicine but a short cure for all diseases..’ On form that day I’d say…. Nice presentation!

[@lesleylesley5821]

A man who sailed the open oceans to be locked up in a room for 15 years, must have killed him spiritually.

[@lindaeasley5606]

He had an influence in America long after his death . The city of Raleigh ,North Carolina was named for him. There was a smoking tobacco made by an American tobacco company called Sir Walter Raleigh. It also produced a cigarette brand called Raleigh. He was responsible for getting the first cash crop started in the American colonies

[@stevenkimdmd]

It's odd how much he is revered in North Carolina considering he never set foot on NC himself...

[@mercedes-amgforlife3237]

He was married to one of my relatives. The queen imprisoned her, but she was eventually released.

[@dollinterrupted]

Thanks so much for the video. The Beatles reference Sir Walter Raleigh in the song ‘I’m So Tired’ but I never went out of my way to find out who he is! Very interesting

[@ryans756]

Amazing coincidence. Sir Walter Raleigh referenced the Beatles when asked by his girlfriend, "What wouldst thou liketh to hold, good sir? Mine foot or mine hand?" Needless to say, Sir Walter didn't choose her foot.

[@self4341]

@@ryans756 that was quite clever

[@jharris947]

''His head was embalmed and given to his wife''😮...........That was nice of them.

[@ruperterskin2117]

Right on. Thanks for sharing.

[@stevebailey325]

What a fantastic story and great storytelling. Thank you!

[@themadfarmer5207]

Yea great storyteller and great research, but diction is fucking awful.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

"Sharp medicine" what a badass

[@gringodog111]

Well done. Though brief Well done. Thank you

[@steffenritter7497]

I have always loved the movie "The Sea Hawk", and although Errol Flynn does not portray Sir Walter Raleigh specifically, anyone who watches the movie knows who Flynn's character actually is. In the end, Flynn gets the girl, and Flora Robson (Queen Elizabeth) goes on with her lonely life as Queen. A-historical, to be sure, but a swashbuckler of a movie, nonetheless.

[@NHPsychoticGoat]

error Flynn, one of the best actors that ever lived. R.I.P.

[@NHPsychoticGoat]

and FYI. Alan Hale Sr. who stared with error Flynn in a few movies, was the father of the skipper from Gilligan's Island.

[@TallBob2k]

SWR's poem The Lie has always been a favorite of mine and is one of those timeless pieces that could have been written about today.

[@brianedwards7142]

I wish Katharine Hepburn had been cast as Elizabeth just to hear her say Raleigh. Really I would. 😂

[@tuxiclassicpage]

😂😂🤣❤️

[@williamberven-ph5ig]

My family was part of the court from H VII through James. It's a wonder I'm here.

[@More-Space-In-Ear]

When you showed the chopping block I shuddered, my ancestors Thomas Wyatt lost his head in the same spot in 1554..

[@6figureceleryjfs378]

Why lie?

[@More-Space-In-Ear]

@6figureceleryjfs378 who's lying?

[@6figureceleryjfs378]

@@More-Space-In-Ear You, boy

[@More-Space-In-Ear]

@6figureceleryjfs378 listen boy, I don't need to lie, I have truth, google Thomas Wyatt 1554, find out about his affair with Anne Boleyn and what ended his life...be a good boy now, off you pop..

[@m9j263]

Very good presentation.

[@trog.lodyte]

"Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall." That quote of his has stuck with me.

[@samanthaesra4035]

I think he was a very brave man and did not deserve to spend x14 years of his life locked up in The Tower. Especially after doing so much for the crown.

[@billyjesus5442]

he was no more then a thief, slaver and murderer.

[@haitolawrence5986]

@@billyjesus5442 Triggered Billy? 🤣

[@blenderbanana]

@@billyjesus5442 Can you find no virtue in this man?

[@johngibbs799]

"the price of greatness is ingratitude" - Alexander the Great

[@fishingmasterstudios9481]

facts

[@timtravasos2742]

It never pays to be loyal to a crown. Because the wearer of the crown changes.

[@josephwinder6878]

And they're generally putrid grubs

[@endtimesprophecybroadcasti2311]

There arose a new Pharaoh that knew not Joseph, correct sir!

[@yodaz101]

Tell me about it.🙄

[@dougerrohmer]

I think we should not forget Bob Newhart's take on the matter when "Nutty Walt" phones head office and describes his discoveries - tobacco and coffee.

[@dratz50]

Execution was a bit harsh. I would have told him to get on his bike.

[@ryans756]

Oh dear lord 🤦

[@Grim_Beard]

Was the executioner a Raleigh Chopper?

[@ryans756]

@@Grim_Beard 😂🤦

[@shahrulamar5358]

The executioners were long gone. But their big axes still survive to this day. Creepy. 😬😬😬

[@abrin5508]

Interesting since I live in Raleigh, NC.

[@lymancopps5957]

I live in a city of his namesake some 3 hours drive west of the site of his colony which was the first British colony in the new world. Resupply of the colony was delayed by 3 years due to the Spanish war. When the ship arrived, all evidence of the colony vanished, but an inscription on a tree naming an island of what is now part of the North Carolina Outer Banks. The captain of the ship did not want to linger long for fear of being caught in a hurricane. What happened to the colonists remains a mystery after 400 years, but recent evidence uncovered on Hatteras Island include artifacts such as Tudor rose pin. Genetic evidence of some of the descendants suggest the colonists lived in peace with the natives, eventually interbreeding. If this evidence is definitively proven the colonists never left, but continue to live there to this day.

[@tomarmstrong5244]

English colony. Britain as a country did not exist until 1707.

[@chriswoolard7962]

I live in the town 3 hours east of you. Your city is the capitol of our amazing state.

[@themadfarmer5207]

Like that interbreeding remark....... Might have been rape or consensual fornication, or both 😏

[@lymancopps5957]

@@themadfarmer5207 The broad array of evidence suggests a harmonious relationship that lasted for years.

[@Number6_]

The evidence is that they packed up and took to piracy when the supplies ran out as hitting Spanish treasure ships were both sanctioned and easy pray for the colonists who settled in the Caribbean after the war.

[@drmarkintexas-400]

🏆🏆🏆👍🇺🇲🙏 Thank you for sharing .

[@NoNameNo.5]

And curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid get!

[@ninogaggi]

Jesus he looks like a modern day hipster 🤣

[@stephenpmurphy591]

Yeah, however he wasn't a wimp like most modern American hipsters.

[@keithskegwin]

Is that why the bikes were called Raleigh Choppers? 🙃

[@robwilgenhof4386]

Your a great storyteller Sir ….thank you

[@johnries5593]

Making war on a foreign country with which one's own government is at peace does strike me as a very serious offense and one that is likely to drag the country into unwanted wars (thus causing many unnecessary deaths). Given the standards of the time, Raleigh's personal prominence, and the fact that King James had already pardoned him for treason, I can't blame the king for ordering his execution. I would that the US had dealt with the filibusterers of the 19th Century as harshly. I think there is a fair amount of evidence that Raleigh was a narcissist who constantly pushed the boundaries of acceptable conduct throughout his long career, challenging both Queen Elizabeth and King James to restrain him. Thus it wasn't terribly surprising that it ended with his beheading.

[@maryd4726]

But I read that it was his good friend Laurence Kemys who led the attack on the Spaniards, against Walter Raleigh' orders and that the attack had led to his son, also called Walter, being mortally wounded. Also, he went to apologise to Water Raleigh Snr, who would not accept his apology, so Kemys killed himself.

[@peterpiper482]

Can't blame the King? The King was a selfish dolt,like most of his predecessors

[@calsurf21]

I think it is important to realize that Spain was no friend of England's, and that any English expedition to the Spanish colonies was likely to result in a clash if the two sides encountered one another after decades of warfare. Despite the outward appearance of peaceful relations, after the Treaty of London, the two were natural enemies. Protestant England and Catholic Spain, any rapprochement could only be temporary, and so it proved to be. Spanish colonial authorities could not look with favor upon the arrival of an armed English fleet off the coast of Guyana. This is similar to say, a US armed reconnaissance taking place off the coast of Vietnam shortly after the Fall of Saigon. An American President might describe it as peaceful, but it could never be viewed that way by local authorities. SImply because an expedition had been sent to locate a golden city, and had supposedly peaceful intentions, the explorers would have been armed as they did so. Raleigh's was an armed expedition. Without permission from the Spanish King, there can have been no other outcome other than a clash - if Spanish forces were encountered. The Spanish settlement attacked was Santo Tome de Guayana. Natives in the area of Raleigh's exploration were reportedly hostile to the Spanish Crown, however, and assisted his expedition. The existence of gold was not purely a myth, and at El Callao (Venezuela), significant deposits of gold were discovered during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The Orinoco basin, or Orinoco Mining Arc, as it is referred to these days, did turn out to be a sort of El Dorado. So Raleigh wasn't far off with his inclinations. The Spanish approach after Elizabeth I's death, was to bribe high ranking officials at the Stuart Court, including the King, in order to secure English cooperation, a royal match between the King's son and a Spanish Infanta, and a cessation of English naval activity in the Spanish New World. James I shares some blame here, as he allowed Raleigh to undertake an expedition into Spanish American waters, then disavowed it after the Spanish Ambassador complained at Court. This was no longer the world of Elizabeth, and to put it bluntly, Spain had undermined the English Court with the provision of gifts, pensions, and expensive jewels. Philip III had attempted much the same in the Netherlands. Many historians have questioned the undue influence of the Spanish Ambassador, Gondomar, the spider at the center of this Spanish web. It was the Spanish who insisted on Raleigh's execution, and a brutal one it was at that. The entire Raleigh affair is somewhat distasteful, with blame to be found on both sides. I agree that it was unwise of Raleigh to venture again into the Orinoco basin, a clash with Spanish authorities was inevitable. These English explorers, seasoned in the Elizabethan Age of Privateering, proudly Protestant, having spent their formative years fighting Spain upon the high seas, were not likely to be reasonable men. Like Essex, it was simply in Raleigh's nature to be headstrong and it is likely that he spent much of his captivity dreaming of a return to El Dorado and the Orinoco Basin. It reminds me of Conrad's book, "Heart of Darkness," or the central character in Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now." I think Raleigh was obsessed with a successful return to the New World, the Orinoco is also an impressively stunning area of natural beauty. One can just imagine Raleigh tossing and turning, dreaming of a return to Paradise, like so many explorers before him. Was he all that different to Cortez? All of these adventurers were of the same character, courageous, aggressive, and daring, it simply wasn't in their nature to hold back and be reasonable. It would have been better, really, if Raleigh had perished off the coast of Guyana, pursuing his dreams of El Dorado. A fascinating character indeed.

[@zukosmom3780]

It’s amazing how much power these Kings are Queens had. Today Queen Elizabeth is just a figure head with absolutely no power

[@kathryncarter6143]

She still knows where to pull the strings

[@leddielive]

Queen Elizabeth II is the most wealthy & well known woman on Earth. She is head of state of 53 countries not to mention her Royal Navy, Royal Air Force & Royal Army Ground Forces, her face is on her own money. The British & Commonwealth countries are truly blessed to have such a wonderful person as Queen, & as for having no power you have been badly informed. She is a leading light in the darkness & a powerful force for good & honesty throughout the world. 🇬🇧

[@re-newal]

@@leddielive You realize you’re talking about the same queen who covered up for her son who ran around with Epstein? God knows what else the elites get away with

[@melvert33]

Neh, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, owner of L'Oréal is the current richest woman in the world. The Queen is still mega wealthy though, rich enough to shelve out millions for Andrew's sex assault case on an under age girl while us plebs go through the worst cost of living crisis in decades. Nothing against her personally but the whole concept of monarchy is ridiculous and needs to be dismantled.

[@eliotreader8220]

@@leddielive like Elizabeth 1 our Queen has seen England in one of Its darkest hours and did her bit for the war effort in WW2. she also held her hand out to families who lost loved ones to Covid 19.

[@johnroddy8756]

Yes indeed he and others beheaded 600 spanish and Italian sailors including Irish men and women.in Dingle Ireland .Then The officers got the chance to convert to Protestant Religion.They refused.A black Smith used a iron bar to break their limbs,and later hung.The sight can be seen today,known as the Field of the Heads in English or Dun an Oir

[@patrickcannady2066]

He was a mass murderer, too.

[@oneshotme]

WHY?? WTF Who the heck wants the head of your partner? I'm not going to carry around the head of my wife for no reason Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@j.w.3345]

The head of my x-wife.......maybe.

[@Sirharryflash82]

You don't pronounce the e at the end of Roanoke.

[@richarddunne9802]

Thanks to The Beatles I can't see his name without singing 'And curse Sir Walter Raleigh He was such a stupid git'.

[@Rbourk252]

It just goes to show, there is no pleasing the narcissists!

[@janeholmes9374]

ALL ROYALS ARE !!!

[@self4341]

@@janeholmes9374 i mean... that's like saying anyone in any position of authority is inherently a narcissist. I'm sure you, as a normal human being have quite a few privileges that other people do not have but that doesn't make you ( well, by default) an asshole. I personally think that judging someone just because they were born into power and wealth is ethically problematic, losing empathy for people because of envy and resentment sounds wrong. Royals weren't the nicest because because being nice on the throne can get you killed and other people killed. They were strict because they had to be as people were always looking for loopholes to squeeze their way into it like disgusting mice. Unfortunately, it resulted in alot of executions of said innocent people.

[@NDTexan]

Assuming Walter Raleigh wasn't a narcissist himself LOL. This is the way these people were back in those days. A certain retelling of his story and you would actually more properly call him a pirate.

[@georgejob2156]

Didn't he introduce potato 🥔 to England, they called them " earth apples" at first, and tomato 🍅

[@skimmer8774]

I thought they called him tamauhtoe. 😊

[@dominiquewild3823]

They're still called "earth apples" in some languages

[@greengoblin876]

@@dominiquewild3823 le pomme de terre

[@Mackeson3]

@@greengoblin876 and Aardappel in Dutch .

[@ryans756]

They're nothing like apples really, when you think about it. And thank goodness! Imagine Halloween? Dunking for potatoes? Oof. Whole different ball game.

[@ahuddleston6512]

It's pronounced Row (rhymes with know)-an-oak island. The capital of North Carolina is named after him. I used to live in Raleigh, NC before ironically moving to London.

[@Vintagevanessa99]

Just finished a biography by Margaret irwin very interesting and balanced view. An interesting take on Robert Cecil who appears to be instrumental in his downfall.

[@davidhughes8661]

And that’s the thanks you get for bringing the spud back to the uk

[@johnburman966]

We have no idea how brave this warrior was. His whole life was risky, sailing into completely strange and dangerous waters, then battling a cruel enemy. Venture capitalism took sheer guts then....he died an honorable death, despite the vindictive Catholic king James.

[@gearoiddom]

Outside of a baptism cermony (I doubt he was consulted!) there was very little Catholic about King James I.

[@harrybrooks8514]

Hmmm, I thought James I was Protestant…y’know, the King James Bible and all that there stuff.

[@johnburman966]

@@harrybrooks8514 Yes you are totally correct, his mother was Catholic but he was head of the Protestant church in Scotland.

[@Materialworld4]

Bravo, nicely done my friend.

[@SuperSlik50]

I collected Raleigh coupons for years

[@timothydavy968]

Tremendous courage seems to have been a characteristic of the Nobility in those times,

[@minkorrh]

Oh, don't worry.......in about 100 years books will praise the likes of Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau as 'the most compassionate leaders of the free world at the time'. That won't matter though. If things keep going the way they are, the average person won't be able to afford a book, the internet, a device to view it on, or the inevitable brain chip that allows you to see it all 'mentally' and search by thought alone.

[@themadfarmer5207]

It was the macho culture where failure was considered a kind of disgrace. Failure now by any individual is passed on down the line until it reaches the lowly serf. Most of those situations are covered by the Due Diligence trap door. Certification from B t o cover As arse with certification from C to cover Bs arse.... How long is a piece of Due Diligence string and let of the hook string???

[@blueneeson9888]

Thanks for Another Brilliant Video From Blue

[@JulianJohnston919]

Well all I know is Raleigh, NC is one of the best cities I ever been too.

[@cambs0181]

Home of Lizard lick towing!

[@JulianJohnston919]

@@cambs0181 Actually its beside Raleigh, but it is close!

[@yeller212wmj7]

In a bland, uninteresting world, I can sleep well at night knowing you will capitalize the adjectives.

[@ryans756]

Oof. You're as bad as me. And as good :)

[@yeller212wmj7]

@@ryans756 Thank you ;) still a lovely video too

[@ryans756]

@@yeller212wmj7 Absolutely. And I'm sure he'll get better and better once he's battled his way through puberty.

[@yeller212wmj7]

@@ryans756 of course, I just noticed a pattern in his content.

[@ryans756]

@@yeller212wmj7 A lot of them do it. I take consolation from the fact that these click-baity tactics aren't really aimed at me. They're aimed at lesser folk. You know? Trump supporter types. People for whom bright flashing lights draw the attention in ways you and I will never understand.

[@danrichards9516]

8:48: “And he said…” “🎶I’ve been everywhere man, I’ve been everywhere…🎶”

[@mehrankamalvand6194]

Why did not others Raleigh behind him to save him?

[@manekakapoor1612]

Unfortunately one of those people was Prince Henry Frederick Stuart who had died. The prince had kept him alive.

[@karlgriffiths5956]

Excellent work love your channel 👏

[@josephwinder6878]

Oh Elizabeth was just as bloodthirsty and duplicitous as her revolting father, her equally revolting sister and all the Tudors .she played Raleigh like she played everyone. Everyone raves about her but she was a brutal murderous woman, man, who knows what she was she simply could not get over herself. Totally obsessed with her dalliances and intrigues and neglecting the one thing required by royalty above all else. An heir. So she really was a failure. And people like Raleigh were her pawns.

[@davidewersphotography1013]

i love this video. you are actually talking about my family.

[@Chipoo88]

Why insist of referring to Mary I as Bloody Mary when using the correct names for the other historical characters?

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

Bad rulers should have their colloquial nickname used instead of proper name

[@redplanet7163]

Because she was a bloody papist.

[@marianparoo1544]

Because she deserved it! As bad as her gran!

[@timothybelgard-wiley4823]

Bloody Mary came by her name honestly, she tried to get the English people to be catholic again after her father had done the same kind of thing but the Anglican church, her father had shown her how to be a brutal tyrant, they think now that Mary may have had a brain tumor to go with the cancer she had all over her body, she had blinding headaches, so she would be a woman that we would sympathy, if not for the burning and head chopping, anyway that is why she's called bloody Mary...her father should have bloody before his name as well....be safe

[@j.w.3345]

Read up on her. She was referred to as 'Bloody Mary' for a reason.

[@robertpowell7672]

Elizabeth the first aka The Virgin Queen. A loathsome person. Try reading The Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory.

[@dianeashworth2311]

James I was the son of Mary Queen of Scots, niece of Henry VIII. Once again, history trumps fiction every time. Mary and Elizabeth I never met and there is some debate about how Elizabeth signed Mary’s death warrant. Very interesting story.

[@smudge28ful]

What a shocking voice over…

[@andystansfield1956]

Absolutely. The tonal habit of going down at the end of every single phrase is particularly poor - he could really learn from a session with a voice coach. A few odd pronunciations too - courtier pronounced court-y-air for example. And some text sloppiness - an early example: “a huge amount of things”. Ugh. Sorry, but an interesting story deserves better.

[@samy7013]

Okay, so… ouch?

[@dionomed9144]

Raleigh didn't introduce tobacco to England, it was known well before. He didn't name Virginia, he never even set foot in North America, that would be Captain Arthur Barlowe.

[@ivandickson6063]

And I suppose you believe the earth is flat too🤣🤣

[@2113rush]

Goes to show. .. everybody gets screwed at the end.

[@easternyellowjacket276]

Sounds to me that Elizabeth had the hots for Walter. He appeared to be an attractive man. I bet they slept together. When he married the other lady, old Lizzie got all jealous.

[@benjaminrush4443]

Thank you.

[@paul_7078]

He also invented the bicycle.

[@GillAgainsIsland12]

And so America was born to finally be rid of the whimsical rule of monarchs who had the power of life and death.

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

I once tried to put a cloak over a poodle but it bit me! 🐩

[@robertsutton3001]

I bet he was Elizabeth’s secret lover

[@redplanet7163]

For sure. No wonder she was so salty when he married in secret. Hell hath no fury...

[@Golden_Girl7123]

I believe that Sir Walter was the first man outside of Walsingham she ever truly trusted. She loved him. I also believe he would have been thr one she would have married and actually allowed him to be King

[@adamizett3169]

Your channel is fantastic except for the you r voice and cadence!

[@Andrew-df1dr]

Every execution is vengeful.

[@rustyfox81]

In those days was there anyone of note who didn't end up being executed ?

[@toddjohnson271]

“When You Play The Game Of Thrones, You Win Or You Die.”

[@Rafael-lr4gn]

The guillotine was a great invention if we think about the other option was an axe

[@marianparoo1544]

Some protested in the day that it was too easy a death.

[@SuperSlik50]

I still have a few Raleigh coupons in a drawer somewhere

[@mcpucho]

Robert Cecil personally was responsible for his demise.

[@hesavedawretchlikeme6902]

Yes, read that too about Robert Cecil. I've wondered if Francis Bacon was also involved in Raleigh ' s demise as well.

[@wdobni]

he found out that tobacco is hazardous to the health

[@craigdutton6924]

Who needs lawyers he got off a death sentence 👍

[@kathryncarter6143]

Powerful one

[@samanthabowley4773]

Elizabeth died 24 March not 25

[@Kathryn4488]

ancestry DNA led me here i guess this is the story of my 17th great grandfather 🤷‍♀️

[@petesmith9472]

Hell hath no fury…..

[@svenred6eard757]

The Spanish port city Cadiz, where a lot of explorers set sail from, is pronounced 'Cadith'.

[@Mackeson3]

Talking of pronunciation, I remember seeing a documentary about Raleigh's life and the historian narrating the programme said "By the way, it's 'Ra-lee' bikes but it's 'Sir Walter Raw-lee' . He also said that the famous incident with the cloak probably never happened, as it was first documented some 80 years after Raleigh's death, maybe just to illustrate what a gentleman (Crawler?) he really was.

[@ryans756]

And Paris is pronounced Pareeeeeee. Who cares how Spaniards mess with the letter Z?

[@svenred6eard757]

@@ryans756 I do

[@ryans756]

@@svenred6eard757 Doesn't really matter though, when you think about it, does it? Every non-English-speaking country has an alternative name for mine, but do I go to the French and say IT'S PRONOUNCED ENGLAND!? No. Because I'm not a douche.

[@ryans756]

@tacfoley Doish.

[@jonathanharrop2978]

I've just realised that Sir Walter Raleigh is not the same person as Sir Francis Drake? I've spent 50 years thinking they were the same man. 🤔.

[@adamizett3169]

If you married a good voice and proper cadence to this content it would be very, very successful! It is soo hard to listen to the current audio!

[@TheProphetMonk]

Please do Nathan Hale.

[@ryans756]

Do him? What do you mean DO him? Pervert.

[@laural7722]

Thank you for the return of 25 percent of my husband....said no wife ever...I guess she got a heads up.

[@mardavijpoursaleh9810]

He was a privateer.

[@baldrick2352]

...I'd rather be a lap dog to a slip of a girl...than a git! (Sorry, got confused with Captain Red Beard Rum)

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Portrait at 2:04 timeless photo 📸

[@thomasriedel7583]

Sounds like a robot. Never hits the right tone. Unlistenable.

[@allenschmitz9644]

No honner amoung theves.

[@ahmedalhasan9226]

Does anyone else find the narrator’s voice annoying and hard to follow?

[@paulpower9994]

He introduced tobacco to england....and bikes !

[@chewie1869]

Ever think about a different narrator. High talking is annoying and I quickly exit any video that has such

[@anthonyjames7532]

Well, I'm not religious but one can easily feel that the man had meted out terrible murder upon Catholics and therefor "had it comin!" Not that Catholics were any kind of saints either but Henry the eight sure didn't help! Endless revenge begets endless revenge.

[@Nimbus1701]

Think it would be neat if every monarch or head of state that have past orders to execute all their subordinates and other vassals should also be condemned themselves to be executed upon their retirement from office. It might be most interesting to see how many lives of people we now know, based on historical accounts should have been exonerated, but public opinion and policy lies and deceit did them in. The act of carrying out an execution should carry the most extreme sense of duty, honor, fulfillment of law and responsibility. That's the point.... so often these ruling people sentenced those and carried out punishment to silence an opposed view, or keep a secret. If any person passes this sentence then they should also be condemned. Right, wrong, or indifferent..... you can bet your ass at that point these people who feel they live above the law will be working overtime to try and prove their innocence to the masses. It was too easy to claim someone was a traitor or had sedition in their heart and mind and..... then..... one or two witnesses and that person was condemned. How about the idea of equal application of the law for all. Somehow, most of this crap would have changed. Of course, the entire "divine right" thing would have come up regarding high nobility, priests, and kings..... but Jesus had more divine right than any king or priest and was still crucified, so there goes that defense. I'm just saying that it would be interesting to see that if you give a person the power to legally end another person's life for a crime against you, with the condition that your life at a point in the future will also be forfeit..... I wonder if those were the conditions, how many would still opt to push forward for "justice." And I'm a person for the death penalty in some very heinous and extreme cases just to let folks know before I have to endure hundreds of hater comments. It's just an interesting idea to think about.

[@stuckenseric2053]

Within the first minute, the words 'courtier' and 'Roanoke' are pronounced incorrectly. That doesn't make me think this channel is a reliable source of historical facts.

[@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733]

I hate that James the worst.

[@sklauda1]

Roanoke is pronounced Row-An-Oak

[@thomasmiles9068]

The lady was Arbella Stuart - not Arabella

[@jennklein1917]

Wasn't Sure Francis Drake

[@stevenknill2179]

He snubbed the Queen on the romantic front! Not recommended!