All I thought was some poor set designer just pulled up some Tudor-era portaits to fill out some space in the back-grounfd.

Olga said

Well flukes are good too Did the portrait have a red or blue background Lady Kay, do you remember?

It was red. It was the well known portrait of Richard III, with him fiddling with his ring.

Boleyn said

I suppose the reason to why there was a picture of Richard (apart from being part of the set) is to remind people that anything is possible.
H7 overcame impossible odds and gained a throne. H5 destroyed the French army at Agincourt in little over 2 hours. etc.
Although I would have thought that a picture of H5 would have been displayed, the reason being is because H8 (real life) viewed H5 as some sort of a hero, and I believe that one of the things he really wanted to do, was to do as his hero had done and take France for his own.

I would have thought Henry V as well since that was who H8 admired so much. Maybe it was there to remind him of how he got to power.

Most of us of the same thought here, Davetee. It would have been good if Showtime had continued the series.
Mary’s speech to Chapuys, when he was to return to Spain was said with such determination, that it would have been good to see how her reign would have been portrayed.
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Old English wyrd (n.) “fate, destiny,” literally “that which comes,” from Proto-Germanic *wurthis (cf. Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt “fate,” Old Norse urðr “fate, one of the three Norns”), from PIE *wert- “to turn, wind,” (cf. German werden, Old English weorðan “to become”), from root *wer- (3) “to turn, bend” (see versus ). For sense development from “turning” to “becoming,” cf. phrase turn into “become.”

The modern sense of weird developed from Middle English use of weird sisters for the three fates or Norns (in Germanic mythology), the goddesses who controlled human destiny. They were portrayed as odd or frightening in appearance, as in “Macbeth,” which led to the adjectival meaning “odd-looking, uncanny,” first recorded 1815.
I hope this helps a little.

I must be the lucky one. My husband watched the whole series with me. And he put up with all my yelling about inaccuracies. There were a several things which bugged me, but I enjoyed it, and hated to see it end.

K.P’s 2nd husband (Pilgramage of Grace hissy fit) was about 40 when he married K.P. Not exactly elderly by today’s standards, but 15/16th century standards, he was living on borrowed time. I believe that William Parr (Brother) may well have done a bit of blagging work to Henry to spare the life of his brother in law in real life. This is purely a guess mind you, but it does seem feasable to me.
As for the continuation of the series, The Tudors, I believe they (writers) would have possibly made out, that (Henry’s uncle who was murdered in Orbino in the very first episode) would have had a daughter or 2 and a couple of grandkids to boot as well, and that Darnley and Mary QoS were decended through this blood line.

Hannele said

Boleyn said (Henry’s uncle who was murdered in Orbino in the very first episode) would have had a daughter or 2 and a couple of grandkids to boot as well, and that Darnley and Mary QoS were decended through this blood line.

Except Henry had only one paternal uncle, Jasper Tudor, who had no claim on the throne (his brother married Margaret Beaufort who bore the future Henry VII after his death) and who had no legitimate children. Henry’s maternal uncles were of course the Princes in Tower.

I was meaning that the Tudors series started with the mythological uncle being murdered in Orbino. If Showtime wanted to include, the Darnley/Mary QoS storylines in Elizabeth’s Series,(If they had continued the series on) they would probably write in that they were decended from Henry’s murdered Uncle.

I think the suicide storyline in the Tudors, was put in to add just a bit more spice. However in my opinion, it is possible that in real life Wolsey did commit suicide, by injesting poison. Remember he was on his way to London, and the Tower, which he knew would result in his death, no matter what. The wolves were after his blood, and if he had reached London alive they would make sure they got it. If Wolsey had ended his days on the block, people would forever remember him as a traitor to his King. Wolsey did admit to premuarie, but I don’t believe he was guilty for a moment. He did exactly what Henry had asked him to do, in fact he actually went beyond that.. Henry wanted a swift divorce, Wolsey worked tirelessly to give him his wish. When the Pope refused to even contemplate Henry’s wish, Wolsey continued to pressure the Pope and eventually managed to get the case heard in England not in Rome as would normally be the case.
The Pope natually sent his own proxy to make sure that Katherine was fairly treated and her side could be listened to. The Pope gave Wolsey and his proxy the power to dissolve the marriage if Henry could prove his case. The reason to why the divorce failed was not down to either either Wolsey or Campagio, it failed due to Henry’s shoddy evidence, to back up his case.. Evidence that was over 20 years old, and was suspect in the first place. Leviticus, states that a marriage between a man and a brother’s wife would be childless, Henry interpreted it to mean no son. But Henry and Katherine did have a son (in fact they had several sons) not either of their faults that they all died, the marriage was not childless, they had Mary. Henry stated that he had doubts abut his marriage as early as 1512/13 and yet he choose to say nothing because of the love he bore Katherine.. Hogwash, Henry had always stated he was a devout man if he had had these doubts in 1512/13 he would have acted on them end of.
In short the only thing Henry actually did during the whole divorce proceeding is made himself look very stupid.
Wolsey was blamed because he failed to get Henry his divorce, when in truth the real reason to why Wolsey failed was because of Henry. Henry looked a fool because of the evidence he produced, which was, just hear say and bedroom snickering and everyone was laughing at him, so he blamed Wolsey. If it hadn’t of been Wolsey it would have been someone else, because Henry could bear the thought he was at fault in anything