At school we are set on the road to learn 2000 years of our turbulent history - so a little 'morbid' poem about the deaths of King Henry the Eighth's six wives is just something we dearly need to keep it straight in our heads. Each era is equally fascinating - and equally violent. Different kinds of humans have walked these Isles for 900,000 years. We have floated near the Equator as a tropical isle, detached from Scotland, been joined to mainland Europe, had proper civilisations for at least 5000 years, have been a land of lions, sabre tooth tigers, mammoths (Giant elephants) and rhinos etc and a land of ice and snow. It would take several lifetimes to study it all. One lesson I've learned though - times may change, but the instinctive actions and reactions of humans remain the same.
Indeed. It's a pity English children are not taught Irish history too, considering so much is intertwined with Britain. Had to learn myself as an adult.
This left out a LOT. It was also unkind to Anne Boleyn. Firstly her sister had previously been the mistress of Henry VIII & gave birth to his child. Anne was actually engaged to someone else but Henry wanted her so he had her fiancé sent away. Anne was in a no-win situation & she played for time. Eventually she did love him but she didn't want to be in her sister's position. Her Father & Uncle were heavily pressuring her to give in to the King. That's just on Anne Boleyn. He treated Catherine of Aragon pretty badly after the "divorce" refusing to let her see her child & constantly cutting her allowance. Catherine Parr was said to be the onlu one who influenced him to be more reasonable & to start making amends with his children.
Anne refused Henry's gifts because she wasn't interested not because she was a master flirt but he is the king and you can only refuse the king for so long. She used her marriage as a chance to reform the church, which was her great passion in life. It is quite clear that Henry was a sociopath and he grew bored with her, especially when she didn't give him a son, which is why the king (and Thomas Cromwell) had her executed on fake charges. It is unsure whether Katherine Howard had cheated once married. She was murdered because of her previous life.
@@bugsby4663 Yes poor Katherine Howard, just young and silly and probably seduced by young men in her home, not protected! Sold to a King for her family's ambition!
Poor Katherine Howard just young and silly, she was seduced in her home very young, not protected by family! Sold to an old King to increase her family's influence! 🤨
2:05 - We all know the song to keep them in order :D William, William, Henry, Stephen, Henry, Richard, John (oy!), Henry, Ed, Ed, Ed, Rich 2, now three more Henries join our song, Edward, Edward, Rich the Third, Henry, Henry, Ed agaaaaaain... (Lady Jane Motherflippin' Grey), Mary 1, Good Queen Bess, Jimmy and Charles and Charles and then Jim, Will, Mary, Anna Gloria, George, George, George, George, Will, Victoria, Edward, George, Edward, George Sixth, then Liz and Charles complete the mix!
The jousting accident was at Greenwich Palace not Greenwich Place. Some experts don't think the accident triggered a personality change. Henry's armour is dispayed at the Tower of London - the later armour is something to see!
They believe it was due to concussion due to him hitting his head on the ground during the fall. Even with his helm on he was knocked out, probably causing concussion and even damaging his frontal lobe where the personality is.
The narrator didn't exactly start at the beginning, First off Henry wasn't the heir when he was born, Which is why Catherine of Aragon was married for 5 months to his Older Brother Arthur who died. She was 6 years older than Henry VIII and their annulment came after 24 years of Marriage when she was 46 and could most likely no longer bear children. Henry VIII who was a devout Catholic became convinced he had sinned which was why God was denying him a Male Heir, The Pope denied the separation in deference to Catherine's Nephew Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire, Hence the split from the Catholic Church and the Creation of the Church of England and Anglicanism. Anne Boleyn was originally sent by her family to the French court whilst her sister, Mary, was one of Henry's Mistresses at the English court.
Also worth noting that the fact that Catherine had been married to Arthur technically made her later marriage to his brother Henry incestuous, which would by why Henry worried it was sinful. The marriage was initially allowed because it was understood that Arthur had died before consummating his marriage, making it invalid and so allowing the marriage to Henry. But Henry got witnesses claiming that Arthur had had sex with Catherine after all, which would be Henry's excuse for getting his own marriage to her annulled.
Catherine howard has a lot of historians on both sides for and against what actually happened in her life. It wasn't like she chose to marry the king many decades older than her with unfortunate decaying parts, she also was daid to have had a bad childhood with people taking advantage of her. It was all really sad either way.
Anne Boleyn was encouraged by her father to pursue Henry although it was initially her sister Mary that had been expected to seduce him. Katherine Howard was also likely exploited and abused by older men from about 12 or 13 years old at least. In that context, her fate is especially heartbreaking. As others have mentioned, the musical Six it’s brilliant. A modern take where, very basically, they’ve formed a girlband in the afterlife and are competing to see who gets to be the lead.
Yes, agree with all you say. Ann’s father more or less pimped his two daughters to the king because Thomas Boleyn was a very lowly aristocrat and was very ambitious, and poor Katherine Howard was seduced by her music teacher (allegedly) when she was 12, and for ever afterwards possibly found it impossible to differentiate between sex and love, and as Henry was almost certainly impotent by then she sought “love” elsewhere. It is straight out of East Enders.
another thing with Anne of cleaves is that, henry the 8th was fond of surprising his courtiers in disguise by jumping out at them, he decided to do this to anne of cleaves as the first thing he did when meeting her, she didn't seem very interested, and asked who the hell he was. Henry felt rejected, and started saying that she was ugly as a cover for his own bruised ego.
The Tudor period is one of my favourite and I have done many studies and written papers on this era. There is even now a west end musical out that is very popular called “ SIX “ which is basically all about the 6 wife’s of Henry VIII from there point of view it’s very funny and brilliant
The rhyme ‘divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived’ was not a created by Henry VIII, he had died by the time this was written, it’s a way to teach people the order of his wives, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr who had a lucky escape when Henry died, that’s why she survived.
Yes, and Catherine Parr not only nurses him, she helped her stepdaughters feel wanted! She survived to marry the man she loved and have her own children!
@@jenniferharrison8915 I think Catherine Parr was the one with the worst luck. She survived to marry a disaster of a man, she loved, but who's unclear if he returned her love (considering she was option no. 3 for him, after Princesses Mary and Elizabeth said nope... Elizabeth said nope also after Catherine's death). Catherine Parr died in childbirth, her daughter Mary most likely died by the age of 3 and her husband, without her, went off the rails and was executed for treason. But Catherine's problems still continued after her death, when during the Civil War Parliamentarian soldiers destroyed her tomb, which was rediscovered in 1780... which led to people desecrating her body which was still intact after all that time. A lock of her hair still exists though. At one point a priest had to recover the body from the city dump, as people got drunk and threw her in the garbage. People say "survived" like she was lucky... no, she wasn't. She was bullied both in life (even Anne of Cleves, who was in her turn bullied, treated her badly and Anne Stanhope literally pushed her out of her way a couple of time, I mean, physically shoved Catherine) and death.
@@octavianpopescu4776 Oh, looks like I only saw the kinder versions, hopefully she was happy initially! I remember she married a Seymour who may have tried to seduce or use young Elizabeth, their ward! Further research required! Thanks! 🤗
Henry VIII is well known, not just for his 6 wives, but also for his falling out with The Pope and The Dissolution. He basically killed lots of priests and monks and either destroyed or "Confiscated" a lot of the monasteries. It was a time of great upheaval.
Katherine Parr is possibly the most underrated of the six, Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Parr were all highly intelligent and educated. The last wife was named after the first btw.
@@angeladormer6659 I've only heard about this show, but if it's anything like other Hollywood messes then it's as accurate as watching a Looney Tunes cartoon.
The BBC series The Six Wives of Henry VIII, made in 1970 with Keith Michell as Henry, is far better than The Tudors. The production values aren’t high by today’s standards, but it’s far more accurate and in tune with the times. Also worth watching is the film that followed on from the series, which again featured Keith Michell as Henry - Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972).
Catherine Howard is the most tragic. She quite probably never did anything 'wrong' at all during her marriage to Henry, and supposed evidence for her 'affairs' was largely hearsay and lacking in any evidence. She was chased down, dragged away despite her shrieks and pleading that she had only ever honoured the king, and brutally killed. She was 19. It's a horrible story. Poor girl. No wonder her screams still haunt Hampton Court Palace. As for Anne Boleyn, the little girl who would become Elizabeth I was allowed to see her one last time before her execution, as her ladies-in-waiting fervently assured her of her place in Heaven and hissed under their breaths that Henry would one day pay for her murder.
Well now you have to watch all the drama between his kids. Mary and Elizabeth I. Also the drama with Mary queen of Scots. Making his own church had massive ripples through British history
Please people out there do not ask Tyler any questions or ask him anything or even pass on any information to him because he never reads, replies or even acknowledges anyone who contacts him. He completely ignores his commentators as if we do not exist.
It's not a joke, it is called the Church of England. It was created by Henry the 8th in response to the pope's refusal to allow Henry to divorce. So Henry created the Church of England, made himself the leader of it and then in effect gave himself permission to divorce. Later Henry the 8th would carry out the dissolution of the monasteries where not only many catholic monasteries but also priories, convents and friaries were disbanded, their wealth seized and assets were disposed of. Even today the reigning monarch is also the head of the Church of England (C of E) which is the national religion.
I'm Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans are our bros, we have good relations with them, but no offence, some guy starting his own religion because he was horny is funny. And you know what's funnier? When he sent Wolsey to Rome he gave him 2 tasks: 1. Annulment based on the idea that having slept with his brother, Catherine of Aragon was basically his sister. And 2. Approval of his marriage with Anne Boleyn, with whose sister Mary, Henry had already slept. So, Henry was telling the Pope: "You need to annul marriage 1, because she's like my sister or something, but can I marry someone else who's also like my sister?"
Hi Tyler. ( I saw Liam Gallagher in Belfast last night and he was wonderful). Anyway, if you have neices and nephews , and they are not too young, there is an outstanding tv series made by the BBC called Horrible Histories, especially for children. There are also accompanying books, I think.
There are those who believe Anne was not playing hard to get, but genuinely did not want Henry and was trying to get rid of him. She had been linked to one of Henry's courtiers, who she wanted to marry, but wasn't allowed to by their families and Cardinal Wolsey. But, as Henry was the king, Anne couldn't say no in the end and her father was highly ambitious for his family. She was not guilty of the charges for which she was executed. So sad
Hi Tyler, before I get stuck into this episode I have a suggestion for an episode you might like to make, An American Reacts: British 🇬🇧 Standup Comedy from the 70s-80s (Morcambe and wise), they were the personification of standup comedy, not just on stage in live shows but also on tv doing a show that was truly funny, at least to a British audience, they made some films and, a Christmas special virtually every year that was, probably and in my opinion, them at their very best, and tbh alongside the Queens/Kings Speech their show was the “must watch” programme on tv 📺 on Christmas Day, it might be hard for you and probably many Americans to get their comedy genius but it might be worth you taking a look at them, they were a very visual as well as verbal comedians and some of their special guests would probably surprise you, they treated them like no other comedians could, they insulted them at every turn. Okay that’s my idea, on with this episode.
My amateur theory: Anne Boleyn's great-grandfather was a serf. Her father was Head of the Civil Service. This astonishing level of social mobility was made possible by the then new public schools giving excellent education to intelligent poor boys. My theory is that Anne Boleyn was frighteningly intelligent - she spoke loads of languages - and, bright and even gifted as Henry had been in youth, he had probably got used to being the most intelligent person around. It was probably a relief to be with sweet, normal Jane Seymour.
I don't think it was her intelligence that frightened Henry. I don't think he was frightened by her or by intelligent women. In fact, he educated his daughters very well and was attracted to other highly intelligent women, like Katherine Willoughby (rumours existed that she would become wife 7) and Mary Shelton. It's hard to tell why he turned against Anne. I think he got rid of her because of her failures to give him a son (people shouldn't interpret this as him being anti-women, but him knowing a woman on the throne would cause issues, probably even a civil war and he was right: in 1553, England came quite close to a Civil War, but Northumberland's army disintegrated before any battle, but it was close, as the 2 opposing armies operated in the field). I think Anne's disobedience and willfullness annoyed him more than her intelligence.
TYLER get your arse.... sorry ASS over to the UK! You are more than welcome. There will be MANY people who would "put you up" (british saying) I think you'd love it here. Thanks for all the uploads. Love the learning journey that you're taking!!
Fun fact: the founder of the Tudor dynasty and Henry VIII's dad was the winner of the real-life inspiration of Game of Thrones (Wars of the Roses). King Henry VII... he was originally from the part of Britain that has a red dragon on it. He lived for a long time across the Channel (Narrow Sea) in France (Essos) and had to run away from assassins and other people trying to catch him. He eventually returned to Britain with a great army and won the crown on the battlefield. Now which Game of Thrones character matches that description? 😀
Back in those days the upper classes hired portraitists as travelling was arduous and at times dangerous. An incredible time in history. You should watch the Raising of the Mary Rose. The Mary Rose was Henry's most prized warship that sunk in the Solent.
There are a lot of inaccuracies in this. For example he was not unconscious for two hours, his horse was not fully armoured as he was in the tiltyard, so most historians don't think he was suffering from a serious head injury
Of course the big winner of Henry’s six wives was Anne of Cleves (no 4). The marriage was dissolved on the basis on non-consummation but the likelihood was that was down to Henry. Anne Boleyn, at her trial, mentioned in passing, Henry’s “lack of vigour”. Anne of Cleves got a great divorce settlement and was referred to afterwards as the King’s Sister, was welcomed in royal court, was given lots of property, including sadly Anne Boleyn’s childhood home, Hever Castle, and had a long and close relationship with Anne Boleyn’s daughter, future Elizabeth I. Plus most importantly she didn’t have an enormous whale of man with smelly leg ulcers lying on top of her in bed. She was a definite winner.
Bliddy 'eck Tyler! Wrong video. Wrong headline! 1. Catherine of Aragon. Divorced. 2. Anne Boleyn. Beheaded by the official executioner. 3. Jane Seymour. Died 2 weeks after birth of son, Edward. Following birth complications. 4. Anne of Cleves. Divorced. 5. Catherine Howard. Beheaded by the official executioner. 6. Catherine Parr. Outlived him. The most significant thing about King Henry VIII was not his number of wives, but his obsession with fathering sons for the succession. In pursuit of this obsession he actually changed the Religion of the country. Created the "Church of England" in order to divorce from his first wife.... and subsequently this led to a nightmare of sectarianism. etc. etc.
Omg I have the tudors times and I have the history of his wife they deserve better, British history is so interesting (I’m British) it so sad Anne there was no proof she cheated and Katherine she was only around 14-18
Actually to be historically accurate, Henry only beheaded one of his wives and was never divorced. So - Catherine of Aragon - marriage annulled (meaning that they were effectively never married in the first place) - their daughter Mary was declared illegitimate as the marriage was declared void Anne Boleyn - annulled. The marriage was annulled a few days before her execution so she effectively was never his wife either. Elizabeth was also declared illegitimate as the marriage was void. Jane Seymour died Anne of Cleves, marriages annulled Catherine Howard - beheaded, the marriage was not annulled in this case Catherine Parr survived and whilst married to Henry got him to re-legitimise Elizabeth and Mary but she died only 18 months later in childbirth So for all you history pedants like me It’s annulled, annulled, died, annulled, beheaded, survived a little longer.
Reading about wives 5 and 6, I also realised that we speak of 6 wives, but if we asked him how many wives he had, he'd probably say 2-3 (I was uncertain about Catherine Howard, but thanks for clearing that up). One correction though: he never legitimised Mary and Elizabeth. He put them in the succession, but did NOT legitise them, which later led to the 1553 crisis, because Mary and Elizabeth were still bastards and bastards had no right to inherit the crown, but the Third Succession Act law put them back in line. BUT it gets more interesting, because there was a provision in the Second Succession Act allowing for the king to unilaterally change the succession by letters patent... which is exactly what Edward VI did, as king, with the "My Device for the Succession". This means Queen Jane I was the lawful Queen of England, until she was usurped and murdered by Mary (judicial murder). Mary and Elizabeth were illegitimate, until they got into power and changed the law to make themselves appear legitimate.
Horrible histories songs definitely worth a look at Tyler! 😊 There catchy so get stuck in your head, makes you remember our history though we have a lot of it We all learn the devorced, (spelt wrong I know😅) beheaded, died, devorced, beheaded and died rhyme in primary (elementary) school I know this rhyme better then I do the names of all Henry 8th wives lol
He more like murdered them (the story about Anne was a straight up lie and some other 5 guys were murdered with her, while for Catherine Howard, he literally made laws up on the fly to justify him murdering her and a few other people). But for what it's worth, he also threated other 2 wives with death (Jane Seymour and Catherine Parr).
Hilarious Mantel wrote three huge books on the life of Henry's right hand man - Thomas Cromwell. They make you feel like you're living in those times and you really feel you understand those times.
Our history is fascinating, many of our kings, queens and their circles, lived amazing lives. There is drama and amazing facts to find about many of them. There are also a lot of good, less cartoony documentaries to be found on You Tube. History hit and The People's profiles for a start.
Men often used to wear a "Codpiece" in those days. Basically a hard jockstrap on the outside of the clothes. Henry wore his a little on the large side, possibly as a PR stunt.
As king he was expected to project manliness and virility. And he was really touchy about those subjects. At one point, an ambassador was talking about some other guy and Henry snapped at him "Am I not a man? Am I not a man?", because he read into the story that the ambassador was questioning his virility. When a commission was brought to analyse the annulment of his marriage to wife 4 (Anne of Cleves) he did the opposite, by claiming he just couldn't with her, but had people come and testify he can totally do it, but not with Anne. He was the manliest man that has ever manned, except with Anne... and the other Anne (Boleyn, wife 2) who seems to have mocked his size and his ability (which was seen as treason-ey). The truth is... he had a mixed record, he had moments when he couldn't get it up.
@@octavianpopescu4776 "he had moments when he couldn't get it up" - an experience known to most men be it after too much alcohol (brewers droop) or for various other reasons over the 'seven ages of man'.
SL72s look so good compared to the new ones, the soles are a lot flatter, not so 'curled up' as the new ones. (I have a thing about shoes with curled up soles lol, it ruins the sillouette IMO) ZX in OG colors are always great, love them as well.
I'm convinced Tyler knows his "typical Average Aerican" catchphrase sounds like a Dalek, and he's just leaning into it at this point. and I'm here for it.
Anne Boleyn was a victim but she was strong. Oh this doesn’t even scratch the surface of Henry and his six wives.Anne Boleyn was engaged but in those days you were not allowed to deny the King. Henry refused for the two to marry. Not only that, Henry had a child by Anne’s older sister (illegitimate son). The boy was not in line to the throne…it just goes on. Catherine Howard was about 17.
Henry wasn't kicked in the head, he fell off his horse and hit his head on the ground. Even though he was wearing a helm, the fall was strong enough to have knocked him out and caused severe concussion, probably bad enough to have damaged his frontal lobe, the part of the brain that holds your personality. His leg was also damaged in the fall, and never healed due to the limited medical abilities of the time. Henry's break with the Catholic church went far beyond what's described here. England is full of the ruins of churches and monasteries that were destroyed by Henry, along with the mass slaughter of their inhabitants. Look at it this way, he was so unhinged and brutal that he was not only admired by Adolf Hitler, but was likely far more ruthless than Hitler ever was. Coincidentally, they now believe that Hitler too was suffering from mental illness, in his case PTSD and possible mustard gas poisoning from WWI. Catherine Howard wasn't in her early teens when she was married to Henry, she was between 17 and 18 years old. It was enough for her to find Henry repellent, especially with his large gut, multiple chins and smelly gangrene leg. She was forced into the marriage by her ambitious family who saw their daughter becoming queen as a route into a higher class in society. In other words, it was arranged by courtiers. As the video said, the hall that Catherine Howard ran down in Hampton Court Palace is still famous for her supposedly haunting it. On occasions it's reported that her image in seen running along screaming for Henry, only to vanish at the doors to the chapel, where originally they were locked and she was dragged away by the guards still screaming for mercy. Since then it's been known as "The Haunted Gallery". Due to it being a supposed exact replay of an historical event, the theory is that it's a cyclic ghost, like a natural video recording of the event. And like a normal recording, as time goes by it'll slowly fade away until only the sound remains, and then even that will eventually fade as well. This will probably take hundreds of years though. As for Catherine Parr, it's only believed that she outlived him because he died before he could have her executed, because they think he was also planning her demise as well.
The Tudor's are one of the most interesting dynasties (arguably) in British history, however this misses alot of the context which is needed to make it understandable. First of all Henry was the second son of Henry Tudor (known as Henry VII) and he had been born a Lancastrian during the Wars of the roses, which eventually defeated Richard the 3rd at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 and became King by conquest. This meant that that Henry and his elder brother Arthur, had grown up surrounded by courtiers who actually had a better claim on the throne as their family, and Henry VII, and his family had to deal with many assassination attempts. In fact Henry's father married a high ranked Yorkist in order to try and make his reign more stable. In fact Arthur.....Henry's older brother, only died in 1502, 7 years before Henry was made King in 1509, do he didn't have much time to be trained as King. All this backstory gives context as to why Henry was so paranoid about having a male heir to take over from himself when he died......as then only males could rule. As for the 6 wives........they all had some very interesting histories of their own. Catherine of Arorgan, his first wife, had actually been the wife of Henry's elder brother Arthur first, and Henry had gotten special Papal permission to marry her. When she didn't give birth to a son, and the Pope wouldn't give permission for a divorce, Henry split with the Pope and created the Church of England so he could grant his own divorce. Anne of Cleaves, the 4th wife, is said to have said Henry stank, while he said she looked like a horse......but they actually became acquaintances after their divorce. There are many many things missing, which is what makes this so interesting.
Look at any portrait of Henry VIII and your eyes will drawn to his codpiece. No further explanations are required. In those days girls/women were at the mercy of strong, inflential male family members and had no say on whom they married. They were like 23:51 V 23:😊11😊
In the 15th and 16th centuries (the period when Henry VIII lived) 'codpieces' were very common and popular in Europe. Originally just an item to cover the male groin, codpieces evolved and became shaped and padded to emphasise rather than to conceal the male genitalia. So bulges were popular then as they are to this day! Recent examples being the photos and videos of French Olympic diver Jules Bouyer going viral because of his big bulge and French Olympic pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati attracting even more interest because his sizeable bulge actually dislodged the pole, causing him to miss out on an Olympic gold medal.
Cathrine Howard still repeats her last desperate run and plea to the king as a spirit in Hampton court palace along with Ann Boleyn who carries her head under her arm in sverel other palaces to
He was my 13th great grandfather! He had lots of affairs and hidden mistresses and children who he refused to claim! I weirdly have similar features of an ai picture of what he would look like today!
The rhyme divorced, beheaded died. Divorced be headed survived is so children can remember the order in history lessons. In England we are taught this in about middle school age. Maybe even younger I can’t remember.
"divorce beheaded died divorced beheaded survived I'm Henry the eighth I had six sorry wives some might say i ruined their lives" jaunty music UK kids tv is weird
Just yesterday I visited some large haunted mansion in North West England where a young girl and even her priest were exc........ted on the grounds during the Tudor era on religious orders of what would have been Queen Elizabeth's grandfather! Our history is badass yep!
It was much more complicated when it came to choosing a wife. Henry's first wife was Spanish and was kept alive to ensure good relations with Spain. Anne Boleyn's beheading was quite likely based on lies and was caused as a result of the politics of the day. Etc. It wasn't always or even usually entirely up to the king.
Henry's break with the Roman Catholic Church: this is why all the great cathedrals of England are of the Church of England, and Catholic churches are not in 12th century architecture, but in more modern architecture.
What this doesn't tell you is that on at least two occasions, Henry procured his next wife from among the staff of the existing one - thinking nothing of sleeping his way through their families to reach his desired target, if the need arose... Anne Boelyn's sister was one of Queen Catherine (of Aragon)'s ladies-in-waiting, for example; while Jane Seymour was one of Queen Anne's housemaids...! Also, he was married to his first wife - Catherine of Aragon - for 23 years, though it was commonplace for parents to 'betroth' their infant children and so, some of that may have been years before either of them was capable of producing children. It's also worth remembering that at that time, they believed that it was the man that planted the seed in the woman, who then had it grow inside of her as an intended demonstration of her love for him - the fact that women produced eggs which men might fertilise not being known until medical science proved it in the first half of the 19th Century - and even then, it was some time after that before The Vatican finally agreed with it! Perhaps Jane's death was what prompted him to try a different procurement tactic with his 4th wife... Yes, the (Protestant) Church of England was founded by the previously Catholic Henry because the Pope of the day had him excommunicated for sleeping with Anne Boelyn (and probably her sister) while his first wife was still alive... She naturally fled back to her native Spain, which remains a Catholic country even today - taking their daughter Mary and continuing to raise her in that faith, which is why as Queen Regnant, Mary tried to restore the Catholic Faith to England during her short reign, many years later. Quite how he reconciled Anne's beheading as the leader of a supposedly Christian church, is anyone's guess... It is because of Henry's actions and in particular by replacing the role of the Pope with himself as the ultimate religious authority, that we still have the Coronation Service in the UK, as the monarch has to be formally annointed and installed as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. And so as recent as 2022 we saw King Charles arrive at Westminster Abbey in his parliamentary robes; change through priestly ones prior to his annointing; and then leaving wearing his Royal Robes and Crown, as the church's recognition that next to God himself, he is the supreme governor of all. Sadly, in all other respects Henry was far from unique - and it is interesting indeed that another British leader with rather a lot of middle-age spread should so ably demonstrate the fact, just a few years ago - and also creating laws for others which he did not see fit to also apply to himself! He is of course Boris Johnson, who upon becoming Prime Minister admitted that he probably had at least 17 children by innumerable other women, of which only 11 are the legitimate offspring of his (at that time, four) wives... I understand he's since had another three by his fifth wife, Carrie - and you do have to ask that apart from the obvious lure of money, who in their right mind would want to marry him?!! Fortunately, he makes no deliberate effort that anyone is aware of to enhance anything - the mere thought of which is just too grotesque to even contemplate!!
Catherine of Aragon did not flee back to Spain with her daughter Mary, she spent a miserable few years going from one English castle to another with conditions gradually getting worse before she died in 1535. Meanwhile Henry's marriage to Anne was quickly deteriorating.
As well as thw adultery charge, Anne was accused of plotting the King's death ie High Treason. This would have made no sense as Anne wasn't popular in the country and didn't have an heir other than a little girl, it would have been insanity to plot the death of Henry as she had no other protector.
it was the Boleyn family pushing the girls forward to entice the king as they had tried once before with her sister ,they wanted to get in with the king to get the power and the money that went with it ,there is a series called the other Boleyn girl
If you were interested in English History , the Tudor dynasty is one to really look at gave us the monachy in its bloodline form and broke and reformed religion along with significant revolts and battles Ending with the Goldern Age of Elizabeth 1 Henry VIII life is like a soap opera ... ending with him being a tyrant and at odds with most of Europe as we know it
Catherine Howard was only accused of adultery with one man, Thomas Culpepper. The rest was prior to the marriage and these days we would see her as a victim of child abuse tbh as she was very young and exploited by man in her aunt's household.
Technically, the concept of divorce didn't exist at the time. His marriage to Catherine of Aragon we annulled, and in doing so their daughter was made a "bastard" and removed from line to succession to the throne. A lot of subsequent events can be trace back to Henry VIII. When his eldest daughter became Queen, she tried to restore catholic church in England and got nickname of "Bloody Mary" due to number of protestants she had executed (quite often burned as stake) to do this. When is second daughter Elizabeth became queen she eventually died without any children so her cousin became king. It was hoped he would stop prosecution of Catholics, but when it became apparent that was not going to happen you got the "gunpowder plot". Also, as population in Ireland was largely Catholic the English encourage protestants to move there. This created a lot of divisions that eventually lead to the troubles in modern Northern Ireland. In Northern Ireland to this day in generally terms Catholics want NI join Ireland while Protestants want to remain part of UK.
The first axe hit was to the shoulder and then three chops to the neck. Story goes, he was "hammered out of his skull" before the execution and had not previous experience of such a task. Imagine the horror. of that shit show !!
Poor Catherine Howard was just a teen but she wasn't very smart either ( she was not raised properly to be a courtier, she was neglected, left to herself ) which would explain her poor decisions ...
The Cod Piece (or 'trouser bulge') was the fashion for men at this time - present in their everyday dress and also on suits of armour. I'm sure Henry may have encouraged artists (and tailors) to emphasise the size of his, but it wasn't uniquely something HE did. Look at any portraits from the time! "Why would you marry the King and then have all these escapades with other people?" Well, she almost certainly did not CHOOSE to marry a man almost old enough to be her grandfather whilst in her early teens! Is it surprising that she wanted something more from life? What this video missed out was that marriages for royalty were as much about politics and power as about love or companionship. Obtaining a male heir was only part of this.
All Brits learn this story from an early age and we're not shocked by it. The only power women had was their intelligence, guile and scheming! It wasn't known back then that the sex of a baby is determined by the father. Anne Boleyn is a fascinating character.
For a mediaeval it's that requirement to have a son, that is crucial, it is unbelievably so. The son had to carry on the name and the royal dynasty and all his wives could only manage daughters except for one but his son was weak and sickly so he tried again. What happened with Anne Boleyn had a lot to do with her father who was the ultimate social climber. You should watch the BBC series The Tudors.
Despite her calculated self-deprecation to him, it was Henry's last wife, Catherine Parr, who convinced him to amend the rules of succession to allow female heirs to the throne in case the previous monarch had no sons.
He didn't kill them all. Jane Seymour haemorrhaged after childbirth - which broke his heart. Katherine Parr outlived him to be step-mother to Princess Elizabeth (who became Elizabeth I of England).
"Are you kidding me? Seriously?"
"Yes, seriously"
- History
At school we are set on the road to learn 2000 years of our turbulent history - so a little 'morbid' poem about the deaths of King Henry the Eighth's six wives is just something we dearly need to keep it straight in our heads. Each era is equally fascinating - and equally violent. Different kinds of humans have walked these Isles for 900,000 years. We have floated near the Equator as a tropical isle, detached from Scotland, been joined to mainland Europe, had proper civilisations for at least 5000 years, have been a land of lions, sabre tooth tigers, mammoths (Giant elephants) and rhinos etc and a land of ice and snow. It would take several lifetimes to study it all. One lesson I've learned though - times may change, but the instinctive actions and reactions of humans remain the same.
Indeed. It's a pity English children are not taught Irish history too, considering so much is intertwined with Britain. Had to learn myself as an adult.
Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived.
This left out a LOT. It was also unkind to Anne Boleyn. Firstly her sister had previously been the mistress of Henry VIII & gave birth to his child. Anne was actually engaged to someone else but Henry wanted her so he had her fiancé sent away. Anne was in a no-win situation & she played for time. Eventually she did love him but she didn't want to be in her sister's position. Her Father & Uncle were heavily pressuring her to give in to the King. That's just on Anne Boleyn. He treated Catherine of Aragon pretty badly after the "divorce" refusing to let her see her child & constantly cutting her allowance. Catherine Parr was said to be the onlu one who influenced him to be more reasonable & to start making amends with his children.
Thanks @catT5236 - you are right, so much was left out but you have explained to Tyler very well
Anne refused Henry's gifts because she wasn't interested not because she was a master flirt but he is the king and you can only refuse the king for so long. She used her marriage as a chance to reform the church, which was her great passion in life. It is quite clear that Henry was a sociopath and he grew bored with her, especially when she didn't give him a son, which is why the king (and Thomas Cromwell) had her executed on fake charges. It is unsure whether Katherine Howard had cheated once married. She was murdered because of her previous life.
She actually supported Tyndale in his quest to translate the bible into English.
Also I don’t blame Katherine if she did cheat I mean she was only a teenager when she married him while he was in his 40’s
@@bugsby4663 Yes poor Katherine Howard, just young and silly and probably seduced by young men in her home, not protected! Sold to a King for her family's ambition!
Poor Katherine Howard just young and silly, she was seduced in her home very young, not protected by family! Sold to an old King to increase her family's influence! 🤨
2:05 - We all know the song to keep them in order :D
William, William, Henry, Stephen, Henry, Richard, John (oy!), Henry, Ed, Ed, Ed, Rich 2, now three more Henries join our song, Edward, Edward, Rich the Third, Henry, Henry, Ed agaaaaaain... (Lady Jane Motherflippin' Grey), Mary 1, Good Queen Bess, Jimmy and Charles and Charles and then Jim, Will, Mary, Anna Gloria, George, George, George, George, Will, Victoria, Edward, George, Edward, George Sixth, then Liz and Charles complete the mix!
WoW !! I am Impressed! 👍🙂🤭🤔🏴🖖
I never heard that until fairly recently when I saw it on Horrible Histories.
I had this song as my phone ringtone. Good old Horrible Histories
They also did a song about Henry VIII and his wives
I remember memorising a poem years ago that started Willie Willie Harry Stee, Harry Dick John Harry 3 etc.
Ty should watch the drama "the Tudors" excellent dramatisation. Excellent acting.
The most comprehensive analysis of Henry VIII's marital issues that I know of is Lucy Worsley's drama documentary series on the matter.
I loved your reaction. I’ve never seen anyone learn this for the first time. Hilarious.
Not even in school?
@@harrydavey9884 No not even then babes. It was a long time ago
The jousting accident was at Greenwich Palace not Greenwich Place. Some experts don't think the accident triggered a personality change. Henry's armour is dispayed at the Tower of London - the later armour is something to see!
They believe it was due to concussion due to him hitting his head on the ground during the fall. Even with his helm on he was knocked out, probably causing concussion and even damaging his frontal lobe where the personality is.
The narrator didn't exactly start at the beginning, First off Henry wasn't the heir when he was born, Which is why Catherine of Aragon was married for 5 months to his Older Brother Arthur who died. She was 6 years older than Henry VIII and their annulment came after 24 years of Marriage when she was 46 and could most likely no longer bear children. Henry VIII who was a devout Catholic became convinced he had sinned which was why God was denying him a Male Heir, The Pope denied the separation in deference to Catherine's Nephew Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire, Hence the split from the Catholic Church and the Creation of the Church of England and Anglicanism. Anne Boleyn was originally sent by her family to the French court whilst her sister, Mary, was one of Henry's Mistresses at the English court.
Also worth noting that the fact that Catherine had been married to Arthur technically made her later marriage to his brother Henry incestuous, which would by why Henry worried it was sinful. The marriage was initially allowed because it was understood that Arthur had died before consummating his marriage, making it invalid and so allowing the marriage to Henry. But Henry got witnesses claiming that Arthur had had sex with Catherine after all, which would be Henry's excuse for getting his own marriage to her annulled.
Catherine howard has a lot of historians on both sides for and against what actually happened in her life. It wasn't like she chose to marry the king many decades older than her with unfortunate decaying parts, she also was daid to have had a bad childhood with people taking advantage of her. It was all really sad either way.
Anne Boleyn was encouraged by her father to pursue Henry although it was initially her sister Mary that had been expected to seduce him. Katherine Howard was also likely exploited and abused by older men from about 12 or 13 years old at least. In that context, her fate is especially heartbreaking.
As others have mentioned, the musical Six it’s brilliant. A modern take where, very basically, they’ve formed a girlband in the afterlife and are competing to see who gets to be the lead.
Yes, agree with all you say. Ann’s father more or less pimped his two daughters to the king because Thomas Boleyn was a very lowly aristocrat and was very ambitious, and poor Katherine Howard was seduced by her music teacher (allegedly) when she was 12, and for ever afterwards possibly found it impossible to differentiate between sex and love, and as Henry was almost certainly impotent by then she sought “love” elsewhere. It is straight out of East Enders.
another thing with Anne of cleaves is that, henry the 8th was fond of surprising his courtiers in disguise by jumping out at them, he decided to do this to anne of cleaves as the first thing he did when meeting her, she didn't seem very interested, and asked who the hell he was.
Henry felt rejected, and started saying that she was ugly as a cover for his own bruised ego.
The Tudor period is one of my favourite and I have done many studies and written papers on this era. There is even now a west end musical out that is very popular called “ SIX “ which is basically all about the 6 wife’s of Henry VIII from there point of view it’s very funny and brilliant
The rhyme ‘divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived’ was not a created by Henry VIII, he had died by the time this was written, it’s a way to teach people the order of his wives, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr who had a lucky escape when Henry died, that’s why she survived.
Yes, and Catherine Parr not only nurses him, she helped her stepdaughters feel wanted! She survived to marry the man she loved and have her own children!
@@jenniferharrison8915 I think Catherine Parr was the one with the worst luck. She survived to marry a disaster of a man, she loved, but who's unclear if he returned her love (considering she was option no. 3 for him, after Princesses Mary and Elizabeth said nope... Elizabeth said nope also after Catherine's death). Catherine Parr died in childbirth, her daughter Mary most likely died by the age of 3 and her husband, without her, went off the rails and was executed for treason. But Catherine's problems still continued after her death, when during the Civil War Parliamentarian soldiers destroyed her tomb, which was rediscovered in 1780... which led to people desecrating her body which was still intact after all that time. A lock of her hair still exists though. At one point a priest had to recover the body from the city dump, as people got drunk and threw her in the garbage. People say "survived" like she was lucky... no, she wasn't. She was bullied both in life (even Anne of Cleves, who was in her turn bullied, treated her badly and Anne Stanhope literally pushed her out of her way a couple of time, I mean, physically shoved Catherine) and death.
@@octavianpopescu4776 Oh, looks like I only saw the kinder versions, hopefully she was happy initially! I remember she married a Seymour who may have tried to seduce or use young Elizabeth, their ward! Further research required! Thanks! 🤗
Ann Boylyn was subject of a film Ann of a thousand days, fairly accurate and worth a watch on UA-cam.
'Fairly' accurate 🫣 Really good film and I loved it but not for its accuracy ❤😂
Henry VIII is well known, not just for his 6 wives, but also for his falling out with The Pope and The Dissolution. He basically killed lots of priests and monks and either destroyed or "Confiscated" a lot of the monasteries. It was a time of great upheaval.
Katherine Parr is possibly the most underrated of the six, Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Parr were all highly intelligent and educated. The last wife was named after the first btw.
A man for all seasons is a great film , sir Thomas Moore.
Watch The Tudors, and learn about Henry VIII, it is an important time in history.
Even better, read about it.
@white-dragon4424 I don't think Tyler reads though.
@@angeladormer6659 I've only heard about this show, but if it's anything like other Hollywood messes then it's as accurate as watching a Looney Tunes cartoon.
@white-dragon4424 it was made by the BBC, for British television and was considered quite good. No Hollywood at all.
The BBC series The Six Wives of Henry VIII, made in 1970 with Keith Michell as Henry, is far better than The Tudors. The production values aren’t high by today’s standards, but it’s far more accurate and in tune with the times. Also worth watching is the film that followed on from the series, which again featured Keith Michell as Henry - Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972).
Catherine Howard is the most tragic. She quite probably never did anything 'wrong' at all during her marriage to Henry, and supposed evidence for her 'affairs' was largely hearsay and lacking in any evidence. She was chased down, dragged away despite her shrieks and pleading that she had only ever honoured the king, and brutally killed. She was 19. It's a horrible story. Poor girl. No wonder her screams still haunt Hampton Court Palace.
As for Anne Boleyn, the little girl who would become Elizabeth I was allowed to see her one last time before her execution, as her ladies-in-waiting fervently assured her of her place in Heaven and hissed under their breaths that Henry would one day pay for her murder.
Well now you have to watch all the drama between his kids. Mary and Elizabeth I. Also the drama with Mary queen of Scots. Making his own church had massive ripples through British history
You should check out The Tudors with Henry Cavill
This ☝️
It is a brilliant series.
When recommending Hampton court palace to an American to visit. Explaining it was a Home of Henry VIII.
He asked if he still lived there 🤨
Omg that is unbelievable! 🤦♂️🤣🤣🤣
Even worse than not knowing where to put your capital letters.
nooooooooo.. I don't believe it. 🍁
@@mw-wl2hm You Victor Meldrew? 😁
@@John-jw8rx Just a shocked Canadian, not an old, crotchety Brit.😉
Please people out there do not ask Tyler any questions or ask him anything or even pass on any information to him because he never reads, replies or even acknowledges anyone who contacts him. He completely ignores his commentators as if we do not exist.
He's not here to learn, he's here to earn 😉
Tyler might not like info stalkers that then tell others what to do!!
It's not a joke, it is called the Church of England. It was created by Henry the 8th in response to the pope's refusal to allow Henry to divorce. So Henry created the Church of England, made himself the leader of it and then in effect gave himself permission to divorce.
Later Henry the 8th would carry out the dissolution of the monasteries where not only many catholic monasteries but also priories, convents and friaries were disbanded, their wealth seized and assets were disposed of.
Even today the reigning monarch is also the head of the Church of England (C of E) which is the national religion.
I'm Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans are our bros, we have good relations with them, but no offence, some guy starting his own religion because he was horny is funny. And you know what's funnier? When he sent Wolsey to Rome he gave him 2 tasks: 1. Annulment based on the idea that having slept with his brother, Catherine of Aragon was basically his sister. And 2. Approval of his marriage with Anne Boleyn, with whose sister Mary, Henry had already slept. So, Henry was telling the Pope: "You need to annul marriage 1, because she's like my sister or something, but can I marry someone else who's also like my sister?"
Hi Tyler. ( I saw Liam Gallagher in Belfast last night and he was wonderful). Anyway, if you have neices and nephews , and they are not too young, there is an outstanding tv series made by the BBC called Horrible Histories, especially for children. There are also accompanying books, I think.
Love your videos man! Keep them coming, much love from the UK
There are those who believe Anne was not playing hard to get, but genuinely did not want Henry and was trying to get rid of him. She had been linked to one of Henry's courtiers, who she wanted to marry, but wasn't allowed to by their families and Cardinal Wolsey. But, as Henry was the king, Anne couldn't say no in the end and her father was highly ambitious for his family. She was not guilty of the charges for which she was executed. So sad
Hi Tyler, before I get stuck into this episode I have a suggestion for an episode you might like to make, An American Reacts: British 🇬🇧 Standup Comedy from the 70s-80s (Morcambe and wise), they were the personification of standup comedy, not just on stage in live shows but also on tv doing a show that was truly funny, at least to a British audience, they made some films and, a Christmas special virtually every year that was, probably and in my opinion, them at their very best, and tbh alongside the Queens/Kings Speech their show was the “must watch” programme on tv 📺 on Christmas Day, it might be hard for you and probably many Americans to get their comedy genius but it might be worth you taking a look at them, they were a very visual as well as verbal comedians and some of their special guests would probably surprise you, they treated them like no other comedians could, they insulted them at every turn. Okay that’s my idea, on with this episode.
The official reason Henry divorced Catherine of Aragon was that she was his dead brother's ex-wife.
Yes, so in the eyes of the church and the teachings of the bible, so it was an incestous relationship.
My amateur theory: Anne Boleyn's great-grandfather was a serf. Her father was Head of the Civil Service. This astonishing level of social mobility was made possible by the then new public schools giving excellent education to intelligent poor boys.
My theory is that Anne Boleyn was frighteningly intelligent - she spoke loads of languages - and, bright and even gifted as Henry had been in youth, he had probably got used to being the most intelligent person around. It was probably a relief to be with sweet, normal Jane Seymour.
I don't think it was her intelligence that frightened Henry. I don't think he was frightened by her or by intelligent women. In fact, he educated his daughters very well and was attracted to other highly intelligent women, like Katherine Willoughby (rumours existed that she would become wife 7) and Mary Shelton. It's hard to tell why he turned against Anne. I think he got rid of her because of her failures to give him a son (people shouldn't interpret this as him being anti-women, but him knowing a woman on the throne would cause issues, probably even a civil war and he was right: in 1553, England came quite close to a Civil War, but Northumberland's army disintegrated before any battle, but it was close, as the 2 opposing armies operated in the field). I think Anne's disobedience and willfullness annoyed him more than her intelligence.
TYLER get your arse.... sorry ASS over to the UK! You are more than welcome. There will be MANY people who would "put you up" (british saying)
I think you'd love it here.
Thanks for all the uploads. Love the learning journey that you're taking!!
It makes Game of Thrones look like kids fairytale.
Did you think Game of Thrones was real beforehand? 😂
Fun fact: the founder of the Tudor dynasty and Henry VIII's dad was the winner of the real-life inspiration of Game of Thrones (Wars of the Roses). King Henry VII... he was originally from the part of Britain that has a red dragon on it. He lived for a long time across the Channel (Narrow Sea) in France (Essos) and had to run away from assassins and other people trying to catch him. He eventually returned to Britain with a great army and won the crown on the battlefield. Now which Game of Thrones character matches that description? 😀
@@harrydavey9884 😅
@@octavianpopescu4776 Fascinating!
Back in those days the upper classes hired portraitists as travelling was arduous and at times dangerous. An incredible time in history.
You should watch the Raising of the Mary Rose. The Mary Rose was Henry's most prized warship that sunk in the Solent.
Tyler you should watch the box set of the tudors was fab
There are a lot of inaccuracies in this. For example he was not unconscious for two hours, his horse was not fully armoured as he was in the tiltyard, so most historians don't think he was suffering from a serious head injury
Of course the big winner of Henry’s six wives was Anne of Cleves (no 4). The marriage was dissolved on the basis on non-consummation but the likelihood was that was down to Henry. Anne Boleyn, at her trial, mentioned in passing, Henry’s “lack of vigour”. Anne of Cleves got a great divorce settlement and was referred to afterwards as the King’s Sister, was welcomed in royal court, was given lots of property, including sadly Anne Boleyn’s childhood home, Hever Castle, and had a long and close relationship with Anne Boleyn’s daughter, future Elizabeth I. Plus most importantly she didn’t have an enormous whale of man with smelly leg ulcers lying on top of her in bed. She was a definite winner.
carry on Henry is a very good funny
film
Its awful. Carry on Screaming is a better film.
@@slytheringingerwitch true but not related to Henry the 5th .the subject of this video
@@AhmedKhoga You mean Henry VIII? Carry on Henry is loosely based on him.
Bliddy 'eck Tyler! Wrong video. Wrong headline!
1. Catherine of Aragon. Divorced.
2. Anne Boleyn. Beheaded by the official executioner.
3. Jane Seymour. Died 2 weeks after birth of son, Edward. Following birth complications.
4. Anne of Cleves. Divorced.
5. Catherine Howard. Beheaded by the official executioner.
6. Catherine Parr. Outlived him.
The most significant thing about King Henry VIII was not his number of wives, but his obsession with fathering sons for the succession.
In pursuit of this obsession he actually changed the Religion of the country. Created the "Church of England" in order to divorce from his first wife....
and subsequently this led to a nightmare of sectarianism.
etc. etc.
hi Tyler, love your videos! Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭
Omg I have the tudors times and I have the history of his wife they deserve better, British history is so interesting (I’m British) it so sad Anne there was no proof she cheated and Katherine she was only around 14-18
Actually to be historically accurate, Henry only beheaded one of his wives and was never divorced.
So -
Catherine of Aragon - marriage annulled (meaning that they were effectively never married in the first place) - their daughter Mary was declared illegitimate as the marriage was declared void
Anne Boleyn - annulled. The marriage was annulled a few days before her execution so she effectively was never his wife either. Elizabeth was also declared illegitimate as the marriage was void.
Jane Seymour died
Anne of Cleves, marriages annulled
Catherine Howard - beheaded, the marriage was not annulled in this case
Catherine Parr survived and whilst married to Henry got him to re-legitimise Elizabeth and Mary but she died only 18 months later in childbirth
So for all you history pedants like me
It’s annulled, annulled, died, annulled, beheaded, survived a little longer.
Reading about wives 5 and 6, I also realised that we speak of 6 wives, but if we asked him how many wives he had, he'd probably say 2-3 (I was uncertain about Catherine Howard, but thanks for clearing that up). One correction though: he never legitimised Mary and Elizabeth. He put them in the succession, but did NOT legitise them, which later led to the 1553 crisis, because Mary and Elizabeth were still bastards and bastards had no right to inherit the crown, but the Third Succession Act law put them back in line. BUT it gets more interesting, because there was a provision in the Second Succession Act allowing for the king to unilaterally change the succession by letters patent... which is exactly what Edward VI did, as king, with the "My Device for the Succession". This means Queen Jane I was the lawful Queen of England, until she was usurped and murdered by Mary (judicial murder). Mary and Elizabeth were illegitimate, until they got into power and changed the law to make themselves appear legitimate.
@@Spiklething Exactly, nice to know that there's another history interested member in the group.
Horrible histories songs definitely worth a look at Tyler! 😊 There catchy so get stuck in your head, makes you remember our history though we have a lot of it
We all learn the devorced, (spelt wrong I know😅) beheaded, died, devorced, beheaded and died rhyme in primary (elementary) school I know this rhyme better then I do the names of all Henry 8th wives lol
I would have failed so many tests without that ryme. It may be morbid but its a must know for any test on the Tudors
Well, he executed only 2 of 6.
(Some of us Americans are brighter than Tyler.)
Debatable
He more like murdered them (the story about Anne was a straight up lie and some other 5 guys were murdered with her, while for Catherine Howard, he literally made laws up on the fly to justify him murdering her and a few other people). But for what it's worth, he also threated other 2 wives with death (Jane Seymour and Catherine Parr).
@@keefsmiff - We must be doing something right, because more than half of the Top 100 companies in the world are American.
If you want to know more about thr wives, check out the musical SIX. It's fun, and well researched.
Hilarious Mantel wrote three huge books on the life of Henry's right hand man - Thomas Cromwell. They make you feel like you're living in those times and you really feel you understand those times.
Our history is fascinating, many of our kings, queens and their circles, lived amazing lives. There is drama and amazing facts to find about many of them. There are also a lot of good, less cartoony documentaries to be found on You Tube. History hit and The People's profiles for a start.
Men often used to wear a "Codpiece" in those days. Basically a hard jockstrap on the outside of the clothes. Henry wore his a little on the large side, possibly as a PR stunt.
As king he was expected to project manliness and virility. And he was really touchy about those subjects. At one point, an ambassador was talking about some other guy and Henry snapped at him "Am I not a man? Am I not a man?", because he read into the story that the ambassador was questioning his virility. When a commission was brought to analyse the annulment of his marriage to wife 4 (Anne of Cleves) he did the opposite, by claiming he just couldn't with her, but had people come and testify he can totally do it, but not with Anne. He was the manliest man that has ever manned, except with Anne... and the other Anne (Boleyn, wife 2) who seems to have mocked his size and his ability (which was seen as treason-ey). The truth is... he had a mixed record, he had moments when he couldn't get it up.
@@octavianpopescu4776 "he had moments when he couldn't get it up" - an experience known to most men be it after too much alcohol (brewers droop) or for various other reasons over the 'seven ages of man'.
Love your comments. So funny.
SL72s look so good compared to the new ones, the soles are a lot flatter, not so 'curled up' as the new ones.
(I have a thing about shoes with curled up soles lol, it ruins the sillouette IMO)
ZX in OG colors are always great, love them as well.
I'm convinced Tyler knows his "typical Average Aerican" catchphrase sounds like a Dalek, and he's just leaning into it at this point. and I'm here for it.
Anne Boleyn was a victim but she was strong. Oh this doesn’t even scratch the surface of Henry and his six wives.Anne Boleyn was engaged but in those days you were not allowed to deny the King. Henry refused for the two to marry. Not only that, Henry had a child by Anne’s older sister (illegitimate son). The boy was not in line to the throne…it just goes on. Catherine Howard was about 17.
Henry wasn't kicked in the head, he fell off his horse and hit his head on the ground. Even though he was wearing a helm, the fall was strong enough to have knocked him out and caused severe concussion, probably bad enough to have damaged his frontal lobe, the part of the brain that holds your personality. His leg was also damaged in the fall, and never healed due to the limited medical abilities of the time.
Henry's break with the Catholic church went far beyond what's described here. England is full of the ruins of churches and monasteries that were destroyed by Henry, along with the mass slaughter of their inhabitants. Look at it this way, he was so unhinged and brutal that he was not only admired by Adolf Hitler, but was likely far more ruthless than Hitler ever was. Coincidentally, they now believe that Hitler too was suffering from mental illness, in his case PTSD and possible mustard gas poisoning from WWI.
Catherine Howard wasn't in her early teens when she was married to Henry, she was between 17 and 18 years old. It was enough for her to find Henry repellent, especially with his large gut, multiple chins and smelly gangrene leg. She was forced into the marriage by her ambitious family who saw their daughter becoming queen as a route into a higher class in society. In other words, it was arranged by courtiers.
As the video said, the hall that Catherine Howard ran down in Hampton Court Palace is still famous for her supposedly haunting it. On occasions it's reported that her image in seen running along screaming for Henry, only to vanish at the doors to the chapel, where originally they were locked and she was dragged away by the guards still screaming for mercy. Since then it's been known as "The Haunted Gallery". Due to it being a supposed exact replay of an historical event, the theory is that it's a cyclic ghost, like a natural video recording of the event. And like a normal recording, as time goes by it'll slowly fade away until only the sound remains, and then even that will eventually fade as well. This will probably take hundreds of years though.
As for Catherine Parr, it's only believed that she outlived him because he died before he could have her executed, because they think he was also planning her demise as well.
She wouldn't walk, she wouldn't run, she would just amble in.
He he he....
Many poems can be quite morbid; poems on the black death, that children sing.
The Tudor's are one of the most interesting dynasties (arguably) in British history, however this misses alot of the context which is needed to make it understandable.
First of all Henry was the second son of Henry Tudor (known as Henry VII) and he had been born a Lancastrian during the Wars of the roses, which eventually defeated Richard the 3rd at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 and became King by conquest. This meant that that Henry and his elder brother Arthur, had grown up surrounded by courtiers who actually had a better claim on the throne as their family, and Henry VII, and his family had to deal with many assassination attempts. In fact Henry's father married a high ranked Yorkist in order to try and make his reign more stable. In fact Arthur.....Henry's older brother, only died in 1502, 7 years before Henry was made King in 1509, do he didn't have much time to be trained as King.
All this backstory gives context as to why Henry was so paranoid about having a male heir to take over from himself when he died......as then only males could rule.
As for the 6 wives........they all had some very interesting histories of their own. Catherine of Arorgan, his first wife, had actually been the wife of Henry's elder brother Arthur first, and Henry had gotten special Papal permission to marry her. When she didn't give birth to a son, and the Pope wouldn't give permission for a divorce, Henry split with the Pope and created the Church of England so he could grant his own divorce. Anne of Cleaves, the 4th wife, is said to have said Henry stank, while he said she looked like a horse......but they actually became acquaintances after their divorce. There are many many things missing, which is what makes this so interesting.
Look at any portrait of Henry VIII and your eyes will drawn to his codpiece. No further explanations are required.
In those days girls/women were at the mercy of strong, inflential male family members and had no say on whom they married. They were like 23:51
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In the 15th and 16th centuries (the period when Henry VIII lived) 'codpieces' were very common and popular in Europe. Originally just an item to cover the male groin, codpieces evolved and became shaped and padded to emphasise rather than to conceal the male genitalia. So bulges were popular then as they are to this day! Recent examples being the photos and videos of French Olympic diver Jules Bouyer going viral because of his big bulge and French Olympic pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati attracting even more interest because his sizeable bulge actually dislodged the pole, causing him to miss out on an Olympic gold medal.
What camera and mic do you use @TylerRumple? Great video btw 👍
Cathrine Howard still repeats her last desperate run and plea to the king as a spirit in Hampton court palace along with Ann Boleyn who carries her head under her arm in sverel other palaces to
Look up the meaning of a cod piece. Now check out painting of Henry and you'll see that it's true.
Two of Henry's wives who were beheaded, Anne Boleyn & Catherine Howard were first cousins, also Jane Seymour was second cousin.
He was my 13th great grandfather! He had lots of affairs and hidden mistresses and children who he refused to claim! I weirdly have similar features of an ai picture of what he would look like today!
U need to watch tudors
You just need the rhyme.
Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.
The rhyme divorced, beheaded died. Divorced be headed survived is so children can remember the order in history lessons. In England we are taught this in about middle school age. Maybe even younger I can’t remember.
Like Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain, to remember the seven colours of the rainbow in order.
Theres a show called soldier (think it was bbc) about british army training ahoukd give that a watch.
Now we also have a musical about this SIX
It would be fun if you reacted to the movie The Other Boleyn Girl on the channel!
Henry viii is the top trumps of monarchy.
I'm surprised this didn't get said --
Tyler: "Jane Seymour? Henry VIII was married to a Bond girl, to Dr. Quinn?"
But he didn't, it's only you
Jane Seymour is a stage name. She was born Joyce Frankenberg.
@@keefsmiff - Probably because he doesn't know about either Jane Seymour!
England had never been ruled by a Queen. After Edward died, 3 came along all at once. Like London buses.
I think it would be cool if u watched an episode of “cunk on earth” or “cunk on Britain”
"divorce beheaded died
divorced beheaded survived
I'm Henry the eighth I had six sorry wives
some might say i ruined their lives"
jaunty music
UK kids tv is weird
Just yesterday I visited some large haunted mansion in North West England where a young girl and even her priest were exc........ted on the grounds during the Tudor era on religious orders of what would have been Queen Elizabeth's grandfather! Our history is badass yep!
It was much more complicated when it came to choosing a wife. Henry's first wife was Spanish and was kept alive to ensure good relations with Spain. Anne Boleyn's beheading was quite likely based on lies and was caused as a result of the politics of the day. Etc. It wasn't always or even usually entirely up to the king.
This does sound familiar. In Canada we did learn the world map and little bit of history about each country of the world 🌎
Henry's break with the Roman Catholic Church: this is why all the great cathedrals of England are of the Church of England, and Catholic churches are not in 12th century architecture, but in more modern architecture.
They didn't have filters back then 😅
What this doesn't tell you is that on at least two occasions, Henry procured his next wife from among the staff of the existing one - thinking nothing of sleeping his way through their families to reach his desired target, if the need arose... Anne Boelyn's sister was one of Queen Catherine (of Aragon)'s ladies-in-waiting, for example; while Jane Seymour was one of Queen Anne's housemaids...! Also, he was married to his first wife - Catherine of Aragon - for 23 years, though it was commonplace for parents to 'betroth' their infant children and so, some of that may have been years before either of them was capable of producing children. It's also worth remembering that at that time, they believed that it was the man that planted the seed in the woman, who then had it grow inside of her as an intended demonstration of her love for him - the fact that women produced eggs which men might fertilise not being known until medical science proved it in the first half of the 19th Century - and even then, it was some time after that before The Vatican finally agreed with it! Perhaps Jane's death was what prompted him to try a different procurement tactic with his 4th wife... Yes, the (Protestant) Church of England was founded by the previously Catholic Henry because the Pope of the day had him excommunicated for sleeping with Anne Boelyn (and probably her sister) while his first wife was still alive... She naturally fled back to her native Spain, which remains a Catholic country even today - taking their daughter Mary and continuing to raise her in that faith, which is why as Queen Regnant, Mary tried to restore the Catholic Faith to England during her short reign, many years later. Quite how he reconciled Anne's beheading as the leader of a supposedly Christian church, is anyone's guess... It is because of Henry's actions and in particular by replacing the role of the Pope with himself as the ultimate religious authority, that we still have the Coronation Service in the UK, as the monarch has to be formally annointed and installed as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. And so as recent as 2022 we saw King Charles arrive at Westminster Abbey in his parliamentary robes; change through priestly ones prior to his annointing; and then leaving wearing his Royal Robes and Crown, as the church's recognition that next to God himself, he is the supreme governor of all. Sadly, in all other respects Henry was far from unique - and it is interesting indeed that another British leader with rather a lot of middle-age spread should so ably demonstrate the fact, just a few years ago - and also creating laws for others which he did not see fit to also apply to himself! He is of course Boris Johnson, who upon becoming Prime Minister admitted that he probably had at least 17 children by innumerable other women, of which only 11 are the legitimate offspring of his (at that time, four) wives... I understand he's since had another three by his fifth wife, Carrie - and you do have to ask that apart from the obvious lure of money, who in their right mind would want to marry him?!! Fortunately, he makes no deliberate effort that anyone is aware of to enhance anything - the mere thought of which is just too grotesque to even contemplate!!
Catherine of Aragon did not flee back to Spain with her daughter Mary, she spent a miserable few years going from one English castle to another with conditions gradually getting worse before she died in 1535. Meanwhile Henry's marriage to Anne was quickly deteriorating.
As well as thw adultery charge, Anne was accused of plotting the King's death ie High Treason. This would have made no sense as Anne wasn't popular in the country and didn't have an heir other than a little girl, it would have been insanity to plot the death of Henry as she had no other protector.
it was the Boleyn family pushing the girls forward to entice the king as they had tried once before with her sister ,they wanted to get in with the king to get the power and the money that went with it ,there is a series called the other Boleyn girl
If you were interested in English History , the Tudor dynasty is one to really look at gave us the monachy in its bloodline form and broke and reformed religion along with significant revolts and battles
Ending with the Goldern Age of Elizabeth 1
Henry VIII life is like a soap opera ... ending with him being a tyrant and at odds with most of Europe as we know it
Imagine if there was Married at First Sight in the 16th century. The bride...."oh s@*#".
Catherine Howard was only accused of adultery with one man, Thomas Culpepper. The rest was prior to the marriage and these days we would see her as a victim of child abuse tbh as she was very young and exploited by man in her aunt's household.
Technically, the concept of divorce didn't exist at the time. His marriage to Catherine of Aragon we annulled, and in doing so their daughter was made a "bastard" and removed from line to succession to the throne.
A lot of subsequent events can be trace back to Henry VIII. When his eldest daughter became Queen, she tried to restore catholic church in England and got nickname of "Bloody Mary" due to number of protestants she had executed (quite often burned as stake) to do this. When is second daughter Elizabeth became queen she eventually died without any children so her cousin became king. It was hoped he would stop prosecution of Catholics, but when it became apparent that was not going to happen you got the "gunpowder plot". Also, as population in Ireland was largely Catholic the English encourage protestants to move there. This created a lot of divisions that eventually lead to the troubles in modern Northern Ireland. In Northern Ireland to this day in generally terms Catholics want NI join Ireland while Protestants want to remain part of UK.
The first axe hit was to the shoulder and then three chops to the neck. Story goes, he was "hammered out of his skull" before the execution and had not previous experience of such a task. Imagine the horror. of that shit show !!
Poor Catherine Howard was just a teen but she wasn't very smart either ( she was not raised properly to be a courtier, she was neglected, left to herself ) which would explain her poor decisions ...
Not only the Kings, everybody wanted sons. In many parts of the world, this culture remains to this day.
Historians say that Henry’s ulcerated leg smelt so bad that you could smell it rooms away 🤢❤️🏴
I wish I could chat with you. I could help you with the Tudors. It’s like Dynasty on acid. ❤😂
The Cod Piece (or 'trouser bulge') was the fashion for men at this time - present in their everyday dress and also on suits of armour. I'm sure Henry may have encouraged artists (and tailors) to emphasise the size of his, but it wasn't uniquely something HE did. Look at any portraits from the time!
"Why would you marry the King and then have all these escapades with other people?" Well, she almost certainly did not CHOOSE to marry a man almost old enough to be her grandfather whilst in her early teens! Is it surprising that she wanted something more from life?
What this video missed out was that marriages for royalty were as much about politics and power as about love or companionship. Obtaining a male heir was only part of this.
Not just to marry Anne Boleyn, but also to get his hands on the Church's wealth, especially the monastic lands.
All Brits learn this story from an early age and we're not shocked by it. The only power women had was their intelligence, guile and scheming! It wasn't known back then that the sex of a baby is determined by the father. Anne Boleyn is a fascinating character.
For a mediaeval it's that requirement to have a son, that is crucial, it is unbelievably so. The son had to carry on the name and the royal dynasty and all his wives could only manage daughters except for one but his son was weak and sickly so he tried again. What happened with Anne Boleyn had a lot to do with her father who was the ultimate social climber. You should watch the BBC series The Tudors.
Well, it is not just British history.... Such things happened all over the place.
Despite her calculated self-deprecation to him, it was Henry's last wife, Catherine Parr, who convinced him to amend the rules of succession to allow female heirs to the throne in case the previous monarch had no sons.
He didn't kill them all. Jane Seymour haemorrhaged after childbirth - which broke his heart. Katherine Parr outlived him to be step-mother to Princess Elizabeth (who became Elizabeth I of England).