![]() ![]() (For her, the most characteristic moment was when Catherine Howard tried out the block on which she was to be beheaded – an act that is historically attested. The show was, said Worsley, “risible – but good for business”. There is The Tudors, a rumpy-pumpy four-season series made for an American cable channel and shown on the BBC, in which Jonathan Rhys Meyers’s Henry VIII never got fat, perhaps as a result of the sheer amount of shagging he did. There is a whole subgenre of racy romantic fiction about Anne Boleyn, the most obsessed-over of Henry’s queens, with such titles as The Kiss of the Concubine and Between Two Kings. The Six Wives of Henry VIII et al are the serious-to-popular history books but there are also avalanches of fictional Tudors, on screen and in novels. ![]() The Tudors, it seems, are everywhere, neatly calibrated to appeal to every register of age, taste and education. ![]()
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