lynda's TV Reviews

The two episodes I have seen are beautifully done but not historically accurate. Although Jonathan Rhys Meyers looks NOTHING like Henry VIII (even when Henry was young), Meyers is such a superb actor, he can carry the role.
The first inaccurate fact was showing Henry VIII's uncle being murdered. He did not have an uncle. There was a Treaty of Perpetual Peace - but it was between Scotland and England, not France and England. Henry did have a close male friend named Charles Brandon, who eventually became Duke of Suffolk. But he married Henry's younger sister, Mary, not Margaret. Henry's older sister, Margaret, was married to the king of Scotland, and from this marriage descends the Stuart house in England.

I will still watch every episode, but I do wish they would check facts before they produce an historical series or movie.