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In the third season the story continues with Henry's third and fourth wife, and introduces the fifth. Season four covers wives five and six.
Despite this series' claim to tell the ''real'' story, this production is mostly a cut down version of history, [[Very Loosely Based
The series formally debuted on [[Showtime]] on April 1, 2007, and the fourth and final season ended June 20, 2010.
A [[Spiritual Successor]] to The Tudors called ''[[The Borgias]]'' based on the life of Rodrigo Borgia (aka Pope Alexander the Sixth) and his family began airing April 2011.
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* [[Aborted Arc]]: The departure of Henry Czerny, who played the Duke of Norfolk, has caused endless problems for the show given how very important the real Norfolk was to the story. So far a few of his actions have been reassigned to Suffolk and Edward Seymour (in reality Norfolk was the one who orchestrated the affair between Catherine Howard and Henry).
** For Season 4, they've made Norfolk's son, the Earl of Surrey, Katherine Howard's uncle. Historically, Norfolk was her uncle and Surrey was a man in his twenties or thirties at this point. Since Katherine was seventeen, that would have worked, but they made Surrey at least in his forties if not older.
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* [[Beta Couple]]: Charles and Catherine Brandon.
** {{spoiler|Not as of Season 4...seems they are, in effect, separated.}}
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour fit this down to the [[Colour
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: All of the prayers and religious ceremonies are conducted in historically-accurate Latin.
** Although with such horrible pronounciation that it's barely understandable.
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** Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury is similarly given a single mention in season 3, although as noted above, historically he should have played a ''huge'' role in season 4.
** Pope Paul III actually outlived Henry, but he is not seen after season 2, since [[Peter O Toole]] did not return to the cast.
* {{spoiler|[[Brother
* [[Brother
* [[California Doubling]]: Ireland for England.
* [[Casanova]]: Charles Brandon in the first season.
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: [[The Pope]] excommunicating Henry. And oh boy did they give him a LOT of scenery to munch on!
* [[Cold
* [[Compliment Backfire]]: Henry thinks he's paying Anne Boleyn a great compliment by offering her to become his one and only mistress. She does not.
* [[Composite Character]]: Henry VIII actually had two sisters, Mary and Margaret. The character portrayed in the show is given the biography of Mary, but the name of Margaret, because they feared that the audience [[Viewers
** It gets worse. In Season 3, he refers to the King of Scotland as his nephew, even though as far as anyone knows, he did not have another sister to be the Scots King's mother.
*** Margaret Tudor, Henry's sister, married James the IV of Scotland and was mother to James the V of the Scotland. But if the viewer doesn't ''know'' that, the show doesn't make sense.
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** Joan Larke might be considered his wife in all but name, but Wolsey never (to anyone's knowledge) married her and neither ever (again, to anyone's knowledge) referred to the other as their spouse.
* [[Culture Clash]]: Cleves and England.
* [[
* [[Death By Adaptation]]: The real Henry FitzRoy died when he was seventeen, not when he was a small child.
* [[Death By Childbirth]]: Jane Seymour passed away from Childbed Fever shortly after the birth of Prince Edward. A tragic case of [[Truth in Television]].
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* [[Fake Nationality]]: Katherine of Aragon (Maria Doyle Kennedy) and Pope Paul III (Peter O'Toole) are - guess what - played by Irish actors. Joss Stone is British and plays a German.
* [[Fan Service]]: The show is built on it. It goes out of its way to show the sex lives of secondary and tertiary characters in great detail, and everyone is quite beautiful.
* [[Five
** [[The Chick]]: Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves
** [[The Hero]]: Katherine of Aragon
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** Oh, and what about the dream sequence in 2x07 when Mary burns Anne alive?
** Henry to Anne Boleyn: "Your neck... I love your neck." Three guesses what happens to her neck in season two!
* [[Four
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: The royal court in action.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Katherine Parr is understandably ''horrified'' when Henry starts to send gifts to her, since every woman at court knows what happens to his wives.
** Princess Elizabeth sees her father's treatment of his wives and swears that she will never marry.
** [[One
** Anne of Cleves can count as this - everyone also knows what happened to Henry's unwanted wives when they did not cooperate. She cooperated and made out quite well.
* [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]]: Averted. Mary and Anne Boleyn get along well until Mary's secret marriage, even though Anne is after Mary's former lover.
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* [[Heir Club for Men]]: The whole reason why Henry had six wives. Extremely ironic when you know that both his daughters not only got to be queens regnant but also were both competent rulers and are remembered to this day.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Henry, when {{spoiler|his wife Jane Seymour dies of childbed fever after giving birth to Prince Edward}}.
* [[Hey
** Also happens with more prominent members of the cast...Wolsey, for example, is [[Jurassic Park|Dr. Grant]].
** Katherine Parr is [[King Ralph|Princess Anna]]
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* [[Love Ruins the Realm]]: Henry goes very far to be able to marry Anne Boleyn.
* [[Marital Rape License]]: George Boleyn uses this in his arranged marriage to Jane Rochford.
* [[May
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: In a manner of speaking. Henry pressures More to write a pamphlet attacking Martin Luther and praising the Pope as the true ruler of Christendom (and then publishes it in Henry's name). When Henry splits from the church, More throws the words of the pamphlet back at him. The pamphlet comes back ''again'' when the Archbishop accuses More of pressuring ''Henry'' to write it.
* [[Meaningful Funeral]]: Jane Seymour's
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* [[Oh Crap]]: Surrey, when {{spoiler|he is told the king refuses him an audience. Before that he still has the confidence he can set matters right by talking to him}}
** Similarly, the Bishop.
* [[One
* [[One Steve Limit]]: The popularity of the name Mary at the time caused some issues, including the writers compositing Henry's sisters Mary and Margaret into one character called Margaret to reduce the number of Marys to keep track of.
** Averted with other common names of the period, with two Annes, two Janes, four Catherines/Katherines, and by every other male character being named Thomas. Thankfully the latter are usually referred to by last name and/or title.
*** There are ten Thomases all told.
* [[One
* [[Oop North]]: The Pilgrimage of Grace.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Anita Briem played Jane Seymour in season two; she was replaced in the role by Annabelle Wallis in season three.
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: In spite of the fact that Henry could be a real asshole of a ruler, he did have his moments with Jane Seymour in that he truly did love her. Towards the end of his life, he also had this with Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, and to a lesser extent Catherine Parr.
** George Boleyn presents a cruel twist on this. He is an arrogant prick who {{spoiler|rapes his own wife on their wedding night}}, but his one sympathetic quality is that he seems to genuinely care about his sister Anne's well-being, as opposed to their father who very clearly sees her as nothing more than a political pawn. Yet his one sympathetic quality results directly in his downfall and death, when his close relationship with his sister is twisted into an accusation of incest for which he is tried and executed.
* [[Pimped
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Although fake fur is used, either for budget or [[Its Fake Fur Its Fine|to avoid offending viewers]].
* [[Rags to Royalty]]: Cinderella style, but subverted. Anne Boleyn gets there mostly by ''pretending'' to be pure-hearted.
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** Mary Tudor is already showing some signs of this.
*** And [[Foregone Conclusion|we all know where that will go]].
* [[Very Loosely Based
** The worst example is probably the treatment Marguerite de Navarre received. In reality, she was a very intellectual and brave woman, who was a gifted writer and also traveled tirelessly to get her brother Francis freed when he had been taken captive at Pavia. Anne Boleyn was greatly influenced by her, and would as queen write that seeing her again was her greatest wish next to having a son. In the series, Marguerite is portrayed as [[The Ditz]], who sleeps with Henry right after meeting him.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Henry VIII
* [[Well
* [[When She Smiles]]: Anne of Cleves.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Henry is very scared of getting sick.
* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: Anne Boleyn would have liked to see Mary killed. Averted with Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves, who are both very nice to her.
** {{spoiler|Katherine Howard doesn't get along with Mary either. In all fairness, she did try, but Mary rebuffed her, and she responded by getting nasty, so this could be more of a subverted example.}}
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** Inverted with Katherine Parr. She is very kind to her, but Mary has turned into a wicked stepdaughter. She does have a good relationship with her two other stepchildren, though.
*** Historically, Katherine Parr and Mary were near in age and good friends, only falling out when Katherine married Thomas Seymour while she was officially still supposed to be in mourning for [[Henry VIII]]. They did reconcile after Katherine found out she was pregnant, and her daughter, Lady Mary Seymour, was named after Mary Tudor.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Or rather 'Did they or didn't they?' {{spoiler|Henry ends up in Anne of Cleves' bed ''after'' he's divorced her, both of them in their nightgowns and snuggling, and she seems to enjoy it. Was there sex, or was it just for comfort and security?}}
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Elizabeth.
* [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]: Subverted in that she was not supreme ruler. Otherwise fitting with Catherine Parr, who was married to a king who thought nothing of sending her sister and ladies to the [[Evil Tower of Ominousness|Tower]]. While also agreeing to a warrant for her arrest. She still managed to greet her most bitter enemies with a smile and then get the king on her side in the end.
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