#and motivations. and it seems like a lot of Tudor media doesn’t get it right with them

[ladysansa]

Wats wrong w previous Tudor media

a lot of them have a tendency to portray one or several of Henry’s wives or other women in the Tudor period in a…negative light, shall we say? for example, portraying Katherine of Aragon as a nagging old hag of a wife who should’ve just let Henry divorce her, Anne Boleyn as scheming to become Henry’s mistress and then his queen, Katheryn Howard as someone who was unfaithful to the king—despite the fact that she was a teenager who, even if she had been “unfaithful” to him was taken advantage of and groomed by the older men in her life. It just seems like they can never get the women right, whether it be Mary I, Elizabeth I, Lady Jane Grey, any of Henry’s wives, or many of the other women portrayed in Tudor media—and if they get one right then they sometimes just screw over one or all the others.

That’s not to say that I never enjoy these shows or movies, but everytime I see a new movie or tv series come out I always kinda side-eye it, because you never know what choices they’ll make regarding the characters. History often mistreats women even long after their deaths, so I’m always wary of pieces of Tudor media or literature—even biographies.