Here's how the actors who play the iconic members of the British royal family stack up against their real-life counterparts. All four seasons have been released on DVD in Regions 1, 2 and 4. On 20 June 2010, the series aired its 38th and final episode. Now, as the show returns to Starz for a second chapter, viewers will see how things started to fall apart for Catherine.Īs with any historical period drama, some characters look more true-to-life than others. The following is a list of episodes for the CBC / Showtime television series The Tudors. In its first season, the series chronicled how Prince Harry, second in line to the throne behind his older brother Prince Arthur, came to be King Henry VIII, and how he and Catherine were married in the first place, despite her being his brother's widow. In total, he would go on to have six wives: Catherine, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr.)īut The Spanish Princess, a historical drama on Starz, gives Catherine her due, characterizing her as a passionate, ambitious young woman who felt destined to become the Queen of England despite numerous obstacles. (For those who need a refresh, King Henry VIII essentially ignited the English Reformation in order to divorce her after she failed to produce a male heir. But the significance of his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, to his story is often overshadowed by the five other women who followed her in royal matrimony. The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion. Henry VIII was a scandalous monarch, and one who had a lasting impact on both the country now known as the United Kingdom, and religion in the modern world. There's a reason people are so fascinated by Tudor England.
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