Episode Stills Of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tamzin Merchant And Laoise Murray As Henry VIII, Katherine Howard

Episode stills of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tamzin Merchant and Laoise Murray as Henry VIII, Katherine Howard and Elizabeth I in The Tudors.

Anne Boleyn being referred to as “exotic” in historic nonfiction books / academic papers / interviews:

“Anne Boleyn’s physical attraction lay in her exotic difference from the English concept […] [of] beauty” – Amy Licence (2017)

“[She had] an exotic edge in the English court” – Amy Licence (2017)

“In the English court she was seen as exotic and her manners and style of dress were seen as French.” – Jordyn Elizabeth Keller (2017)

“ Anne was exotic and had many admirers”  – Amanda S. Nicholson (2017)

“If you look at Anne within this context, and she was at a very impressionable age when she served Margaret of Austria and must have become familiar with Christine de Pizan, and also when she was older when she served Margaret of Navarre. I think it was this that made her stand out and seem so exotic at the English court when she came there.” – Alison Weir (2017)

“She was said to possess a delicate and attractive appearance, a vivacious personality, and exotic features since she was not brought up in the English court but rather the French to serve Queen Claude of France.” – Samia Muhareb (2010)

ANNE BOLEYN THE TUDORS (2007 — 2010)

(Almost) Every Costume Per Episode + Anne Boleyn’s light blue robe in 1x08

ANNE BOLEYN THE SPANISH PRINCESS (2019 — 2020)

Not afaik, and definitely not in 1533. Charles V’s councilors basically said the sum of all evidence/reports showed she was being housed ‘respectably’ for her station and that there was no justification that would merit invading England or cutting off trade with them.

There’s the words of KoA herself also, that her treatment was so poor it was ‘enough to shorten ten lives’ (letter to Charles V in 1531). I think the tendency from historians has been to consider those words as prescient and to take them at face value.

Is there a source other than Chapuys to legitimately suggest that KOA spent her final years living in something like squalor? As far as I know she was living comfortably, just not anything like a queen consort (which would have, understandably, been hard to adjust to after twenty years), but the story/popular belief that her living conditions contributed directly to her death persists.