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JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS The Tudors 3.02 "The Northern Uprising"

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THE VIRGIN QUEEN (2005) Created by Coky Giedroyc

"Robert Dudley was created Earl of Leicester, with great solemnity, at Westminster; “the Queen herself,” said the Scottish ambassador James Melville, “helping to put on his ceremonial, he sitting on his knees before her, keeping a great gravity and discreet behaviour; but she could not refrain from putting her hand on his neck, to tickle him, smilingly — the French ambassador and I standing beside her." (x)

I think henry viii would truly hate that hundreds of years later the most memorable things about him are his wives

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"He, at the same time being a very successful man of the cloth, was also the great politician of his age, really. He was like a chess player, except - it's a very critical game of chess, where if you make the wrong move, it's death, if you make the right move, it's glory. But he served, above all, the king. He loved the king, and the king loved him. But finally, as happened very often in the reign of Henry VIII, things started to go awry." — Sam Neill on Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

The Tudors Sam Neill as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey Season one (2007) | In loving memory of our favorite Cardinal.