EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT: Hot Tudors

EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT: Hot Tudors By Anna Pursglove For You Magazine Published: 12:01, 13 July 2024 | Updated: 12:01, 13 July 2024 e-mail View comments Good morrow! Check out my raiment. Er..

. Come on, what sayest thou? I assume there’s some sort of Tudor trend going on. Correct! This is a ‘hot Tudor summer’, says The Times.

I think The Time s will find that hasn’t been true since 1603. By my troth..

. Can we give the Tudor talk a rest? Exactly what the producers of My Lady Jane said. My Lady who? The new drama about Lady Jane Grey on Prime Video.

Is it an exploration of the Nine-Day Queen as the focus of Protestant identity in the mid-1550s? Jude Law (Henry VIII) and Alicia Vikander (Katherine Parr) in Firebrand Maybe that’s what the narrator meant when he said that Lady Jane was ‘a bit of a pain in the a**e’. So does it explore her challenge to the gendered power structures of Tudor England? Oh yes. Definitely.

How? Henry VIII is described as a ‘renowned sh**head’. Does this show make any attempt at historical accuracy? Depends on how you’re defining the term. Go on.

.. Lady Jane doesn’t make the throne.

Or die. And some of the characters can turn into animals. So, it’s basically Harry Potter.

Along with a side serving of Bridgerton . If it’s historical accuracy you’re after, you might prefer the King Henry VIII film Firebrand (in cinemas this September). How accurate are we talking? Jude Law (who plays an ailing Henry suffering with agonising l.