Why do we love The Tudors?

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We have an eternal fascination with powerful, monstrous forces of nature. Tudors are an example of life in the raw, instinctive, libidinous, excessive in all departments. We like them for their vigour. Others might like dinosaurs, others volcanoes - and so on. Relentless and awesome stuff. (s.rochie)

I have always been extremely interested in this period of history. There is something compelling about many of the central characters that lived at this time. Honestly you simply could not make a character like Henry VIII up. He strides across the pages of history like a giant colossus and then his daughter Elizabeth - a truly amazing Queen who was married to her Country and would not take a husband - lol not even my Tudor heart-throb Robert Dudley. Now that I volunteer at Historic Royal Palaces I get to work at wonderful places like Hampton Court Palace - what a joy to walk where Henry and Elizabeth have walked before me an to see Tudor kitchens still in full working order - it is like being able to step right back into the past. (royal falcon)

Personally, I wouldn't want to be one of his wives, seeing how he treated them; however - and this may not be the right place to pose this question - when Henry was having horrid headaches after his fall during jousting and not putting his visor down, why didn't the doctors use opium? Wasn't opium around then? I've never understood that scene where they ask to bleed him instead of giving him opium or another pain killer...