"Anyone else re-watching season 1? I am and FINALLY Johnathan might be growing on me as Henry, MAYBE!"

"This summer I will definately catch up on the first season-its where most of my men are ;)

Jrm didnt really grow on me til s3, when he sported the moustache, goatee, and slicked back hair."

"I found that KOA was portrayed very saint like in season one.
According to books I have read (for one, the book A tudor conspiraracy by joanna denny) there was no mention of KOA faking a pregnancy and miscarriage which she apparently did do in a desperate attempt to keep henrys affections but it would seem the show did not want to portray her as anything but near perfect.
I loved maria doyle kennedy as KOA and felt really sad when she died but her unwavering strength and constant love was shown 100% of the time and it would appear nothing she did was wrong even though that is not the case.

Even jane seymour was disliked by many after annes execution, she was seen as a social climber and she was the most favoured of all queens in henrys mind but she was not without fault

I just found it frustrating that Anne boleyn was the only queen shown to have any flaws :( she was strong in her belief's and did a lot of good for the country"

"I don't think that Katherine ever faked a pregnancy or miscarriage.

Maybe you are thinking of Katherine's first pregnancy in 1510? She miscarried in January, but her stomach was still swollen and her doctors thought that she had been carrying twins and was still pregnant. Although she then started menstruating, Katherine and Henry seem to have clung to the hope that she would still produce a child and she even went into seclusion to await the birth. By May, her figure has returned to normal (it is likely that she had been suffering from an infection), and the royal couple found the whole matter rather embarrassing. Katherine covered this by giving the misleading impression in a letter that she had miscarried in May rather than January - which has been seized on by historians as evidence that she could bend the truth when it suited her.

However, as this event occurred seven years or so before the period covered by the series, it is not surprising that it wasn't shown."

"I don't think that Katherine ever faked a pregnancy or miscarriage.

Maybe you are thinking of Katherine's first pregnancy in 1510? She miscarried in January, but her stomach was still swollen and her doctors thought that she had been carrying twins and was still pregnant. Although she then started menstruating, Katherine and Henry seem to have clung to the hope that she would still produce a child and she even went into seclusion to await the birth. By May, her figure has returned to normal (it is likely that she had been suffering from an infection), and the royal couple found the whole matter rather embarrassing. Katherine covered this by giving the misleading impression in a letter that she had miscarried in May rather than January - which has been seized on by historians as evidence that she could bend the truth when it suited her.

However, as this event occurred seven years or so before the period covered by the series, it is not surprising that it wasn't shown."

"I don't think that Joanna Denny is regarded as a very reliable historian. No other writer that I know of, including her most recent biographer Giles Tremlett, has suggested that Katherine invented a pregnancy. I would therefore take the suggestion with a pinch of salt.

Bastard in the sense of illegitimate was commonly used in the sixteenth century as a factual description so Katherine may well have used it. I don't know what the other word is because of the asterisks, but if it is wh***, that was also used as literally at the time. Both f.**k and c*** are very old words which would have been been used descriptively but not as expletives in the Tudor age. The use of the latter was thought very vulgar but the former wasn't considered particularly rude then."