"Yes, it bothers me! When I saw it, I was like 'What!?!?!' I really wish the show didn't have all these historical inaccuracies, it gives people who don't know the facts the wrong ideas and leads them away from the truth."

"Yes, Mary was very protective to Edward and to Elizabeth when they were babies. The affection unravelled when she was forced to be a member of Princess Elizabeth's household had had to wait on her."

"I suppose it might have been gradual, as all eroding of relationships are! I also find it very sad that she drifted away from Edward as well."

"Tolerance, as a word, predates Henry VIII. But I think it was used medically, as in "his body will tolerate this drug"."

"A lot of things bother me about the show. Though I enjoy watching it, it is when people go all defensive on "Rewritten Showtime History" that I get bugged. I mean, at least do not take it on face value. The least they could have done was to mention that they have taken liberties with facts!!"

"True, but one cannot blame Edward completely. He is not one of my favourites, but he was too young and completely under the thumb of his uncles. It was Seymour who advised him to keep Mary under his religious control. I read somewhere, though, that Edward's diary showed too much coldness to everyone, it was like he had frozen his emotions. If that is true, then it is a real tragedy for a child."

"Regarding Edward being too cold in his diary: He kept a journal, not a diary. A journal was just supposed to 'record' happenings for the person who kept it. It was not a way to convey feelings, like a modern diary. It would have actually been considered bad style for a journal to write down any feelings.

I think the perceived coldness in it, does not reflect Edward's feelings at all. He wrote to Mary "I love you most" in a letter, that sounds like a boy with feelings. :-)"

"Yes, it bothers me! When I saw it, I was like 'What!?!?!' I really wish the show didn't have all these historical inaccuracies, it gives people who don't know the facts the wrong ideas and leads them away from the truth."

"I'll agree with you there Ellie, i don't think it was Mary's fault for the division between her and her brother, though they were both equally stubbourn in their own beliefs, Edward was said to have bullied her mercilessly, while i will put that credence down to his uncles, its doesn't change the fact that he himself acted. But a thought has just occured to me, Mary was quite tolerant of the Protestant religion until she came to the throne, she got along well with her siblings, both Protestants, her stepmothers Anne of Cleves and Catherine Parr, same thing applies. It was only as a result of Edward's reign that Mary appeared to become so narrow-minded when it came to the alternative, even Starkey seems to believe that Mary became a fanatic due her living standars under Edward's reign. While the Anne Boleyn saga seems to be the most defining saga of her life, it was the Edwardian period that seemed to create that hostility in her?"