Few British monarchs loom as large in the public imagination as King Henry VIII. Straddling the line between man and myth, he is best known for his infamous six marriages and his penchant for beheadings. But where does fiction meet fact? In cinema and on television, he has been portrayed by a host of actors, but have any of them captured the real Henry VIII?
In this discussion, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and fellow historians look at how Henry VIII has been reimagined on screen, what those portrayals get right and wrong, and why this towering figure continues to fascinate us, more than 500 years after he came to the throne.
Joining Suzannah Lipscomb for this Not Just the Tudors Late are Jessie Childs, Tudor England specialist and the author of Henry VIII's Last Victim; Doctor Joanne Paul of the University of Sussex, an expert of early modern English history, who wrote Thomas Moore: A Life and Death in Tudor England; and with first-hand experience of depicting historical figures on film, historian and screenwriter Alex Von Tunzelmann.
Join us for the first in our new series of 'Not Just the Tudors...Lates' for another entertaining and thought-provoking conversation.
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