Besides, Margaret should be safe because Brandon’s engaged to Elizabeth Grey, a relative of the Marquess of Dorset. Henry tells Brandon he needs someone he can trust, and Brandon reads my mind and snorts that Henry actually trusts him with a beautiful woman? Henry stops his horse and does the “Dude, she’s my sister!” routine and scares Brandon enough to agree. Why the hell would Henry want to send one of the most notorious seducers at court to accompany and safeguard his sister as she heads off to be married to a foreign head of state? Seems like he’s just asking for trouble here. Thanks, writers.Īnyway, Brandon, quite reasonably, asks why he should do this, and I can’t help but wonder that myself. Why the name change? The scriptwriters were afraid we’d somehow manage to confuse this Mary, an adult about to marry the King of Portugal, with Henry’s young daughter, Princess Mary. Mary was also the grandmother of Lady Jane Grey, the famous Nine Days’ Queen. The sister this character most closely resembles is Henry’s younger sister Mary, who was married to the king of France (who was not Francis, they messed that up too). See, while Henry did have a sister named Margaret, she was older than him and had been long married to the King of Scotland (Mary, Queen of Scots was Margaret’s granddaughter, hence Mary’s connection to the English royal family in later years). This was one of those things that really irked me about the show-its assumption that the viewers were all incredibly stupid. Henry’s sister Margaret is set to marry the king of Portugal, and Brandon’s to take her and her dowry over there for the wedding. Henry and Charles Brandon are out for a ride, and Henry tells his friend he has a task for him. Then, without actually telling anybody what they should do to make this less of a steaming pile of crap, he just tells them to do it again. He bellows for them to stop and then, like any director, lectures them on the cost of the production and what a waste of money this all is. At any rate, the director looks shocked at how badly this is going, although it seemed like they’d been practicing this before, so have they all just gotten worse? Whatever. Or maybe it wasn’t stupid, maybe his aim was just poor. When the director tells the gentlemen to attack they do, haphazardly, with one guard stupidly actually shooting his gun in the director’s direction. Various courtiers take position-the ladies in a scenery castle, the gentlemen down below. Inside, scenery’s being erected and a frustrated director is yelling for everyone to start the rehearsal again and to concentrate this time, please. We open at Whitehall Palace (and by the way, they’re really trying to get their money’s worth on that CGI image of the palace, aren’t they? They show it constantly).
Wolsey was not elected pope, as he expected Buckingham lost his head, and Bessie Blount gave birth to a son. Previously on The Tudors: Henry made friends with the French, and then decided he hated them and wanted to be buddies with the Holy Roman Emperor.
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