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The Tudors, I don't even know if I had a family back then.
I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.
I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.
London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.
In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.
I love all history because it’s storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty.
The Tudors”) “I walked away thinking, well, if I don't get the job, it doesn't matter - I've kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers!
We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.
My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.
The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.
Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.
But Tudor mansions on manicured grounds didn't look right with their grand front doors wide open to the night. It was like a debutante flashing her bra thanks to a wardrobe malfunction.
What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?
These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing intermarriage between Celtic and English dynasties - helped to consolidate a new unitary ruling class in place of the more separate and specific landed establishments that had characterised England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Tudor and Stuart eras.
