 | The Tudors - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $17.44 The original season, where they merged 2 of Henry's sisters into one, and make Mary, Queen of Scots disappear from the realm of possibility.
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 | The Tudors - The Complete Second Season
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $15.67 Is it a spoiler to say they didn't live happily ever after if one of the participants has been dead since 1536?
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 | Anne of the Thousand Days / Mary, Queen of Scots
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $13.49 Another telling of the Henry/Anne Boleyn story. Pop some popcorn and watch Richard Burton chew the scenery.
This is teamed with Mary, Queen of Scots who is related to the Tudors through her grandmother. The Showtime series, again, pretends her grandmother doesn't exist. Note how much young Vanessa Redgrave and her daughter Jolie Richardson look uncannily alike.
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 | Elizabeth (Spotlight Series)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.68 One of the greatest ironies in Tudor history is that Henry would have pushed her under a double-decker bus in exchange for a male heir.
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 | Elizabeth - The Golden Age (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.74 Anyone who knows their history can only marvel at the ridiculous numbers of Elizabeths, Marys, Margarets, Annes, and Janes.
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 | The Wives of Henry VIII
Buy used from: $99.95 David Starkey brings the goods. People will debate certain theories, but he is one of the sources you can trust -- at least on getting the factual details right.
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 | The Constant Princess (Boleyn) by Philippa Gregory
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.68 This is historical fiction -- several facts wrapped around a gooey center of theory and made up stuff. This is about Catherine of Aragon, Henry's first wife.
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 | The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In) by Philippa Gregory
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.09 Note I am selecting the book, not the movie. The movie is so bad that people might opt for waterboarding instead.
Another work of historical fiction. Some truth, some theory, and one crazy charge used against Anne in real life treated as fact. Told from the POV of Mary Boleyn.
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 | Monarchy With David Starkey
Buy new: $37.49 / Used from: $20.47 I'm not sure if the Tudors are on set 1 or 2, but it doesn't matter -- this makes clear why Henry was obsessed with strengthening his claim to the throne, because...
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 | Monarchy With David Starkey, Set 2
Buy new: $37.49 / Used from: $21.00 the throne did change royal families with staggering regularity.
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 | The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary" by Linda Porter
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $14.62 Mary I, Henry's daughter, was a very controversial figure, but if you had her weird upbringing, you'd be a mess too. Denied her mother, made illegitimate by her father... Eesh!
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 | The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
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 | Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster by Alison Weir
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $9.93 Katherine Swynford's blood runs through the Tudors and every sovereign since then. Not bad for a commoner.
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