RE: OT: Royalty talk

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

> This makes it even more interesting to me - and especially so 
> now that my wife and I are hooked on that "Tutors" show on 
> Showtime. In it, the queen is The Queen even though she was 
> only a Spanish princess before marrying The King of England 
> (good ol' Henry VIII). 

Henry VIII's queens were queens consort, not joint monarchs. They had the
title but not the power.

> Also, this Henry was a Tudor and 
> wasn't he the one that formed the Church of England?

Correct and correct. Basically because the Church of Rome wouldn't endorse
his changing consorts in midstream, as I remember.
 
> Does this perhaps go back to the original "royal families" of 
> Europe (King of England being a cousin of the Kind of France 
> and all that) - you would need to come from one of those 
> families to marry and become Queen as opposed to being born 
> of a "made" Lord or whatever?

Partly, I guess. But as always in politics, the rules get changed all the
time as expediency dictates.

> Going to have to go read up on him after all - the tv show is 
> just entertainment...Anne Boleyn (sp?) is even attractive 
> where as I thought she was supposed to be quite ugly (but 
> perhaps that was because the English People loved Catherine 
> so much?).

She generally seems to have been portrayed as a bit of glamour puss in TV
and the movies. The general consensus seems to have been that she was
attractive, but not conventionally beautiful. 

You know, it's nearly 40 years since I had to study this stuff: don't take
my word on it!

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