I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.
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.
My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.
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?
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.
We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.
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!
In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.
Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English TudorElizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.
London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.
