: About Me

The Other Boleyn Girl, Elizabeth, The Virgin Queen, Six Wives, Innocent Traitor, The Tudors-A new batch of biographies, novels, films and television programs about the exploits of the Tudor dynasty seems to emerge every few years. Why do we care so much about this group of men and women who ruled England five hundred years ago? Why isn't there, for example, the same level of interest in the Plantagenet or Stuart dynasties? Certainly the argument can be raised that the Tudors featured some of the more intriguing characters in British history. There's Henry VIII, the golden prince who devolv...