For those of you who get the National Geographic Channel, tomorrow night they will be running a show called “Secrets of the Virgin Queen” (and rerunning “Inside the Body of Henry VIII right after). Here’s a link to info on the show from the National Geographic Channel website.
(If the captions of the photos on the website are an indication, I don’t have high hopes… they call Robert Dudley “Arthur Dudley” in a few captions, although I think the final one that mentions him might actually be referring to the “Arthur Dudley” that was the supposed son of Elizabeth and Robert.)
Yikes – that first picture you see of “Elizabeth” is quite scary!!
Seriously? Why would any legitimate historian consider Queen Elizabeth to be anything but a woman? If she were male, don’t you think Anne Boleyn would still have her head? I don’t have high hopes for this either, because they are relying on hype not history.
And Daphne, I agree that picture was scary.
National Geo can’t get its captions right. Arthur Dudley? Please.
I taped the Henry VIII show. Can’t wait to watch it!
Thank you so much for this mention!!
I am shocked at National Geographic. Repeating old rumors instead of facts! I expected better from NGC.
Now I am obsessed with tudor history but ever consider that queen elizabeth like women instead of men? I know it sounds simple but that idea was never mentioned in the program.
Is this a re-broadcast of an older program? Seems to me NGC had a similar offering a few years back…and went with the same error in identifying Robert/Arthur Dudley.
Unfortunately, the channel doesn’t come into this house so I can’t enjoy throwing up my arms and crying “But that is SO wrong!!!” 🙂
I thought this was new, but it’s possible that it was a repeat (I have to admit that even though I get the channel, I didn’t watch it!).
Does anyone know if the whole episode is available as streaming? I have only been able to get the one scene of Anne kneeling for her execution.
It wasn’t on the NatGeo “full video” pages. But I’m glad I looked around because they have the Amelia Earhart show that I forgot to DVR a few weeks ago, so now I can watch it!