What do you think Elizabeth's greatest achievement was? Let me know below and check out my PATREON site for extra perks at www.patreon.com/historycalling
Not getting married and the defeating the Spanish Armada. I know how important it was to carry on the Tudor Dynasty, but after everything she went through I understand.
I don't know enough about the wool trade to comment (but you've piqued my interest in it now). The moves towards religious tolerance were definitely a good thing though.
What is your take on the "Great Man/Woman" approach to history? Would things have played out for the better, or for the worse, had Elizabeth not ruled when she did? Of course, we can't know. It would be hard to point to a singular greatest achievement. Impossible even. As a whole I think it was the system of rule that she created or altered. At a time when England could have weakened itself and become subject to foreign domination she was able to ride a change in thinking about loyalties. Above being Catholic or Protestant, or swearing allegiance to a particular lord, the people of England became the Nation of England. Would that have happened had Elizabeth not become a truly independent ruler of the Nation of England? Had her father not broken from the Universal Christian Church? She ruled during a momentous change in the way that people thought of themselves. She was herself an agent of that change.
In my opinion Queen Elizabeth I greatest achievement was proving to the world that women could rule a country, that women were not empty headed milk sops to be lead around by some man. She proved we could survive very well without a man. I have always admired her. I wish I had half the brains she had.
I agree. This is a digression but I got rather grumpy reading an Elizabeth biography by Allison Weir in which she repeated the line "Elizabeth was no feminist" at least five times. Of course not by 20th or 21st century standards - maybe not even by 16th century standards - but you wouldn't exactly call her an obvious catalyst for anti-feminism either so why the emphasis on this? Curious because Weir has recently reassessed Anne Boleyn and cautiously concluded that Anne can be called "a feminist of her time". Would be interested in History Calling's thoughts on this. Do you agree with Weir that Anne could be called a feminist of her time?
@@Mark-Smeaton A feminist!? No. No! NOOOOOoOoOoOoOo!! ANY-THING BUT *THAT!* :O XD Thing is, they know Elizabeth was feminist as heck for her time period, but they don't want the "low dirty" feminists to claim her or look up to her. They know feminists use her as a figure to look up to, and they don't like it, so It's more a "back off, she's ours you FEMINISTS! HOW DO YA' LIKE DAT?!"
@@Mark-Smeaton She was no feminist: Because she ruled in a sense as a man, she was careful to relate to her position as a man as far as she could--which didn't mean she ignored her femininity, which she certainly didn't. As she said in the Armada speech she had the body of a weak and feeble woman, but the heart and stomach of a king. She did not desire that the order of things be changed. Her accomplishments were even greater because she navigated this so well. I think we diminish them if we try to make her something she wasn't.
The Tudor dinasty only lasted 3 generations 2 men, a child, 2 women, BUT it is by far the most famous dinasty in world history. Not to mention that the last member ruled almost as long as all the rest combined
That was her great blessing. That the child of the brutally discarded and mistreated, brutally murdered wife, bore the crown with more grace than any of her Tudor predecessors.
She was a great Queen indeed ruled alone and stayed strong throughout her reign, in my view even though The Tudors are so historically well known, she did the right thing by ending the line with her, way too much blood spilled during their time.
"Promise of a hefty pension and English dukedown, neither of which materialized" why did this not make me surprised with her character and actually laugh out loud 😂
I think its very interesting how there was reports of George the 6th on the eve of the second world war claimed to see Elizabeth the 1st spirit where he was staying . I think she came to make sure England wasn't invaded again and give moral support.
Elizabeth I inspired love and obedience such as the nation, that rarely given to a man and never before a woman. How it would've been if Henry VIII were still alive in that time of Elizabeth I and seeing his daughter ruling in a such good way his country, thank you so much your video of Tudor.
An invaluable series for anyone studying the Tudors. How I wish the internet and your in depth research had been around back in my day. Absolutely loved this. Thank you from Coleraine 👏
I personally would have loved to have known that Mary Queen of Scots could have ruled longer. Yes Queen Elizabeth was a great person and achieved a lot for her people.
One historian I heard stated Elizabeth's Tilbury speech was in fact a later invention to promote her greatness and not given at the time & place at all.
Well said, Essex's head would have absolutely been on a spike for trying that on Elizabeth's father, probably right on the spot, his hand would not have been restrained by Essex's curls lol.
Elizabeth I's greatest accomplishment was making it to the end of Mary's reign without suddenly becoming a head shorter than she had been at the beginning.
Your videos are wonderful! Would you ever consider doing a similar series on the Plantagenets? I'm a big fan...especially of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
I have thoroughly enjoyed these lessons on English history.Elizabeth 1 was a great figure in English history and definitely earned a respected place there.what I admire is her strength yet her reactions as a woman especially to the times she had to sign an order for execution.she did have a heart in the midst of her reign.that is what I like about her
Yes, I think she always had some heart too (though sometimes she managed to repress it rather well). I'm delighted you're enjoying the channel. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I have an MA in history from an American University and as a fellow historian, I have to say that I find your videos fabulous. I only wish any of my professors had been as engaging. I respectfuly disagree with some of your conclusions about Richard iii, but this series about the Tudors is absolutely spot on. Thank you.
This series was informative, well delivered and even exciting, given that a great deal had already been divulged about Elizabeth's reign, I continually waited ea time, for the next upload! Sad now. Pls continue your work and give us more to look forward to and thank you for what you've already given to us.
That was remarkable! I personally thank you for taking the time and effort to not only do the research in such totality, but to address all the perceptions , standards and realities of the times, and make an unbiased objective observation in relation to the events as they unfolded. Genuinely impressed. Your voice is calming, measured and I love the slight burr you have. As an audio sensitive, it's total asmr heaven. In one morning alone, I have managed to blaze through a large amount of the "Tudor posts" as I have affectionately named them. I'd love to hear you do a series of podcasts and audio books. I would most certainly buy them. Hope you continue to post more like this, and grow your channel. I have subscribed.Am also planning to visit as many castles and historic towns and cities in the UK as possible. So far, have been to York, Edinburgh, berkhamstead, Rochester, Somerset House, Whitehall, the Tower of London, Corfe Castle, St Michael's Mount, and there's a few others on my list to go. (I've also been to the original Clink, which was pretty good).
Thank you so much. It's always lovely when someone appreciates the effort that goes into the videos. Those are brilliant places to visit. I hope you enjoyed your visits and get to do more.
A rousing finish, fully worthy of the undertaking! A well-deserved round of applause for you from the cheap seats! (I still have to go back and do Henry VII, where I should have begun...)
Thank you. I certainly didn't think when I started the videos on the Tudors that I would need 14 of them to get through the whole dynasty and 5 on Elizabeth alone. I remember being a bit burnt out by the time I made it to the end of this series and rather down about the fact that at that stage hardly anyone was watching the channel yet, so it felt like a lot of effort for not much reward. Thankfully the channel took off not long afterwards and a lot of my new subs went back and binged this series. Yes, do check out Henry VII. He has one of the most fascinating stories of them all.
@@HistoryCalling I binged the last twelve (and will finish out of order tomorrow). I'm doing about three of yours a day now and will be your newest subscriber once I've had a chance to catch up some. I've been wondering if you've gotten a chance to dip into Shakespeare, who gets a mention here in Elizabeth's outstanding finale. I certainly do hope you have some sense of reward now for such an excellent job. For all its digital warts, people like you still make the Internet rich and worthwhile.
absolutely fascinating and fantastic, your series on the life of Elizabeth 1 , wish i had discovered your channel sooner, thank you very much, brilliant 👍❤🙂
I have LOVED the videos in this series! I am a history fanatic and this is by far my favorite time period and subject. Thank you for putting together the best video series on the subject that I have seen to date. I can't wait to watch the rest of your videos, you and they are exceptional!
I thoroughly enjoyed this series--binged it when I should have been doing more responsible things!--and will certainly be watching more; clear, concise presentation and delivery. Smitten by your diphthongs.
I feel very strongly that that infamous ring with the portraits of herself and whom many believe is the portrait of her mother. I believe it was the portrait of Kate Ashly. Because Elizabeth is known to have said that Anne Boleyn gave her life. It was Kate Ashly who gave her love. And it make s sense that she would want to keep Kate Ashly close to herself even after the woman died.
The Tudor monarchs. The best of them were the first and the last, ironically. Good queen Bess! Thank you for allowing us a closer look of her glorious reign.
WOW, THANK YOU SO MUCH ERIK for such an incredibly generous donation to the channel. I'm really glad you're enjoying the videos. I wish I could get more people to binge them :-)
Hi Alison. I'm well thanks and really glad you've enjoyed the Tudor monarchs. As I said at the end of the video, it ended up being a bit longer of a series than I'd anticipated! :-)
I love all your videos!! I hated history in School, but somehow became interested in Henry VIII right before The Tudors premiered and I love JRM, so watched that and loved it of course. Then, I came across a show called White Queen, and started watching that and when I heard Henry Tudors name in the show the first time, I was like What? Then came the White Princess and Spanish Princess, so now I’m a History Fanatic. You do a great job in your videos and I love your humor. I will definitely keep learning! Kimberly from the US
Hi Kim, thank you for watching and commenting. I'm so happy you like the videos and history in general now. I think it's quite common to dislike it in school, if they don't choose particular subjects/era/people/events that interest you. I had some very dull history classes myself that I only survived because I already had a love of the subject. I'm sure other people in my class were put off for life though! :-)
@@HistoryCalling I wish there was more information about Arthur Tudor and I wonder why Henry and Catherine son only lived 52 days. I wish I could go back in time and tell Henry, dude, you determine if it will be a boy or girl, but I might lose my head 🤕
Haha, yes I think it would. Henry didn't like to be told that anything was ever his fault. I'll maybe do a video on the fertility problems of Henry and his wives. I can't remember if there was a cause of death for their baby son or not, but infant deaths were very common at that point, so it may have just been bad luck.
@@HistoryCalling That would be an awesome video! I love anything to do with the Tudor era, but most documentaries I watch usually just gloss over the Catherine of Aragon era. I think I watched one that suggested a cause, but I cannot for my life remember what they suggested. I think it might have been polyps, or uterine cysts?
@@kimmasters8700 There's actually an brilliant bio of Arthur! "Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was" by Sean Cunningham. Obviously we don't know a huge amount about Arthur as he sadly died so young, but you _can_ infer quite a lot more from how Henry VII was raising him. I'm pretty sure there's no known cause for the death of Henry VIII's son with Catherine of Aragon, Henry Duke of Cornwall- just another sad death in infancy, probably from an illness. (Just based on watching The Anne Boleyn Files channel, which is as good as this one re: contemporary sources :) )
I just discovered your channel, I absolutely loved this series and your take on going over these events, focusing on the facts but giving room for empathy and sympathy.
Just reading up on those in the court of Elizabeth and the amount of disrespect for the rule that the queen had to approve marriages was out of control.
Wasn't the English High Admiral who knocked out the Armada a direct relative of the headless Catherine Howard? He was a good man ... took care of those under His command after the battle. Basically, pensioned them out of his own pocker when QE1 neglected them.
Admiral Charles Howard, Lord High Admiral, was Catherine Howard's half-first-cousin. Elizabeth Howard Boleyn (Anne Boleyn's mother) and Lord Edmund Howard, Catherine's father were half-siblings of the Admiral's father Lord William Howard. The Admiral was Queen Elizabeth's half-first cousin, once removed. He seems to have been an excellent and generous commander.
So other than James IV and I, who where the contenders to take the English throne if she arranged it ? surly James wasn’t the only heir. Well excluding Mary as one requires a head to rule lol
I actually plan to do a video on that in the future :-) In a nutshell, the other descendants of Mary and Margaret Tudor, the Infanta Isabella of Spain (as nuts as that sounds) and some other, random Plantagenet descendants. I'm going to have to do so many family trees for this eventual video! :-)
Please do a series about all the Stuart sovereigns and the Jacobite risings. It's kinda rare to find detailed videos about them and they are my favourite dynasty. It would be greatly appreciated.
It is really wonderful that you truly are trying to be objective in your videos. You don’t just discard the “traditional” interpretation of the people or events, simply because it’s not in par to the woke vision of the history that became so prevalent these days. Keep on good and honest work!!!😁
I know its abit off topic but i cant help wondering how Elizabeth 1 would have handled Prince Harry & his wifes recent debacle? ...🤔 Along with Anne Boleyn & her daughter Elizabeth have to be my 2 most favourite historical figures. Theres just something unknowable about these 2 women & the facination they compel in everyone. Both strong, determined, extremely intelligent & erudite They played life like a game of chess, always 10 moves ahead & plenty of sideways moves or get out plans. I think there has to be something extraordinary though about how Elizabeth survived in such a minefield of danger & plots & betrayals I dont blame her for not wanting to marry after seeing how much men disregarded women in those times but still, her steely will & determination are phenomenal! Short lived as a blood line yet the history of the Tudors still continue to enthrall us today I know i never ever get tired of hearing & seeing anything about them all, going back to my 1st fascination when i read the life story of Margaret Beaufort & her blood line from John of Gaunt Again Margaret was a force to be reckoned with! Wow she was a woman & a half & her will & determination to advance her son & herself to the highest position in the land. I think there has to be something in Margarets DNA that makes women of her line, almost Goddess like females with a greatness to rule & put down any obstacles with a swat of the hand! Brilliant women of Tudor blood I still think they are around in spirit ! I just hope they can bolster up the resolve of our present Queen to squash the troublesome gnats Of Prince Harry & his concubine! Thank you so much for this whole series on the Tudors its been brilliant, clear & concise, straight to the facts & very entertaining & yes ive subbed to yr channel 🙋♀️
If Mary hadn’t died so early and Elizabeth hadn’t been such a remarkable ruler, it’s very possible England would have had good reason to never want another Queen regnant and we may never have had Anne, Victoria, and Elizabeth II. Elizabeth I proved that a queen was a good thing for England, and she’s one of the reason why England is more associated with its queens than it’s kings
The Tudor's dynasty was incredible propaganda machine and a for runner; For the lesson this dynasty of men and women within the family of Tudor, has been learnt by modern government, interesting indeed. Weather was incredible on that day or night and the survival of the few men either in Ireland or Scotland, proved the strength of humanity in life at it's worst moment in time and history. 👑😎👑😎👑😎
I wonder how Elizabeth was allowed to be throne. Because like if Queen Mary the 1st reversed the divorce of her parents wouldn’t that make Elizabeth technically illegitimate.
She was already illegitimate, declared so by her father in the wake of his breakup with Anne. Mary's reversal of her own illegitimacy didn't affect this. Mary and Elizabeth came to the throne because they were written into the succession by their father, regardless of their illegitimate status.
I have a question you know how Elizabeth loved Robert Dudley well if Elizabeth loved him and she gave him to Mary queen of Scots and Elizabeth Would name her heir well then if lady Jane grey was not killed does that mean that Elizabeth would name her as her heir since she is a sister in law to Robert Dudley and I think Elizabeth and lady Jane grey were very good friends am I right if that is true then I don’t think Elizabeth and Mary queen of Scots wouldn’t have had a fight over the crown do you think 😂
Hi Raumaan, Elizabeth wouldn't have needed to name Lady Jane as her heir (had Lady Jane still been alive) as Henry VIII's will stipulated that she was next in line. The two girls knew each other, but I don't know if they were friends or not I'm afraid.
What do you think Elizabeth's greatest achievement was? Let me know below and check out my PATREON site for extra perks at www.patreon.com/historycalling
Not sure... The wool trade I guess? And the religious tolerance?
Not getting married and the defeating the Spanish Armada. I know how important it was to carry on the Tudor Dynasty, but after everything she went through I understand.
Agreed :-)
I don't know enough about the wool trade to comment (but you've piqued my interest in it now). The moves towards religious tolerance were definitely a good thing though.
What is your take on the "Great Man/Woman" approach to history? Would things have played out for the better, or for the worse, had Elizabeth not ruled when she did?
Of course, we can't know.
It would be hard to point to a singular greatest achievement. Impossible even. As a whole I think it was the system of rule that she created or altered. At a time when England could have weakened itself and become subject to foreign domination she was able to ride a change in thinking about loyalties. Above being Catholic or Protestant, or swearing allegiance to a particular lord, the people of England became the Nation of
England.
Would that have happened had Elizabeth not become a truly independent ruler of the Nation of England? Had her father not broken from the Universal Christian Church?
She ruled during a momentous change in the way that people thought of themselves. She was herself an agent of that change.
Imagine living until your late 60's in that time and having constant plots against you... She must've been knackered.
She had a great spy chief
Don't forget about Queen Victoria
She had wise heads around her and had a talent for delegating; picking the best people. Cecil for one.
@@BiG-JuPO1O1 Queen Victoria didn't have constant plots. Her governments were running and ruling the nation - not Victoria.
@@sarrhodes8277 She still had plots to assassinate her.
In my opinion Queen Elizabeth I greatest achievement was proving to the world that women could rule a country, that women were not empty headed milk sops to be lead around by some man. She proved we could survive very well without a man. I have always admired her. I wish I had half the brains she had.
Me too! She was one clever cookie.
I agree. This is a digression but I got rather grumpy reading an Elizabeth biography by Allison Weir in which she repeated the line "Elizabeth was no feminist" at least five times. Of course not by 20th or 21st century standards - maybe not even by 16th century standards - but you wouldn't exactly call her an obvious catalyst for anti-feminism either so why the emphasis on this? Curious because Weir has recently reassessed Anne Boleyn and cautiously concluded that Anne can be called "a feminist of her time". Would be interested in History Calling's thoughts on this. Do you agree with Weir that Anne could be called a feminist of her time?
@@Mark-Smeaton A feminist!? No. No! NOOOOOoOoOoOoOo!! ANY-THING BUT *THAT!* :O
XD
Thing is, they know Elizabeth was feminist as heck for her time period, but they don't want the "low dirty" feminists to claim her or look up to her. They know feminists use her as a figure to look up to, and they don't like it, so It's more a "back off, she's ours you FEMINISTS! HOW DO YA' LIKE DAT?!"
She was truly a great queen, mainly due IMO to being advised by great men in her council!
@@Mark-Smeaton She was no feminist: Because she ruled in a sense as a man, she was careful to relate to her position as a man as far as she could--which didn't mean she ignored her femininity, which she certainly didn't. As she said in the Armada speech she had the body of a weak and feeble woman, but the heart and stomach of a king. She did not desire that the order of things be changed. Her accomplishments were even greater because she navigated this so well. I think we diminish them if we try to make her something she wasn't.
The Tudor dinasty only lasted 3 generations 2 men, a child, 2 women, BUT it is by far the most famous dinasty in world history.
Not to mention that the last member ruled almost as long as all the rest combined
That was her great blessing. That the child of the brutally discarded and mistreated, brutally murdered wife, bore the crown with more grace than any of her Tudor predecessors.
She was a great Queen indeed ruled alone and stayed strong throughout her reign, in my view even though The Tudors are so historically well known, she did the right thing by ending the line with her, way too much blood spilled during their time.
Ma'am, I have ADORED this series.
Hi Amanda, thank you so much. I'm glad you've enjoyed it.
"Promise of a hefty pension and English dukedown, neither of which materialized" why did this not make me surprised with her character and actually laugh out loud 😂
I think its very interesting how there was reports of George the 6th on the eve of the second world war claimed to see Elizabeth the 1st spirit where he was staying . I think she came to make sure England wasn't invaded again and give moral support.
Sir Francis Drake and also Hawkins were both Elizabeth's pirates. Those fire ships were something else. Love her speech in Elizabeth movies.
Tudor England is a fascinating period and you have presented it very well and very engagingly.
I’m a big Elizabeth 1 fan. Your work here is fantastic. Thank you.
Your accent is so very soothing and I have enjoyed the series very much. Thank you.
Elizabeth I inspired love and obedience such as the nation, that rarely given to a man and never before a woman. How it would've been if Henry VIII were still alive in that time of Elizabeth I and seeing his daughter ruling in a such good way his country, thank you so much your video of Tudor.
Amazing series . Few will ever fascinate us as much as this strong-willed, intense woman who beat all the odds.
I just discovered your channel a couple of days ago and been binging since. I think this is the best of all your videos I've watched so far.
Finished this today, have goosebumps & getting a bit of a lump in my throat. Time to rewatch Elizabeth. :)
An invaluable series for anyone studying the Tudors. How I wish the internet and your in depth research had been around back in my day. Absolutely loved this. Thank you from Coleraine 👏
I personally would have loved to have known that Mary Queen of Scots could have ruled longer. Yes Queen Elizabeth was a great person and achieved a lot for her people.
I share a birthday with her, and I believe she is the most fascinating Queen ever, nice program, well done 🙂
Thank you :-)
Another fantastic upload as usual!!! You're brilliant!!💜
Thank you :-) Glad you liked it.
One historian I heard stated Elizabeth's Tilbury speech was in fact a later invention to promote her greatness and not given at the time & place at all.
Absolutely...!! It was pure propaganda and was started after her death actually...
Well said, Essex's head would have absolutely been on a spike for trying that on Elizabeth's father, probably right on the spot, his hand would not have been restrained by Essex's curls lol.
Beautifully done series! Thank you so much for providing insight into the Tudor Dynasty!
Elizabeth I's greatest accomplishment was making it to the end of Mary's reign without suddenly becoming a head shorter than she had been at the beginning.
Your videos are wonderful! Would you ever consider doing a similar series on the Plantagenets? I'm a big fan...especially of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Maybe one day. I'd like to cover the likes of Elizabeth of York, Richard III and Princes in the Tower first.
The best. Is the truth in history
Thanks, my favourite tudor
I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the Tudor monarch series. Brilliant work.
Thank you :-)
THIS HAS BEEN MY MOST WORTHY BINGE. I THANK YOU!
I have thoroughly enjoyed these lessons on English history.Elizabeth 1 was a great figure in English history and definitely earned a respected place there.what I admire is her strength yet her reactions as a woman especially to the times she had to sign an order for execution.she did have a heart in the midst of her reign.that is what I like about her
Yes, I think she always had some heart too (though sometimes she managed to repress it rather well). I'm delighted you're enjoying the channel. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I have an MA in history from an American University and as a fellow historian, I have to say that I find your videos fabulous. I only wish any of my professors had been as engaging.
I respectfuly disagree with some of your conclusions about Richard iii, but this series about the Tudors is absolutely spot on. Thank you.
This series was informative, well delivered and even exciting, given that a great deal had already been divulged about Elizabeth's reign, I continually waited ea time, for the next upload! Sad now. Pls continue your work and give us more to look forward to and thank you for what you've already given to us.
This series was absolutely incredible!! I truly can't wait to see what else you do ♡
You always pick the best quotes!!
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it as it took absolutely ages to put together and I did start to wonder what I'd got myself into by the end! :-)
@@HistoryCalling Well for me, you are certainly the very best of the online history tutors!
A really nice presentation. Thank you!
You're very welcome! :-)
I have really enjoyed this series, your research is first class. I look forward to your next venture.
Thank you :-)
That was remarkable! I personally thank you for taking the time and effort to not only do the research in such totality, but to address all the perceptions , standards and realities of the times, and make an unbiased objective observation in relation to the events as they unfolded. Genuinely impressed. Your voice is calming, measured and I love the slight burr you have. As an audio sensitive, it's total asmr heaven. In one morning alone, I have managed to blaze through a large amount of the "Tudor posts" as I have affectionately named them. I'd love to hear you do a series of podcasts and audio books. I would most certainly buy them. Hope you continue to post more like this, and grow your channel. I have subscribed.Am also planning to visit as many castles and historic towns and cities in the UK as possible. So far, have been to York, Edinburgh, berkhamstead, Rochester, Somerset House, Whitehall, the Tower of London, Corfe Castle, St Michael's Mount, and there's a few others on my list to go. (I've also been to the original Clink, which was pretty good).
Thank you so much. It's always lovely when someone appreciates the effort that goes into the videos. Those are brilliant places to visit. I hope you enjoyed your visits and get to do more.
Loved this series and listening to it after a horror story was awesome 👌 👏 👍 😍
excellent presentation! Enjoyed your whole Tudor series! thank you!
My pleasure!
In Elizabeth's reign, Anne Bolyne won 🏆
A rousing finish, fully worthy of the undertaking! A well-deserved round of applause for you from the cheap seats! (I still have to go back and do Henry VII, where I should have begun...)
Thank you. I certainly didn't think when I started the videos on the Tudors that I would need 14 of them to get through the whole dynasty and 5 on Elizabeth alone. I remember being a bit burnt out by the time I made it to the end of this series and rather down about the fact that at that stage hardly anyone was watching the channel yet, so it felt like a lot of effort for not much reward. Thankfully the channel took off not long afterwards and a lot of my new subs went back and binged this series.
Yes, do check out Henry VII. He has one of the most fascinating stories of them all.
@@HistoryCalling I binged the last twelve (and will finish out of order tomorrow). I'm doing about three of yours a day now and will be your newest subscriber once I've had a chance to catch up some. I've been wondering if you've gotten a chance to dip into Shakespeare, who gets a mention here in Elizabeth's outstanding finale. I certainly do hope you have some sense of reward now for such an excellent job. For all its digital warts, people like you still make the Internet rich and worthwhile.
Better start with the war of the roses and margaret beaufort...!
Great video! I loved the tudor monarch series. cant wait to see what you have next
Thank you so much. Probably back to Anne Boleyn next week as the six wives videos have been by far the most popular on the channel.
@@HistoryCalling How about Margaret Tudor, Henry VIII's sister, or her granddaughter, Mary Queen of Scots? Or Eleanor of Aquitaine?
Margaret Tudor and Mary, Queen of Scots are on the list and I'd be happy to consider Eleanor down the line too. :-)
absolutely fascinating and fantastic, your series on the life of Elizabeth 1 , wish i had discovered your channel sooner, thank you very much, brilliant 👍❤🙂
Thank you for this non-fanciful and to the point set of videos and the work it must have taken to produce them. Top shelf stuff.
Brilliant, thanks very much!
I have LOVED the videos in this series! I am a history fanatic and this is by far my favorite time period and subject. Thank you for putting together the best video series on the subject that I have seen to date. I can't wait to watch the rest of your videos, you and they are exceptional!
Glad you like them! :-)
I loved every moment of this 5 part series! Thank you so much.. your calm voice makes it all the more enjoyable ❤
I thoroughly enjoyed this series--binged it when I should have been doing more responsible things!--and will certainly be watching more; clear, concise presentation and delivery. Smitten by your diphthongs.
Well, I have certainly learned a lot. Thank you very much. Great presentation.
Thank you :-)
I loved your critical analysis of source material.
12:34 =Yeah, poor Robert Cecil (E's Dwarf) is often undermined by Essex... Ironically, E's Dwarf had the last laugh though...
Just thrilling! You're making an old woman consider a history degree. X
Ihave enjoyed all of your video history calling from Bea
It's so sad thinking of her in catatonia at the end of her life. Her ladies and closest friends must have been frantic.
Utterly fantastic series. Would love it if you could do the Plantaget's
Amazing job!!!
Thank you! :-)
Thank you so much for this wonderful series.
This was an amazing series! 👍
I enjoy your videos! I’d love for you to consider a series on Thomas Cromwell. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
Thanks Pamela. I'll maybe do a video on him in the future. He's a fascinating character :-)
Really interesting and a nice clear voice. Looking forward to other series.
Thank you kindly!
Brilliant as usual! Thank you. X
Thanks Ann. Glad you enjoyed it :-)
I feel very strongly that that infamous ring with the portraits of herself and whom many believe is the portrait of her mother. I believe it was the portrait of Kate Ashly. Because Elizabeth is known to have said that Anne Boleyn gave her life. It was Kate Ashly who gave her love. And it make s sense that she would want to keep Kate Ashly close to herself even after the woman died.
The Tudor monarchs. The best of them were the first and the last, ironically. Good queen Bess! Thank you for allowing us a closer look of her glorious reign.
I have been watching nearly all of your videos so I owe you quite a lot. Thank you very much for your excellent work.
WOW, THANK YOU SO MUCH ERIK for such an incredibly generous donation to the channel. I'm really glad you're enjoying the videos. I wish I could get more people to binge them :-)
Elizabeth my shero!
Wonderful series! Thank you.
Madam thank you very much for this series. I really enjoyed every single one of you vídeos.
Great job!!
My pleasure. Thank you for watching :-)
I really love your channel, you have a beautiful voice. Good luck with everything I'm sure you'll get to a million.
Thank you so much :-)
This was so fascinating and incredibly well done 👍 Brava!
Hi. Hope you're ok this week. I've really enjoyed this series. Alison
Hi Alison. I'm well thanks and really glad you've enjoyed the Tudor monarchs. As I said at the end of the video, it ended up being a bit longer of a series than I'd anticipated! :-)
Brilliant series and channel. Thank you.
I love all your videos!! I hated history in School, but somehow became interested in Henry VIII right before The Tudors premiered and I love JRM, so watched that and loved it of course. Then, I came across a show called White Queen, and started watching that and when I heard Henry Tudors name in the show the first time, I was like What? Then came the White Princess and Spanish Princess, so now I’m a History Fanatic. You do a great job in your videos and I love your humor. I will definitely keep learning! Kimberly from the US
Hi Kim, thank you for watching and commenting. I'm so happy you like the videos and history in general now. I think it's quite common to dislike it in school, if they don't choose particular subjects/era/people/events that interest you. I had some very dull history classes myself that I only survived because I already had a love of the subject. I'm sure other people in my class were put off for life though! :-)
@@HistoryCalling I wish there was more information about Arthur Tudor and I wonder why Henry and Catherine son only lived 52 days. I wish I could go back in time and tell Henry, dude, you determine if it will be a boy or girl, but I might lose my head 🤕
Haha, yes I think it would. Henry didn't like to be told that anything was ever his fault. I'll maybe do a video on the fertility problems of Henry and his wives. I can't remember if there was a cause of death for their baby son or not, but infant deaths were very common at that point, so it may have just been bad luck.
@@HistoryCalling That would be an awesome video! I love anything to do with the Tudor era, but most documentaries I watch usually just gloss over the Catherine of Aragon era. I think I watched one that suggested a cause, but I cannot for my life remember what they suggested. I think it might have been polyps, or uterine cysts?
@@kimmasters8700 There's actually an brilliant bio of Arthur! "Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was" by Sean Cunningham. Obviously we don't know a huge amount about Arthur as he sadly died so young, but you _can_ infer quite a lot more from how Henry VII was raising him. I'm pretty sure there's no known cause for the death of Henry VIII's son with Catherine of Aragon, Henry Duke of Cornwall- just another sad death in infancy, probably from an illness. (Just based on watching The Anne Boleyn Files channel, which is as good as this one re: contemporary sources :) )
Great Stuff! ... as always. Lovin' it!
It’s about time she did something to Essex she was such strong woman
Thank you.
I just discovered your channel, I absolutely loved this series and your take on going over these events, focusing on the facts but giving room for empathy and sympathy.
Thank you :-) I'm glad you're enjoying the videos.
Thank you so much for making these videos. I had a question though... Are there any books you could suggest for learning more about the Tudor dynasty?
Thank you. I quite often puts links to relevant books in the description boxes of videos if you want to have a nosy.
She was the GREATEST Monarch it British history. Ferociously bright, incredibly brave and ahead of her time-she was the first ‘feminist’!
Thank you 🙏
You’re welcome 😊
Just reading up on those in the court of Elizabeth and the amount of disrespect for the rule that the queen had to approve marriages was out of control.
Wasn't the English High Admiral who knocked out the Armada a direct relative of the headless Catherine Howard? He was a good man ... took care of those under His command after the battle. Basically, pensioned them out of his own pocker when QE1 neglected them.
Admiral Charles Howard, Lord High Admiral, was Catherine Howard's half-first-cousin. Elizabeth Howard Boleyn (Anne Boleyn's mother) and Lord Edmund Howard, Catherine's father were half-siblings of the Admiral's father Lord William Howard. The Admiral was Queen Elizabeth's half-first cousin, once removed. He seems to have been an excellent and generous commander.
@@edithengel2284 Great! Thx!
So other than James IV and I, who where the contenders to take the English throne if she arranged it ? surly James wasn’t the only heir. Well excluding Mary as one requires a head to rule lol
I actually plan to do a video on that in the future :-) In a nutshell, the other descendants of Mary and Margaret Tudor, the Infanta Isabella of Spain (as nuts as that sounds) and some other, random Plantagenet descendants. I'm going to have to do so many family trees for this eventual video! :-)
@@HistoryCalling Oooh, genealogy, lovely! :)
Please do a series about all the Stuart sovereigns and the Jacobite risings. It's kinda rare to find detailed videos about them and they are my favourite dynasty. It would be greatly appreciated.
I love the Stuarts too. Mary, Queen of Scots and the Glorious Revolution are already in my sights :-)
@@HistoryCalling That sounds promising, ma'am.
Be greeted cordially from the Royal Stuart Society.
Accurat knowelge of history is our best defense for tommorrow.
It is really wonderful that you truly are trying to be objective in your videos. You don’t just discard the “traditional” interpretation of the people or events, simply because it’s not in par to the woke vision of the history that became so prevalent these days.
Keep on good and honest work!!!😁
Thank you :-)
I know its abit off topic but i cant help wondering how Elizabeth 1 would have handled Prince Harry & his wifes recent debacle? ...🤔
Along with Anne Boleyn & her daughter Elizabeth have to be my 2 most favourite historical figures.
Theres just something unknowable about these 2 women & the facination they compel in everyone.
Both strong, determined, extremely intelligent & erudite
They played life like a game of chess, always 10 moves ahead & plenty of sideways moves or get out plans.
I think there has to be something extraordinary though about how Elizabeth survived in such a minefield of danger & plots & betrayals
I dont blame her for not wanting to marry after seeing how much men disregarded women in those times but still, her steely will & determination are phenomenal!
Short lived as a blood line yet the history of the Tudors still continue to enthrall us today
I know i never ever get tired of hearing & seeing anything about them all, going back to my 1st fascination when i read the life story of Margaret Beaufort & her blood line from John of Gaunt
Again Margaret was a force to be reckoned with! Wow she was a woman & a half & her will & determination to advance her son & herself to the highest position in the land.
I think there has to be something in Margarets DNA that makes women of her line, almost Goddess like females with a greatness to rule & put down any obstacles with a swat of the hand!
Brilliant women of Tudor blood
I still think they are around in spirit !
I just hope they can bolster up the resolve of our present Queen to squash the troublesome gnats
Of Prince Harry & his concubine!
Thank you so much for this whole series on the Tudors its been brilliant, clear & concise, straight to the facts & very entertaining & yes ive subbed to yr channel 🙋♀️
If Mary hadn’t died so early and Elizabeth hadn’t been such a remarkable ruler, it’s very possible England would have had good reason to never want another Queen regnant and we may never have had Anne, Victoria, and Elizabeth II. Elizabeth I proved that a queen was a good thing for England, and she’s one of the reason why England is more associated with its queens than it’s kings
Do you know if Elizabeth's tomb is unmolested, unlike Catherine Parrs's tomb?
Indulging the Earl of Essex in his bad behaviors certainly did him no favors.
There wasn’t another great queen until a descendant of her Aunt Mary Boylen , Elizabeth II, came to the throne
Victoria had a greater impact on British culture, economy, politics and society as well as world history in general than Elizabeth II ever did
The Tudor's dynasty was incredible propaganda machine and a for runner;
For the lesson this dynasty of men and women within the family of Tudor, has been learnt by modern government, interesting indeed.
Weather was incredible on that day or night and the survival of the few men either in Ireland or Scotland, proved the strength of humanity in life at it's worst moment in time and history.
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I wonder how Elizabeth was allowed to be throne. Because like if Queen Mary the 1st reversed the divorce of her parents wouldn’t that make Elizabeth technically illegitimate.
She was already illegitimate, declared so by her father in the wake of his breakup with Anne. Mary's reversal of her own illegitimacy didn't affect this. Mary and Elizabeth came to the throne because they were written into the succession by their father, regardless of their illegitimate status.
I think the Earl of Essex ate too many blue smarties as a child.
Wow
I thought your series was awesome!!!
Thank you so much :-)
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44 years of stable government was of great benefit to England. The English could never go back to being Catholic after her.
Remember last video everyone commenting about all the mistakes Mary Queen of Scots made? I do...
Ah no. Robert dudely isn't the man she loves. The man she loves is the french prince. Duke of anjou. She called him her frog
The Rightful King today, is King John III. Joseph Gregory Hallett. Look it up.
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Gesh. Elizabeth has a soft spot for spoiled brats.
I have a question you know how Elizabeth loved Robert Dudley well if Elizabeth loved him and she gave him to Mary queen of Scots and Elizabeth Would name her heir well then if lady Jane grey was not killed does that mean that Elizabeth would name her as her heir since she is a sister in law to Robert Dudley and I think Elizabeth and lady Jane grey were very good friends am I right if that is true then I don’t think Elizabeth and Mary queen of Scots wouldn’t have had a fight over the crown do you think 😂
Hi Raumaan, Elizabeth wouldn't have needed to name Lady Jane as her heir (had Lady Jane still been alive) as Henry VIII's will stipulated that she was next in line. The two girls knew each other, but I don't know if they were friends or not I'm afraid.
@@HistoryCalling why would you be afraid if lady Jane grey was queen