Transcript for: Henry VIII: A Comedic Historical Overview
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(gags) Sigmund, I don't have much longer. Tell me, was I a good King? - Ugh, you were okay. - Will I be remembered as the great warrior
king who invaded France, revolutionized English healthcare, and developed great park lands? - Um, probably not. - 'Cause of the wife killings? - 'Cause of the wife killings. - (gags) (takes bite) Sigmund, how did I get here? I still remember the good
old days when I was a boy with a heart full of fire and Mummy would teach me.
(dreamy harp music) (whimsical clarinet music)
Okay, Henry, this is a horse. Can you say horse? - Ho, ho, divorce! - What, no. Okay, let's try this one. Can you say loaf of bread? - Ll, off with her head! - No, Henry, that's wrong! You know what, last one. Okay, can you say soap? Soap! - Sss, sss. - Yes. That's it. - I'm the supreme head of the church! Screw the Pope! - You know what? You're my son and I love you, but you're freaking weird, man. (light orchestra music) (upbeat music)
[Narrator] The year is 1491. England has just come out of three decades of civil war in which a
bunch of Henrys, Edwards, and one Richard had a little ding dong over which Royal house
should rule the round. Finally, a Henry won, Henry
VII, and he had a son. (whimsical orchestra music)
What should we name him? - My Royal lineage is full of Henrys, a fine name, a vigorous name, a tenacious name, a muscular name. - How about Arthur? - [Narrator] And so
Arthur, Prince of Wales, and next in line to the throne was born. Five years later, Prince Henry was born, but nobody cares about him. He's not the heir, just a spare. the King wanted to make
an Alliance with Spain. So one day, he said to his
son, Arthur, "Hey, baby, "you see that lady, baby? "That's going to be your wife." - But father, I'm not
even three years old yet. - Listen, there's something
you have to understand. You're my son, but more than that, you're
a political bargaining tool. - But you love me, right? - I love you as a
political bargaining tool. - Yay. - Hey, pop. - Who the heck are you? - I've written you a poem. - Listen here, tiny man,
can't you see that I'm busy? - But I'm your son. - I have another son? - [Narrator] as Arthur was in
another palace being prepped to become King,
(medieval orchestra music) Henry lived with his mother
and two sisters at Eltham, where he was being trained
for a church career, and not just that, Henry learnt languages. He played sports. He learned the recorder. What a nerd. Am I right? Wrong, Henry was the coolest kid around. (mellow jazz music) - So I told my Latin teacher
he could kissius my buttius. (audience laughing) Anyway, here's Wonderwall. (crowd cheering) (upbeat xylophone music)
Great scholars and theologians from
across Europe came to meet and teach the young Prince Henry, who by all accounts was a
very enlightened, bright, and charming young boy. (crowd cheering)
Everybody loved Henry, and out of everything Henry
was taught more than anything, he came to adore and respect
theology and Catholicism. One of Henry's tutors was
English poet Laureate, John Skelton, who wrote
a textbook for Henry that we still have today. In it, he wrote a number
of important lessons for the young Prince,
such as, "Do not be mean," "loathe gluttony," and "Do not violate widows," important lessons for
any nine-year-old boy. (medieval orchestra music)
Around this time, Henry's older brother, Arthur, now 15-years-old, was married
to Catherine of Aragon sealing the union between
England and Spain, (crowd cheers) and then he died.
(crowd groans) (sad organ music)
Oh, my alliance with Spain. My poor, poor alliance with Spain. - And your son, sire? - Oh yes, of course, my son, but mostly my alliance with Spain. - Hey, pop. - Who the heck are you? Oh yeah! (whimsical orchestra music)
And just like that, an unprepared Prince
Henry was now the new heir to the throne. And how about that alliance with Spain? Well, the solution was simple. - Hey, Boy, see that full
grown woman over there? That's gonna be your wife. - What, my brother's widow? - Yes. - You're a fricking weirdo, man. - [Narrator] Now, in the Bible, there's a verse that says
marrying your brother's widow, that's a big no-no. So the King needed to convince the Pope and get his special permission. - Hey, can I please have my
son marry his brother's widow? - Eh, sure, why not? - [Narrator] And so it was. Henry's life was turned on its head as he was moved to the Royal court next in line to the throne, but tragedy struck when
just a few months later, his mother with whom he was very close, suddenly died in childbirth. The loss of his mother almost
certainly had a big effect on the young boy. (inquisitive orchestra music)
In his older years, King Henry VII went on a
bit of a paranoid trip. As was normal for a King at the time, Henry VII had had to quell
a number of rebellions, and as he aged, he became
ever more suspicious of the nobility around him. To keep them in check, he began
levying huge ruinous fines left, right, and center. Dukes, Bishops, Barons,
even his own mother, no one was safe from his tyranny, and the nobility of
England began to suffer. So when Henry VII
finally got sick and died just after Christmas, 1508,
there was a lot of celebration, (cheering)
(upbeat orchestral music) not only because the tyrannical
Henry the seventh was gone, but because his replacement
was the ever popular, charming, and handsome 18-year-old, King Henry VIII. Henry married Catherine
of Aragon in June, 1509. You may be wondering, if it's so weird to marry your brother's widow
and since he's now King, couldn't Henry just decide not to? Well, yes he could, but
by now, Henry wanted to. The thing about Henry
that was unlike many kings of the time was he married for love, and he'd grown quite fond
of Catherine, very fond. Historians say their
marriage was unusually good, and so he was coronated King and what a King.
(crowd cheers) Compared to his tyrannical father, he was an absolute joy. Having the blood of two royal houses, he was widely supported. He was really, really,
ridiculously good-looking and those famous calves
could achieve world peace. (cat calls) - Hey Henry, now that you're King, you know what that means? (group cheering)
COSTUME PARTY! (whimsical orchestra music)
Henry pranced around the palace playing
dress up with his friends. He wrote plays. He sang songs. He danced. A true Renaissance man, very different from the gluttonous wife
killer we think of today. In his early reign,
people from near and far would come to ask favors
of the generous king. - Hey man, could I gain
ownership of some land near Upton Snodsbury? - Sure thing, pal! - Hey, could I be an Earl
or a Baron or a Viscount or something? - Anything you want, man. - Could I get like, just
like a really cool pig that has like freaking metal wings and eight legs and shoots flippin lasers and it can grow more pigs out of it for extra pigs? - Say no more. - Hey guys, I was just checking
up on the financial report and what the hell? We can't afford this! - [Narrator] Henry's
council that he inherited from his father weren't happy
with all the money he was just throwing around and they worked hard to curb the king's spending. Since they controlled
the royal seals needed to get stuff done, at first,
they were largely able to control the young king, and for Henry, the most infuriating things of all was they wouldn't let him
joust with his friends because it was too dangerous, nor would they let him do
the thing he wanted most, to go on a great, glorious,
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spending, and war with France. Henry wanted glory.
(whimsical orchestra music) He wanted to go down in history. If you didn't go to war in France was he even the King of England? - Man, I want to go to war so bad, but the council won't let me. - Hey, maybe I can help with that. - Whoa, it's Cardinal Wolsey, one of my best friends,
despite being an old ass man. - [Narrator] Cardinal Wolsey knew that if he helped King Henry, there'd likely be something in it for him. So what was his great intricate plan to curb the council's power? - You're the king, dumb-dumb. You can do whatever you want. - What? - [Narrator] Wolsey began writing bills that simply didn't require
the seals, and thus, Henry was back on top. For his efforts, Wolsey
began to climb the ranks, and he became something of
a yes-man for King Henry, encouraging Henry to frolic and play while Wolsey took care of business. (Henry humming) - Hey kid, you want to go on an adventure? - Do I ever? - [Narrator] The Pope
was at war with France and he needed some help. He offered the young impressionable
King Henry 100 Parmesan cheeses, some wine, and a golden rose if he came to the Pope's
aid, and Henry was all in. At this point in his life,
he still respected the church and loved the Pope, and here was a chance for war he had been waiting for. He still didn't have an heir, a fairly big problem for
a Monarch at the time, but right now, the only kind
of smashing he was interested in was smashing French guys in the face, (groaning)
and so off he went. (intense percussion music) The English already held
the French city of Calais. From there, Henry made a glorious victory at the Battle of The Spurs.
(armies yelling) He took the French cities
of Therouanne and Tournai. Word of his victories spread. This was it. Here was the glory he
had been waiting for. Back home, his beautiful
wife also led armies to victory in Scotland, and
better yet, she was pregnant. Soon, Henry would have an heir. All of Henry's wildest
dreams were coming true. Oh, he ran out of money. As the French prepared to invade Italy, all Henry could do was go home. - Well, at least now I have
an heir to cheer me up. (whimsical orchestra music)
Bring me my son. - Henry, this is Mary. - Mary? That's a funny name for a boy. - Henry, it's a girl. (screaming) - [Narrator] This was
Katherine's fifth pregnancy that had not resulted in a male heir. Happy Henry wasn't so happy anymore. - You still haven't given me a male heir. - Well, how do you know it's my problem? Maybe it's your problem, Henry. - It couldn't be my problem because I've been boinking
half your maid staff, and one of them gave me a boy-uh. I mean, sure. Yeah, you know what? Maybe it's my problem. I'll look into that. - [Narrator] Cardinal Wolsey,
now Henry's Lord Chancellor, knew his job depended
on keeping Henry happy, and so he said, "Well, if you
can't be the great warrior, "then how about the great peacemaker?" - Not as cool, but okay. - [Narrator] And so the
Field of the Cloth of Gold, a glamorous peace summit between England and France was held. The king of France, Frances I, was essentially the French
version of King Henry, and the whole thing was
basically one giant codpiece measuring contest. The two sides did agree to a peace treaty. However, it didn't last long. You see, there was a third major player in European politics at the time, an exquisite specimen of Royal inbreeding, an heir to a huge inheritance, and a chin that could hit a home run, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. he was Henry's wife's nephew. Henry had helped him out in the past to put down a Spanish rebellion, and now, the two wanted
to make an alliance, and so a marriage was arranged. - Mary I'd like to introduce
you to your 22-year-old, fully grown, adult cousin,
and now, your future husband. - Ew, he looks inbred. - Mary, we're all inbred! (whimsical percussion music)
With their new alliance, Charles and Henry agreed to team up and relaunch a campaign against France. In 1522, the English landed
and stormed as far South as Agincourt, but Charles didn't
commit significant forces. - Whoops, sorry, man. Not sure what happened. I'll join in next year. - [Narrator] The next year,
England swept Northern France, almost taking Paris, but once
again, where was Charles? - Aw man, I'm so sorry. I promise next year I'll be there. - [Narrator] The next year came and a fed up Henry decided he
was going to sit this one out, and just as Charles ravaged the French at the Battle of Pavia and
captured the French King. (whimsical orchestra music)
Holy crap, dude. - Yeah, I totally kicked France's butt. - That's great! So can I have the French
throne like we agreed? - Mmm, no. - What? - And also I don't want to marry
your ugly daughter anymore. - (indistinct) Ugly? Have you seen your chin? - Mummy says it's a strong
chin for a strong boy! - [Narrator] As Henry's alliance
with Charles fell apart, Henry knew his days as
a warrior were over. This was a problem for Henry, but it was a bigger problem for his wife. Catherine of Aragon had two jobs. The first was to give Henry a male heir, but the second was to maintain an alliance with her relatives in
Spain, including her nephew. She had failed and Henry's
sexy eyes began to wander. Home from all his wars, Henry ate up his daily
5,000 calories of meat as an infatuation began to grow
for one of his wife's ladies in waiting, Anne Boleyn,
beautiful, intelligent, cultured. She was exactly Henry's type. Now, Henry had had dozens of mistresses, including Anne's sister, but Anne didn't want to
just be Henry's side chick. She wanted to be his queen. Henry sent dozens of
letters, thirsty love poems. In one, he proclaimed that he would like to kiss her pretty duckies. Henry's loins were on
fire, but Anne kept him at just the right distance
to drive him crazy and push him to find a way to get rid of his current wife. (ominous cello music)
Wolsey I want a divorce and as the representative
of the Pope here in England, I expect you to sort it
out quickly and quietly. I don't want this to turn
into a Europe-wide scandal. - You got it your majesty. Hey, big Papa, my boy, Henry, says he wants to divorce his wife. Any chance? (whimsical orchestra music)
To Henry's shock and horror, Wolsey deferred the case
back to the Pope in Rome. To make matters worse, after all the Wars in Europe, the Pope was currently under
the thumb of Charles V. Now, everybody knew what was going on, and Henry's divorce
trial had become a pawn of greater European politics. For Wolsey, the decision was a disaster. His job was to keep Henry happy, and Henry was very, very unhappy. Nevertheless, the divorce trial began. Henry's case rested upon
the Bible verse in Leviticus that claimed marrying your brother's widow would lead to childlessness, and Henry was certainly having a hard time getting a male heir. He argued that the Pope had got it wrong when he allowed Henry to
marry his brother's widow and that now divorce
was the only solution. However, the Pope and Charles
V acquired some interesting letters from an unknown source. - He wants to kiss her pretty duckies? - Man, this guys loins are on fire! - [Narrator] The Pope now
knew the case for divorce may not actually be
found in Henry's Bible, but in Henry's pants. After escaping Charles
V, the Pope did send out one Cardinal Campeggio
to oversee the trial. Campeggio is an old man racked with gout. It took him six painful months to travel from Rome to England, and when he finally got
there, this kept happening - Hey, I need you to take
a look at this evidence. - I can't. My gout is acting up. - Hey, are you ready to take my testimony? - I can't. My gout is acting up. - Hey, can you please make a decision? - I can't. - Your gout is acting up? - My gout is acting up. - [Narrator] Anne Boleyn,
with her Protestant views and support of the reformation, suspected the Pope was just delaying. For two whole years, the
trial dragged on and on, and in the end, the Pope simply said, "No, no divorce for you." Henry, the king that had
previously defended the Pope militarily from France and intellectually from the reformist ideas of Martin Luther, who had once respected the Pope above all, now found the Pope standing
between him and fourth base. - Your majesty, what will you do? - I'm the King dumb-dumb. I can do whatever I want. - What? - [Narrator] For his
failure, Henry removed Wolsey from the court, a decision
that was likely influenced by Anne Boleyn, who disliked the Cardinal. Having fallen from grace
and with potential charges of treason over his head, Wolsey died of illness a year later. Then Henry set about removing England from the influence of the Pope. - Hey, if you do that,
I'll excommunicate you. - Who cares, man? - Oh no, apathy, my weakness. - [Narrator] Henry gathered
theologians and scholars together to help him make
his case against the Pope. Together, they argued
to the people of England that the Pope's rule over the church was basically a takeover of what had once been a self-governing
national English church, and if that sounds familiar, some historians do believe this moment may have laid the foundations
for English euroscepticism. That's right, Brexit
may have been influenced by Henry's explosive loins. By and large, the people
gave Henry their support and those that didn't were
gonna be in for a rough time, but for now, Henry assumed the role of Supreme head of the English church, and his next divorce trial
was a foregone conclusion. Catherine of Aragon was Ara-gone and Anne Boleyn was in. - All right, I've upended
the entire country to be with you, so you'd
better give me a son, Okay? Now, did you get my
letter about the duckies? - [Narrator] Having finally
married the girl of his dreams, it was party time for
Henry and what a party. Life in the Tudor court was nonstop. Huge banquets with each
person eating, on average, 5,000 calories a day and no vegetables. Those are for poor people. Rich people ate meat, and
so you know what else is for rich people, constipation,
(man farts) but don't let that stop the party. the toilets are communal,
and Henry, himself, was the center of everything. He ate the best food. He had 1,200 pairs of shoes. He didn't even have to
wipe his own bum-bum. Life was great. (upbeat electronic music) - Everyone, I give you your
majesty, King Henry VIII! (recorder squealing)
(crowd cheering) - [Narrator] But how
did they pay for it all? Well, influenced by his
fairly Protestant new wife, since Henry had overturned the
organization of the church, this is how they paid for it. (whimsical orchestra music)
Oh my goodness, how awful. Selling fake fragments of the cross, vials of Jesus' blood
that you got from a duck, using religion in this way! This is terrible! I must confiscate all this money at once. Yes, how awful. I must take all of this away immediately. Monasteries across the
nation were dissolved and their riches placed
in the Royal coffers. Obviously many weren't
too happy about this, but Henry had a plan for that as well. Henry's descent into tyranny had begun. As any who rejected his
new claim as supreme head of the English church found their heads on the chopping block, and
so Henry partied, he danced, he sang, he ate, he jousted. (metal clangs)
(audience gasps) - Be Mean! Love Gluttony! Violate Widows! (dramatic horn blows) (inquisitive harp music)
In 1536, Henry fell from his horse
in a jousting accident, not for the first time, but certainly the heaviest
fall he had taken yet. Some historians believe
that brain damage caused by the incident may have
violently accelerated Henry's descent into tyranny. Executions in England ramped up. During his reign, it's
estimated 57 to 72,000 people were put to death, rich
or poor, big or small. No one was safe, and the most prominent victim of all was to be Henry's own wife. It had been three years
since their marriage. Anne had been pregnant four times, yet she had only been able
to produce one healthy child, a girl. What's more, it's possible
she had been going around insulting Henry's manhood. Henry's eyes, once again, began to wander. (intriguing jazz music)
His new top man, Thomas Cromwell, didn't want
to end up like Cardinal Wolsey, and so he came up with a plan. There was a court musician
who had been quite flirtatious in public with the queen. Well, Thomas Cromwell and his
boys got a forced confession out of him saying that it didn't stop at innocent flirtation and
the charges came rolling in. - Listen, Anne, we need to talk. - Oh no, you're gonna
divorce me, aren't you? Just like your last wife. - Aww no, come here, shh. No, I'm not gonna divorce you. It's much worse than that. (intense orchestra music)
Anne was charged with adultery, perversion, even incest, and plotting to kill the king, himself. The jury found her guilty, including her own uncle and ex-fiance, both fearing the wrath of the King, and on May 19th, 1536, Anne
Boleyn was Anne bull out. (inquisitive orchestra music)
Literally the next day, Henry married one of Anne's
ladies in waiting, Jane Seymour, his third wife. After Anne had smack talked his manhood and since he still had no male heir, Henry went on a campaign to
ensure the public knew he was virile as it gets. He had this famous portrait painted of the manliest man I've ever seen, and later, he would even
have his physician make a declaration about his health. - King Henry is a fine specimen of a man, and, please don't make me say this. - Say it. - (sighs) And every time I look at him, I wish I was a woman. (whimsical orchestra music)
The truth is after his jousting accident, the King had badly injured his leg and was no longer very active. Yet, he was still eating
his daily 5,000 calories. So by now, Henry was extremely unhealthy for the remainder of his life. He would incur a number of illnesses and his injured leg ulcers
would ooze stinking puss, a fine specimen of a man indeed. On the church front, Henry's
new and now pregnant wife was a devout Catholic and
she pleaded with the King to reinstate the monasteries. Henry was sick wives
meddling in his business, and he bluntly warned her to remember what happened to Anne Boleyn. (whimsical Jazz music)
Since splitting with the Pope, Henry had been hard at work
determining the theology of his new church of England. It kept many Catholic traditions, while on the other hand,
embracing some reformist ideas such as requiring the use of a new Bible, not in Latin, but in English. The cover of Henry's new Bible
depicted the people appearing to worship a giant King Henry, and in the corner, there's
some people being put to death just for good measure. For any who opposed Henry's ideas, whether Catholic or Protestant, for any who rebelled against him, it would be off with their heads. In October, 1537, Henry finally got what he had been waiting for. His wife, Jane, gave
birth to a healthy boy. However, the triumph
soon turned to tragedy as Jane Seymour died days
later from complications during the birth. Henry mourned, Jane, the
woman who had given him a son, for two years. (sad cello music)
(Henry slurps) - Your majesty, it's time
to choose your next wife. - Thomas, not now! Can't you see I'm in mourning? That one. - [Narrator] The woman
Thomas Cromwell had lined up for Henry's next marriage was the sister of a powerful German Duke, but all Henry cared about was
that she was pretty as pie, and Thomas Cromwell promised
that indeed she was. However, when she arrived in England, Henry was less than pleased. - Your majesty let me introduce
you to your fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. - What's that smell? - I think it's your leg, sire. - No, It's Anne of Cleves. She's ugly! This is treason! - What? - Off with his head! - [Narrator] Henry found
his new wife so repulsive that he never consummated the marriage and divorced her just six months later, and for bringing Henry
an ugly stinking woman along with additional
charges of plotting treason, Thomas Cromwell lost his head. The very same day of Cromwell's execution, Henry married his fifth
wife, the famed beauty, Catherine Howard. She's believed to have only
been seventeen at the time. Henry was forty-nine
and like Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard didn't last long. You see for some reason she
may not have been entirely satisfied with her 49-year-old
fine specimen of a man, and it's possible she engaged in a number of extra marital affairs,
including one with her cousin, Thomas Culpeper. When Henry found out, he was devastated. - How could she do this to me? - But sire, don't you have
hundreds of mistresses? - Shut up, Barry! That's not the point. (Henry cries) - Your majesty you're crying. - I'm not crying. It's just that sometimes when I get sad, water comes out of my eyes! (whimsical orchestra music)
For her treason, Catherine Howard met the same
fate as Anne Boleyn in 1542. So, we've had divorced, beheaded,
died, divorced, beheaded. Look out here comes, survived. Henry married the daughter
of a Royal official, Catherine Parr, in 1543, and she appears to have been
a good companion to Henry. She cared for the aging King,
who by now was so heavy, it took several men to
wench him onto his horse. She acted as a mediator within the family and convinced the King to
restore his two daughters to the line of succession. Their marriage did have
one hiccup, however, when Katherine dare disagree with the King over the subject of theology, - It's a miracle because when
the priest says the words of institution, the bread
turns into the body of Christ. - Well, if you put the bread
in a box for three months, is it a miracle that it turns moldy? - (gasps) Treason! - (sighs) You can't just call
everything treason, Henry. - [Narrator] The King
called for her arrest as serious charges were
placed over her head. However, in the end, she told Henry that she had not been disagreeing with him but simply learning from him, and so when the guards came to arrest her, the King told them to make
like an Anne and Cleve. Catherine Parr stayed with
Henry right until the end. As he aged into his later years in increasing pain and ill health, he grew ever more suspicious and moody. The once generous, promising young King, was now feared by all around him. (sad violin music)
(groans) Sigmund, I don't have much longer. Hold me. - Of course, sire, do you
have any final wishes? - How about one last conquest in France? (intense orchestra music)
And so in 1544, Henry made for Calais. The pesky French had been
supporting the Scottish in their ongoing wars with England, and they also owed Henry some money. So the extremely unhealthy
King personally led a siege against the French city of Boulogne. The English dug tunnels under the castle, and on the 13th of September,
the French surrendered, a glorious victory for Henry.
(army cheers) In actuality, the whole misadventure nearly bankrupt England and they ended up giving Boulogne back to the French a few years later, but Shh, don't tell Henry. He's having his moment. Finally, in 1547, a
55-year-old Henry lapsing in and out of consciousness passed away. His son, Edward, succeeded him, but died just five years later. His daughter, Mary,
briefly took the reigns and steered the country
back towards the Pope, but then, his second daughter
embraced reformist ideas and gradually transformed England
into a Protestant country. Henry's desperation to marry Anne Boleyn and his resulting feud with the Pope had changed the course of English history and religion forever. Unfortunately, none of
Henry's children had heirs, and when Elizabeth I died,
Henry's lineage ended with the house of Stewart
replacing the house of Tudor. So then you might think all that effort, a life filled with so much frustration, yet he never conquered France, he barely had a male heir, and his lineage died out. The egotistical man, Henry, grew sick and cruel and then died. So why are we all so fascinated
with King Henry VIII? Why not Henry the second or fourth? Well, without mentioning the
many important things his reign did achieve, one of his biggest goals was to go down in history, and you can put a big
green check beside that one because everything he did and how he asserted his
control and authority over everyone around him
has come to be viewed as the epitome of the word King, - and also because of the wife killings? - Yeah, definitely the wife killings. (upbeat music)