tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564901.post8409839925976879013..comments2023-04-27T13:42:18.934+02:00Comments on Bookpacker: "The Tudors"rhino75http://www.blogger.com/profile/04974269097513870975noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564901.post-76451543943787957382007-04-05T18:37:00.000+02:002007-04-05T18:37:00.000+02:00Wow! Yep, it was the Rhys that misled me. Why did ...Wow! Yep, it was the Rhys that misled me. Why did he change his name??<BR/><BR/>As for the discrediting-- I thought it was before as well as after but perhaps it was solely subsequent. In any case I was amused to see that historical tidbit made it into episode 1!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564901.post-73435651630616961592007-04-02T22:31:00.000+02:002007-04-02T22:31:00.000+02:00hmmm, if I remember correctly, the discrediting ca...hmmm, if I remember correctly, the discrediting came afterwards, didn't it? <B>Maitresse</B>, I can see why you might think JRM was Welsh - the Rhys thing - but in fact he's a Dublin boy whose real name is Jonathan Michael Francis O'Keefe. 'Tis no harm ;-)rhino75https://www.blogger.com/profile/04974269097513870975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564901.post-12106827616777905082007-04-02T13:47:00.000+02:002007-04-02T13:47:00.000+02:00God I have such a soft spot for medieval British h...God I have such a soft spot for medieval British history. Not for Renaissance, though-- the Tudors were a bunch of usurpers! Henry VII saw to it that Richard III was completely discredited and then he swooped in and took over... <BR/><BR/>I'll watch the show anyway. Hey, HVIII comes up on the agregation from time to time. It's research.<BR/><BR/>And Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is Welsh, isn't he??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564901.post-60454858789612591612007-03-29T15:17:00.000+02:002007-03-29T15:17:00.000+02:00Boz, that's surely not eyeliner, it's soul - lol. ...<B>Boz</B>, that's surely not eyeliner, it's <I>soul</I> - lol. Thank goodness it wans't King Arthur, I would have had to have slipped in a "Lancelot" joke...rhino75https://www.blogger.com/profile/04974269097513870975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12564901.post-85555282507461743202007-03-29T14:33:00.000+02:002007-03-29T14:33:00.000+02:00Lots of eyeliner in Tudor time, apparently then?Am...Lots of eyeliner in Tudor time, apparently then?<BR/><BR/>Am trying hard to resist making a joke about liking men with big swords... arrgghhh....Bozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065257907482952779noreply@blogger.com