Only one Henry…

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  Nunhead Mum of One said,

  Mmm….excuse me, just need to drag myself away from the DVD cover featuring our beloved Lord Ray of Winstone as Henry VIII.

  Whilst I agree that young whippersnapper Jonathan DOES do a little something for me when he strides around the screen in doublet and hose and shouting at that nice Sam Neill man, Lord Winstone’s potrayal of the great man does a LITTLE more for me……especially in that scene where he’s got his shirt off.

  Sorry, coming over all unnecessary again…..

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  dulwichmum said,

  Sweet Nunhead Mum Of One,

  I must admit I am curious to see how Lord Max of Beasley and Lord Gary of Barlow would look in a doublet and hose… I should imagine that they would distract a girl from her needle point! Pass the smelling salts.

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  Potty Mummy said,

  Hi both, I haven’t seen Ray Winstone as Henry but it sounds like one for when Husband is travelling… As for J R-M, I’m with you DM. He just can’t cut it.

  Husband loves this series but, but I’m a bit too much of a stickler for historical accuracy. Like Henry’s red hair – not featured. And his height (one of the few 6 footers of his time)- Jonathon is a measly 5′ 10” I would say. And the fact that Anne Boleyn had BROWN eyes (as a brunette myself it makes me mad when what little record there is of us is ignored), not piercing blue as in the series. And that she had 6 – count ‘em – 6 fingers on each hand (and no, I do not suffer from this condition myself, before you ask).

  Pedantic? Moi?

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  dulwichmum said,

  Indeed darling Potty Mummy,

  J R-M is just not the mountain of a man a girl likes to see strutting about in the role of Henry. He looks like the wheezy boy who always had a sick note for Matron to be excused from contact sports…

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  Nunhead Mum of One said,

  Hm, plus dear Anne had three (count ‘em) breasts……..no wonder Henry got rid of K of A tout suite!

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  IngeniousRose said,

  Lord Gary of Barlow? Please please no, not in my lifetime!

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  dulwichmum said,

  Dear Nunhead Mum of One,

  I am sure that you will find that Catherine of Aragon had a wart on her nose the size of an acorn!

  (Just to clarify here – I am sure I am Anne Boleyn re-incarnated, and Nunhead Mum of One is convinced that she was Catherine of Aragon in a previous life…)

  Darling Ingenious Rose,

  OK perhaps that is simply a perverse fantasy of mine – but it has made me smile on the number 3 bus to work every morning last week…

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  Retiredandcrazy said,

  OK, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers may not be the most realistic Henry VIII, but he ooozes sex and that does it for me.

  PS, sorry you think you would be rubbish at doing a MEME’s. I think you would be great.

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  dulwichmum said,

  Dear Retired and Crazy,

  OK then, I shall try again and let you know how I get on… Do you not think though that Mr Rhys-Meyers looks a little as though he enjoys musical theatre though?

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  debio said,

  So, it’s finally happened, dm…..reading a UK blog and having absolutely NO IDEA what it is about; not because, of course, that it does not make sense – just that I am sooooo in exile.

  Ostracised by Henry VIII – who’d have thought?

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