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"The Tudors" (2007)

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• The character of Princess Margaret, Henry's sister, is actually a composite of two sisters, his older sister Margaret Tudor and his younger sister Mary Tudor. While the events in the series come from Mary's life, the substitution of Margaret's name helps to avoid confusion with Henry's daughter with Catherine of Aragon, also named Mary.
  
  
• There is no historical evidence to suggests that Thomas Tallis (Joe Van Moyland) was bisexual.
  
  
• Steven Waddington’s character, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, lays claim to the English Crown by being the descent of Edward II. 1991 Steven Waddington played Edward II in Derek Jarman's film version of Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II (1991). Each of their claims to the English Crown were brought to an horrible end.
  
  

• SPOILER: Bessie Blount's son with Henry, named Henry FitzRoy, did not die shortly after his birth, as is depicted in the show. Rather, he lived to be 17 and died in 1536, shortly after the death of Anne Boleyn.
  
  

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