As history, “The Privates Lives of Henry VIII” is a joke. The biopic about England’s most infamous monarch ignores whole swaths of his life, invents facts about his marriages and portrays him in a way intended for entertainment rather than enlightenment.
Henry VIII has consistently been portrayed in popular culture as a fat, Dionysian figure whose lusts for food, women and attention were legendary. The 1933 film starring Charles Laughton and directed by Alexander Korda did much to spawn this trend.
Many people, therefore, were surprised when Showtime debuted its series about Henry, “The Tudors,” in 2007 starring a conspicuously slim and dreamy Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In fact, Henry was an avid sportsman and accomplished athlete until late in his life, when a leg injury suffered in a tournament led him to a sedentary lifestyle that brought on obesity.
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Hatch is the nickname given to the mongrel who sailed aboard King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose. It sank back in the 16th century. 
the chancellor of the exchequer who has successfully arranged for the Henry VIII's divorce from Katherine and organised the break with Rome. 
"Wolf Hall," Hilary Mantel's novel about the life of Henry VIII adviser Thomas Cromwell was named best fiction at the National Book Critics Circle award 
was working with a genuine Shakespeare script, written in collaboration with the playwright's protege John Fletcher, in the same way Henry VIII was. 
When European merchants, navigators and chancers began searching for a northern sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Henry VIII was 
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