It's a pleasure to have someone on YouTube telling these stories in the old style, painting the picture in the mind's eye with your words alone. So much better than the drivel we get on 'history' television nowadays.

Thanks for the content, Mr. Hicks.

Henry announced his engagement to Jane Seymour 11 DAYS after Anne's execution,so heartbreaking...Thank you Kevin👑

It is difficult to imagine the king having important meetings with his council sitting around him while he has a pooh 😂. I mean, I just can't 😆

I have always felt sorry for Anne Boleyn she didn't realize she was dealing with a complete psychopath.  It cost her, her very life and decimated her family. All due to Henry and Cromwell

I never really payed all that much attention in history, probably due to having a teacher with nil enthusiasm. However, after watching a few of your videos, I can see how clear it is that the teacher is the key component to the student’s interest. I really enjoy watching these videos thanks to your excitement and love of what you do. You’re an excellent host, a brilliant teacher and a quality story teller! Keep up the great work Kevin!

Talking about the Royal privy then pronouncing poor as pooer had me in stitches.

I had a history professor in college who told us stories this way every day. He  ot only covered all history from early civilization to 1949, he did so in a way that made us remember nearly every important detail. Thanks for doing what you do.

I never knew what the delay was with Queen Anne's execution, though I'd heard lots of tales about it. Such things as that the French swordsman arrived the night before the execution and went out and got drunk, so was hung over, or maybe it was just caprice on the part of the King. But I can certainly believe Cromwell's paranoia about there being too many people watching. Poor Queen Anne!

Yet another superb tragedy from the mists of time,that poor Queen,....thank you Kevin.

You can tell that Cromwell was a scheming, evil man (though very smart and efficient) by this portrait. That expression says it all. He looks scowling, mistrusting, and again scheming up bad plans for victims.

Yes completely trumped up charges.
Ann was too clever a woman to have affairs, knowing Henry all too well.

You can't beat City Hall: not then; not now; not never. Thanks.

Its very sad really, they were once besotted with each other , changed the face of England together and when she too could not bear him a son, she was a problem.. treason would be the cleanest way to not start a uprising. By all accounts the woman was incredibly intelligent

I have always resonated with the story of Anne Bolyn. Reminds me of a friend of mine ❤

At least they enlisted the services of a skilled swordsman to deliver a swift execution so that she could die with a bit of dignity and (presumably) minimal pain.

The whole spectacle is kind of bizarre really. Did she face the crowd? I imagine that the closest spectators might have been splattered with her blood, and then the facial movement…grotesque.

The fact that Henry spared the coconspirators from the standard punishment for treason (hung drawn and quartered) suggests to me an element of their innocence and his desire to avoid any feelings of additional guilt.

I’m not well read on the subject but I have been to his palace so it does interest me.

I have always been fascinated by this period of history.  I like the fact that you tell it how it really was, and not how they tell it in films etc.  Thank you.

Kevin, thank YOU a million

The videos on this channel are better than most of the programs on television. Great videos as always!

This video sent shivers down my spine

She was a framed victim but still was something of a b itch. A martyr of sorts, but now saint. The way she mistreated Bloody Mary was inexcusable, for example. That may have had an effect on her later behavior.