Enough of this obsession with the tedious Tudors.\u00a0 Yesterday I even heard Henry VIII described as ‘a hands-on gardener.’\u00a0 Please!\u00a0 I can just see him kneeling in the mud doing a spot of weeding.\u00a0 Why is it the Tudors make people’s brains fly out and their eyes fill with pound signs?<\/p>\n
If you\u00a0 want family betrayals, choose the Plantagenets.\u00a0 If you want unfettered ambition, choose the Plantagents.\u00a0 If you want blood and beheadings, choose the Plantagents.<\/p>\n
Let’s put the Tudors back on the shelf.\u00a0 There’s all history to explore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Enough of this obsession with the tedious Tudors.\u00a0 Yesterday I even heard Henry VIII described as ‘a hands-on gardener.’\u00a0 Please!\u00a0 I can just see him kneeling in the mud doing a spot of weeding.\u00a0 Why is it the Tudors make people’s brains fly out and their eyes fill with pound signs? If you\u00a0 want family betrayals, choose the Plantagenets.\u00a0 If you want unfettered ambition, choose the Plantagents.\u00a0 If you want blood and beheadings, choose the Plantagents. Let’s put the Tudors back on the shelf.\u00a0 There’s all history to explore.<\/p>\n[Read More...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}