Discussion: Katherine Howard's portrayal this season?

"I've read so many things on these caracters before the show even came out. Alot of things we can't 100 percent know for fact so I'm just going to right what I've read. I think people are being too hard on Katherine she was so young and was told to seduce him. Of course she had her own agenda too. But it was documented that Jane Seymour cheated on Henry too.Anne seduced him and Jane seduced him.Jane was sleeping with him before the death of Anne. Jane is one big reason why Anne was exicuted. He was in a rush to be with Jane that the fastest way to marry her was to get rid of Anne.I don't think Katherine was that slutty not any more then Anne or Jane. Henry just thought Katherine was inoccent but she wasn't and neither were three of his other wives"

"Will you please share the source of the documented evidence that Jane Seymour was sleeping around and sleeping with the King before marriage?"

"They used Rocks and someother stuf, but ROCKS, why? How? LOL!"

"Will you please share the source of the documented evidence that Jane Seymour was sleeping around and sleeping with the King before marriage?"

"What rocks??? How on Earth...and they still wanted to go at it! Damn.
Seriously though, how? "

"The rocks as contraception I think came from the (fiction) book The Autobiography of Henry VIII with Notes by his Fool Will Somers. He thought KH was pregnant and the doctor told him she had "miscarried stones". In the book, he felt sorry for her which is an unlikely story...lol. I don't know if she swallowed them or inserted them, but on another thread it was discussed and more information might be found on Tudors Medicine page here. At any rate, if she did, I would surmise it was to avoid getting pregnant by her lover(s)"

"Rocks!? If she inserted them it would be comparable to a stone age diaphram! "

"am curious myself about the rocks - but, the Margaret George books are pretty well researched with lots of details about every possible thing in the period. "

"I adored that Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George, that book is the perfect example of Historical Fiction. "

"Ahhh don't get me started, I have already done more than my share of damage on other threads. Brief: Bryant looks like a pimp, the "dormitory" like a brothel, the dowager like a madame making crude comments. HOney-Beez of course we know none of this is in any way historically accurate. I feel they have done the girl a huge injustice and contributed to an unfortunate stereotype but if you think about it, all of the characters except Henry given complex emotions are totally one-dimensional. Even Brandon is predictable. Why do I watch the show, members will ask? Why indeed? I will say that on every episode I can tell within 5 minutes what is going to happen, and poor Kitty Howard is portrayed as nothing more than an ignorant, giggling horny little teenager. When in fact she needed affection and idolized Henry in a way, and what young girl would not jump at the chance to be queen? He called her his "Rose without a Thorn" and how are they going to possibly include this when she is thorny as hell? lol"