More of Susan’s Interview with Michael Hirst, Writer of The Tudors

All the courts of Europe were run by people in their teens and twenties…that’s why they were so crazy. We have this image now that the court is always middle aged, but it wasn’t true. You know, Henry was 18 when he became King, and I thought it was ridiculous that people were telling me he was really rather prudish and there was no sex because there was no heating in the palaces…