Yes, That’s Employer Provided AccommodationĪs Henry boasted last week, Wolsey is still Bishop of York. It remains unresolved between them as we go to see the object of their concern. Brandon is very “Can we just stop plotting for five minutes? We got him out of power, let’s just leave the guy alone.” He’s about to call you a ‘Sweet Summer Child’, Brandon. Norfolk frets that as Wolsey is still alive he will go for vengeance if he gets the opportunity. Brandon’s attitude to Wolsey changes again, to optimistic, forgiving Brandon who has no personal beef with Wolsey. Henry leaves and Brandon packs up and is making for the door like it’s the last day of school when Norfolk stops him to talk about Wolsey. Norfolk can probably live with that because Brandon is as uninterested in political power as Henry used to be. Norfolk finally gets what he wanted – Oh.Ffffantastic, Your Majesty.īut he’s got to share it with Brandon. Henry goes the traditional route of blaming the previous administration – everything you didn’t like? Well that was all Wolsey, and as Henry’s taking a greater interest in government now no-one should be looking to get as much power as Wolsey had. When he was in charge the council did whatever the hell Wolsey told them they were doing. We haven’t seen the council meeting before because it was all a bit redundant under Wolsey. Morning wank over, Henry gets announced and strides into the main hall, where his entire council awaits him. You do you, Come Cloth Holder, you do…wait, is that right? The Changing of the Administration Henry finishes, and the Come Cloth Holder folds over his Cloth, bows and leaves the room while calculating his overtime rate. Rhys Meyers goes all in on realism and there is generally a whole lot of work done I didn’t really need for this really authentic man-having-a-wank scene. We get this intercut with Anne sewing, in case we needed to be told what direction Henry’s thoughts were in. So do not pity the Come Cloth Holder, the Come Cloth Holder probably has his life together, and until Anne Boleyn turned up, his working hours were pretty great. There’s just no good way to interrupt this to try to get a job for Uncle Stephen.īut he probably did an apprenticeship for it, and is looking at pretty great pay and pension for the Tudor era. You’ve got to imagine that Come Cloth Holder was a little lower on the service totem pole than that. So actually, the King normally did wipe his own arse, but he required a sentient toilet roll holder, who was a reasonably important guy. It was a job people fought to get their relatives and friends into because Grooms of the Stool could be a big influence on the King.
You got access to the King every day, right at the time he was not being hassled by courtiers and had time to think about stuff. Now, we may mock the Come Cloth Holder, but Actually Historically there was a not entirely unrelated job, the ‘Groom of the Stool’ (the guy that handed Henry his wiping cloth after crapping, among other things) that was a highly sought after position in the Tudor court. You can see and hear the Season 1 titles here.Īnd once it ends we’re straight into Henry wanking into the waiting arms of his Come Cloth Holder. It’s vibrant, creates a lot of impulsion and gets to just the right point of grandeur before it ends. And as an example of its genre, The Tudors’ theme is great, it does its job really well. With its orchestra on the top half and its pop drums on the bottom half The Tudors’ theme (2007) is part of the mashup style which was given a kick into the mainstream by ‘A stoke of genie-us’ in 2002. A Little Mashup and Do not pity the Come Cloth Holder