True or false: Myth or history

Let's put the troubles of this workd to one side for a few minutes and have some fun with Tudor history.

This week's quiz is a true or false quiz on Tudor myths, rumours and scandals. What was actually true? See if you know with this fun quiz.

Good luck!

True or false - Myth or history?

Q1) True or false: Henry VIII once thought that it would be good to marry off his daughter, Mary, to his illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy?

True

False

Correct! The pope was even prepared to grant a dispensation. Ew!

Wtong! It's true! The pope was even prepared to grant a dispensation. Ew!

Q2) True or false: the Spanish ambassador, Eustace Chapuys, called Anne Boleyn "the concubine" and described her having six fingers on one hand?

True

False

Correct! Chapuys did refer to her as "the concubine", but it was Nicholas Sander in the 1580s who wrote of Anne having an extra finger.

Wrong! Chapuys did refer to her as "the concubine", but it was Nicholas Sander in the 1580s who wrote of Anne having an extra finger.

Q3) True or false: Mary, Queen of Scots, and her second husband, Lord Darnley, were cousins?

True

False

Correct! They shared a grandmother, Margaret Tudor.

Wrong! It's true. They shared a grandmother, Margaret Tudor.

Q4) True or false: It was rumoured that Anne of Cleves had a baby by Henry VIII?

True

False

Correct! In November 1541, Henry VIII's council had to launch an invetigation into these rumours.

Wrong! It's true. In November 1541, Henry VIII's council had to launch an invetigation into these rumours.

Q5) True or false: It was rumoured that Princess Mary (Mary I) was too close to her confessor, Fray Diego Fernández?

True

False

Correct! It was actually Catherine of Aragon who was thought to be too close to and dependent on him in the period between the death of her first husband, Arthur, and her marriage to Henry VIII.

Wrong! It was actually Catherine of Aragon who was thought to be too close to and dependent on him in the period between the death of her first husband, Arthur, and her marriage to Henry VIII.

Q6) True or false: It was rumoured that Anne Boleyn was actually King Henry VIII's daughter?

True

False

Correct! It's true that there were rumours than Henry VIII had "meddled" with Elizabeth Howard, Anne's mother, and that Anne was even the fruit of this relationship, but the king himself denied it, there's no evidence of an affair, and the king would have been just a boy at the time.

Wrong! It's true that there were rumours than Henry VIII had "meddled" with Elizabeth Howard, Anne's mother, and that Anne was even the fruit of this relationship, but the king himself denied it, there's no evidence of an affair, and the king would have been just a boy at the time.

Q7) True or false: According to King Henry VIII, he only had two valid marriages?

True

False

Correct! His marriages to Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Anne of Cleves were annulled and seen as never valid, and he would have viewed his marriage to Catherine Howard as invalid due to bigamy, her betrothal (and consummation of it) to Francis Dereham?

Wrong! It's true! His marriages to Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Anne of Cleves were annulled and seen as never valid, and he would have viewed his marriage to Catherine Howard as invalid due to bigamy, her betrothal (and consummation of it) to Francis Dereham?

Q8) True or false: Catherine Willoughby was just 12 when Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, made her his wife?

True

False

Correct! She was actually 14.

Wrong! She was 14.

Q9) True or false: After the Battle of Flodden in 1513, Catherine of Aragon, who was regent at the time, sent Henry VIII King James IV's bloody coat, but she actually wanted to send him his head?

True

False

Correct! The king's head was sent to her but she was persuaded not to send it on.

Wrong! The king's head was sent to her but she was persuaded not to send it on.

Q10) True or false: Edward Seymour, brother of Queen Jane Seymour, was planning to marry Princess Elizabeth (Elizabeth I)?

True

False

Correct! It was his brother, Thomas, who was accused of planning to marry the princess.

Wrong! It was his brother, Thomas, who was accused of planning to marry the princess.