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SpoilerThe Tudors S01E01
Well I am rewatching The Tudors and not only do they have a sex scene before even 10 minutes in (because of course), and they have a second sex scene, less explicit, where the king takes one of the ladies in waiting because his wife Queen Catherine is not present. In the following scene King Henry says, "Do you consent?"
OK first of all, there's zero chance he would have considered a woman's consent.
Second, there's zero chance a woman in that situation, with the most dangerous man in the country, would have said, "No."
This insertion of the consent line is to make men feel better about the fact that this man raped numerous women who had no agency to decline him.
Another gripe: they chose a woman who looks old enough to be his auntie to play Catherine, the too-old-queen (I like this actress, it isn't a dig on her at all).
IRL Henry BEGGED to marry her and even went to the pope for permission. That's why he couldn't divorce later, because the new pope refused to extinguish something the last pope granted permission for.
She was 5, FIVE, years older than him. She was 24 and he was 19 when they married. She wasn't some middle-aged cougar. But the producers decided to make her look extremely old in comparison, so we would feel sorry for the king with his wife going through 'the change'. The truth is there would have likely been no discernible difference in appearance age-wise.