I think I would have had a lot of empathy with KOA, I would have liked Jane and Anne of Cleves. I would have disliked Katherine Howard, for the same reasons as above, she was portrayed as little more than an airheaded bimbo, and I had very little sympathy with her on the show (although I do sympathise with her in real life). I also would have liked Katherine Parr, although I would probably have found her a bit boring. As for Anne, had I seen the show and known nothing about her, I would not have liked her, mainly for the fact Natalie Dormer seemed to constantly have this self satisfied smirk on her face that really irked me.  So this to me gave Anne a bitchy side, that she knew exactly what she was doing and didn't care.  But in terms of drama and storyline, Anne made that show.  I always had a rather grudging repsect for Wolsey. I didn't particularly like him, but I admired the fact he knew how to play the king.  I love the way he was portrayed in the show, Sam Neill was awesome, so I think I would have felt the same if I had seen the show without knowing anything about him.  Cromwell was shown far more sympathetically than he is traditionally thought to have been, so had I known nothing about him, I wouldn't have hated him – although I thought there was a bit of a obsequious side to him in the show, which annoyed me.

George Boleyn made me sick in the show, i'm glad I know that it was an inaccurate portrayal of him.  Thomas Boleyn would have disgusted me far more than the Duke of Norfolk, I think because there was more of a desperate, grapsing nature to him than was conveyed with the Duke of Norfolk.  Norfolk came over as far more dignified.  I have never seen anything so heartbreaking as the moment when Thomas Boleyn saw Anne at the window in the Tower and never even acknowledged her.