you'd watch soap operas, wouldn't you?

     Millions of people watch soap operas every day. Millions of people watch crime dramas every week. Tens of millions of people will watch the latest war movie. So what's wrong with a little history?  Take Henry VIII, for example. He had six wives. He divorced two of them, ending the monopoly of "the church". He had two of them beheaded. One died in childbirth. One outlived him. What's not to watch?