The Spanish Princess boss on the Season 1 finale: "This is not a fairytale"

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“I think what we felt was that it would be insulting to twenty-first century women and to a twenty-first century audience," says executive producer Emma Frost. "Knowing what we all know about what will come later, if we were to suggest that by the end of the first day we should all just go, ‘Hooray, she’s married. It’s all wonderful. They’re going to walk off into the sunset together and it’s all going to be perfect.’ We all know this is Henry VIII. There is a lot we bring to this story already,” Frost said. “It wouldn’t be appropriate and it wouldn’t be sophisticated to do that. This is not a fairytale.”