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I like history. I like watching docuseries about British castles and the history of women. I like to consider myself up-to-date on everything that’s cool and new in the world of history. So I was stunned when I watched a (relatively) new program called Henry and Anne: The Lovers Who Changed History on Prime Video. Why? Because it is hands down the most sexually charged historical docuseries I have ever seen.

Oh, yeah…this series goes there.

The show’s host, Professor Suzannah Lipscombe, takes care to present the couple’s history in the most romantic way possible. When she enters a medieval bedchamber, she makes a beeline for the bed and flops on it. She teasingly explains the sexual innuendo behind Henry’s gifts to Anne. And yeah, she reads aloud historical facts while the camera cuts to flirtatious court scenes and borderline soft-core.

The story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is sexually charged enough as it is, but this series really ups the ante in its sensuous re-enactments. There are longing looks in garden mazes and sensuous close-ups of Anne Boleyn’s trademark “B” necklace caressing her cleavage. There’s a random shot of Anne in bed covered in rose petals. I mean, this is how they depict Anne Boleyn’s near death experience with sweating sickness:

If you’ve seen Wolf Hall, you’ll know that sweating sickness was a freak outbreak that struck people seemingly at random during that time. It claimed lives quickly and, um, was not all that sexy. I mean, unless you find clammy, smelly skin attractive, then sure, it was sexy.

But that’s precisely what is so amazing about this docuseries. It’s utterly committed to proving how vibrant and electric this story was. Even though they lived hundreds of years ago, deep down, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn were just flawed human beings hell bent on boning each other. That’s something all of us can related to, right?

[Watch Henry And Anne: The Lovers Who Changed History On Amazon Prime]