Is it all because of Henry VIII and all of his marital drama? The Stuarts had just as much intrigue as the Tudors, what with Oliver Cromwell's idiotic regicide, the rightful king James VII & II getting his throne usurped by an incestuous couple, Queen Anne and her favourites, King Charles II being a merry monarch (who treated his many women far better than Henry VIII treated his). It was the time when the British Empire truly began, with Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, etc...many iconic folk songs ("Over the Hills and Far Away") come from this time, as does lots of British classical music. The German Hanoverians who came after the Stuarts put a real damper on British classical music, with their preference for German composers like Handel. As someone with a degree in music, there are a lot of famous British composers from the Renaissance and Early Baroque, and then very little of note until well into the 18th century.
Heck, even Britain itself came to be as a state under the last Stuart monarch - Queen Anne.
So why do you think there is more interest in the Tudors than the Stuarts? The Tudors were cool, too, but I prefer the Stuarts. Henry VIII's marital dramas don't match the romanticism of the Jacobite cause and all of the wonderful songs it produced. It's kind of interesting that from the Conquest until the Tudors, England was ruled by French dynasties, and then the Welsh Tudors, Scottish Stuarts, and then a succession of German dynasties to this day (Hanover, Wettin*, Oldenburg**). There will no be another dynasty indigenous to Britain in my lifetime, the earliest possibility for that is if Prince George's first child is female and she marries, as is likely given the Royal Family's recent marriages, someone British instead of a German prince. That child would be unlikely to take the throne for at least a hundred years. Interestingly enough, British people dropping the r sound from the ends of words apparently comes from George I and George II's accent when speaking English, nobody wanted to correct the King's pronunciation, so they just copied him. Neither and either being pronounced "neye-ther" and "eye-ther" are for the same reason
*Saxe-Coburg-Gotha/Windsor
**Mountbatten-Windsor/Glücksburg
Heck, even Britain itself came to be as a state under the last Stuart monarch - Queen Anne.
So why do you think there is more interest in the Tudors than the Stuarts? The Tudors were cool, too, but I prefer the Stuarts. Henry VIII's marital dramas don't match the romanticism of the Jacobite cause and all of the wonderful songs it produced. It's kind of interesting that from the Conquest until the Tudors, England was ruled by French dynasties, and then the Welsh Tudors, Scottish Stuarts, and then a succession of German dynasties to this day (Hanover, Wettin*, Oldenburg**). There will no be another dynasty indigenous to Britain in my lifetime, the earliest possibility for that is if Prince George's first child is female and she marries, as is likely given the Royal Family's recent marriages, someone British instead of a German prince. That child would be unlikely to take the throne for at least a hundred years. Interestingly enough, British people dropping the r sound from the ends of words apparently comes from George I and George II's accent when speaking English, nobody wanted to correct the King's pronunciation, so they just copied him. Neither and either being pronounced "neye-ther" and "eye-ther" are for the same reason
*Saxe-Coburg-Gotha/Windsor
**Mountbatten-Windsor/Glücksburg