The historian Michael Prestwich notes that these court events imply to many "a decadent extravagance, fitting the familiar stereotype of the king", but goes on to argue that the court was really "conventional, and perhaps even rather dull"; Seymour Phillips questions if the naked French dancers were genuinely extravagant or simply intended to fit in with local French royal culture.
O historiador Michael Prestwich sinalou que estes eventos na corte implican para moitos «unha extravagancia decadente, que encaixa co estereotipo familiar deste rei», pero continúa argumentando que a corte era realmente «convencional e tal vez incluso bastante aburrida»; Seymour Phillips cuestionou se as bailarinas francesas espidas eran xenuinamente extravagantes ou se simplemente pretendían encaixar coa cultura real francesa local.