Henry VIII was the first king to put a bath in his castle. They were not the cleanest of people. "It may look fabulous in high-definition on a 68-inch screen, but in reality, it was a very dirty, stinky, syphilitic age." Roles in Mission: Impossible III, Alexander, Velvet Goldmine...
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“He argued that his marriage to Catherine was invalid because her marriage to his brother Arthur had been consummated, but she always contested this,” Borman explains. When the Pope refused Henry’s request, the king divorced Catherine against the will of the Roman Catholic Church and ...
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She was the daughter of King Henry VIII, the half-sister of King Edward VI and Queen Mary I (Ellis 1). Elizabeth did not only rule the country she had accomplished many other tasks among her lifetime. She wrote her own poems (Women Writers Of Great Britain & Europe 1), she never ...
The adultery charges even managed to bring into the open the long-simmering relationship between the church and monarch. As commentators are fond of noting, the Church of England had its genesis when King Henry VIII decided to divorce and remarry but was refused by the Roman Catholic Pope in...
She is best known today as the sixth and final wife of the notorious King Henry VIII of England, but Queen Catherine Parr (sometimes spelled Katherine) also made history in the realm of literature as well. She was the first Queen of England to publish booksunder her own name. ...
Her father told her, ‘it was the same day that King Edward VIIIth abdicated – the man knew what was coming.’ Having got to know Mary, I think he may have had a point. Like any of us, Mary’s childhood shaped her. She spoke of an austere time. Toys were non-existent and her...
Royal Title:Henry VIII, King of England andDefender of the Faith Most Brutal Moment:Arguably still a medieval monarch on the edge of the Renaissance, Henry VIII did some pretty awful things. Probably his worst misdeed was engineering the demise of two of his six wives (Anne BoleynandCatherine...
with the Canterbury cathedral clergy to denounce their archbishop, Henry terrified Cranmer by accusing him of being the biggest heretic in Kent. The king then put Cranmer in charge of the enquiry into these charges despite his typical objection that he was the wrong man to take on this role....