At the time of Henry's birth, he had an older brother, Arthur, who was destined to become King. It was assumed that Henry would go into the church, and he was provided with an excellent education. His contemporaries described him as an accomplished, intelligent, highly athletic man who wa...
“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 thePope refused Henry’s request, the king divorced Catherine against the will of the Roman Catholic Church and ...
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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Anne of Cleves was the ‘last woman standing’ of Henry VIII’s wives and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey. How did she manage it? Was she in fact a political refugee, supported by the King? Was she a role model for her step-daughters Mary and Elizabeth? Why was her marriage...
who became the first Tudor queen through her marriage to Henry Tudor, and thus, uncles to the infamous Henry VIII. The older boy, Edward, Prince of Wales, was born in 1470 and was the fourth child and first son the king and queen had together (the queen having two older sons by 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...
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...
it wasn’t as if the priest said, “I now pronounce you man and wife” and all was, if you’ll excuse the expression, roses. There were still many who believed that Henry was a “false king,” a usurper, and his reign, especially in the early years, was one of paranoia, political...
Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth I are perhaps the only other historical King and Queen of England to survive as household names on a level with Richard. In both of their cases, however, the legend has a recognizable basis in history. Henry was not simply the tyrant who chopped off ...