The Man who was Henry VIII an Introduction Video
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EXCERPT from the full episode The State of Christendom
Is Henry VIII the most famous of all English Monarchs? Well, he ought to be, he had the best propagandist.
But what of the man who was Henry VIII? The man never born to be king, the man who had six wives, the tyrant, the man who broke from Rome to marry and so satisfy his passion for Anne Boleyn, and that man who had her executed a thousand days later to marry for the third time. The man who demolished the monasteries.The man who was a glutton, a drunk, and womanising lecher.
His image is fixed in the mind's eye of all who those follow history, indeed and most of those who have just a casual interest.
BUT is it correct, this image, who really was this man?
Here we begin to find out...
Is Henry VIII the most famous of all English Monarchs? Well, he ought to be, he had the best propagandist.
But what of the man who was Henry VIII? The man never born to be king, the man who had six wives, the tyrant, the man who broke from Rome to marry and so satisfy his passion for Anne Boleyn, and that man who had her executed a thousand days later to marry for the third time. The man who demolished the monasteries.The man who was a glutton, a drunk, and womanising lecher.
His image is fixed in the mind's eye of all who those follow history, indeed and most of those who have just a casual interest.
BUT is it correct, this image, who really was this man?
Here we begin to find out...