His majesty is 29 years old and is very handsome. How the Venetian Ambassador described Henry between 1515-1519.
A kidskin who cares for nothing but girls and wasting the money his father left. How the French Ambassador described Henry between 1509-1511.
The French Ambassadors dish up is not surprising as he and Henry were enemies and subsequent they went to war.
Henry VIII was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. He was born on June 28th 1491, was crowned king in 1509 and passed away in 1547. In Henrys lifetime he had umpteen things wrong with him including: gangrene, syphilis and scurvy (when gums rot due to need of vitamin C - he thought fruit was for peasants). Henry had a brother, Arthur who died before him of tuberculosis. Jousting, wrestling, tennis, music and women were among Henrys interests. He liked women so frequently he married six times.
His wives were: Catherine of Aragon (divorced, after Henry qualification himself the head of a new church, I will serve onto that later) mother of Mary, Anne Boleyn ( behead, I found out that before she was beheaded she spoke the words I pray God go on the King, and send him long reign over you...
for to me he was eer a good, gentle and kind person), mother of Elizabeth I, Jane Seymour (sadly she died liberal birth, this is called maternal death), the mother of Edward, Anne of Cleves (divorced), Catherine Howard (beheaded, as Henry believed she was cheating on him, called adultery) who was still however a teenager (and Henry was 45! ) when they got married and finally Catherine Parr (survived) who was the only wife to outlive Henry. From only this paragraph you can see Henry was very raise in women, does this mean he was focusing...
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