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Was Henry VIII ALL BAD, or did he have some redeeming qualities? That’s the question which inspired this Tudor history documentary from History Calling in which I’ll take you through my list of 10 good things about Henry VIII.
We’ll consider what Henry VIII looked like (most especially in his youth), the love life of Henry VIII, including how he treated his mistresses and wives when he wasn’t having their heads cut off and what Henry VIII was like as a father. I’ll share primary sources with you written by people who actually saw and interacted with the most famous Tudor King and show you some of his own love letters to Anne Boleyn. Henry is often presented as an old, bloated, murderous King, a cookie-cutter villain if you will, but he was a multi-dimensional person who had his good qualities as well as his bad and who could inspire great love and devotion in his family and subjects. The question of ‘was Henry VIII a good king?’ is very much open to debate, but I’ll demonstrate that the question of whether he had positive personality traits is more easily answered.
As we go through the video, we’ll also be looking at the six wives of Henry VIII and at the childhoods of Mary I, Elizabeth I, Edward VI and their half-brother, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
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Antonia Fraser, The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (2nd edn, Phoenix, 2009) amzn.to/36IqD5r
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Was Henry VIII ALL BAD, or did he have some redeeming qualities? That’s the question which inspired this Tudor history documentary from History Calling in which I’ll take you through my list of 10 good things about Henry VIII.
We’ll consider what Henry VIII looked like (most especially in his youth), the love life of Henry VIII, including how he treated his mistresses and wives when he wasn’t having their heads cut off and what Henry VIII was like as a father. I’ll share primary sources with you written by people who actually saw and interacted with the most famous Tudor King and show you some of his own love letters to Anne Boleyn. Henry is often presented as an old, bloated, murderous King, a cookie-cutter villain if you will, but he was a multi-dimensional person who had his good qualities as well as his bad and who could inspire great love and devotion in his family and subjects. The question of ‘was Henry VIII a good king?’ is very much open to debate, but I’ll demonstrate that the question of whether he had positive personality traits is more easily answered.
As we go through the video, we’ll also be looking at the six wives of Henry VIII and at the childhoods of Mary I, Elizabeth I, Edward VI and their half-brother, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
BUY MY BOOK (Find Your Irish Ancestors Online): amzn.to/3Z2ChnG
Website (with 2 FREE DOWNLOADS): historycallingofficial.com
Patreon: patreon.com/historycalling
Amazon storefront: amazon.com/shop/historycalling
Instagram: instagram.com/historycalling
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE:
THE LOST TUDOR HEIR
youtu.be/7F6WYqzGURk
HIDDEN MEANINGS IN TUDOR FAMILY PORTRAIT
youtu.be/Eiq5QomXJ5E
WAS HENRY VIII BRAIN DAMAGED?
youtu.be/4Rd0s1roPoU
TUDOR CONSORT NECKLACE
youtu.be/Yrs5FvcDlvs
THE LIFE OF MARY I, PART 1
youtu.be/VllqiESk1lk
EMPRESS MATILDA
youtu.be/etng7e53UFw
WAS CATHERINE OF ARAGON MURDERED?
youtu.be/3CvsbGToiTE
TUDOR MONARCHS’ PLAYLIST
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLSjVq5Qtb0FD_vatnjVq9egboPYy8Kg0
SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII PLAYLIST
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLSjVq5Qtb0Hb5Wjykc2hBrBddQYXDUqU
RANKING THE TUDOR MONARCHS
youtu.be/rCcVkfQl5ow
LEARN MORE:
Want to watch/hear/read more about history (and a whole host of other topics)? Then you might benefit from a free Audible or Prime video trial. They are available from the following links:
AUDIBLE
amzn.to/44MvlMi
AUDIBLE PLUS & AUDIBLE PREMIUM PLUS
amzn.to/42rh3PF
PRIME VIDEO
amzn.to/3LW7ykg
David Starkey, Henry: Virtuous Prince (Harper Press, 2008). amzn.to/39y2jVK
Giles Tremlett, Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen (London, 2010)
amzn.to/3UfGmmx
Eric Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)
amzn.to/3xLivgr
Gareth Russell, Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII (2017). amzn.to/2VExTgg (US link)
Josephine Wilkinson, Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen (London, 2016 amzn.to/3rbFuPj
Antonia Fraser, The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (2nd edn, Phoenix, 2009) amzn.to/36IqD5r
David Starkey, Six Wives: the Queens of Henry VIII (Vintage, 2004)
amzn.to/3wImKIh
BUY OR RENT:
The Tudors, season 1
amzn.to/2VCwQ0j
The Tudors, season 2
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The Tudors, season 3
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The Tudors, season 4
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Henry VIII and his Six Wives (2016 docu-drama)
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Six Wives with Lucy Worsley (2016 docu-drama)
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