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David Starkey gave this lecture on 12 May 2009, one of three in connection with the British Library's exhibition 'Henry VIII - Man and Monarch' upon the quincentenary of his accession to the throne. Starkey was the guest curator. It deals with Henry VIII’s upbringing as a second son and not, initially, as a future king, surrounded as a young boy by women, the breadth and sophistication of his education, the people who shaped him, the insecurity of the dynasty, his charisma, his early relationship with religion, the change in his life after the death of his brother and mother, the jousting friends of his teens with their Yorkist connections, his accession to the throne.
David Starkey gave this lecture on 12 May 2009, one of three in connection with the British Library's exhibition 'Henry VIII - Man and Monarch' upon the quincentenary of his accession to the throne. Starkey was the guest curator. It deals with Henry VIII’s upbringing as a second son and not, initially, as a future king, surrounded as a young boy by women, the breadth and sophistication of his education, the people who shaped him, the insecurity of the dynasty, his charisma, his early relationship with religion, the change in his life after the death of his brother and mother, the jousting friends of his teens with their Yorkist connections, his accession to the throne.
