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Martin Luther accused him of playing God. An English observer saw him as an idler who wanted "only an apple and a fair wench to dally with." To one subject he was "a tyrant more cruel than Nero." When his wife Anne Boleyn was about to be beheaded by his executioner, she maintained: "A gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never." Even as they felt the impact of his boisterous personality, the sting of his vindictiveness, or the thrust of his appetite for pleasure and power, the contemporaries of King Henry VIII could never quite understand...
...Scarisbrick sees him, Henry cast his career on a noble scale without achieving true nobility, indulged in vainglorious heroics without fully emerging as a hero. He made his boldest imprint on history when, frustrated by the Pope in his desire to divorce his first wife and marry Anne Boleyn, he roared: "I care not a fig for all his excommunications. Let him follow his own at Rome, I will do here what I think best." Turning the currents of the Reformation to his own purposes, he declared himself the earthly overlord of his subjects' souls, founded the Church...
...have: a sense of mystery and radiance in her presence. When she first appears on stage or screen, the spectator feels his skin begin to prickle. In A Man for All Seasons, she appeared in a single scene and spoke a single line, but the aura of her Anne Boleyn was so enthralling that she got more attention from many critics than most of the featured players. Yet Vanessa can play comedy too, and play it dazzlingly. In Morgan!, cast as the better-class bride of a young artist who after careful consideration has decided he is a gorilla...
...claim other distinguished people and events too: King John signed the Magna Carta within the parish boundary, and King Henry VIII courted Second Wife Anne Boleyn in the yard of one of the Thames-side houses-that caused a rumpus...
...Great Fosters, only half an hour from London, is believed to have been built by Henry VIII in the 16th century. Its residents have included Henry's doomed queen Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I and James I. Great Fosters' unique feature is its celebrated gardens, trimmed through the centuries by fleets of gardeners. Its antique atmosphere is further heightened by the formality of its more than 50 servants. The 22 guest rooms range from $10.50 a day (for a single) to $24 (for a double suite...