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HENRY VIII, by J. J. Scarisbrick. The cunning and flamboyant 16th century monarch is examined from some unflattering angles in this extensive biography by a British historian...
HENRY VIII, by J. J. Scarisbrick. In this massive but rewarding study by a British historian, the shrewd, boisterous, contradictory monarch is portrayed in all his vainglorious heroics, but rarely as a hero...
...review of Henry VIII by J. J. Scarisbrick [Aug. 2] mentioned that Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry, said "a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never" before being beheaded. This may not mean that the King was an admirable character, since it was traditional in those days for condemned persons to say a good word for the monarch before their death. If a convicted person started a last-minute inflammatory tirade against the monarch, he could be dragged off at the very last minute, to a much crueler death...
HENRY VIII, by J. J. Scarisbrick. In this massive but rewarding study by a British historian, the shrewd, boisterous, contradictory monarch is portrayed in all his vainglorious heroics, but rarely as a hero...
...even here, argues Scarisbrick, Henry "seriously mishandled" his divorce case, leaving his succession in doubt for a dangerous decade. And as for the notion of Henry the Hot-Blooded-inspired by his succession of six wives-Scarisbrick tempers it with cool practicality. "Henry was probably neither a remarkably accomplished nor endearing lover," he writes, but simply a man driven by the "need to beget progeny in sufficient quantity to prove himself and assure his dynasty...