Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2015 20:24:51 GMT 7
I don't agree with this but it's a painful indictment nonetheless -
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/king-henry-viii-crowned-worst-monarch-in-history-while-queen-elizabeth-i-reigns-supreme-10484501.html
"Over 60 writers were asked to vote for their favourite and least favourite monarchs, with 20 per cent criticising Henry VIII for his "self-indulgent" and "syphilitic" wife-murdering ways.
Prize-winning author Robert Wilton, who wrote The Spider of Sarajevo, labelled him a "gross man-child" who "barely made it out of infancy, let alone adolescence, and ruled with little more policy than petulant self-gratification".
Then they voted his daughter as the best.
I don't agree with that either.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/king-henry-viii-crowned-worst-monarch-in-history-while-queen-elizabeth-i-reigns-supreme-10484501.html
"Over 60 writers were asked to vote for their favourite and least favourite monarchs, with 20 per cent criticising Henry VIII for his "self-indulgent" and "syphilitic" wife-murdering ways.
Prize-winning author Robert Wilton, who wrote The Spider of Sarajevo, labelled him a "gross man-child" who "barely made it out of infancy, let alone adolescence, and ruled with little more policy than petulant self-gratification".
Then they voted his daughter as the best.
I don't agree with that either.
