(As the fates would have it, I performed the role of Thomas More in a staging of “Man for All Seasons,” at St. With them out of the way, Henry had his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled. John Fisher was one of the cardinals who got the ax, along with the saintly “Man for All Seasons,” Thomas More. Henry, true to his monster-ego, appointed himself the head of his new religion.Īlong the way, Layton underscored, Henry beheaded “a few cardinals…and countless members of the royal court who questioned the purity of his motives.” At the end of the day, “heads rolled and people were executed for a wide variety of crimes.”
In the end, he broke with the Catholic Church of Rome and stole their valuable monasteries and nunneries and large landed estates in England – worth billions of dollars by today’s standards. When Henry couldn’t get a divorce from his first wife, the Spaniard, Catherine of Aragon, he went totally bonkers. After giving birth to a son, Edward, she soon died of natural causes. 2, Anne Boleyn and the “gentle and earnest” wife No. The sordid story about Henry and his six wives is well-known, along with the fact, that he had two of them, both innocent of any criminal conduct, executed. By all accounts, Henry was also a sex maniac and since he was the king, too, he had his choice of young women to victimize.) He then evolved, like King Henry, into a merciless murdering machine. (The Chicago gangster, Al Capone, who also died from syphilis, contracted the disease at age eighteen. Henry had probably contracted it from one or more of his many mistresses over the years.
More than likely, although disputed, the real cause of Henry’s demise was – syphilis – according to the historian, Will Durant. In his last agonizing days, “his legs had to be cauterized with a hot iron,” revealed the writer, Robert Hutchinson. In addition, Henry had repugnant ulcers on both of his legs. Said to “eat like a pig,” he suffered from liver and renal failure and also had gout. When Henry died, at age 55, he weighed in at about 400 pounds with a waist measurement of (double gasp) 44 inches. Her goal, which failed miserably, was to reinstate Catholicism as the state religion. According to the historian, Julia Layton, Henry executed “tens of thousands during his 37-year reign.” Others insist the number was in the low thousands.īy comparison, the daughter who succeeded Henry on the throne, who came to be called ‘Bloody Mary,’ killed fewer than 300 people during her six years as queen. By most definitions, he was a blood-stained pathological killer, keeping the ax-man in the Tower of London, busy 24/7. Henry, by way of the Tudor tribe, was king of England from 1509-47. It was their own monarch – the sociopath – Henry VIII. It wasn’t the Black Death, Small Pox, the Spanish Flu, Cholera or the Yellow Fever that killed so many of the peace-loving English people during the first half of the 16th century.
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