This bed is far too beautiful for Henry VII. In my opinion, anyway. As to finding it in a hotel…well, what if you were snuggled there, anticipating your cooked breakfast next morning, when Henry’s ghost clambers in beside you???? Lawks!
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Almost anything is too beautiful for Henry VIII. It occurs to me that the architectural “style” that would be most appropriate for him would be Brutalism …
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I sometimes visit a couple of pro-Tudor sites, out of curiosity,. Judging by other comments on the sites the contributors are generally left-of-center , pro-femnist, anti-white-male, anti-capitalist in sentiment, and they are making a romantic hero of someone why was extremely white, and an extreme capitalist. It’s enough to make a cat laugh. Are we in danger of doing the same thing from the opposite point of view, turning into nothing more than fangirls? At least, Ricardians don’t drop f-bombs twice in a sentence the way these Tudorphiles do.
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[…] Henry VII’s bed bought for a couple of thousand pounds? Oh, well…whoever asked that low price must be kicking themselves. I wonder what Elizabeth of York felt as she lay there gazing up at the canopy, being bonked by her uncle’s killer? Did she participate in the proceedings? Or simply think of England? […]
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[…] case it diminished his own claim to the throne, might there have been another reason for the delay? They were married on 18 January 1486, their first son was born on 20 September 1486, and Elizabeth’s coronation […]
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