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Forget Richard III cartoons – Henry VIII wins by a mile….!

Feb 18, 2022

anniversaries, art, humour

Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, annulments, cartoons, Catherine Howard, Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Parr, dating agencies, executions, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Leicester, Marriage Guidance Council, Mary I, Richard III, tattoos

Long live the new king? Ye gods. Henry VII may have been an unpleasant, money-grubbing, paranoid gargoyle, but his son was a true MONSTER. Forget about falls on the head changing his character, the fact is that he’s remembered for his marriages and the way he executed two of his unfortunate queens, Anne Boleyn…
A recently identified book …

Feb 13, 2022

anniversaries, humour, law, religion

annulments, executed women, Henry VIII, Howards, John Ashdown-Hill, Katherine Howard, Marriage Guidance Council, Royal Marriage Secrets, Seymours, Talbots

… by the sixteenth century spokesman for the Marriage Guidance Council. After all, he had experience of six marriage ceremonies, even if he subsequently annulled four of them. Two of his “wives” didn’t have to waste time and money on their hairstyle or headdress – how thoughtful of him.