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Edmund Dudley: The First Man Henry VIII Ordered Executed
He was the first that a young Henry VIII would order to be executed. Nobody felt inclined to argue against it.
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Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham: The First Great Nobleman Henry VIII Destroyed
He was quite possibly richer than the king, older in blood than the king, and considerably more careful about saying so. He was not careful enough.
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Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Sixth Wife, Regent and Author
Catherine Parr was already in love with another man when Henry VIII decided he wanted her. She said yes anyway. It was the only way either of them was getting out of it alive.
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Rome's Sentence of 11 July 1533 Against Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
Rome had already decided the case. Catherine of Aragon was still his wife. Anne Boleyn's marriage did not exist, and the child inside her had just been declared illegitimate before it was born. Henry read the verdict and went on exactly as he had before.
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Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon: The Son Henry VIII May Have Fathered
Henry VIII may have cuckolded the man who had claimed to be his father. If true then his sisters were the queens of England...
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Richard Edwardes: The Chapel Royal Master Rumoured to Be Henry VIII's Son
Henry VIII never claimed him. He never needed to. The education, the Oxford place, the Tudor rose on his mother's coat of arms, and the position at the heart of the royal court said everything Henry VIII chose not to say out loud.
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Henry VIII's Northern Progress of 1541 and Catherine Howard
Henry had travelled north intending to demonstrate his absolute power. His wife accompanied him. So did her lover.
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Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount: The Dancing Partner Who Gave Henry VIII a Son
Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount was born around 1498 or 1500 at Kinlet in Shropshire, the daughter of Sir John Blount of Kinlet and Katherine Peshall, the eldest daughter of a well-connected gentry family in the Welsh Marches, and she arrived at the court of Henry VIII in 1512 or 1513 at approximately twelve years old as a maid of honour to Catherine of Aragon.
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Ethelreda Malte: The Daughter Henry VIII Paid His Tailor to Claim
Henry VIII paid his tailor to claim his daughter. The tailor put it in his will... Ethelreda Malte was born around 1535, the daughter of John Malte, Henry VIII's personal tailor, a man whose work required him to stand in closer physical proximity to the king than almost anyone else at court. He measured him. He fitted him. He stood in silence while Henry VIII decided what kind of king he wanted to look like that day.
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Sebastian Newdigate: Henry VIII's Former Companion, Executed at Tyburn, 19 June 1535
He had been one of Henry's closest companions. Henry had him chained to a pillar with iron rings at his neck, his hands, and his feet. Then he came to visit.
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Elizabeth Tailboys: The Daughter Bessie Blount May Have Given Henry VIII
Bessie Blount gave Henry VIII a son. He gave the boy a dukedom and a name that meant son of the king. A year later she may have given him a daughter. He gave her nothing.
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Catherine of Aragon Confronts Henry VIII, 12 June 1530
Six months earlier she had been seven miles away while another woman sat in her chair. On the twelfth of June 1530 she said so to Henry's face. He left the room without a word. There were six more years of it still to come.