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Margaret Roper and Her Father Thomas More's Head
She kept her father's head for nine years. She wanted to be buried with it in her arms. Henry VIII had impaled it on a spike.
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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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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, Duke of Cornwall: The Fifty-Two-Day Prince Whose Death Changed Tudor History
He lived for fifty-two days. In those fifty-two days he was the most important person in England. Everything that came after him was the consequence of his absence.
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Catherine of Aragon's Coronation Procession in the Rain, June 1509
She had waited seven years to be crowned. When the procession finally came, it rained so hard she had to shelter under a draper's stall. London dressed itself in cloth of gold and crowned her queen the next morning anyway.
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Ralph Shaa's Sermon at Paul's Cross, 22 June 1483: "Bastard Slips Shall Not Take Deep Root"
It was the day Edward V was supposed to be crowned. "Bastard slips shall not take deep root." That was the sermon text chosen for the twenty-second of June 1483.
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John Fisher: The Cardinal's Hat and the Execution of 22 June 1535
The Pope made him a Cardinal to save his life. Henry VIII said he would send the hat to Rome without a head to wear it. On the twenty-second of June 1535 he kept his word.
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Thomas Cromwell's Letters from the Tower, June–July 1540
He had spent ten years deciding who went to the Tower. On the tenth of June 1540 he found out what it felt like from the other side. He already knew exactly what it meant.