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Article: Henry VIII's violent court and the six Toms who served there.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 14, 2002
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Byline: Smith Hempstone, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Henry VIII is one of the few British monarchs many American readers can recognize: He's the big stud with lotsa wives (six to be exact).
Henry was, of course, infinitely more than that, as the British historian Derek Wilson shows in this informed but sometimes tediously long work, "In the Lion's Court," that traces the Tudor monarch's life from his birth in 1491 until his death in 1547. Not like every man in those violent times, Henry died in bed, his vast bulk raddled by the excesses of his boisterous youth and the demands of his later life.
At a time when none of Henry's wives appeared ...