Comments by "RenShiWu" (@renshiwu305) on "Henry VIII - The Jekyll u0026 Hyde King with David Starkey" video.

  1. I have to say, I enjoyed Prof. Starkey's takedown of Suzannah Lipscomb's general theory about the etiological source of Henry VIII's tyranny. I have heard Lipscomb suggest that Henry was devastated to learn about Anne Boleyn's "adulteries," too. No he wasn't. Henry was devastated to learn about Anne's cousin, Catherine Howard's, adulteries. Whereas the intention to get rid of Anne was the reason that she was put in the dock for "adultery" in the first place. Henry was a tyrant because he liked to have his own way and he was imposing deep changes on the realm that a number of people disliked. Hence the resort to force and terror.
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  2.  @lisamorrison214  Granted.
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