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“Henry’s genius was mainly a genius for cautious manoeuvre, for exact timing, for delicate negotiation, for weighing up an opponent or a subordinate, and not least, a genius for organisation.”
CHRISTOPHER mORRIS, tHE tUDORS (1955)
“Henry is so greedy that all the riches in the world would not satisfy him… to make himself rich he has impoverished his people.”
Charles de Marillac, French Ambassador
(1540)
“In his mind were the seeds of that fanatical belief that salvation could be found only in a particular system of worship, and he embraced the system presented to him in his impressionable years with the same fervour and exclusiveness as his elder sister embraced Catholicism.”
Elizabeth Jenkins, Elizabeth the Great
(1958)
“Lady Jane Grey is mythologised, even fetishised, as an innocent girl sacrificed on the altar of her mother’s ambition. But behind the popular biographies of the Tudor Queen lies a different story of misogyny and masochism.”
Leanda de
Lisle
“She found the realm poisoned with heresy, and purged it; and remembering herself to be a member of Christ’s Church, refused to write herself head thereof.”
John White, Bishop of
Winchester, funeral of Mary I, (1558)
“The first true woman politician in British history.”
Simon Schama, A History of Britain