Welcome everyone to the history of England.

This is episode 252 and the Henry VIII.

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So barely a month ago we laid Henry VIII in his grave.

So more than a year in his company I was exhausted I have to tell you which is probably

only the half of what you poor people are.

Since then we've had a bit of a breather, she's always good, a chance to reflect, to consider

to create some distance between us and our subject.

And now as promised I think it's time, I think it's time for us to put Henry behind us,

but to really do this I think we need to take step back, reflect together on his reign

and his legacy.

But also carefully and honestly agree what we all think of the big man.

As I went about this a rather remarkable thing struck me actually, it probably struck

you ages ago, but it just struck me right now when I went through the process of constructing

a list of quotes about Henry over the ages which you can find on the website by the way,

they're fun.

Now, the world is festooned with books about Henry VIII.

This isn't a big reveal, by the way, I'm building up to that, you may need to be patient

to leg it to the point.

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