History's Worst F*ckboys: Henry VIII

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

History Hit

Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Charismatic, passionate, insatiable - Henry VIII is known across the world as the king who had 6 wives, and a few mistresses on the side. But was Henry a romantic or a scoundrel?

Kate is joined by Natalie Grueninger, host of 'Talking Tudors', to find out just how badly behaved Henry was.

This episode was edited by Tom Delargy and produced by Sophie Gee. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm your host, Kate Lister.
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0:24.6	Hello, my lovely bird twixters.
0:26.9	How the hell are you doing?
0:28.5	Well, I am fine and fabulous.
0:30.1	Thank you so much for asking.
0:31.7	And I'm very glad to see you here once more.
0:33.8	But before I can allow you to listen to any more of this smut and filth, I do have to tell
0:41.5	you. This is an adult podcast, Pokemon, by adults, to other adults about adulty things in an
0:45.1	adulty way covering a range of adults subjects and used to be an adult too. And we call that the
0:48.6	fair do's warning because you can't get offended now. If you keep listening and something
0:53.8	gets on your wick,
0:54.8	well, really, that one's on you because fair do's, we did tell you.
0:57.9	Oh, thank God, that lots out of the way.
0:59.5	Right, on with the show.
1:06.4	It's the 1530s, and Hampton Court is a buzz with gossip.
1:11.7	I mean, it always is a buzz with gossip, but it's particularly gossipy right now.
1:16.5	Around a thousand courtiers and servants are walking the courtyards and corridors,
1:21.7	each of them out for themselves and on the make.
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