Epox!

Hello and welcome back to Epox, where I shall be continuing my story all about the monarchy, the English monarchy.

We're up to Henry VIII now, aren't we?

Last time you remember, we did his early reign, because he became Kim quite young, didn't he?

He was only like 17 or 18.

We got through some of the early

details. We did the Battle of Flodden, Flawnfield, where the English beat the Scots, even killed

the King of Scotland on the battlefield. And so that sort of makes it a bit quieter, well, a lot more

quiet on the Scottish border for most of Henry the 8th reign. We talked about the Battle of the Spurs,

where England won a victory in France. It wasn't any sort of crushing decisive victory, was it?

Like Cressy or A victory. And we started talking about Woolsey, the bishop, the dean Woolsey,

goes on to be famously Cardinal Woolsey. So we just started on that, didn't we? So this time I shall

continue telling the story. We'll talk all about Woolsey and really the break with the Church

of Rome, the Catholic Church in Rome and all that sort of thing, the age of Martin Luther, we're in.

As always, I shall be reading from Professor Sir Charles Oman, a late 19th century, early 20th century,

Oxford Professor of History, one of the best to ever do it, as well as Sir Winston Churchill

and his history of the English-speaking peoples, which, if you haven't noticed, borrows heavily

from Oman, but you do get all sorts of different details and slightly different takes.

So, okay, let's jump straight into it.

Let me start reading to you then from Oman.

Who tells us, following on from the field of the cloth of gold, if you remember where

the king of France and the king of England, our Henry, met and made out that they were best friends.

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