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🗓️ 9 January 2021
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Robert Hutchinson gives a lecture on the Tudor monarch's final years, plagued by illness, bankruptcy, and thwarted ambitions
In a lecture he delivered at BBC History Magazine’s 2019 Chester History Weekend event, historian Robert Hutchinson discusses the final years of the Tudor monarch, revealing a lonely, vulnerable man plagued by illness, bankruptcy, and thwarted ambitions.
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0:43.2 | Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History magazine, |
0:47.5 | Britain's best-selling History magazine. |
0:58.0 | I'm Ellie Corpon. Today you'll hear another lecture from my 2019 |
1:02.5 | History Weekend in Chester. Henry VIII has been defined more by his six marriages than anything else. |
1:09.6 | But in this talk, the Tudor historian Robert Hutchinson |
1:13.4 | turns to the last seven years of his reign to reveal a side of the king that we don't see so often. |
1:19.7 | As his book Henry VIII, The Decline and Fall of Attirant reveals, |
1:24.4 | we find a lonely vulnerable man played by illness, bankruptcy and thwarted ambitions. |
1:31.2 | Thank you for coming. You may wonder, one loth I'm doing up here, |
1:37.5 | what is there new to say about Henry VIII? Well ladies and gentlemen, |
1:46.4 | Henry's a famous king, England's most famous king, who should never be underestimated, |
1:51.6 | both in life and in death. And recently he's been defined more by his marriages than by he truly was. |
2:04.2 | New research, which appears in my book, |
2:08.2 | reveals much about his physical and mental state in his last years, |
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