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So let's get right into it. Today, we are going to talk about

the people Henry the Eighth that didn't kill. It just seems like a smaller list than the people

he did sometimes. But, you know, it sometimes seems like proximity to Henry meant danger, right?

It seems like anybody who rose

Cromwell and Berlin, all of these people wound up being in a lot of danger, potentially getting

killed. But there were actually people that Henry was really close to, that were Henry's

friends, who managed to survive the entire rain and stay

close to Henry the entire time, which is something that, you know, you don't talk about quite as

often. So I want to talk about those people today. So like I said, when we talk about the people who

were the closest to Henry the 8, the stories usually do not end well. Heads on spikes, reputations in Tatters, families ruined.

But a few men managed something remarkable. They stayed in Henry's good graces from the beginning

to the end. They were insiders who understood the rules of a deadly game and somehow they walked

away unscathed. So who were these

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