Rebellions had to be put down and reasons found to execute inconvenient surviving relatives. There were many others with a better right to rule. True, he married one of the leading contenders, Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, but only after he had been officially crowned as Henry VII. Like many usurpers before and since, Henry was nervous about his right to rule. This chicanery enabled him to execute many nobles and help himself to their lands, which could then be awarded to his own loyal followers. The day after Henry of Richmond, a man with no legitimate claim to the throne, seized the crown, he issued an order declaring that all who had fought against him with King Richard III were traitors. Rather, he explains, the fix was in from the very beginning. Meyer’s warts-and-all portrait of the dynasty, he insists there is almost no truth in any of this. Their images have become an enduring part of popular culture - Bluff King Hal and his six wives, remembered by the catchy aide memoire, divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived the Merrie England of beefeaters, stout yeomen and dancing round the maypole the Virgin Queen or Gloriana. Long before the invention of spin doctors and sampling, they understood that the message was everything. $37 Review by Araminta Wordsworth The Tudors were great propagandists. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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