Author: dickshistory

Henry has forgotten Cromwell’s number one rule – no stupid foreign wars. He will have a crack at the Scotties to keep them subdued while he nicks off to France. It’s sure to go splendidly well this time.

Time to meet number 6 for Henry and number 3 for Catherine who will join that endagered species queen of England. Also this week will be an update on Mary of Guise and sorry to tell you, it’s all going horribly wrong for the poor girl.

It’s all changing for our Europeans with ships ‘discovering’ places like the America’s and getting to Indonesia. If we’re going to be doing more of that then of course we’ll need more warships. Here’s one of Henry’s ships ‘The Mary Rose’ – named for his sister.

Henry is in love. Again. This time it’s a teenage cousin of Anne Boleyn. Catherine, though, may be a girl with a past. Can it end well?

Having got to the top of the greasy pole, there’s only one way for Tom to go and it will be down. Will Henry give him gold watch and a nice retirement party? Unlikely. Still, we can be grateful to Tom for some of the things he did.

Time to meet a new player in the game. This girl is going places. Well she’s going to Scotland to be precise to become Queen of Scotland. Here she is with King Jim 5. It was either that or marry Henry and who would want to do that.

4th time down the aisle for our Mad Welsh King. Going with him will be Anne of Cleves, but will it be true love and happily ever after stuff? Unlikely with Henry.

It’s the English reformation – Henry style. We’ll catch up with Giralamo Savonarola to see how religion is going generally, bring things up to date with Paul 3 and then Henry will be let loose. He certainly won’t be making things easy.

Reg Pole has decided to be Henry’s enemy. May not be the smartest idea given that he has family back in England. We’ll also catch up with Jane Parker AKA Jane Boleyn AKA Lady Rochford to see how our poor destituted widow is getting on. And Tom Cromwell will get stuck into religious statues and icons.

Tom Cromwell is busy turning monastic houses into cash for Henry and he’s messing around with land tenure to bring in even more cash. The men in the north don’t like this stuff so it’s on to a glorious rebellion.