Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages
and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian
Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of
Henry's life, his reign and reputation were hugely influenced by
the men who surrounded and interacted with him as companions and
confidants, servants and ministers, and occasionally as
rivals--many of whom have been underplayed in previous biographies.
These relationships offer a fresh, often surprising perspective on
the legendary king, revealing the contradictions in his beliefs,
behavior, and character in a nuanced light. They show him capable
of fierce but seldom abiding loyalty, of raising men up only to
destroy them later. He loved to be attended by boisterous young
men, the likes of his intimate friend Charles Brandon, who shared
his passion for sport, but could also be diverted by men of
intellect, culture, and wit, as his longstanding interplay with
Cardinal Wolsey and his reluctant abandonment of Thomas More
attest. Eager to escape the shadow of his father, Henry VII, he was
often trusting and easily led by male attendants and advisors early
in his reign (his coronation was just shy of his 18th birthday in
1509); in time, though, he matured into a profoundly suspicious and
paranoid king whose ruthlessness would be ever more apparent, as
Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk and uncle to two of Henry's wives,
discovered to his great discomfort, and as Eustace Chapuys, the
ambassador of Charles V of Spain, often reported. Recounting the
great Tudor's life and signal moments through the lens of his male
relationships, Tracy Borman's new biography reveals Henry's
personality in all its multi-faceted, contradictory glory, and
sheds fresh light on his reign for anyone fascinated by the Tudor
era and its legacy.
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