He was the first Tudor monarch, the king who vanquished Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field. So when Henry VII died in 1509 after suffering from gout and asthma, he was fittingly buried in ...
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Henry VIII is not remembered as a loving husband. Any English schoolchild can recount the unpleasant fates of most of his six wives with the rhyme: “Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, ...