Henry VIII: The King and His Court

Zusatztext Alison Weir has perfected the art of bringing history to life. Chicago Tribune A DETAILED JOURNEY THROUGH THE COURT AND LIFE OF HENRY VIII . . . Thoroughly researched and entertaining! filled with delicious details for general readers and provocative argument for students of the period. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Informationen zum Autor Alison Weir is the author of Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, The Princes in the Tower, The Wars of the Roses, The Children of Henry VIII, The Life of Elizabeth I, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. She lives outside London with her husband and two children. Klappentext For fans of Wolf Hall! Alison Weir's New York Times bestselling biography of Henry VIII brilliantly brings to life the king! the court! and the fascinating men and women who vied for its pleasures and rewards. "WEIR'S BOOK OUTSHINES ALL PREVIOUS STUDIES OF HENRY. Beautifully written! exhaustive in its research! it is a gem. . . . She succeeds masterfully in making Henry and his six wives . . . come alive for the reader."-Philadelphia Inquirer Henry VIII! renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect! presided over one of the most magnificent-and dangerous-courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed! personal biography of this charismatic monarch been set against the cultural! social! and political background of his glittering court. Now Alison Weir! author of the finest royal chronicles of our time! brings to vibrant life the turbulent! complex figure of the King. Packed with colorful description! meticulous in historical detail! rich in pageantry! intrigue! passion! and luxury! Weir brilliantly renders King Henry VIII! his court! and the fascinating men and women who vied for its pleasures and rewards. The result is an absolutely spellbinding read. Chapter 1 "A Most Accomplished Prince" On 21 April 1509, the corpse of King Henry VII, ravaged by tuberculosis, was laid in state in the chapel at Richmond Palace, whence it would shortly be taken to Westminster Abbey for burial. Few mourned that King's passing, for although he had brought peace and firm government to England and established the usurping Tudor dynasty firmly on the throne, he had been regarded as a miser and an extortionist. The contrast between the dead King and his son and heir could not have been greater. The seventeen-year-old Henry VIII was proclaimed King on 22 April,1 whichmost apt for a prince who embodied all the knightly virtueswas also St. George's Day. The rejoicings that greeted Henry's accession were ecstatic and unprecedented, for it was believed that he would usher in "a golden world."2 William Blount, Lord Mountjoy, a courtier, expressed the national mood in a letter to his fellow humanist, the renowned Desiderius Erasmus: I have no fear but when you heard that our prince, now Henry the Eighth, whom we may well call our Octavius, had succeeded to his father's throne, all your melancholy left you at once. What may you not promise yourself from a prince with whose extraordinary and almost divine character you are acquainted? When you know what a hero he now shows himself, how wisely he behaves, what a lover he is of justice and goodness, what affection he bears to the learned, I will venture to swear that you will need no wings to make you fly to behold this new and auspicious star! If you could see how here all the world is rejoicing in the possession of so great a prince, how his life is all their desire, you could not contain your tears for sheer joy. The heavens laugh, the earth exults. . . . Avarice is expelled from the country, extortion is put down, liberality scatters riches with a bountiful hand. Yet our King does not desire gold, gems or precious metals, but virtue, glory, immortality!3

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