minervacasterly: “His waist, once measuring a trim thirty-two inches, was a gross fifty-four i
minervacasterly:“His waist, once measuring a trim thirty-two inches, was a gross fifty-four inches, and his legs suffered recurring ulcers. Yet Henry found it hard to forget his youthful chivalric glory. In his favourite psalter, where Psalm 37:25 read ‘I have been young and now I am old’, he wrote in the margin ‘a grievous saying’.“ -Leanda de Lisle Henry VIII regretted getting old and not achieving enough but he did. Henry left behind paintings and palaces that glorified him and told a different story about his reign -which is what he wanted all along -to be seen as a hero and the white knight. "His actions as king had had the purest motives” Lisle explains, adding: “those he had destroyed had received their just merits.” Because in He rican logic, his will was absolute and he was never wrong. -- source link
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