marthajefferson:Prince Henry (future Henry VIII) took up a classical curriculum under poets such as
marthajefferson:Prince Henry (future Henry VIII) took up a classical curriculum under poets such as Bernard André, John Skelton, and was heavily influenced by Erasmus and Thomas More. However, it was his mother, Queen Elizabeth of York, who taught Henry his basic skills of reading and writing. On the 2nd of November 1495, Henry VII paid £1 ‘for a book bought for my Lord of York’. Henry was then only four, and a half and there is no trace of a formally appointed tutor –his handwriting was quite unlike that of his known teachers, and in some ways very like the handwriting of his sister Mary. ‘It could pass for Henry’s,’ said Dr Starkey. The only difference is Henry leans more heavily on the page. Only a few fragments written by Henry’s mother have survived, and it shows how similar her children’s writing was to hers. The conclusion is that it was Elizabeth herself who taught Henry to read and also taught her children to write. x -- source link
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