On Monday, August 23, 2021 at 5:05:54 PM UTC-4, gggg gggg wrote:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110303153114.htm
It is not necessary to read such an article to know that it is nonsense. But I read it anyway.
The article incorrectly says that only four of Henry's children survived infancy, which is to ignore
his unacknowledged illegitimate children of which there were several.
The article talks about his personality change, from the "generous" young man to the ogre he became.
This generous young men had two of his father's senior advisors killed as soon as he got the throne,
as they were unpopular. He launched a war with France in a hunt for personal glory. True, he got worse as he got older. As many kings and emperors did.
To look for the source of Henry's tyrannical ways, look no farther than dear old dad. Henry VII's lesson to his son was to kill anyone who was a present or future inconvenience.
Henry may indeed have had something wrong with him. But such an explanation is not necessary to explain his behavior. Do not multiply hypotheses unnecessarily.
William Hyde
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