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Henry VIII | Something Wicked #13
For our "Something Wicked" series finale we're talking about perhaps England's most infamous king, Henry VIII.
We start off chatting about the context in which Henry ascended the throne - the death of his elder brother and the heir apparent Arthur Tudor, the work Henry VII had done to create peace and a functioning economy after The Wars of the Roses, and the issue of quite what to do with Arthur's teenage widow, the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon...
From there , we're off to the races, with Henry inheriting the crown, marrying Catherine, and enjoying a fair bit of success on the…
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