My how flies....April 21st of 2009 is the 500th anniversary of Henry VII shucking off his mortal coil & Henry VIII ascending the throne. Alas no one cares about the former, but the latter is garnering some hoop-dee-doo at Hampton Court....Henry rates like a 3 month long conference Anyone going to Surrey? There's even going to be a Tudor rock concert See HERE for details.
It is a shame, he's regarded as quite a boring King, the only exciting thing he ever did was to seize the throne. But his reign is full of interest if people look for it - Lambert Simnel, Perkin Warbeck, Scots invasion, invasion of Brittany, succession crisis etc.
Henry VII died on 21 April, two days before SAt George's Day. This year is also the 500th anniversary of the death of his mother Margaret Beaufort, she survived her son by two months and died on 29 June 1509.
Or was it 3x? <goes to look> Yesm 3....Edmund Tudor, Sir Henry Stafford (gotta be a Buckingham rellie) & that wretch Thomas Stanley who ruined Bosworth for the Yorkists.
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I would hazard the king in his counting house counting all his money isn't nearly as titillating as Junior's shenanigans ROFL
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