The Tudors retained only a precarious grip on the crown of England, founded on a title that was both tenuous and legally flimsy.
This left them preoccupied by two major obsessions: the necessity for a crop of lusty male heirs to continue their bloodline, and the elimination of threats from those who had strong, if not superior, claims to the throne than them.
None was cursed more by this rampant insecurity than Henry VIII.
The king embodied not only the power and imperial majesty of.
| Obsessions | The necessity for a crop of lusty male heirs to continue their bloodline and the elimination of threats from those who had strong if not superior claims to the throne than them |
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George Weidenfeld & Nicholson Henry viii: the decline and fall of a tyrant, paperback/robert hutchinson
