I feel so sorry for his horse. That obese evil king needed a crane to get onto the poor horse towards the end. That poor horse. 😔

I bet his horse was relieved that he was gone...

Henry's was the most notorious ruler and worst husband and father. He slaughtered 72,000 people in his reign of terror. Nobody was safe or immune from his anger. He beheaded his queens and even friends. Started a new religion which got thousands killed in centuries to come. All for love which faded away in three years. His daughters became his legacy not son.

Henry's leg ulcer pained him greatly, and could be smelt three rooms away from where he was sitting in Hampton Court Palace, so that even the royal dogs refused to go near him. For all his many sins, he certainly suffered in his later years.

It’s really hard to feel sorry for him. May he rot in hell! He caused a lot of misery. Even his doctors were afraid of telling him he was dying.

When you're not feeling well, the first thing to go is your sense of humor.

It isn't a far fetch to consider Henry's putrefying leg, that he suffered in the later stages of gangrene. This would also account for his body, supposedly, exploding while he lay in the lead coffin, which is more evidence of why his body fluids ran from the coffin. As to whether the dog licked his blood, I doubt that occurred. Dogs were wont not to go near Henry due to the horrible smell that emanated from his leg, that could be smelled {three rooms away}. He would have suffered an extremely painful death from the gangrene.

Henry the VIII most likely died from a combination of things... Sepsis from his infected leg, complications from Diabetes, and Heart Failure due to his morbid obesity. No doubt the man was pure evil in his later years whether it was from his head injury or simply because he enjoyed exercising his power and wanted to make sure no one felt safe enough to try and remove him from the throne as was done frequently in those days. Kings were killed battling their enemies for power and privilege. Henry's desire for a son is what created his fear of not having an heir to inherit the throne ending the Tudor reign of England. After all his father was the first Tudor to kill for power and Henry killed to keep it. If there is a Hell no doubt Henry VIII is most likely in it for all the senseless murders he had committed in his name. He even had women tortured. He was a horrible man. Not that I would wish any of this on anyone, but not even the son he sired with Jane Seymour (another ambitious whore) ended up dying before he could marry and have children. It was so fitting that both his daughter reigned after his death. Especially Elizabeth. Anne's killing was a setup and he didn't care if she died once he had his would-be child bride. Jane also got her just desserts for her role in Anne's death as well as did all her enemies that plotted to have her beheaded. It was poetic justice and Henry's death was a long-suffering process. I'm sure he had nothing but time to think about what a cruel bastard he had become. Henry VIII was having people's heads chopped off long before he ever suffered his head injuries.

Loved this. As you described the velvet, crown and effigy that accompanied the funeral procession, I felt sure that you were going to say that those things were stolen. When you said 'It is here that it is said that the king's remains exploded', I was taken aback and had a bit of a giggle!

Henry was really an English Josef Stalin. It’s insane how closely their personalities match up.

Smallpox, malaria, a traumatic brain injury, diabetes, high blood pressure, varicose ulcers and syphilis. He really seems to have been a royal Petri dish.

I've no sympathy at all, as to how much pain he suffered in his final days. He deserved everything he got. He himself was a cruel heartless man, who bestowed terror and pain onto thousands of people, some of whom did nothing more than to speak out of turn. What goes around, comes around.

I was sad to see you stopped uploading medieval history on the main channel but happy when I saw this channel was a thing 🙂

52 inch waist and 53 inch chest, yeah, it's safe to say he had diabetes among other health issues

The royal exploding rotting carcass of King Henry VIII. Yikes!

Your scholarly informed approach to your subjects as well as the production quality of your programs is educational as well as entertaining. I've learned so much of English history from your work, and it is much appreciated. Wish you much success in this worthy endeavour.

Love all your Tudor videos keep them coming

Its very interesting to hear/read up on just how sick he got at the end. I know you briefly mentioned his body exploding, but not as to why and just how disgusting he was at the end. He was so sick with sepsis and gangrene at the end it was crazy, and peoples accounts of it all are quite entertaining.

A king had to legally have a queen for their children to be legitimate heirs. A mistress's child was of no consequence.

Great video dude I haven't heard anything like that since school, very interesting, thanks 👍🏼

Henry VIII videos are interesting. Great Video. This channel is amazing 👏

It is also believed that Henry's change in mental status, was due to the fact that he had end-stage or tertiary syphilis.This made his thought patterns & behavior very random.

Henry VIII is the Renaissance era's Joseph Stalin

I read in one account, that Henry VIII had prepared and ate 16 separate meals a day. Few mention his gluttony or how extraordinary it was.

Henry got so fat , his court and servants would wear big clothes too, so that the king didnt stand out . And before he was entombed, his body exploded with gas and deteriation.

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim reaper.

Yes! I enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work.

Are you the same person with the channel untold past? Glad you made a channel strictly for this material!! Thank you.

I like the Tudor history. No doubt Henry eight was a strong King, but execution of Anne boleyn, Catherine Howard, Thomas cromwell, Thomas Culpeper and many others never be forgotten.

This channel is just amazing 🙏

An excellent presentation. Thanks for this. I do think that people can change into seemingly different (...and, in his case, monstrous) beings regardless of injuries or physical suffering.

Thanks for another great video

Executed 3% of the population, wow!

never heard about these illnesses before. and his brain injury was evident in the migraines and mood change. also didn’t realize he had such a bloody reign. why are these things not often mentioned? thank so much - so glad i clicked on your video!! :) 🌷🌱 (New York city)

You can't really feel sorry for a monster like him

Henry VII was loathed by the Irish as was Elizabeth I and Victoria, the queen that presided over genocide in Ireland during the 1840s.

I remember the postscript narration from "A Man For All Seasons" (1966). When the narrator said: "Henry VIII died of Syphilis," there was a brief spasm of laughter from the audience, since, back then, Syphilis was curable with a shot of Penicillin. I had heard of the word, but not what kind of illness it was, it's long latency, nor what happened as it ravaged body and mind. This really was "Montezuma's Revenge," and not "Turista," which (usually) doesn't kill.

Everything 1500-1600 was brutal.

Don't feel any sympathy for that monster. Presumably people in those days saw being really fat as a sign of opulence & not as a terrible thing like today...how different things could have been if he hadn't had those jousting accidents!! Good video as always, thank you 👍🏻👍🏻

He started off having lots of promise, but eventually he got corrupt and became a tyrant.

Simular to the horific death of Duke William (1066) fame... He was grossly overweight and died of an internal rupture while riding... was in agony for some time... his corpse was stripped by servants, later during his funeral his body split open the stench driving all out of the church... God certainly made an example of him for all to see...

I heard that Henry would not eat vegetables and his diet was mainly meat and sweet sugar bakes, and pastries. Eating upto 6 chickens a day or whole legs of lamb. He would have been an unmedicated diabetic with hugely high blood sugars. This is the cause of the ulcerated legs. Also he probably was incapable of getting any kind of a Hard On, So why did he want so many women ? He turned on family and friends and had no compassion for any one who he deemed had disrespected him.

"Doctors telling the King he is going to die is treason".... 🤣🤣🤣

I love watching your video on the kings and Queens of England 🇬🇧.....

Painful, Seriously seriously good stuff as much as possible

He was described at the start of his reign as tall athletic and handsome. Some people made the mistake to describe him in a less favourable way.

Good information thanks for your report great stuff

If Henry was alive today, I would be willing to bet the leg ulcer would be diagnosed as osteomyelitis and could be handled with strong antibiotics. For anyone wondering what that feels like, you get an idea of what bone cancer feels like.

When you described the change in Henry VIII temper after the jousting accidents it made me think he must have had a head injury. I've seen this change a person personality.

Lol I've got to laugh at these mafia bosses being called kings

Not sorry for him at all. What happened to him is deserved for what he did to others.

I imagine Henry being in constant pain with his injuries and bad health, would have lead to his bad moods and brutal behaviour.

The universal winds of karma blows in to return your deeds two fold irrespective of the century people live in. For all the torment, suffering and brutality he inflicted in his time, he was repaid in full.

His corpulent body exploded...explains why they didn't transfer it to the other coffin I guess 🤢

He rotted while he was still alive must be some sort of penance for the evil he's done to others amberlin especially

Rather brutal? An understatement.

I can't help but wonder if Robert Baratheon is based on Henry VIII

Can imagine doing some menial job as one of the royal staff and spending certain parts of the day tip toeing around him . I'd have been one of many doing the same

Great video, let's hope True Geordie will star in the biopic

I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw the painting of him at the 4 minute mark, that artist had guts!! Itty-bitty head with puffy garments…. (It’s hilarious! It’s obvious the artist was attempting to show how rotund the king was , at least I sure hope so! And bravo if it was purposely painted that way! Made me laugh, I can only hope it gave others (under his rule) a bit of a smirk.😂

You could say Karma came calling for both Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell for the Web of lies and deceit they used to manipulate women and their families then execute them when they failed to produce a male heir, often killing innocent family members and royal aides in the most terrible ways possible after extracting false confessions under torture. Henry VIII is a prime example of never giving one person all the power and having them accountable to no one, well no one on this earth anyway if you believe in that sort of thing.

It wasn't Anne's fault she couldn't produce a male heir; it's the man's baby batter that determines the gemder.

So mathematicians were lying when they said he died drinking chocolate milk

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy

“Large and grotesque figure” 🤣

The paradox is that despite his longing for a male heir, there is not proof that he liked him more than his 2 daughters, and he may have not even appreciated him that much…he was neither more intelligent nor he had the strong character of his sisters

I remember learning about him a few years ago. I cant believe he crushed a horse.

Everyone in the comments writing like they're from this era lol

Glad to here he suffered. Not as much as his many victims I presume, though. He is a prime example we need a working democracy. Seems it is no longer.

nice to see some sense of justice for an evil person

That's a relief to hear that he suffered

I love history thank you

Very interesting description of the life of Henry V111 from a different point of view, not focusing on his religion and marriages. Clearly spoken and easy to understand. A shame it was rather a monotone.

Really interesting but the narrator sounds like he's reading the football results. Every sentance in the same tone.

Still 55 was quite old in 1547. A quick google says that average life expectancy from around 1500 to 1800 was only in the 30 - 40 year range.

Henry's final words were rumoured to be "monks." One wonders if the old tyrant was begging forgiveness for the dissolution of the monestaries?

This is actually the first I've heard of his jousting accidents. A traumatic brain injury certainly explains a lot. It also means that, if this is the case, and it certainly sounds like it is, his behaviors were not his fault. At that time, there was no understanding of traumatic brain injury, nor any understanding of head injuries and the damage done by being knocked unconscious. Being unconscious for two hours is pretty much a guarantee of a traumatic brain injury. TBI's cause a great deal of problems for patients and their families and profound changes in personality and behavior are common. So, while his behavior was monstrous, he himself was not a monster, just the victim of an undetected and untreated brain injury.

I'd say that Henry was paying for the many sins that he committed against others in the name of power and pride. I wonder if he will continue paying for them in eternity.

King Henry 8 was a disgrace. Just my opinion.

He destroyed all these beautiful cathedrals & monasteries ...😩😩😩

Yea. Anne Boleyn got her revenge.

Xenomorph would be a more fitting end. Surprised with all the meat he shoveled down, he didn't consume at least one alien parasite egg by accident

i have smelled a leg ulcer before. I was in a doctors surgery, and a drug addict had injected in his leg. it became heavily infected, ulcerated, and the skin and other tissue started dying. Its similar to leaving about 10kg of fresh chicken out in the sun for about 3 or 4 days. its sickly sweet. instantly nauseating.

He was totally off his tree...so to speak. Everyone was affraid of him. He's well portrayed in the Tudors. It's amazing he survived the sweeting sickness too which he luckily never caught.

Wasn't jousting outdated after Henry VIII? I can't imagine James I or Charles I or Oliver Cromwell participating in jousting.

It is amazing that karma has a way to take care of some people that really deserve it in the worst way.😭☠😈👹

I could bear the accent of the narrator but the chosen cadense and the predictable high pitch at the end of every sentence and phrase finally drove me to stop the video.

He was a monster. All those poor people who lost their lives because of him. His ending couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.

He deserved more unfortunately he didn’t get it!!!

He got as good as he gave. Serial killer.

Frontal lobe injuries make people pretty crazy. He probably should've stopped after the first head injury.

What you give out you get it back.

What a demon he was.

He was vicious

Henry's artwork looks like an early-age AI created them.

The content on this site is always interesting but If I may be so bold, the narrator needs to vary his speach patern as it's exactly the same 2 rises and one decent on the tonal range that can be repetetive and also at odds with the information being given at the time. Still, great site and content as ever.

Feel bad for the horse , hope the horse recovered or was the horse beheded as well ?

his fights against organized crime will never be forgotten.

The decomposing bacteria ate real well that day

A King of most generous proportions