[ArtDodger]

Many of Henry VIII’s, Bloody Mary’s and Elizabeth’s problems can be traced back to Henry VII’s decisions. Rather than marrying Arthur to an English girl, he went after Isabella’s daughter due to the incredibly huge dowry, half on the day of marriage and half when an heir was acknowledged. When Arthur died, he didn’t want to give the partial dowry back so he hooked his next son Henry VIII up to Catherine, after almost marrying her, himself. And then the trouble started to brew..

[CondorFlight]

There’s a miniseries about him, “The Shadow of the Tower”, available on YouTube. Excellent acting by the lead actor portraying Henry.

[KC Burke]

The 2012 Thomas Penn book is well worth snyone’s time.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If someone made a movie and in it a widowed princess was appointed as ambassador to a court so she could stick around and wed her dead husband's 11 year old brother it would be laughed out of the theater.

But that is what happened.

[robowombat]

Henry VII was one of those royal misers the Marxists used to call ‘transitional figures’ in the supplanting of feudal values with bourgeois values.