Posted on 02/02/2009 3:43:41 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick
Hope that roof had some sturdy timbers beneath it.
Word has it Ole Mary baby didn’t like my clan very much. But then Ireland didn’t either. HMMM...
As corpulent as this gut was, aren’t they glad Henry didn’t pop open like King France I of Francis did, at his funeral.
At 6’1” that’s quite tall — I had always thought of Henry VIII as a short, sawn-off runt.
And at only 280 lbs, he wasn’t really that fat. Most rugby players are at least that heavy.
Ergo his nickname, ‘Fatso’, which his wives used at their peril.
I think that was William the Conquerer whose body exploded in his coffin. And... ewwwwwwww
That’s because he was ‘on’ry.
But Henry did, bighead, he did. Don’t you think you have just the best conversations when you are talking amongst your selves?
There is some evidence Henry wasn’t so pretty at his. Aye to William, also. We got it pretty good these days. Sort of. When The Big O sees just how much the bailout didn’t do, there will be sh!+, guts, and feathers EVERYWHERE! I think there is a lot about the past that should stay buried. But my dad always claimed you find the best old antique whiskey bottles where the old homestead’s outhouse used to be. :-)
If one old family tale is correct, Henry VIII executed at least one of my ancestors and James I/VI executed another. Most of my English ancestors left for America within a decade or three of the latter event, but probably not for those reasons. :’)
The real villain of the piece is the illegimate usurper Henry, the Earl of Richmond, and so-called Henry VII. Descended via by-blows of John of Gaunt and the House of Lancaster, he had the motives to send the Princes in the Tower to their fate, not their uncle. Titulus Regius and Edward IV’s precontract effectively nullified their claims to the throne.
Vivat Eboracum! Loyaulte me Lie!
(That all being said, the armor of Henry VIII, particularly that prepared for the Field of the Cloth of Gold as well as the harness depicted, was the summit of the medieval armorer’s art from a functional standpoint.)
By this time, the King weighed more than 20st, was enduring regular and very painful enemas and had a foul-smelling open wound on his leg that the royal physicians refused to let heal - based on the then accepted medical knowledge - believing that illness must be allowed to flow out of the body.
And waterboarding is torture? I say we give 'em some of this type of "medicine".
Bill loved hot asphalt and a mop more than sex.
Cromwell beheaded one of mine.
"She says
hello you fool
I love you
C'mon join the joyride,
Join the joyride." Roxette
And it will really be a joyride with the O drivin'.
One reason we have it good is embalming and refrigeration.
I imagine they had to hold the body for quite a while for people to get the word out of the death, travel from various places to be at the funeral, etc...
Probably pretty darn decomposed at certain times of the year. Again... ewwwwww
In fact, there is a theory that Edward IV was the illegitimate son of an archer and should have never been king. Instead, it should have been his brother George, Duke of Clarence. Clarence was eventually executed as a traitor by Edward but his lineage lives on and, if true, they are the legit royal line of Britain. Under this premise, the king is in fact an Australian rice farmer named Mike Hastings.
I heard that she was just a skank
He was 6’1”.
Yes, I would say he was quite round.
*shrug* I'm shorter and heavier. I don't feel fat.
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