The Young Henry VIII

Clips on Henry VIII's childhood and adolescence.

Henry became his father's heir in 1502 following the death of his elder brother Arthur. In 1509, after his accession to the throne Henry married his brother's widow Katherine. This made political sense since Henry desired war with France and therefore needed an alliance with Louis XII's rival, Ferdinand of Aragon, father to Katherine.

The portrait shown in the video of the young Henry dates to c.1509, the year of his accession to the throne. Although Henry has darkish hair in the portrait he was noted by contemporaries to have been very fair in the first years of his reign, which appears to have darkened into an auburn colour throughout his life.

When Henry VIII came to the throne there was popular rejoicing due to the steady decline inn popularity of his father amongst not only the commons by with the nobility whose powers Henry VII had curbed. One nobleman, Lord Mountjoy said this about his new king:

'Heaven and Earth rejoices; everything is full of milk and honey and nectar. Avarice has fled the country. Our king is not after gold, or gems, or precious stones, but virtue, glory and immortality...'

BTW, I love how ironic Thomas More's statement on the succession of Henry VIII is.

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[camaeron]

Do you know what the music is called that starts at 1:58. I have heard it several times during programmes about the Tudors... Thanks! ; )

[littlemisssunnydale]

It is a track called 'en vray amoure'. I have posted it in my Tudor music playlist.

[booklover181]

Is this from "The Six Wives of Henry VII" or a different series?

[littlemisssunnydale]

It is from Starkey's series on monarchy

[johnnybrit]

is it possible for you to post the full episode please.

[sunshinemags]

2009 is the 500th anniversary of the young Henry VIII coming to the throne. Henry VII died April 21st. Henry VIII was proclaimed king on April 23rd and crowned June 24th.

[MrRanger654]

This king tooked alot of places, my ancestors lost their homes because of this man. Thats maybe why the Irish king, my ancestor moved to the west side of Norway. I' am not sure if this was henry or not, but it was a British monarch

[egglz]

I love these documentaries... Thank you so very much.

[TheGiraffeShit]

I really love you, littlemisssunnydale.

[justme8777]

@Blurgle3 hi i just wanted to ask is king henry related to the brittish royal family of today??????? i want to know as sonn as possible plz

[justme8777]

hi all can somone plz give me information as soon as possible is king henry related to queen and the british royal family of today...i just want to know plz

[PeaceLoveSmile4]

00:26 I love doing that haha!

[Chenzhenhui]

related they may be, descendant and relative is quite different

[RockOnHarryNSarah]

goosh, why did he have all ladies? im pretty sure because he could give them what they wanted. even if i was that greedy i wouldn't be that deprite. (:

[Blurgle3]

Related, yes, but VIII wasn't an actual *descendant* of V. It's sloppy and completely inaccurate to confuse "successor" or "relative" with "descendant".

But this doesn't even scrape the surface of the mistakes this guy has made in all the clips littlemisssunnydale has kindly uploaded (and I mean the "kindly" sincerely - it's good that this stuff is available to be critiqued).

[Blurgle3]

Listening to this guy's work, I count two or three mistakes per minute! It just gets worse and worse with each instalment.

Doesn't he have any kind of fact-checking?