Henry VIII

WARNING: low football content.

Son has to go to school tomorrow armed with an interesting fact about Henry VIII. He’s written on a piece of card that “he had the biggest balls in the world”.

Do I intercept this and replace it with a boring fact about his six wives? Or just let it play out?

 

Can his statement be backed up with facts?
I'd be more likely to go armed with the fact that significant head trauma caused him to go a bit loopy.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/scien... from,insomnias and possibly low testosterone.

 

Tell him to write about Hitler,theres less content if you know what I mean.

 

Ive seen his coat of armer and that would certainly back up your son's fact

 

No **** em. Would love to be in classroom though

 

He created the C of E.
Biggest balls tops it though lol.

 

Hitler he only had one ball his brother he had none at all.

His mother, dirty f c UK er chopped them off and they had scallops and Bo ll ocks for tea.

 

That is interesting

 

My mate Dave used to sing it in PE.

 

Interesting facts about towd Henry

https://www.historyhit.com/facts-about-henry-viii/

Surprising what you can find lol.

Surely one of the most repulsive jobs in history, the 'Groom of the King's Close Stool' (or just Groom of the Stool for short) was a role created during the reign of Henry VIII to monitor and assist in the King's bowel motions.


That’ll amuse the class.

 

A fact is a fact.

If it is a fact.

If it is, it's a fact.

 

His nickname was ‘old copper nose’, because he debased the silver coinage with so much copper that the raised points on well circulated coins would turn pink.

 

There were 7 other King Henry’s before him

 

Henry VIII liked a Christmas dinner. Had everyone round and and laid on the works. He would spend on this - in today's money - £4.7 million. FACT.

 

I'd suggest to him that that's not what his teacher was looking for. No point him getting into trouble needlessly.

 

A little known fact,he was Henry the 9ths dad.

 

It depends what balls he means. If he means testicles, get him to change it to that (if he has proof that he actually did - it isn't something I've ever heard of). If he means a different type of ball, then get him to specify that, otherwise he'd be in trouble for purposefully being cheeky.

 

My mate once called him Henry Vill when reading from a book in fourth year.

 

Klaxon for anyone who says 8, there were in fact 9 kings who were crowned as King Henry.

While history records that the last King to be crowned King Henry held the title of Henry VIII, it cannot completely ignore the fact that there was another King Henry was was crowned, twice, in 1170 and 1172.

The Henry in question was the second son of Henry II, and after the death of his elder brother he was heir to the throne. In 1170 he was crowned and given the seal "HENRICVS REX ANGLORUM ET DUX NORMANNORUM ET COMES ANDEGAVORUM" and became King Henry of England, alongside his dad, though without realms or power.

He had a second coronation in 1172 because his wife, the daughter of the French King Louis VII, was not in the first one and King Louis was a bit miffed.

Lack of real power, and probable influence from his mother, led Henry the younger to side with his brothers against his father in the short civil war that followed, but after this rebellion was quashed he spent some time competing in jousting tournaments before turning his attentions on his brother Richard (later to become Richard I). During the war with Richard, Henry contracted dissentry and died a few days later.

When he heard his son was dead, Henry II said "He cost me much, but I wish he had lived to cost me more."

Confused ? Welcome to the club.