| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | GenghisTheHun (171)
03/01/2007 | He is the father of the modern English Nation. Aside from being a murderer, perjurer, thief, liar, ingrate, adulterer, probable bigamist, and infected with syphilis, there is not much bad you can say about King Henry.
I'm sure English parents all tell their children, "I want you to grow up to be just like good King Henry."
Really, he is the George Washington of modern England.
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 | irishgit (145)
04/01/2005 | Even by the standards of his era, this man was a monster. A brutal and flamboyant tyrant that was the terror of the kingdom. His subjects loved him and despaired. Given credit for separating England from the papacy, this was less a religious issue than one of international politics. Evidence suggests that during the last years of his reign (which were particularly savage) he was suffering from syphilitic paresis and was largely insane.
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 | weatherdude (1)
02/12/2005 | Kills his wife for his inability to father sons...that's pretty damn sad for any monarch!
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 | tocwelsh (2)
01/04/2005 | Without a doubt, a few pennies short of a quid, should have been behaeded.....
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 | Enkidu (37)
02/15/2004 | Nasty SOB. Even a good therapist and a course of Prozac probably wouldn't have helped this ill-tempered, self-centered, wife-murdering brute. Some of the people who opposed him showed sublime courage, but Henry got his way in the end, and history was changed forever.
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 | scarletfeather (49)
02/12/2004 | To paraphrase an old cliche, With friends like this guy, why have enemies?
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 | JonTheMan (28)
02/11/2004 | A man who would execute his most loyal subjects (Cardinal Wosley, Thomas Cromwell), friends (Nicholas Carew, Robert Ask) his wives (Anne Boelyn and Jane Seymour) and bastardize and re-bastardize his own children (Mary and Elizabeth) when the occasion suited him. I agree with irishgit, Henry was initially a loyal servant of the pope and the pope titled him defender of the faith on him condemning Luther (the most popular anti-papist reformer), he only actually began the split with Rome when he needed money from dissolving the monastaries and a divorce from Catherine of Aragon. A man with few morals, a greedy nature and a quick temper (want to know why he so often warred with France? It was probably because the French king beat him at wrestling at the Field of the Cloth of Gold). Not a nice bloke.
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