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Oh god I remember that shit, they also invoked Henry VIII as a great white UK hero which is hilarious given that he was a lousy king who undermined the Kingdom of England's position as a regional power with all of his bullshit. Not sure why they didn't go for Elizabeth I who was a far more competent English leader from a right wing/establishment perspective. I guess they didn't want to include too many women.
Of course, fascists are never going to be good at understanding history, it was around the same time that the BNP was sending out leaflets with a picture of a Spitfire on the cover - a Spitfire in Free Polish markings lmao.
Didn't Henry #8 do pretty well in his youth? From what I remember reading it was moreso when he got old that things got bad. Young Henry curtailed the nobles and stabilised the place or something like that
Henry the 8th was for everything else he was a genuinely cunning statesman who among other things did break the power of the feudal barons over the English state
We focus a lot on funny fat guy obsessed with a son. But he wanted a son because without a son the barons would never stop thinking "Henry is powerful but I have to look to the future who comes after" and marrying off his daughters as heirs would mean being forced to allign as a subordinate power to either Spain or France.
He was also a brutal serial killer who would have close friends killed on a whim. But it's inaccurate to portray him as just a buffoon
Yeah, that's true. There was something of a theme of Tudors falling off in their later years.
Dude clowning on the king of France with an archery contest after getting thrown around by the little twink will always be peak pettiness, and for that Henry gets an 8/10 for me