Fat and furious (but was it his fault?): Henry VIII
BOOK OF THE WEEK HENRY VIII: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF A TYRANT by Robert Hutchinson (W&N £20, 432pp) The bride was 19, petite, vivacious and flirty, with a mass of auburn hair tumbling down her back. The groom, 30 years older, was enormously fat, flatulent, possessed of a volcanic temper and with ulcerated legs … Read more