Henry VIII: Patron or Plunderer?
Season 1 Episode 2 of 2
Part two of two. Historian Jonathan Foyle explores how the king's choices in art and architecture provide clues to his mental state in the 1530s. Following the monarch's break from Rome, divorce from Catherine of Aragon and subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn in the hope of finally fathering an heir, his desperation for a new image was at its peak
Henry VIII: Patron or Plunderer? airs on BBC Four HD at 2:30 AM, Wednesday 15 October. (Subtitles, sign language.)
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Jonathan Foyle
Presenter
Janice Hopper
Producer