Henry VIII crowned this country’s ‘worst’ monarch
5th September 2015
The “self-indulgent” King Henry VIII has earned himself the title of the worst monarch in history granted by the Historical Writers Association.
Twenty per cent voted the obsessive tyrant the worst monarch citing his “self-indulgent” and “syphilitic” wife-murdering ways.
The Spider of Sarajevo, by prize-winning author Robert Wilton, described King Henry as a…