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England under Henry VIII (english) - (реферат)

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    ENGLAND
    UNDER
    HENRY VIII
    EXAMINATIONAL ESSAY BY
    NOVIKOV SERGEI
    10th "B" GRADE, SCHOOL NO. 1276
    MOSCOW - 1996
    ENGLAND UNDER
    HENRY THE EIGHTH.
    Henry VIII Tudor (1491-1547)
    was the second son of Henry VII.
    His brother Arthur, being only 15, married to Catherine,
    the daugter of the Spanish monarch.
    But in a very few month he sickened and died.
    Henty VII arranged that the young widow
    should marry his second son Henry,
    then 12 years of age, when he too should be 15.
    A few years after settling this marriage, in 1509,
    the King died of the gout.
    King Henry the Eighth was just eighteen
    years of age when he came to the throne.
    People said he was a handsome boy, but
    in later life he did not seem handsome at
    all. He was a big, burly, noisy, small-eyed,
    large-faced, double-chinned fellow, as we
    know from the portraits of him, painted by
    the famous Hans Holbein*.
    The