{"id":1293,"date":"2009-03-15T18:29:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T00:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2009-03-15T18:29:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T00:29:59","slug":"henry-viii-a-real-mummys-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/15\/henry-viii-a-real-mummys-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry VIII &#8220;a real mummy&#8217;s boy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Daily Mail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>King Henry VIII was a real mummy&#8217;s boy, his handwriting suggests.<\/p>\n<p>According to historian Dr David Starkey, his handwriting was so similar to his mother&#8217;s it can be assumed he was emotionally dependent on women.<\/p>\n<p>An exhibition opening next month at the British Library compares and contrasts his handwriting to his younger sister Mary and their mother, Elizabeth of York.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Starkey revealed to the Sunday Times: &#8216;Henry was brought up very, very unusually, in a female household.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>All have the same bold, square and rather laboured forms of writing, which is unlike the writing of most men in the royal court of that period.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Starkey has deduced that the young prince must have been taught to write by his mother in what were unheard of circumstances for nobility, let alone royalty, in those times.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1162128\/How-Henry-VIIIs-handwriting-shows-real-mummys-boy.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Daily Mail: King Henry VIII was a real mummy&#8217;s boy, his handwriting suggests. According to historian Dr David Starkey, his handwriting was so similar to his mother&#8217;s it can be assumed he was emotionally dependent on women. An exhibition opening next month at the British Library compares and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/15\/henry-viii-a-real-mummys-boy\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}