{"id":1550,"date":"2009-04-17T09:50:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T15:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2009-04-17T09:50:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T15:50:51","slug":"the-year-that-changed-henry-viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/17\/the-year-that-changed-henry-viii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year that Changed Henry VIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Telegraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<b>The year 1536 changed Henry VIII from a handsome, popular and athletic king to a corpulent tyrant who thought little of dispatching his many wives, a historian has claimed.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A new look at the life of one of England&#8217;s most famous monarchs argues that a series of calamitous events within the space of 12 months had an irreversible effect on his life.<\/p>\n<p>Suzannah Lipscomb, a research curator at Hampton Court Palace and Oxford scholar, said the apparent betrayal by his wife, a dangerous fall from a horse and a religious rebellion all played their part in transforming Henry.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;He did move from being the much f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Telegraph: The year 1536 changed Henry VIII from a handsome, popular and athletic king to a corpulent tyrant who thought little of dispatching his many wives, a historian has claimed. A new look at the life of one of England&#8217;s most famous monarchs argues that a series of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/17\/the-year-that-changed-henry-viii\/\">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-1550","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\/1550","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=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}