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2 de mai. de 2024 · Your guide to Henry VIII's "faithful servant" How much do you know about Thomas Cromwell? As Henry VIII's chief minister, he became one of the most powerful men in England – but little is known about his origins. Here, historian Tracy Borman answers all the questions you need to know – from his meteoric rise to his spectacular fall from favour…
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant, by Tracy Borman, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£25, 464 pages. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2024. All rights...
8 de dez. de 2023 · Thomas Cromwell. The life and death of Henry VIII’s 'most faithful servant' The publication of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall in 2009 transformed Thomas Cromwell's reputation from a scheming, ruthless villain of history into a loyal, humorous and streetwise hero.
- Chief Minister to Henry VIII
- Elizabeth Williams
He rose from blacksmith’s son to a place as Henry VIII’s right-hand man, playing key roles in the English Reformation and in reshaping the Tudor state. He was executed in 1540, but almost as soon as he was dead Henry mourned him as “the most faithful servant he ever had.”
11 de set. de 2014 · Between 1533 and 1540 Cromwell carried out Henry VIII’s will as his secretary, enforcer and vicar-general. In this, according to Borman, he was always ‘a pragmatist rather than an idealist’ and ‘Henry VIII’s most faithful servant’. Like the king, Cromwell remained a Catholic, just not a ‘Roman’ Catholic, we are told.
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12 de set. de 2017 · Tracy Borman suggests that in his latter years, Henry VIII lamented the loss of his Chief Minister, referring to him as the ‘most faithful servant he had ever had’. Despite Cromwell’s fall from grace, his son, Gregory and his nephew, Richard survived his fall and prospered under Henry VIII.
With fresh research and new insights into Cromwell's family life, his household and his close relationships, Tracy Borman Tracy Borman tells the true story of Henry VIII's most faithful servant.
