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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…
8 de dez. de 2023 · Perhaps the most compelling assessment of Cromwell was that by Henry VIII himself. Within just a few short weeks of his chief minister's demise, the King was heard to lament the loss of 'the most faithful servant he had ever had'.
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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...
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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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.”
6 de jan. de 2015 · As King Henry VIII’s right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation; secured Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall of his second wife,...
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.
