NOBODY liked this fat fuck. How did he not spur on a revolt?

There was a revolt when he closed down all monasteries?

>>17768530 (OP)
Because many people actually liked him

>>17768530 (OP)
British people are surprisingly rational, not him though

There were multiple revolts.

>>17768564
>>17768577
I should rephrase to "how was he not overthrown". Not a revolt directed at his leadership, but at HIM specifically and people just wanting him dead. And not just his people, but castle workers and knights who all hated his decisions. He could've very easily gone the route of the Orient Express where all his servants kills him and his assassination remains a mystery.

>>17768607

most of his retarded decisions came at a time when he was fat, unwell and people knew his time was near. Also many of the English liked Mary.

I think his children being liked and him dying and in his ill health in later part of his life made sure there was no need for assasination attempts

>>17768530 (OP)
He bribed the nobles with monastery money. That's the reason protestantism took off btw.

>>17768530 (OP)

>>17768955
>male sons
As opposed to female sons?
More wives, your grace? btw.

>There were dedicated servants who had to bathe the rotting king, help him use the bathroom, and wipe his ass.

>>17768971
I’m going to make 20 something Latinx CNA’s do this for me when I’m elderly btw

>>17768607
Probably part of it is because Henry Tudor brought the monarchy out of a prolonged civil war between the houses of York and Lancaster and people didn't want to go back to insecurity and having competing claims for the throne again.

>>17768955
More Wives, your grace?

>>17768960
traditional english femboys, duh

Imagine fumbling the single most important nation in the history of the world, all because you couldn't keep your kids alive.

The whole of the Americas would've gone Catholic...

>>17769808
>inb4 monke

>>17769808
>Catholic

He was actually very popular in his youth.

>>17768530 (OP)
York fell once. Cromwell managed to crush it.

>>17769808
>monkey trying to steal
A tale as old as time herself...

Mary won, partially.
Elizabeth won, comprehensively.

>>17768530 (OP)
There were revolts, but there was also the lingering memory of the War of the Roses, no one wanted a return to civil war.

>>17768530 (OP)
these painters obviously had to make him look cool and presentable because if the painter made him look bad he would probably be killed. do you think he actually looked like that or was he way more fat and ugly in real life?

>>17771443
He was very well regarded and thought of as handsome when he was young, but he definitely became an obese norfman later on in life after contracting gout

>>17768530 (OP)
Some Catholics did revolt.

There were constant rebellions being put down, most kings had to deal with those at some point.

>>17768530 (OP)
He is considered handsome by bong standards. Also his policies were actually so sound it damaged the counyry overall because good state /=/ good country

>>17768955
He should have invaded France
More wives, your grace?

based

>>17768530 (OP)
Considering that his father had spent most of his time after taking the throne just pointing to random noblemen, declaring them to be traitors because . . . umm . . . . reasons, and having them executed/exiled so he could take all their land and money Henry originally looked like a breath of fresh air.

By the time he stopped being the romantic and handsome young Henry and started being the deranged, fat, tyrannical asshole he was getting old and clearly not going to last much longer, and each of his kids appealed to at least one section of English society, so why take the risk of starting a civil war when you can just grit your teeth and wait a year or two for the old fuck to die and then start politicking for your preferred heir?

>>17768530 (OP)
People back then knew that he did what he did because he had to. They weren't so arrogant to think they know better.