Henry Viii Famous Quotes

More was condemned to the chopping block. His execution took place in 1535 at Tower Hill. His last words, as he stood on the scaffold, were “I die the king’s good servant but God’s first.” These words became so famous that they were made into a movie more than four centuries later. To this day no one can remember the last words of Henry VIII, and deservedly so.

Henry VIII was famous not only for his six marriages but also for his mistresses. He flaunted Bessie Blount and others, including Mary Boleyn, his mistress of the early 1520s, openly at court. It was not, of course, acceptable for a woman to take a lover.

Fear of unwanted pregnancy existed in all classes of people. Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Katherine Howard, was famously reported to have said ‘a woman might meddle with a man and yet conceive no child unless she would herself.