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Figura etogo pravitelya chrezvychayno protivorechiva. Dlya svoih sovremennikov Genrih VIII iz dinastii Tyudorov byl velikim korolem. Monarh-idealist, on rasshiril parlament, osnoval Korolevskiy voenno-morskoy flot, moderniziroval medicinskoe obrazovanie. On sochinyal muzyku i stihi, obozhal rycarskie turniry, pokrovitel'stvoval iskusstvam. V molodye gody obrazovannyy i odarennyy princ schitalsya voploshcheniem mnogih dobrodeteley, i u nego byli vse kachestva, chtoby prevratit' svoe pravlenie v podlinnyy triumf angliyskogo Vozrozhdeniya. Odnako ono ostalos' v istorii prezhde vsego kak vremya opasnyh intrig i krovoprolitiya. Genrih razorval otnosheniya s papoy rimskim i osnoval sobstvennuyu cerkov', razoril monastyri, obezglavil dvuh svoih zhen i prognal dvuh drugih. On umer podozritel'nym, tuchnym, izmuchennym nedugami tiranom, sostarivshimsya ran'she sroka. Tem ne menee proshlo uzhe pochti pyat' stoletiy, a pamyat' o nem zhiva. Ne pora li korolyu, navsegda izmenivshemu gosudarstvennoe ustroystvo Anglii, zamolvit' za sebya slovo? Vpervye na russkom!