In 1553, young Edward the
Sixth's sickening, slipping away to die
So quickly after his father, Henry
The Eighth, departed, fat and unhealthy
This course of events, of course let Mary
Onto the throne; like Edward, a sickly
Child. Edward's will was Queen Lady Jane Grey
Protestant, related to the family
Tudor, and beautiful, unlike Mary
Whose mother Catherine's fertility
Was somewhat suspect in its quality
Mary however was not unwary
Of slurs on her mother church ancestry
And set about being Bloody Mary
Aha, the Tudors - do you like the TV show?
ReplyDeleteNah - do you? It just seemed so WRONG in the casting. Henry was far too good-looking. Another disaster was when they cast Ray Winstone the Cockney gangster actor as H8 - and he didn't even bother trying to talk posh. 'I'm Enery the bleedin eighf, oi am, knees up Cardinal effin Wolsey, gorblimey owzyerfather?'
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