I’ll nominate Andrew Stuttaford’s assertion that “Henry VIII . . . was a difficult man to be married to” as the understatement of the day.

The mnemonic we were taught at school for the six marriages was: “divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.” (Though I think that with Anne of Cleves there was actually an annulment, not a divorce.)

And while no doubt Henry had his little ways, he sure knew how to king.