“In short, although we know Henry VIII will marry six times, we must always remember that he did not…no one could have predicted that the lithe and golden-haired Prince Charming who ascended the throne in England just before his eighteenth birthday in 1509—‘the handsomest prince in Europe’—would die nearly forty years later, a monster of obesity, with a reputation more like that of Bluebeard than Prince Charming.”
“In short, although we know Henry VIII will marry six times, we must always remember that he did not...no one could have predicted that the lithe and golden-haired Prince Charming who ascended the throne in England just before his eighteenth birthday in 1509—‘the handsomest prince in Europe’—would die nearly forty years later, a monster of obesity, with a reputation more like that of Bluebeard than Prince Charming.”