From Absolute History.

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King Henry VIII is one of history’s most recognizable figures, but the man behind the myth is far more complex than his six wives and his famous appetite. This documentary tracks the radical transformation of the "Royal Spare" who was never meant to be King. From his golden youth as a pious polyglot and star athlete to the tragic jousting accident that left him in lifelong agony, we explore how a desperate obsession with a male heir led Henry to tear his kingdom apart. Discover the truth behind the Bloody Reformation, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and the chilling moment he warned his third wife to "remember Anne" when she dared to question his authority. Was he a cold-blooded monster, or a man haunted by the traumatic civil wars of his father’s past?

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