Hidden Henry - Henry the Father

Five academics present portraits of unknown, intimate and surprising aspects of Henry VIII's character. Tudor historian Dr Susan Doran and Lucy Wooding, author of the most recent biography of Henry, consider what it would have been like to have had Henry as your father. Looking at letters, books, gifts and portraits, they discuss how he seems to have been closest to his illegitimate son. He humiliated his daughter Mary, and Elizabeth's fear of commitment and even her bearing can be attributed to her contact with him. Henry's children lived in fear of their terrifying father and yet modelled themselves on him.