O Henry-Successions

Henry, you tried and tried and tried — turkey legs and beer kegs of great import* Did they get between you and the ladies, many of those waiting... You got your way, but your seeds unharvested after 1603. How fair these children of a greedy king — Edward, Mary and Elizabeth. Edward VI, king at nine, lives to be fifteen — a child the whole time. Lady Jane Grey, not one of Henry’s kids would be royally screwed after nine days, Mary grabbed the crown, as was her due. Queen Mary I, like her dad, caused a beheading, Grey would wish she hadn’t stepped on her toes. Sobriquet, quite sobering, of Bloody Mary, vilified in Foxe’s Actes and Monuments. Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen, after her sister dies in 1558. Video et taceo — she sees but says nothing. Perhaps better to keep your trap shut in the family vault or die trying to try and try and try to one’s detriment. 11/2/2020 *concern