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Susan Doran and Henry VIII's biographer, Lucy Wooding, explore Henry's role as father.

Susan Doran and Lucy Wooding explore Henry VIII's role as a father and how ambition affected his private life. From 2009.

In the third of five programmes marking the 500th anniversary of the coronation of Henry VIII,  Tudor historian Dr Susan Doran, and Lucy Wooding, author of the most recent biography, consider what is was like to have Henry as your father.  Looking at letters, books, gifts and portraits they discuss how he seems to have been closest to his illegitamate son; he humiliated his daughter Mary, and Elizabeth's fear of commitment, even her bearing  are due to her contact with him. Henry's children lived in fear of their terrifying father and yet modelled themselves on him.   

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