From having to waging bloody wars on Scotland and , history has rightly portrayed Henry VIII as something of an ogre. But a new study shows the king was vulnerable and 'anxious' in his later years – and beset with the fear of God, likely due to all his wrongdoings. A copy of a prayer book once used by the Tudor king in the final years of his life has distinctive markings next to particularly pious passages, researchers found.
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