When Henry died, at age 55, he weighed in at about 400 pounds with a waist measurement of (double gasp) 44 inches. Her goal, which failed miserably, was to reinstate Catholicism as the state religion. According to the historian, Julia Layton, Henry executed “tens of thousands during his 37-year reign.” Others insist the number was in the low thousands.īy comparison, the daughter who succeeded Henry on the throne, who came to be called ‘Bloody Mary,’ killed fewer than 300 people during her six years as queen. By most definitions, he was a blood-stained pathological killer, keeping the ax-man in the Tower of London, busy 24/7. Henry, by way of the Tudor tribe, was king of England from 1509-47. It was their own monarch – the sociopath – Henry VIII.

It wasn’t the Black Death, Small Pox, the Spanish Flu, Cholera or the Yellow Fever that killed so many of the peace-loving English people during the first half of the 16th century.