Have left me naked to mine enemies.”
So died the victim of a headstrong, selfish sovereign, who remorselessly flung away even the most devoted of his servants as soon as they had ceased to be useful to him.
Cardinal Wolsey on his Way to Westminster Hall.
(From the picture by Sir John Gilbert, R.A. in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.)
TRIAL OF QUEEN CATHERINE.
(From the picture by Henry O’Neill, A.R.A. By permission of the Art Gallery Committee of the Corporation of Birmingham.)
PORTRAIT OF HENRY VIII.
(By Hans Holbein the Younger. From the Royal Gallery at Windsor.)