1536: Henry VIII’s Cheese Slides Off His Cracker
Annus horribilis Tudor style
10 min readApr 20, 2021
1536 was a year chock-full of pivotal events that irrevocably altered Henry VIII’s life and England’s history. Posterity remembers Henry as a deranged tyrant, but that’s only part of the story. It was during that fateful year of injuries, loss, betrayals, and threats to his authority that the Henry remembered by history came to be.
