![]() ![]() So why are the Tudors so widely celebrated in virtually every medium from popular song to TV dramas? Why do many still regard Queen Elizabeth’s reign (1558-1603) as England’s Golden Age? Meyer argues that such mythmaking arose to aid descendants of the powerful ruling class Henry VIII created when he redistributed the Church’s vast wealth among his favorites. ![]() Such advances as occurred in the theater, higher education and naval power happened, Meyer contends, in spite of the Tudors, rather than because of them. ![]() ![]() Meyers, author of The Tudors, by engaging in profligate personal spending, fighting elective and wasteful wars and being actively hostile toward the plight of common citizens. While this era was underscored by Henry VIII’s legal and material dispossession of the Catholic Church in England, the Tudors further created misery, says G.J. For 118 years, beginning with the ascent of Henry VII to the throne in 1485 and continuing through the sequential reigns of Henry VIII and his children, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth, England suffered under the divisive, rapacious and bloody rule of the Tudors. ![]()
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