#altho maybe it does reframe his comment later that year that he believed he wouldn't have any children by jane in a different light?

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Richmond was buried at the end of July by his adoptive family at Thetford Priory. Surrey rode along on his friend's jennet, Richmond's favourite horse, which had been delivered to him from his stable. The King, who it seems, had wanted to keep Richmond's death quiet for as long as possible, had ordered that his son's body be wrapped in lead, covered with straw and 'conveyed secretly in a close cart unto Thetford', where he was to be buried without any pomp. After the event, though, he regretted the decision, and, blind to the first order, blamed Norfolk for not according Richmond due honour--this despite the fact that Norfolk had Richmond buried with more ceremony than Henry VIII's original instructions had originally allowed.

Henry VIII’s Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard (Childs, Jessie)

#i know the head injury theory is controversial re : henry viii but ... #it's things like this that lend credence to it imv #did henry have a great capacity for cruelty before that? #yes; of course #but he didn't have this sort of ...irrationality / issue with memory #& the paranoia. bcus it seems not wanting anyone to know he had died was from paranoia #i think maybe for someone that had argued that his sons (by catherine of a.ragon. at any rate) #*the death of #was the judgement of god...the timing of fitzroy's death was...um. #less than ideal #for all the woobification of the marriage btwn jane and henry #i also read things like this and just...can't imagine it was pleasant #to be married to the irrational and irascible man that he was at this point #altho maybe it does reframe his comment later that year that he believed he wouldn't have any children by jane in a different light?