H is for Henry....the Heighth

is for Henry

Henry’s heir raising tale

Henry was a diamond of first water,

he married Katherine and had a daughter;

but then he spotted Anne,

oh, he was a changed man.

He wanted her coz she was much hotter.

He wrote to the Pope, “your Holiness, just see

Kath was big bro’s wife, so forbidden to me,

do something, don’t sit there,

I need to beget an heir

and I need to beget him NOW, and on Annie.”

He pulled whichever strings he could pull,

But the Pope wouldn’t give him the bull.

The Holy See saw nothing

to condone the wrongs of kings

and sent back the mission with an earful.

Oh, many twists and turns in Henry’s story!

The plot got thicker and increasingly gory.

Two Annes, furthermore

Howard, Parr and Seymour

married left and right for heir and for glory.

And did he get what he wanted in the end?

He begat a son, but it so happened

with Jane, not Boleyn's

but he died, the poor Prince

and Henry never quite managed seconds.

Henry was in all respects most kingly

and mostly he behaved quite fittingly;

but he did get grossly stout

and some Historians doubt

that his thingummalingam wasn’t too dingly.

Heck, this one Has turned Horribly long.  Henry's story is well-known of course and a little Heart-wrenching, whether you look at it from the POV of the king or His queens, or for that matter, the Heirs that did survive to maturity. 

And it's time to call a Halt. For the weekend Holiday.  Nine days into the challenge, not much writing Happening.  That's not just because of the A-Z, offline life always becomes extra busy just when I want to spend more time at blogfests. My weekend is different from the Gregorian one, it's on Friday and Saturday, and I'm Having a really Hectic one. Planning to relax, maybe write some Haiku on Sunday, breathe, and catch up on the reading big time.  What interesting things are you planning for the Sunday break?

Have a Happy weekend! See you Here for I.

Posted for the A-Z Challenge 2016