A review by megthegrand
Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

4.0

A full history of the reign of Henry V11. It was interesting to read this and note how his interactions (or lack thereof) with his son, the future Henry VIII, shaped Henry R's pursuits of love that we learn about from a young age. I was surprised by Henry VII's miserliness, the obsession with power and bleeding finances from his subjects, but also by his great love for his wife. He mourned the loss every year on the anniversary of her death, which presented him as more human than his daily schemes for coin would have let on. My favorite part of the book was his death, when his reign of financial terror ended, and his son summarily wiped the slate clean with his ideas of "chivalry."