"The plain truth is , that he was a most intolerable ruffian, a disgrace to human nature, and a blot of blood and grease upon the History of England."《A Child's History of England》中，狄更斯如許評價亨利八世；今天我們追看女作家曼特爾筆下的"都鐸傳奇"：《狼廳》《提堂》《鏡與光》。
