Many thanks to Sylvia Barbara Soberton for sending me such an interesting post! Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did, and that you give her new book on the health of the Tudor monarchs a look   

Did Henry VIII suffer from venereal disease or a urinary tract infection?

The theory, first put forward in 1888, that Henry VIII suffered from syphilis, has long been disproved by historians because the King didn’t display symptoms of this disease, wasn’t treated with the customary mercury and his...