Compared with Mirabeau's letters to Sophie de Monnier, they are cold and chaste.

Froude says that the King wanted a male heir, and he gives the same reason for the scandalously indecent haste with which Jane Seymour was married the day after Anne's execution.

The character of Henry VIII.

is only important now as it bears upon the policy of his reign.

That Froude washed him too white is almost as certain as that Lingard painted him too black.
The notion that lust supplies the key to his marriages and their consequences is utterly ridiculous.