Hi, In A Pickle, nice to come in contact with a chorister from Hampton Court. I was at the infant school in the palace, and held my connections to the place until I was in my twenties, because my father did a tremendous amount of restoration work in there over the years.
In Osborne House on the Isle of Wight there is a huge painting of Cardinal Wolsey on the steps of Leicester Abbey, and I do have to say that the artist has made him look dreadful. Apparently he died the following day and there was always more than a suggestion that he was 'pushed' rather than 'fell', if you know what I mean.
Poor Wosley - I guess that's what you get if you social climb and then put your faith in someone who most certainly doesn't deserve it. I have no affection for Henry VIII, I feel certain he was a thoroughly nasty individual - and like you, I deplore the BBC series The Tudors. Absolute rubbish!