As I've said before, I wasn't around during the time of Henry VIII but I have an opinion on him and his leadership, I think I'm entitled given the amount I've bothered to read up on his time. I also was very interested in politics in my younger years and bothered to read up and educate myself on that too. I actually find it very patronising and irritating for people to comment on the age of others who have an opinion... by that logic, someone my age or younger who supports and has positive things to say about Thatcher shouldn't be entitled to their opinion either; somehow I suspect the same logic wouldn't apply to them, (and they may well just be voicing their parents opinion and not have bothered to educate themselves to form their own, like I said, patronising).