Letters to the Editor: Tudor terror reigned in 16th century

Henry VIII by Holbein at Belvoir Castle in Grantham. Picture: Topham/PA Wire

I would like to thank Seán O’Brien for his reply, and it’s true that history is more nuanced than we can fit in one letter (‘A History of Peace’ Irish Examiner letters, December 5). 

The Tudor regime was supposed to usher in peace, after 50 years of dynastic warfare known as the Wars of the Roses. Henry VII’s (Henry Tudor) 1486 marriage to rival Elizabeth of York was supposed to symbolically unite the two royal houses and end political strife.