The Tudors were experts at shaping and controlling their public image; in this video, I'm looking at how Henry VIII and his wives used heraldic badges to achieve just that.

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Images:

Crowned Tudor Rose badge of Henry VIII, from Wikimedia Commons

Anonymous 16thcentury woodcut of the coronation of Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon showing their heraldic badges, the Tudor rose and the pomegranate. From Stephen Hawes, A Joyfull Medytacvon to All Englande (1509), printed Wynkyn de Worde, 4to, n.d. (Cambridge University Library), a single sheet with a woodcut of the coronation of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. From Wikimedia Commons.

Badges of the Six Wives, from the Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archives.