Henry’s death ‘fruitless’
He may have lived for an excess of food, wine and women, but England’s King Henry VIII appears to have died from lack of proper nourishment. That’s the deduction of the historian Susan Maclean Kybett, who says what really killed the six-times married sixteenth century monarch was not venereal disease nor gout, as previously believed, but a simple lack of fruit and vegetables. Her theory is that the heavy-drinking monarch succumbed to scurvy because of winter shortages of fresh fruit and vegetables.—NZPA-Reuter
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