• Henry V111 – a golden boy, drunk on power

    A bloated Henry V111  in his final years with a 54 inch waist, needing nine men and a mechanical device to get his 28 stone bulk aboard a horse, is not an intuitive role for the winsome Jude Law. But his performance in the movie Firebrand about Henry’s declining years is described as a show-stealer – incendiary, ruthless, revolting and boorish – so he clearly pulls it off.  Given that Henry brought about the split with Rome and set in motion the English Reformation as

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