Random Tudor News Article :)

Mum just alerted me to an amazing local news story! A couple seeking to renovate a room in their home in Somerset have uncovered a twenty foot high mural of King Henry VIII on plaster behind some wooden panels! Apparently the house was the summer palace of Thomas Cranmer when he was Archdeacon of Taunton, so the mural probably dates from the 1530s (Cranmer went on to be Henry's Archbishop of Canterbury and was executed by Mary I in the 1550s).

BBC Somerset article on the discovery with video of the mural.

Apart from the fact that Henry looks slightly cross-eyed (and not AT ALL like Jonathan Rhys Meyers), the mural is pretty damn impressive and very well preserved. What a thing to discover in your house :D :D