{"id":325,"date":"2007-09-15T18:31:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T22:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/325"},"modified":"2017-08-14T21:58:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T02:58:43","slug":"shakespeare-anagram-henry-viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/325","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Anagram: Henry VIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I attempted to answer the question of whether Henry VIII has any living descendants, but I fear my answer may have been a bit too <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/322\">long winded<\/a>. Perhaps I could deliver a more succinct answer if I made an anagram from the speech in Shakespeare where Henry talks about his daughter Elizabeth.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>Henry VIII<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O lord archbishop!<br \/>\nThou hast made me now a man: never, before<br \/>\nThis happy child, did I get any thing.<br \/>\nThis oracle of comfort has so pleas&#8217;d me,<br \/>\nThat when I am in heaven, I shall desire<br \/>\nTo see what this child does, and praise my Maker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shift around the letters, and it becomes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Henry VIII has no descendants that live.<\/p>\n<p>Hail papa! From each of the four mommies, the Eighth had a hip kid: Catholic Mary, bastard Henry, wise Bess, and little Edward.<\/p>\n<p>These had no more. His chromosomal line was stopped. Gone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--5ab9d3e7bab546f618d65514f045ac4a--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I attempted to answer the question of whether Henry VIII has any living descendants, but I fear my answer may have been a bit too long winded. Perhaps I could deliver a more succinct answer if I made an anagram from the speech in Shakespeare where Henry talks about his daughter Elizabeth. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,109,4,3,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anagram","category-genealogy","category-history","category-shakespeare","category-the-tudors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6299,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/6299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}