23/09/2026
Look at any English cathedral effigy from before 1600. The Black Prince at Canterbury. The Beauchamps at Warwick. The Fitzalans at Arundel. Every one over six foot in an age when the peasant averaged five foot four, and every one fed on beef, venison, mutton, game, cheese and ale from the day he could hold a spoon.
The peasant on the pottage produced the short, thin, gap-toothed skeletons the archaeologists dig up by the thousand. The lord on the animal produced the effigies.
Same country. Same century. Same weather. Different food.
Henry VIII isn't the exception the peasant-diet crowd thinks he is. He's the one they hope you'll look at, so you don't look at the tomb next to him.