The puzzle of Henry VI

In Helen Castor's book 'She Wolves: 'The Women who ruled England before Elizabeth' she describes Henry VI as 'hapless; artless; innocent; malleable; vagueness; abstracted; unworldly'
His portraits also reflect these adjectives as he appears simple and religious holding the sign of the cross and clasping his hands in prayer
Professor Anne Curry suggests that when Henry visited France as a ten year old in 1431 his guardians were reluctant to let him be seen in public or make speaches in French
He was slow to learn and uninspiring
Henry also complained about noisy shouting in the streets-a rare thing to expect a child to do
The 1450 rebels argue that the cause of disaster was Suffolk and his followers
However, modern historians now argue that it was down to…

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