I suppose that's how it is with history.

Somepeople see it one way some people another.

Take this TV series the Tudors. There is Bluff King Hal roistering and decapitating, enjoying the Field of the cloth of gold - staring the Church of England. Lotsa fun.

But other people remember the 72, 00 people executed in his reign, the extravagance, the disease the poverty, the cruelty.

I suppose it depends on where you were when the axe fell.