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Henry’s experience of rolling up his sleeves and taking charge of financial administration is a crash course in the unglamorous side of kingship. It is useful, but not always a lot of fun.

— Dan Jones Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King (2024)

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His golden reputation is based on nothing more than the inconvenient fact that people at the time seemed to like that sort of thing.

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Henry has demonstrated a reliable lesson of warfare: often as not, extortion works.

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They have heard enough about Ireland to know what they need to acquire for the journey. Ireland is going to be cold, and wet.

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It is undoubtedly a grand conspiracy, but not a very clever one. And as with any complicated scheme, there are more ways for it to go wrong than right.

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