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For a curious Wikipedia journey, I can recommend starting with the reigning UK monarch[1], then keep clicking the predecessor's link repeatedly. Marvel as the images lose colour, turn to paintings, then statues, drawings of painting (noting Henry VIII's power stance), statues, drawings of statues, tapestries, well-worn coins, then eventually evapourate into myth somehwere in Wessex.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II

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At that stage in his life, the king was too weak and ill to stand, so the artist, Holbein, improvised, creating the iconic "power stance" image we associate with Henry VIII

I thought it was the pose hugely obese people take on; legs wide, leaning back to counter belly-weight. Is there record from Holbein of this choice?

> noting Henry VIII's power stance

And also noting the prominent codpiece [1] covering Henry's family jewels in said portrait[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codpiece

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII

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