On January 24, 1536, the 44-year-old Henry VIII was injured in a jousting accident. His horse fell on top of him, knocking him unconscious for two hours and tearing open an old injury in his leg.

Recognized throughout human history, gout's famous sufferers have included Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, King Henry VIII and "Piero The Gouty" of the famed Florentine Medici family.

Gout sounds like a disease that shouldn’t exist anymore, especially since it’s referred to as the “disease of kings” because of its connection to royal leaders like Henry VIII, who lived with the ...

Symptoms include sudden severe pain in a joint, often the big toe, as well as hot, swollen, red skin over the affected joint.

Question: When I think of gout, I picture King Henry VIII at a banquet table, propping up his red, swollen foot on a velvet stool while he eats overly rich foods.

An image of gout is easy to conjure up: The portly, elder royal resting his foot on a pillow, with a swollen, red and extremely painful big toe. It could be Henry VIII, who was afflicted with the ...

Meet Henry VIII’s most underrated wife—the queen who survived. ... Henry VIII. Riddled with leg ulcers and gout, Henry in 1542 was a shadow of his former glory as England’s golden prince.

Interestingly, when royals like Henry VIII suffered from gout, it became a fashionable condition. It has been documented that some Europeans aimed to get gout as a status symbol.

WHEN you think of gout, you probably think of Henry VIII and wine-swilling Tudor courtiers gorging themselves on rich food. But the agonising disease has made a concerning comeback, soaring by 30 p… ...

It’s dubbed the disease of kings – Henry VIII was a sufferer – because it’s associated with older, portly men who drink too much and gorge on rich food. But gout is no joke. It affects one ...

Joking about the condition, Gibson added: “I thought only kings like Henry VIII got gout. I was like, I'm a 40-year-old woman, this is really embarrassing.

Art History Holbein’s Portrait of Henry VIII Is the Jewel in the Crown of Tudor England—Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About It. The celebrated painting is on view in "The Tudors: Art ...