If ever there was a phenomena it’s Ray Irving. If you could find another
man with his qualifications to play King Henry VIII you would have to
scour the world, much as the BBC had to do last year when they went
looking for a model to pose and work the crowd for the Holbein
recreation in Trafalgar Square. Every time they asked an expert for
their opinion on who was the best face for the job, Ray’s name came up.
So what are these
incredible qualifications?
1.He is a retired teacher with a
phenomenal memory, he has 100% recall and can remember all details of
any Castle or Manor House he works in. He can remember the script of any
play at the first reading, he can recall all Historical books he has
read and more realistically he can remember all Henrician antics in the
same places that the real man undertook them.
2.Now add the ability to talk
calmly in character to any size of audience, work the crowd and keep
them spell-bound for up to 2 hours. He has no nerves at all, never
rehearses, never writes a script and never runs dry with stories to
tell.
3.His organisational skill are
superb, he thinks about the finest details and has conclusions ready and
waiting for when they happen, he keeps up to 100 children engaged in
Tudor workshops for up to 5 hours.
4.Now this is his forte! He is
the exact double of King Henry VIII and King Edward VII. No not a
look-a-like, not a model with a fancy costume on. He can scare folk as
Henry in his everyday clothes so when he puts on one of his four
costumes which are so accurately made from photographs of the real
things, he blasts your conception of reality out of the window.
Like
I said, he is a Phenomena. Just Enter “King Henry VIII Ray Irving” into
Google and see what I mean. 209,000 pages later be convinced!
Does
this man have a website? More than one, he has 8.
Some are new and still
being written, but
www.HenryTudor.co.uk has been hit 30,000 times and is only
one year old! Go see the eKits, he has designed and made files that make
Tudor Houses, Castles, Waterwheels, Windmills, Furniture, Jewellery,
etc, etc over 100 of them and they are all free! Just load card into
your printer and off you go. His education files are used by over 5,000
schools, again all free and his humour must be seen in his Cartoon
series. This man is just living the life and enjoying it to the full.
Join Henry VIII as he takes you on a
guided tour of Samlesbury Hall, Lancashire, England
