me watching henry scream at and shake an ambassador by the collar (in what is, ostensibly, 1525) when in the 1520s ambassadors noted his graciousness, friendliness, and amiable demeanour:
i mean yeah, mendoza wasn’t one of them, but on the other hand their confrontation is portrayed as mendoza speaking at a reasonable volume and rather calmly while henry just yells, when if anything it seems that was actually mendoza himself:
And then it is eventually said that Henry became angry, but not in front of a full audience-room while sitting from his throne:
… it’s a long-ass conversation, but anyway, onto the gist: