#afaik riche managed to keep Henry’s favour until the end?

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‘Wash your eyes clean Cromwell. Do you think the king ever loved you? No. To him, you were an instrument, a device. We are no more to him than an engine of war or a dog. A dog that has served him through the hunting season. And what do you do with a dog at the end of the season?… you hang it’.

Norfolk, in saying this, is completely right about the fates of everyone in that room, apart from Riche.

Of course, none of them - including he himself - truly heed that warning. As Thomas did not in his own time.

They all, to use a Tudor phrase, look through their fingers at the truth it holds for themselves