Topics vary in this free-wheeling, interactive Q & A, but sessions usually address such critical issues as:

The difficulty of inheriting the throne in childhood
Suppressing revolts by your country’s nobles
Escaping from a besieged castle
Dealing with betrayal by your children

Henry also will answer charges that he is neither holy, Roman, nor an emperor. Henry will discuss his struggle with Pope Gregory VII over whether the Roman Church should reign over all earthly rulers. Henry shares never-before-revealed details of his two excommunications and the political strategy behind his decision to beg the pope’s forgiveness. Is public humiliation ever good strategy? (See About our founders for details.)