Henry was placed in Thomas Becket's household shortly before or in 1162 only to be removed in October 1163 as a sign of his father's growing displeasure towards his former chancellor and friend. But before this happened the prince

representing his father. gave formal consent to his tutor's appointement as archbishop. On 3 June 1162 he witnessed Becket’s consecration at Canterbury. What he must have witnessed too was his tutor’s almost day-to-day transformation from the worldly chancellor famous for his lavish household and his impressive wardrobe into a monk exercising both his flesh and soul. After Henry's father and

Becket fell out the latter left England in