A bankrupt treasury, disastrous foreign policy and a civil war: this is the story of how Henry III lost control of his own ...

With her Wolf Hall books, novelist Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as a new TV adaptation ...

Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York ... and while the Scots saw this war as an opportunity to invade England, they were defeated at Flodden in 1513.

In the culmination of the Hilary Mantel adaptation, Mark Rylance’s Thomas Cromwell becomes a more poignant figure, weighed ...

Catherine Parr is now best remembered for being the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII. “Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded — survived.” Catherine was the fortunate wife who survived ...

Their fortunes rise dramatically when Henry VIII chooses the second daughter ... captures the faces of Tudor England with unparalleled realism. When the king is bride-hunting, he sends Holbein ...

It was while returning from the Crusade that Edward learned that his father, Henry III, had died and that he was now the King of England. Ambitious and impulsive, Edward wasted no time in ...

King Henry V of England had invaded ... to offer himself to France as a captive for ransom, or, second, to fight a battle he was almost certain to lose. Henry sent his decision though a French ...

The Norman-French inscription remains around the edge. This can be translated as: Here lies Henry formerly King of England, Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine, son of King John formerly King of ...