The period piece, starring Mark Rylance as 16th-century royal fixer Thomas Cromwell, faced steep funding challenges amid ...

Catherine Parr is now best remembered for being the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII. “Divorced, beheaded, died; ...

In the summer of 1553, a girl of around 16 was proclaimed the queen of England. Her name was Lady Jane Grey, and she ruled for just nine days before being executed at the Tower of London. Her reign ...

Jane was a devout Protestant at a time of religious upheaval, the ultimate innocent victim of the chicanery of the Tudor court in the chaotic aftermath of Henry VIII’s reign. She is perhaps best ...

Researchers believe they may have identified the only known portrait of Lady Jane Grey, the so-called “Nine Days Queen,” ...

A dendrochronological analysis—a scientific method of dating tree ... Tudor, who had the support of the populace, and who was meant to be the heir, according to both the law and Henry VIII ...

National Trust members have been left disappointed by the decision to hand back management of a popular Tudor House to the residing family after ... of England to Henry VI, in the early 15th ...

Henry Kelly, who presented TV shows such as Going for Gold and Game for a Laugh, has died aged 78, a statement from his family has revealed. The radio and TV star was born on April 17, 1946 ...

Here's what you need to know about Taylor Swift's family tree. Swift was born in 1989 to Scott and Andrea Swift in West Reading, Pennsylvania, and she has one sibling, a younger brother named Austin.

Its second king, Henry VIII, embodies the Tudor equivocality. On the one hand, he was (or attempted to be) an English king in the great medieval mold of Henry V—a warmaker, a vast figure on the ...