An exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession to the throne uses spectacular armour to highlight his love of sport and interest in warfare as well as the king's expanding ...

Henry VIII likely commissioned this painting of the Field of Cloth of Gold toward the end of his reign. Royal Collection Trust. For two-and-a-half-weeks in June 1520, two of Renaissance Europe’s ...

King Edward VI, the son of Henry VIII and his third wife Jayne Seymour succeeded his father aged 9 on January 28, 1547. However, his reign was short-lived as he died at 15 years old on July 6, 1553.

So, Jude Law, what do you really think of the British monarchy after playing one of the worst kings in history, the wife-slaying Henry VIII, in Firebrand? “I see it like theater, though I’m ...

Elizabeth I, Henry VIII’s daughter with his ill-fated wife Anne Boleyn, became queen after his death. She used her reign to codify that previously informal charitable exception. By then ,it was the ...

In 1541, Margaret’s grandson Henry VIII visited the palace (which he described as “fit and neat for a king”) with his fifth wife, the ill-fated Katherine Howard.

Actors, Laurie Simonds, as Queen Jane Seymour, and Fred Nelson, portraying King Henry VIII, greet visitors to Revel Grove at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. Nelson, of Glen Burnie, has played ...