Shortly after Thomas More, a leading statesman and longtime friend of Henry VIII, was executed on July 6, 1535, his head was ...

St. Thomas More (1478–1535) served as Lord Chancellor of England under King Henry VIII. A renowned scholar and author of ...

Better known perhaps for his six wives - divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived - as the rhyme of their fates ...

Philippa Langley, who helped unearth King Richard III's body from a parking lot in 2012, says that two young princes who ...

Margaret Douglas was a formidable figure in Tudor history. A cousin of Queen Elizabeth I, her position in Tudor politics was ...

A church is seeking permission to exhume the skull of a saint executed on the orders of King Henry VIII hundreds of years ago ...

A 'King & Conqueror' BBC trailer features James Norton & Nikolaj Coster-Waldau doing battle - show will launch in August.

Catherine Parr was not simply the sixth (and last) wife of King Henry VIII of England. She was a gifted scholar and capable leader who helped cultivate the same qualities in her stepdaughter—the ...

As reported by Deadline, the trailer showcases a fierce confrontation between two powerful figures: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as William, Duke of Normandy, and James Norton as Harold, Earl of Wessex, both ...

Historian and television presenter Lucy Worsley brings us back to the 16th century to discuss the history of Tudor England. We talk about Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII’s reign, and how his ...

Matilda was born to King Henry I and Matilda of Scotland around 1101 or 1102 in Berkshire, England. Henry had married her mother, the daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland, in the hopes that it ...

Why read a new, 400-page biography of England’s King Henry V? Because, writes the best-selling historian and television journalist Dan Jones, while Henry ruled for less than a decade, “his ...