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Looking for a day trip from London that ticks off history, beauty, and iconic sights all in one go? Explore Leeds Castle, ...
Step inside English aristocrat homes that feel straight out of a fairytale with grand details, charm, and timeless ...
Henry tried to annul his marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, so he could marry one of her ladies-in-waiting, Anne Boleyn. However, the Catholic Church didn’t recognize divorce.
Ava Pickett’s award-winning début play, 1536, is a foul-mouthed, furious, frenetically funny ride through the lives of three young women living in Henry VIII’s England in the year of Anne Boleyn’s ...
The memoir also likened Trump to King Henry VIII, whose desire to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon—a request denied by the pope—helped spark the English reformation.
The conclave to select the new pontiff will contain an unusually large number of British cardinals, three of whom are outside contenders for the top job itself. Catherine Pepinster reveals how ...
Following record-breaking ticket sales across the country and a hugely acclaimed national tour earlier this year, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS starring Martin Shaw and Gary Wilmot, will transfer to ...
Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII’s Chief Minister and the mastermind behind the English Reformation. From a blacksmith’s son ...
Netflix’s The Leopard reimagines Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel as a lavish period drama about Sicily’s crumbling aristocracy during Italy’s unification.
Research by the charity English Heritage suggests it may have found a portrait of England's shortest-reigning queen Lady Jane Grey ...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536), the youngest child of the newly dominant Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella.