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After peace was negotiated with France, Mary instead married Louis XII of France in 1514. Louis, more than 30 years older than Mary, died 82 days later.
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Henry VIII no doubt had many lovers but one stands out above the rest. Few better symbolise the plight of medieval women, regardless of social standing than Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne, who ...
No one can blame Margaret Tudor for being overshadowed by her famous brother, King Henry VIII. But in all honesty, Margaret—as a thrice-married, husband-deposing, serial divorcée and regent of ...
African sailors aboard Henry VIII’s warship reveal hidden diversity of Tudor England DNA and chemical analysis of skeletons suggests two traced their heritage to modern-day Morocco and Algeria ...
The Mary Rose served for 34 years in Henry VIII’s navy, with its main purpose to fire its cannon on enemy vessels, thereby allowing English sailors to board.
1514: Mary Tudor, the 18-year-old sister of Henry VIII, became Queen consort of France upon her marriage to 52-year-old King Louis XII, who died less than three months later.
Henry VIII had more than 60 royal residences. Only two survive in substantial form today. Many were torn down or stripped of their contents and panelling during the English Civil War.
The Welsh were happy when Henry Tudor won the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 and was crowned Henry VII, the king of England and Wales. After all, he was of Welsh blood. As a result, many ...
The Mary Rose, a flagship of Henry VIII’s English fleet, sank off the coast of Portsmouth in 1545. The hull now resides in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard alongside a number of the discovered artefacts.