You thought your family holidays were bad? Spare a thought for King Henry VI. Orlando Shakes returns to England’s War of the Roses with “Henry VI, Part 2: She-Wolf of France,” and it’s a ...

It was August1453. King Henry VI of England left his pregnant wife Margaret of Anjou at home and travelled from court to the West Country on a judicial visit. Stopping off at Clarendon Palace in ...

In youth, he was reportedly an “assiduous cultivator of lasciviousness,” but upon ascending to the throne of England in the early 15th century, he won plaudits for his piety. Henry was a ...

she survived Henry—and three more stepmothers—only to see her younger half-brother, Edward VI, take the throne in 1547 as a Protestant reformer, adopting a stance anathema to her fervent ...

Essentially the story of the bloody contention between the powerful rival houses of York and Lancaster for control of the throne of England, “Henry VI, Part II” examines what happens in a society ...

Born to King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, she was a devout Catholic and married Philip of Spain. During her reign, Mary I attempted to enforce the wholesale conversion of England to ...

In fact, there have only been eight reigning queens of England ... I (born to Henry VIII and Boleyn) to the line of succession through their half-brother King Edward VI. But, when Edward VI ...

Henry VI actually refers to three separate plays written by Shakespeare, all chronicling the life of King Henry VI of England and the War of the Roses. Overall, Henry VI is a historical drama ...