If you lived in 1541 and you were going on King Henry VIII’s Great Progress from London to York, you’d have been walking for weeks in the cold and wet, through mud and horse droppings ...

Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich Palace. After the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502, Henry became heir to the English ...

Henry was born at Winchester Castle on 1st October 1207, eldest son of King John and Isabella. He succeeded his father in 1216. His was one of the longest reigns in English history. Demolition of ...