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

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

The monks were part of the Cluniac movement, which were reforms focused on restoring the traditional monastic life in the ...

AP Henry VIII adopted the Church of England as the monarchy’s religion in 1534 after the pope refused to consent to the king divorcing his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.

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

At age 16, Catherine was sent to marry Prince Arthur of England, Henry VIII’s older brother and eldest son of the king. Shortly after their marriage, Prince Arthur fell ill and died.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Henry’s appetite for authority—and his quest to justify this power—was voracious. But there was one front on which the king’s confidence faltered.

Henry’s medieval queens are pop divas who remix classic interpretations of Tudor England. Henry VIII ruled England between 1509 and 1547, a particularly fractious period for European politics.

For someone who sat on the English throne for almost 40 years, Henry VIII is far less famous for being a king than for being a serial husband, serial cheater, and, shall we say, serial killer by ...