became King Henry VIII. Soon after he obtained the papal dispensation required to allow him to marry his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon. In the first years of his reign Henry VIII ...

Sometimes just one person changes things, like Henry VIII. When Henry was 18, he became King of England. He loved music, dancing and playing sports, like jousting and archery. But he got angry if ...

On January 24, 1536, the 44-year-old Henry VIII was ... s most notorious king. The 1970s gave us the sober seriousness of BBC Two’s The Six Wives of Henry VIII – but also the romping Carry ...

King Henry VIII was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547. He is best known for having six wives, whom he either divorced, had beheaded or died - except for Catherine Parr who survived ...

Before their marriage in 1533, Henry VIII’s controversial romance with Anne Boleyn was fueled by intimate love letters. Only the correspondence from Henry VIII’s perspective exists today and ...

The coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon took place on Sunday 24th June 1509. The ceremony is illustrated in the mortuary roll of Abbot Islip dated 1532 in the Abbey's archives. The day ...

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big enough for king-size meals, which opens up into the sitting room. Underneath the property are two cellars which would be the perfect place for any aspiring sommeliers to recreate Henry VIII's ...

I had no idea who he was. We were on the set of Firebrand, about Henry VIII’s marriage — his sixth and final one — to Katherine Parr. Jude Law was supposed to join them. “Where is he?” ...

For as little as £10, you could walk the same halls as King Henry VIII as his former Wiltshire property – valued at £2,500,000 – is being raffled. Built in the 1500s, the historic Grade II ...

eldest son of Henry VIII and his queen Katherine of Aragon was buried in Westminster Abbey, on the north side of the Sanctuary area near the entrance to the chapel of St Edward the Confessor. At his ...