Henry VIII’s father, Henry VII, was the founder of the Tudor dynasty. He took the throne in 1485. Henry VII married Elizabeth of York and had a large family with her. Henry VII was succeeded by ...

Henry VIII’s father, Henry VII, was the founder of the Tudor dynasty. He took the throne in 1485. Henry VII married Elizabeth of York and had a large family with her. Henry VII was succeeded by ...

Henry VIII, infamous for beheading two of his six ... It stayed in the Seymour family for over a century after Edward, the 1st Duke of Somerset, was executed for treason. In the 18th century ...

Catherine of Aragon was banished to Buckden Palace after the end of her marriage to Henry VIII. The couple had been married for 24 years, but a combination of Henry falling in love with Anne ...

The Tudor expert is the new chief historian at the Historic Royal Palaces, and the BBC spent the day with her at the home of Henry VIII. Sitting in her office at Hampton Court Palace, once the ...

Henry VIII may have been the wealthiest monarch in British history. A 1547 inventory of Henry VIII's property estimated that his jewels, tapestries and palaces were worth about 300,000 British ...

On January 24, 1536, the 44-year-old Henry VIII was injured in a jousting accident. His horse fell on top of him, knocking him unconscious for two hours and tearing open an old injury in his leg.

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 ...