From humble beginnings in the service of the princes of Gwynedd, the Tudor family rose steadily to royal stock. The Tudor ...

He was the first Tudor monarch, the king who vanquished Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field. So when Henry VII died in 1509 after suffering from gout and asthma, he was fittingly buried in ...

Image caption, A family portrait of the first Tudor kings by Remi van Leemput, painted 1669. Clockwise from back left: Henry VIII's parents Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth, Jane Seymour, Edward VI ...

The first thing is about smell - people in this ... documentWhat did King Henry VIII really want from a wife? What did the Tudor king Henry VIII want from his six wives? And why would he execute ...

Henry VII was the only child of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond (son of Henry V's widow Catherine de Valois and ... He and his wife lie in a vault beneath his magnificent tomb in the Lady Chapel (the ...

The lifelike funeral effigy head of Henry VII, the father of Henry VIII and founder of the Tudor dynasty ... They were the first monarchs to be buried in the Abbey in a vault under the floor ...

(The third, the Authorized Version, would have to wait for the reign of the first Stuart ... Its second king, Henry VIII, embodies the Tudor equivocality. On the one hand, he was (or attempted ...

Westminster Abbey is undertaking a new project using the latest 3D technology to scan the funeral effigy head of Henry VII - the first Tudor monarch and the father of Henry VIII. The head was last ...