That's got to affect you - ten days before your wedding, your husband has his previous wife beheaded ... She was, remember, a devout Catholic and Henry had just been excommunicated in order ...

Henry had already set aside and annulled his marriage to his first wife Catherine of Aragon ... of the execution of Anne ...

what did he want in a wife, and, more specifically, a queen? Image caption, A family portrait of the first Tudor kings by Remi van Leemput, painted 1669. Clockwise from back left: Henry VIII's ...

The actress explained why she would have called herself another stage name if given the choice If Jane Seymour could have do ...

On his deathbed Tudor King Henry VIII remembers his long reign ... as England suffered before his father's ascent. His first queen, Spanish Princess Katherine of Aragon, had one fatal flaw ...

Henry VIII's early military campaigns began when ... who had been a lady-in-waiting to his first wife. But, unwilling to anger Catherine of Aragon's nephew – the most powerful ruler in Europe ...

Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII and daughter of Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Ormond and Wiltshire, was crowned queen in Westminster Abbey by Thomas Cranmer on Whit Sunday 1st June 1533. The ...

Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance reprise their roles as Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell in this Wolf Hall sequel. Learn why critics are raving. #WolfHallPBS:The Mirror and the Light ...

You can't go wrong with this - sensible Dickensian history teacher type David Starkey tells the intimate story of Henry's social-climbing second wife Anne Boleyn. Educated, witty and cunning ...

Henry was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York and was born at Greenwich Palace on 28th June 1491. His brother Arthur died and he succeeded his father as King in April 1509. Henry was ...

From tumultuous love affairs to violent betrayals, the six wives of Henry VIII all left marks on the Tudor dynasty – and shaped the course of history. READ MORE about these women here ...