Yet by the early 2000s, Henry VIII was once again hot property ... date from the mid-17th Century (three hundred years after the Black Death) but they’re a direct product of this long-enduring ...

Five years after the death of Henry VIII in 1537, Edward was appointed Lord Protector of the Realm and Governor of the King’s Person – and so looked after the young King Edward VI – but he ...

Henry VIII is known as the 'father of the Royal Navy.' When he became king there were five royal warships. By his death he had built up a navy of around 50 ships. He refitted several vessels with ...

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But fall the axe did, and in the wake of the death of Henry VIII's chief advisor a lot happened to the English monarch and his court. Wolf Hall may be at an end, but history did not stop there and ...

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 ...

Following the death of his father in 1509, Henry VIII became King of England. He had big ambitions. He quickly set about establishing a glittering court with his new wife, Catherine of Aragon ...

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