An English church wants to exhume and preserve the remains of a martyr whose head was lopped off and speared on a London ...

The Church of England is weighing plans to exhume and enshrine the head of St. Thomas More , the patron saint of statesmen and politicians, in time for the 500th anniversary of his 1535 martyrdom.

We need to reflect Great Britain as it is today, not as it was in the 1500s,” in a reference to the creation of the Church of England by Henry VIII when he broke away from the Roman Catholic Church.

Henry VIII’s close adviser was resolute in upholding secular and spiritual authorities over individual judgment. When it came ...

THE head of Sir Thomas More, the Catholic martyr and former Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII, could soon be dug up, five ...

Margaret Douglas was a formidable figure in Tudor history. A cousin of Queen Elizabeth I, her position in Tudor politics was ...

LONDON - When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stand before the altar at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, a refuge of the British monarch for a thousand years, the Archbishop of Canterbury ...

Henry VIII’s reign was a turbulent period, marked by religious tension as the King severed England, Wales and Ireland’s relationship with the Catholic Church in Rome.

Amid the chaos wrought by the Protestant Reformation, the Church of England broke away from the Catholic Church under King Henry VIII, who in 1527, desiring a male heir, wanted to divorce his wife ...

The popular understanding of the founding of the Church of England was that lusty old King Henry VIII wanted to marry his pretty little mistress. The Pope wouldn’t grant him a divorce, so Henry ...

The Church of England would not officiate — Margaret would marry at a government register’s office in London. In the end, Margaret let Townsend go (though she did wed and subsequently divorce ...