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Research by the charity English Heritage suggests it may have found a portrait of England's shortest-reigning queen Lady Jane ...

Jeremy Clarkson was back for a brand new episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? on Sunday night, and he was joined by contestant and GP Neel Clements. Neel was tasked with answering a question ...

The options provided were Catherine Parr, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine of Aragon. However, viewers were left scratching their heads as all three Catherines were spelt with a 'K ...

Look, I'm a man, but there's no denying that men are prone to do some weird, over-the-top, and often disturbing things for ...

Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536), the youngest child of the newly dominant Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella. When she was 3, her parents contracted ...

Edward VI, the only surviving son of Henry VIII, was the first monarch to be raised a Protestant after his father split from Rome in order to divorce his first wife Catherine of Aragon.

Soon after he obtained the papal dispensation required to allow him to marry his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon. In the first years of his reign Henry VIII effectively relied on Thomas ...