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What did Henry VIII eat?

Henry VIII’s table was designed to project dominance, not health. Vast quantities of meat, sugar, wine, and imported luxuries ...
Henry VIII planned a monumental tomb to match his power and legacy. Instead, the king who reshaped England’s relationship with Rome now lies beneath a small, easily missed slab. Here’s how three Tudor ...
A castle set within a pretty Cambridgeshire village was the home of Henry VIII’s first wife. The idyllic village of Kimbolton ...
It’s difficult to imagine a more skilful propagandist than Hans Holbein the Younger, the German-born artist who spent much of his career in London (where he died, probably from the plague, in 1543).
Lulamba made it two wins in as many starts over fences with a cosy victory in the Grade One Betfair Henry VIII Novices’ Chase ...
The 1562 likeness of Thomas Howard, Fourth Duke of Norfolk, was created by Hans Eworth, a Flemish artist whose Tudor-era ...
When King Henry VIII's wife Anne Boleyn was executed in 1536, her Book of Hours went missing for centuries. A recent discovery reveals a string of women who secured the book for decades after her ...
Incest? Infidelity? Betrayal by his mother… or his ex? Why did Henry VIII execute the very queen he fought so hard to marry?
From Britain's distant Viking past right up to the D-Day landings, here are 15 of the most common misconceptions that many ...
Conor Byrne does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Henry VIII was a monarch everyone was excited for, and turned into someone who weaponised his powers for murder. What happened in his life that caused the death toll to suddenly rise?
The childhood home of one of Britain’s best-known queens is to host an exhibition seeking to discover what she really looked ...