The coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon took place on Sunday 24th June 1509. The ceremony is illustrated in the mortuary roll of Abbot Islip dated 1532 in the Abbey's archives. The day ...

This is the birthplace of Henry VII or Henry Tudor ... Henry VII’s most famous child was Henry VIII, who became king in 1509 - and his reign was an interesting one to say the least.

If you lived in 1541 and you were going on King Henry VIII’s Great Progress from London to York, you’d have been walking for weeks in the cold and wet, through mud and horse droppings ...