Henry VIII’s grisly near-death accident that may have altered the course of history In the years after the incident, the once-charismatic Tudor king became increasingly sickly with festering ...

Anne Boleyn was the second wife of Henry VIII, the woman he famously fell for during his first marriage.Anne was a lady-in-waiting for the King’s first wife Catherine of Aragon, and Henry, who ...

The deadly sweating sickness that terrified King Henry VIII. In the 15th century a mysterious and merciless disease where patient’s sweated to death ravaged Europe leaving a King terrifed.

On January 24, 1536, the 44-year-old Henry VIII was injured in a jousting accident. His horse fell on top of him, knocking him unconscious for two hours and tearing open an old injury in his leg.

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.

Henry VIII, who had a morbid horror of being poisoned, promoted an act of parliament declaring that poisoning was treason, the penalty for which was to be boiled alive; and – this is the point ...

Find out about Henry VIII with BBC Bitesize History. For students between the ages of 11 and 14. ... Following the death of his father in 1509, Henry VIII became King of England.