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Catherine Howard reigned for barely a year-and-a-half. She seemingly left behind no children or legacies—except for one huge ...
In new film Firebrand, Jude Law and Alicia Vikander star as Henry VIII and his sixth wife ... and madness must have started as a young man, when he was told he was second only to God himself ...
Hans Holbein the Younger spent more than a decade at the court of King Henry VIII, and though he was best known then, as he is now, as a talented portrait painter, his skillset was incredibly wide ...
A portrait of a young Henry VIII has gone on display. The picture of the monarch appears in a charter granted to King's Lynn, Norfolk in 1524. He is depicted as a young, slim and dashing king on ...
Hans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker ... Denmark after the death of Henry VIII's third wife Jane Seymour, and the image piqued the King's interest when he was looking for a new bride ...
Drawing from Renaissance portraits of the family, Sugimoto took three-quarter view, negative photos of the wax ... "I knew that Hans Holbein the Younger was Henry VIII’s royal court painter ...
When we think of King Henry VIII ... He was unconscious for two hours, with advisers believing he had been fatally injured. Others mentioned in the video include British climber Geoffrey Winthrop ...
But there’s no doubt that this is Ralph Sheldon’s painting of Henry VIII,” he said. “Looking at paintings and pictures of paintings is my life and it’s great fun, particularly when you ...
A psalter, or religious book of psalms, owned by Henry VIII ... the Younger Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Henry remained unmarried for more than two years. But in 1540, he married twice ...
For Damian Lewis, just standing for two weddings of King Henry VIII ... He really did become the Tudor Elvis. He went from one king to the other," Lewis says. "He was not the attractive young ...