Bells were rung and bonfires were lit, with King Henry VIII holding a lavish tournament and pageant to celebrate his son’s arrival. Unfortunately, the joy was temporary: Prince Henry died only ...

King Henry VIII has been ‘pictured’ with steak bake pastries from the future, proving time travel is possible, claimed some social media users. They were convinced that a historic image of the ...

King Henry VIII had a secret daughter who should have taken the throne before Elizabeth I, new research has revealed. Elizabeth Tailboys was the Tudor monarch's illegitimate lovechild who would ...

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 ...

We’re all obsessed with Wolf Hall at the moment! The story, which follows King Henry VIII’s court from the perspective of his right hand man, Thomas Cromwell, reaches its conclusion on ...

became King Henry VIII. 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 ...

One of the earliest depictions of this monarch on film, 1933's The Private Life of Henry VIII with Charles Laughton as the King, shows him enthusiastically chewing on a leg of capon, a nod to ...

For Damian Lewis, just standing for two weddings of King Henry VIII in "Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light" was a daylong royal marathon. The English monarch is remembered for having six wives ...

“I thought of it as a thriller,” the director says. By Roslyn Sulcas Midway through Karim Aïnouz’s “Firebrand,” King Henry VIII of England takes a break from playing bowls on the lawn ...

Sometimes just one person changes things, like Henry VIII. When Henry was 18, he became King of England. He loved music, dancing and playing sports, like jousting and archery. But he got angry if ...