The Royal Shrovetide Football Match is played every Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in Ashbourne, Derbyshire – and has been since at least the 1660s. Shrovetide ball games have been played in England ...

Shrovetide ball games have been played in England since Henry II was on the throne between ... while they were still Princes of Wales. King Edward VIII turned up the ball in 1928 and suffered ...

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 ...

Criticism wasn’t handled any better than their messy personal lives. In the end, King Henry VIII has to be considered a miserable failure, and although the jury remains out on King Donald I ...

Wolf Hall, director Peter Kosminsky’s adaptation of the late author Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning historical novels, tells the infamous story of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s ...

History The final years of Henry VIII’s reign were a dark period for Tudor England: a time when a queen could be beheaded on trumped-up charges of treason, and a longtime friend of the king ...

It was once owned by King Henry VIII but prior to that it was a residence for Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, the only man to rival King Henry VIII’s wealth at the time. He made it his ...

The castle was once under the ownership of King Henry VIII but before that, it served as a residence for Edward Stafford, the 3rd Duke of Buckingham, who made it his primary residence until his ...

For decades, historians piled layer after layer of interpretation upon Henry VIII's astute chief minister, a key figure in the Reformation, when King Henry broke from the Catholic Church to ...

The South Blockhouse – part of a series of castles and fortifications ordered by Henry VIII – had "enormously thick" brick walls and was bristling with cannon. It was built to protect the port ...

Conceived by the brilliant minds of Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow, SIX reimagines King Henry VIII's six wives as a dynamic girl band. Each queen - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour ...