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 ...

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 ...

He has been called ‘the widest king in Christendom’ – and the fact that this vision of Henry VIII lives on in history is largely due to one German painter: Hans Holbein the Younger.

The young Henry VIII wanted to create a magnificent court. He and his wife Catherine wore fine clothes, employed talented musicians and threw elaborate jousts and parties. Henry wanted to be like ...

Who exactly was Anne Boleyn, the young woman who took ... to the Royal Privy Chamber. Henry VIII had grown tired of his wife, as she had not produced a male heir. He appealed to Pope Clement ...

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 ...

Catherine Parr was not simply the sixth (and last) wife of King Henry VIII of England ... to many accounts, he behaved inappropriately by tickling and hugging the young princess.