Henry VIII’s reign is often remembered for his many marriages and his relentless pursuit of a legitimate heir. While his ...

Most screen versions of Henry VIII have been a little overweight ... He has presence – he is most definitely more handsome in person than he is on film – and there is something both fragile ...

Even after the conclusion of the dramatic events depicted in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, there is still so much more ...

We find throughout history that there have been rulers we laugh at and rulers we respect. There are some who surprise us with ...

Charismatic, passionate, insatiable - Henry VIII is known across the world as the king who had 6 wives, and a few mistresses on the side. But was Henry a romantic or a scoundrel? Kate is joined by ...

But even his close bond with King Henry VIII couldn’t save Cromwell from the same fate that befell two of Henry’s wives. The Mirror and the Light opened its first episode with a shot of ...

Today marks 39 years since Wallis Simpson, the woman who became Duchess of Windsor after King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry her, died at the age of 89. She played a notorious role in ...

One of the country's oldest pubs open when Henry VIII was on the throne has been forced to close after almost 500 years. Hole in the Wall, in Torquay, Devon, opened in 1540 - the same year the ...

And he did a couple of pet portraits of Henry’s servants. And from those, we can get liveries, the King’s guards, we understand how they worked. But he paints fabrics. He’s extraordinary.