The musical, which tells the tale of the six wives of King Henry VIII in the context of a present-day pop concert, returns to ...

‘Biography’, contended the Tudor historian Geoffrey Elton ... No English king or queen has suffered more from retrospective caricature than Henry VIII, alternatively tyrant–murderer and renaissance ...

A SENIOR aide to the House of Commons Speaker has revealed she has seen ghosts haunting Parliament. Jo-Anne Crowder has ...

Ahead of a new series of her ABC hit Lucy Worsley Investigates, the historian warns that “story telling is a dangerous thing” ...

few historians have opened up the world of our palaces and monarchs with such immersive idiosyncrasy as Worsley. Her documentaries range in topic from the “harlots, housewives and heroines” of the ...

In “The Waiting Game,” the historian Nicola Clark tells a lively and vivid story of the women who served Henry VIII’s queens.

The period was further evoked by its authentic Tudor music assembled and produced by the early music pioneer David Munrow. The international success of The Six Wives of Henry VIII led to the ...

The cannons, known as “sakers”, bore the Tudor rose and were made for King Henry VIII in the 1540s by the Owen Brothers and are two of only 10 examples of these types of cannon known to have ...

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Four monarchs to whom she was related - Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII and her father George VI - died of smoking-related illnesses including heart and circulatory disorders. At least one in ...