Discover the lesser-known historic sites linked to Henry VIII, including Whitehall Palace, Windsor Castle, Rievaulx Abbey, and Eltham Palace, London.

Queen of England and former Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, was one of the most influential women of the Tudor ...

King of England from 1100. Youngest son of William the Conqueror, he succeeded his brother William II. He won the support of the Saxons by granting them a charter and marrying a Saxon princess, Edith, ...

Henry VIII's early military campaigns began when he joined Pope Julius II's ... of the King by helping him to break with Rome and establish Henry VIII as head of the Church of England.

In “The Eagle and the Hart,” Helen Castor explores the contrasting characters and intertwined destinies of Richard II and ...

They helped to persuade Henry II that a marriage between his son Francis and Mary of Scotland would be an advantageous union all round. King Henry VIII of England disapproved as he had wanted Mary to ...

She was the woman who could have been England’s first queen regnant and he was the uncle who took the throne that might have ...

St Pauls Cathedral, aged 48. Also crowned Henri II of France, December 1431, Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, aged 10. Buried at: Chertsey, reburied in 1485 when his body was moved to St George's ...

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Henry II decided that Geoffrey should pursue a career in the church and he had ... rather than be ordained as the Pope had ordered. The king had named him Chancellor of England in 1181 after Geoffrey ...