A post on X spotted randomly by an art historian has led to a portrait of King Henry VIII - hanging in a West Midland council ...
On January 24, 1536, the 44-year-old Henry VIII was ... s most notorious king. The 1970s gave us the sober seriousness of BBC Two’s The Six Wives of Henry VIII – but also the romping Carry ...
Survival – both Mary’s and his own – preoccupies Thomas Cromwell in this first episode. As Henry VII’s leading adviser, he ...
Henry VIII: Britain’s most famous king. Big, bold and brash, he is the epitome of 'Merrie England'. Ruling between 1509 and 1547, his marriages to a succession of six women became something of a ...
Anne Boleyn was the second wife of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. She played a central role in one of the most transformative periods in English history, as her marriage to ...
Think of a king and your brain is likely to conjure up a portrait of Henry VIII. It’ll probably be one of the Hans Holbein ones where he’s all square: square ends to his feet that are planted wide ...
The painting ... the king, is also up for sale. Both items date back to the 1540s and will be put on sale by Sotheby's in London this summer. The portrait, likely commissioned by Henry VIII ...
Henry VIII was a Tudor king who ruled England from 1509 - 1547 ... Henry commissioned large paintings of this campaign, which can be seen today at Hampton Court Palace. In 1520, the Field of ...
"More formally entered royal service in 1518 when he was sworn as a royal councillor and thereafter he rapidly rose in Henry VIII's esteem and was the king's principal secretary from 1519," says ...
The portrait of King Henry VIII dates back to the 1590s A post on X spotted randomly by an art historian has led to a portrait of King Henry VIII - hanging in a West Midland council hall - to be ...
The coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon took place on Sunday 24th June 1509. The ceremony is illustrated in the mortuary roll of Abbot Islip dated 1532 in the Abbey's archives. The day ...
King Henry VIII was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547. He is best known for having six wives, whom he either divorced, had beheaded or died - except for Catherine Parr who survived ...