Rags-to-riches hero or villainous torturer? The truth about Henry VIII's scheming right-hand man Thomas Cromwell
With her Wolf Hall books, novelist Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as a new TV adaptation ...
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The Royal We: PW Talks with Holly Race
The fantasist’s 'Six Wild Crowns' transports readers to a supernatural analog of Tudor England where King Henry VIII is ...
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The Real Story Behind ‘Wolf Hall’ and the Fall of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s Most Controversial Adviser
Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles ...
A 16th-Century Guide to Pooping at King Henry VIII’s Hampton Court Palace
Discover how King Henry VIII and other members of the Tudor nobility handled going to the bathroom in the mid-1500s. (Spoiler ...
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We have our very own King Henry
As I watched a biography of Henry VIII recently, I found it striking the similarities between him and our own monarch residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. They were both tall and handsome in their ...
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Henry VIII (1491-1547)
Henry VIII may have been the wealthiest monarch in British history. A 1547 inventory of Henry VIII's property estimated that his jewels, tapestries and palaces were worth about 300,000 British ...
Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall,’ With Stars Rylance And Lewis, Returns To PBS
The Mirror and the Light, based on the final novel in Hilary Mantel’s multi-award-winning trilogy, is premiering tonight on ...
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Henry VIII
Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich Palace. After the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502, Henry became heir to the English ...