It isn’t often that a major religion is established for political, economic and personal reasons, but that essentially sums up the reasons England’s most famous king, Henry VIII, founded the Anglican ...

HENRY VIII ruled England and its dominions between 1509 and 1547. His likeness, thanks to Holbein's famous portraits in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and elsewhere, is so well known that it almost ...

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 pounds ...

The king in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII is not the licentious, swollen-bellied, wife-dispatching monster we know from Hollywood. When we meet this Henry, he’s relatively young, under the thumb of the ...

Henry VIII and Suleiman the Magnificent were contemporaries that had dramatically different approaches to succession management. In theory, an English king had one wife whose first-born son would ...

Although Hutchinson, a British journalist and former publishing director, points out that Henry VIII was not the “great libertine with an insatiable debauched appetite that some fiction writers would ...

King Henry VII may not be the most iconic Henry on The Spanish Princess-that honor goes to his youngest son, Henry VIII, whose historical shadow looms large over English history to this day-but the ...

Henry VIII endures in the history books as a ruthless king with a cantankerous temperament. But a less cocksure man emerges in the margins of his own prayer books. Following a jousting accident in ...

For someone who sat on the English throne for almost 40 years, Henry VIII is far less famous for being a king than for being a serial husband, serial cheater, and, shall we say, serial killer by proxy ...

In “The Waiting Game,” the historian Nicola Clark tells a lively and vivid story of the women who served Henry VIII’s queens. By Eva Wolchover “Firebrand” focuses on his sixth spouse as she tries to ...