Death and Legacy Sources Henry VIII ruled England for 36 years, presiding over sweeping changes that brought his nation into the Protestant Reformation. He famously married a series of six wives in his search for political alliance, marital bliss and a healthy male heir. His desire to annul his...
King Henry VIII now required a nurse rather than a wife. He had become obese and needed to be moved around with the help of mechanical devices. He was covered with painful, pus-filled boils and probably suffered from gout. His obesity and other medical problems can be traced to the jousti...
Earl of Southampton (it was then known as Hampton Place). After reverting to the Crown on his death on 1542, it was subsequently given to Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, a younger brother of Queen Jane Seymour, Henry VIII’s third wife, and known as ‘Seymour Place...
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March 20th was also the death date of the first Lancastrian king, Henry IV, who is a character in Brian Wainwright’s novel, Within the Fetterlock, which I recommend to those who’ve not yet read it. And on March 20th, 1549, Thomas Seymour was beheaded, a fate he definitely deserved,...
She was the first member of the British royal family since Henry VIII to remarry after a divorce. She divorced first husband Captain Mark Phillips, the father of her two children, in April of 1992, after a paternity test confirmed Phillips had fathered a child with his New Zealand mistress...
Henry VII: Winter King: Directed by Giulia Clark, Stuart Elliott. With Thomas Penn, Barry Cook, Shawn Cunningham. Author Thomas Penn takes an extraordinary journey into the dark and chilling world of the first Tudor King, Henry VII. From his victory over
Henry VIII is a proud and wilful monarch who defies Rome's ban on divorce to marry his mistress Anne Boleyn. Cardinal Wolsey, the Powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the king's wishes in the matter of the divorce of Catherine of Aragon so he can marry Anne Bol...
After his death, King Richard I was shot and his heart was interred separately from the rest of his body. Your majesty King Henry VIII was the first monarch in England to be addressed as ‘Your Majesty.’ High-end textiles King Louis XIV was known for his fashion sense, and he helped...
Somehow they stumble onto a high diplomatic showdown involving secrets that King Henry the VIII is supposed to have whispered to his son Edward IV on his deathbed. Before Edward could do anything about that secret, he died a natural death – tuberculosis claimed a number of the King's ...