s younger brother, the future King Henry VIII, whose want of a male heir ultimately led to their divorce and England’s break with Rome which initiated the English Reformation. This portrait was most likely in the possession of Catherine and then passed to Henry. It is recorded in an early...
Henry's claim to the throne was as the great-grandson of a bastard son of a younger son ofKing Edward III. Furthermore, the bastard line (the Beauforts), though officially "legitimized" when their father married their mother, had been expressly barred from the throne byHenry IV. But at...
Anne Boleyn great disappointment and sorrow to the King, the Lady herself and to others of her party.’ But for the next two years, Henry VIII was willing to hope for a son to join this healthy daughter.
From the early 18thcentury Chinese tub in which Walpole’s cat Selima drowned accidentally to a clock that had belonged to Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn, it is a veritable pot-pourri of objects and pictures that fascinate and show the breadth of Walpole’s interests, many reflecting the historic ...
Mould has brought to life several unidentified sitters, prime among them the eldest son of King Henry VII, Prince Arthur, who died in 1502. He has also found a rare youthful portrait of Henry VIII, an unknown image of Queen Elizabeth I as a young princess, and put a name on a red-...
s younger brother, the future King Henry VIII, whose want of a male heir ultimately led to their divorce and England’s break with Rome which initiated the English Reformation. This portrait was most likely in the possession of Catherine and then passed to Henry. It is recorded in an early...