For decades, historians piled layer after layer of interpretation upon Henry VIII's astute chief minister, a key figure in the Reformation, when King Henry broke from the Catholic Church to ...

The tomb of a missing pharaoh king has been found, in the first discovery of its kind since Tutankhamun more than a century ago. The huge archaeology breakthrough is thought to be the tomb of ...

He ushered in the Tudor era that was brutally continued by his son, Henry VIII ... for Henry on the tomb read: 'Here lies Henry the Seventh of that name, formerly King of England, son of Edmund ...

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 ...

Sometimes just one person changes things, like Henry VIII. When Henry was 18, he became King of England. He loved music, dancing and playing sports, like jousting and archery. But he got angry if ...

1533), sister of King Henry VIII and widow of King Louis XII of France ... The date 1563 appears at the west end of the tomb. The inscription in English reads: Here lieth the ladie Francis, Duches of ...

Her tomb inscription reads: Here lies Queen Elizabeth, daughter of the former King Edward IV, sister of the formerly appointed King Edward V, once the wife of King Henry VII, and the renowned mother ...