The subtitle of Tracy Borman's new biography, Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant, is probably the only questionable assertion in the book: Almost 500 years after ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Tudor rose, which is front and centre of the shield, symbolised his loyalty to King Henry VIII. The red cappello romano ...

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 ...

This pendant is thought to be associated with Henry VIII. An amateur detectorist discovered the locket by chance in a field in England.Dan Kitwood/Getty Images An amateur metal detectorist found a ...

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 ...