Yet by the early 2000s, Henry VIII was once again hot property ... not to bathe for four months to transform into a Second World War tank crewman, while Daniel Day-Lewis, apocryphally, refused ...

However war with France ultimately proved expensive and unsuccessful. Henry VIII is known as the 'father of the Royal Navy.' When he became king there were five royal warships. By his death he had ...

By 1521, Henry VIII, 30, had a decade on the throne, as the second monarch of the Tudor dynasty. The Tudors came to power in 1485 after winning the War of the Roses — a thirty-year civil war ...

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with 24-year-old UK resident David Smith about his career as a Henry VIII impersonator. It has been edited for length and clarity. Business ...

On his deathbed Tudor King Henry VIII remembers his long reign, especially the crucial part his six marriages played in it, without producing the male heir he desired most to prevent civil wars ...

and he went to war with France several more times over the course of his reign. Like many people during Tudor times, Henry VIII believed that men should rule the country. He wanted a son to reign ...

The coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon took place on Sunday 24th June 1509. The ceremony is illustrated in the mortuary roll of Abbot Islip dated 1532 in the Abbey's archives. The day ...