what did he want in a wife, and, more specifically, a queen? Image caption, A family portrait of the first Tudor kings by Remi van Leemput, painted 1669. Clockwise from back left: Henry VIII's ...

Anne Boleyn was the second wife of Henry VIII and the mother of Elizabeth I. Henry's desire to divorce his first wife and marry Anne helped bring about the English Reformation. She was the first ...

Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII and daughter of Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Ormond and Wiltshire, was crowned queen in Westminster Abbey by Thomas Cranmer on Whit Sunday 1st June 1533. The ...

The coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon took place on Sunday 24th June 1509 ... Henry died, after suffering from several ailments, on 28th January 1547 and was buried with his favourite ...

For decades, historians piled layer after layer of interpretation upon Henry VIII's astute chief minister ... wanted to rid himself of his second wife, Anne Boleyn, the court musician Mark ...

“He’s the most unlikely hero, in a way, because he’s a bureaucrat,” says historian Tracy Borman, author of Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII ... of a new wife, it was ...

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 ...