After Arthur died in 1502, an agreement was reached by which Catharine married Arthur's brother Henry (later Henry VIII). 1485 Henry becomes King after defeating Richard III of York at the Battle of ...

Henry V); a few could probably even get Bosworth Field (1485, Henry VII). But then the test, and the battles, get harder (Battle of the Boyne, anyone?). Other topics are even more of a struggle.

Beheading two wives and having numerous affairs and several (rumoured) children in and out of wedlock was always going to cement Henry VIII as one of history's bad boys. The King of England ...

At 6pm on 7 June 1520, Henry VIII of England met François I of France near Calais, for an astonishingly grand European festival, designed to improve relations between the two great rival kingdoms. So ...

Henry VIII is arguably the most famous King of England. However, in the final years of his life, he was largely unrecognisable from the strong and ruthless ruler of renown. During the last ...

Henry VIII demonstrated this in his treatment of St. Thomas More. More, a brilliant lawyer, experienced a meteoric rise in Henry VIII's England. "More formally entered royal service in 1518 when ...

SINGAPORE – Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived – this is how most people remember the six wives of 16th-century King of England Henry VIII. Reclaiming their voices is the ...

Here is a pack of interactive revision games and quizzes to test recall of Henry VIII and his Ministers - part of the Edexcel GCSE History specification. Download your free GCSE Henry VIII and his ...

The story of the disappearance of the two young sons of Edward IV in 1483 is well known. But the question of who killed the 12-year-old Edward V and his nine-year-old brother, Richard Duke of York, ...

Henry VIII (1491 – 1547) is perhaps the most well known of all England’s monarchs, notably for the fact that he had six wives and beheaded two of them. Besides presiding over sweeping changes that ...

Damian Lewis has revealed that taking on the role of Henry VIII in the BBC's adaptation of Wolf Hall wore him down. The actor, 53, candidly confessed that he usually finds acting very ...