Sumptuary laws limited many of the clothing items that the lower and middle classes could wear. Politics often played an ...

Author Emily is hired to ghost write Jack’s book and she has secrets of her own to keep… Catherine Ryan Howard returns with another brilliant thriller that deals with important issues, yet to say any ...

Portrait of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII Catherine ... and he helped restore Catholicism and arrange her marriage to Philip II of Spain. He even crowned her. Gardiner died in 1555, ...

They didn’t have such things in Tudor England, not even for such a powerful lad. Impressively, however, he did manage to reduce her to an image, a Holbein portrait, in fact—the Raya of the day—then ...

Under its longest-serving editor, Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair was that rare thing – a New York society magazine that published serious journalism. @PeterPeteryork looks at what Carter got right. Peter ...