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King Henry VIII is synonymous with his six wives and his break from the Catholic Church, but he also had a number of ...
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She was, remember, a devout Catholic and Henry had just been excommunicated in order to marry the woman he had just had killed. Still, she's not as interesting as Boleyn as she has to share this ...
The courtiers that he gathered about him included some of the finest European poets, humanists, historians, and scientists of his age— men who came in contact with the future Henry VIII, often as his ...
In an old cartoon I saw many years ago, a wealthy-looking codger gleefully defaces a series of old portraits as two museum guards look on with dismay.
Divorced, beheaded, died; Divorced, beheaded, survived - This children s rhyme accurately depicts the sometimes gruesome outcome of Henry VIII s six wives, and is a catchy reminder of how a king ...
But more entertaining was the ritual innocent hostage-taking of the festival. Henry VIII tried to ban Hocktide (Photo via Getty) A perculiar Hocktide custom, on ‘Hock Monday’ women would capture men ...
The U.K.'s largest tulip festival at the former home of King Henry VIII is delighting visitors in the Spring sunshine. About 100,000 bulbs are painting the garden of the historic royal palace in a ...