A Summer of Royal Absence In the summer of 1520 Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon crossed the Channel to meet Francis I of France at the celebrated Field of the Cloth of Gold. Between…
A young Henry weeping on the empty bed of his dead mother Elizabeth of York. His two sisters Margaret and Mary sit at the foot of the bed. From the Vaux Passional, in the National…
A Different Kind of Terror Henry VII (1457-1509), King of England Henry VII is often remembered as a cold, distant and deeply suspicious monarch. Contemporary chroniclers and later historians frequently emphasised his avarice and his…
Marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images The Marriages of the Tudor Dynasty: Dates and Durations The Tudor dynasty, which ruled England from 1485 to 1603, was shaped as much…
Eden, William Denis; John Cabot and His Sons Receive the Charter from Henry VII to Sail in Search of New Lands, 1496; Parliamentary Art Collection; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/john-cabot-and-his-sons-receive-the-charter-from-henry-vii-to-sail-in-search-of-new-lands-1496-213842 Henry VII (1485–1509): The Claim of Blood and Conquest…
