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…
The Last Wife of Henry VIII Katherine Parr occupies a distinctive and often underappreciated place among the six wives of Henry VIII. Married to the king in July 1543 at Hampton Court Palace, she became…
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…
Arrival in a New Land When the fifteen-year-old Catalina of Aragon disembarked at Plymouth in October 1501 after a difficult sea voyage, she stepped into England not only as a diplomatic bride but as a…
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…
When popular history recalls children associated with the Tower of London, it almost invariably remembers the tragic mystery of the Princes in the Tower, Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, who vanished behind its…
