An English church wants to exhume and preserve the remains of a martyr whose head was lopped off and speared on a London ...

Despite Henry VIII’s attempts, only four of his children reached adulthood, with just one being a legitimate son. For Henry VIII’s three surviving legitimate children—Mary, Elizabeth, and ...

A statue discovered at Cleopatra's tomb allegedly reveals the Egyptian queen's true face. An Egyptian-Dominican archaeological mission in collaboration with the National University Pedro ...

As Henry VIII's sixth and final wife, it’s tempting to cast Catherine Parr as just a closing chapter on his story. After all, Catherine is continually defined in terms of others: her dead ...

Alicia Vikander says the story of Henry VIII's surviving wife is rarely told because audiences are drawn to 'grim stories' about the Tudor period.

A sixteenth century coin with the imprint of Henry VIII found lying in the mud on Inisfallen Island, Killarney may have been thrown into the lake for luck over 400 years ago. Colm Doyle found the ...

In new film Firebrand, Jude Law and Alicia Vikander star as Henry VIII and his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, reframing how history and culture have presented the monarch.

KING Henry VIII was once the “superstar prince of Europe”, but his final wife had to put up with a repulsive maniac who could be smelt from three rooms away. A new film titled Firebrand about ...

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The realistic AI image depicts a middle-aged Henry VIII in the modern day, replacing his extravagant attire for a more casual striped shirt, and losing the hat in the process.

She was temporarily buried in one of the side chapels until the main Lady chapel was sufficiently advanced for her grave to be made in it. Her tomb inscription reads: Here lies Queen Elizabeth, ...