And there was a lot to forgive in their new sovereign, whose love of books, loathing of war, homosexuality and all-round Scottishness defied conventional ideas of what an English king should ... at ...

Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich Palace. After the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502, Henry became heir to the English ...

With the accession of Henry V, a new age has begun. Falstaff and his riotous companions have been banished from Court. The first public act of the young King has been to summon Parliament and ...

A Genealogical History of the Kings of England.... by Francis Sandford 1677 (his engraving shows the tomb with two lions at the feet and gablet behind the head in place) King Henry III and St Edward ...

The adjective “notorious” tends to sum up the man and the king when it comes to Henry ... army to take Norman territory from ...

Henry VIII: Britain’s most famous king. Big, bold and brash, he is the epitome of 'Merrie England'. Ruling between 1509 and 1547, his marriages to a succession of six women became something of a ...

Edward's Abbey survived for two centuries until the middle of the 13th century when King Henry III decided to rebuild it in the new Gothic style of architecture. It was a great age for cathedrals ...

These four plays explored the fortunes of three successive kings of ... Dan Jones’s “Henry V” gives equal weight to the years before and after the king’s accession at age 26.

Bills safety Taylor Rapp suffered a concussion while trying to tackle Henry in the second quarter and has been wearing a guardian cap over his helmet since. Imagery of King Henry’s performance ...