It is a measure of the original work’s quality and its excellent adaptation to TV that historical revisionism remains central ...

Although Henry VIII remains more talked about than Caligula ... embroidered jacket, just as Hans Holbein the Younger showed Henry as large and powerful rather than overweight and cruel.

Flanking a fireplace on the first floor are two portraits by Hans Holbein. One depicts Thomas More — the author of “Utopia” and the lord high chancellor of England under King Henry VIII — who was ...

Even after the conclusion of the dramatic events depicted in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, there is still so much more ...

Charismatic, passionate, insatiable - Henry VIII is known across the world as the king who had 6 wives, and a few mistresses on the side. But was Henry a romantic or a scoundrel? Kate is joined by ...

But even his close bond with King Henry VIII couldn’t save Cromwell from the same fate that befell two of Henry’s wives. The Mirror and the Light opened its first episode with a shot of ...

One of the country's oldest pubs open when Henry VIII was on the throne has been forced to close after almost 500 years. Hole in the Wall, in Torquay, Devon, opened in 1540 - the same year the ...