Stories of sex, power and public execution in Tudor England provide endless entertainment. But let’s not forget their ...
The artist behind the works may have used Elizabeth's likeness as a template in other royal portraits to visually emphasize ...
The Italian Renaissance crawled to Britain. Tudor architecture is therefore the age of freestyle, of making it up as you go, ...
Tudor Grange Academy students to re-enact Queen Elizabeth I’s 1575 visit to Worcester with a parade, Elizabethan dance and scenes from Romeo ...
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The brooch, first seen on the Queen three years ago, has been interpreted as a show of support for her husband ...
The House of Tudor had more than its fair share of scandalous figures, from Henry VIII’s many marriages to the intrigue and plots of the court of Elizabeth I. But few remember the twisted tale of Mary ...
Infrared images have revealed that an artist who painted Anne Boleyn deviated from an approved design for portraits of the ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Tudor historian Owen Emmerson about his theory that the face in a famous portrait of Anne Boleyn is actually that of her daughter, Elizabeth I.
Anne Boleyn is arguably one of the most well-known figures in Tudor history. She was King Henry VIII's second wife of six wives, and she was famously beheaded at the Tower of London for treason in ...