King Henry VIII

In it she used public humiliation in an attempt to persuade her husband to increase her allowance. She denounced him as a literary Cagliostro , political Titus Oates and marital Henry the Eighth—

In Rose Without a Thorn (in which she returns to the topic of Henry VIII 's fifth wife, Katherine Howard ), she again presents her heroine (realistically considering the age she writes of) in terms...

This novel begins as Henry VIII is already thinking about marrying Jane Seymour , and ends at a moment when it seems that Cromwell is triumphant over his enemies (including his former ally Anne Boleyn

She begins with Anne as vehicle for the fantasies of later generations: the way that she herself as a small child was regaled by a nun with the idea that but for this depraved woman...

She compares the parallel stories of the English Reformation under King Henry VIII , which established the Church of England (Anglican or Episcopalian), and the Scottish Reformation under John Knox in 1559, which established the...

John Leland, antiquarian, likely worked as a sub-librarian in the 1530s for Henry VIII 's libraries, but whether or not he was paid for his services is unclear. In 1533 he received a royal commission...

As a child Susan Grosvenor lived with her parents and sister at 30 Upper Grosvenor Street—but only in winter, for summers were spent with the extended family at her grandparents' country estate, Moor Park...

Many of the royal characters in her historical novels had visited this half-timbered house, which dates back to 1400 and performed the function of a lodging for pilgrims heading for Canterbury. The main doorway, in...

In additon, LTS provided two reviews for the English Historical Review. One was of Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem by J. Delaville le Roulx , and the other...

ET 's nephew George Tollet published, with her name, a new, enlarged edition of her work: Poems on Several Occasions. With Anne Boleyn to Henry VIII . An Epistle.

Henry VIII told KP he objected to being taught by my wife.

The day after Anne Askew was executed, Henry agreed at KP 's persuasion to halt the religious persecutions: two men in the Tower under the same Act were released and no more were burned.

Thomas More 's opposition to Henry VIII 's projected marriage to Anne Boleyn was unshakable. On 17 April 1534 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London as a political offender, having refused on 12...

Elizabeth Tyrwhit 's life at Court took a different turn after Katherine Parr 's marriage to Henry VIII (on 12 July 1543). She participated with the queen and a whole group of court ladies in...

The family derived CPT 's given names from Henry VIII 's final wife , an intellectual and writer who was closely involved in the foundation of the Church of England. An ancestral connection was alleged.