King Henry VIII

Four months after she was widowed for a second time, KP married, privately at Hampton Court, King Henry VIII ; she was his sixth and last wife.

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.

Last queen of Henry VIII , KP was one of only eight Englishwomen to publish during the years 1486-1548. She has been recognised as the earliest woman writer to see her original works in print...

In the novel Murder Most Royal, JP viewed Henry VIII 's serial marriages through the eyes of two of his wives (both executed at his command), Anne Boleyn and Catherine (sometimes Katherine) Howard ...

JP launched under this name another historical trilogy, about Catherine of Aragon (sometimes spelled Katharine or Katherine), Henry VIII 's first wife, with the Tudor novel Katharine, the Virgin Widow.

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...

JP followed this Tudor novel with another involving Henry VIII , this time The Sixth Wife, published in 1953, about Katherine Parr , who married Henry in 1543 (ten years after Anne Boleyn had...

In the following year, 1952, and under the same pseudonym, JP shifted her historical lens for the novel Daughter of Satan, which examines the persecution of witches and Puritans in the 16th and 17th...

The first addresses the ever-fascinating question of how a girl-child whom nobody wanted could have developed into a potential queen regnant. The latter, called a moving account of a moving tragedy, takes the classic view...

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...

The family of Thomas More were merchants and lawyers of London's bourgeois ruling class: Thomas duly became a lawyer and out of personal passion became a scholar of the new humanist learning. He married again...

As a child Margaret knew at least by correspondence some of the most distinguished men in Europe, including her father's friend Desiderius Erasmus , who chose her as the dedicatee of his Commentary on the...

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...

His treason consisted in refusing, for reasons of religious doctrine, to accept the style which Henry VIII had given himself, of supreme head of the Church of England . His courage at the scaffold extended...