King Henry VIII

Her historical romance The Pilgrims of Walsingham, 1835, is written on the Canterbury Tales model (as practised originally by Chaucer and more recently by Harriet Lee and her sister ). AS 's pilgrims who...

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...

The Eventful History of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk , The Flower of English Chivalry, and the Princess Mary of England : An Original Romance Founded on Historical Facts is a historical novel in miniature...

This episodic play traces the course of Anne Boleyn's relations with King Henry VIII from 1526 to her execution on 19 May 1536, ending with news of this event. It focuses on the early years...

The title comes from the chorus of the well-known song Greensleeves, which is popularly supposed to have been written by Henry VIII .

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...

Knowledge of AA 's writing spread rapidly. The reactionary Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester, complained on 6 June 1547 of the number of copies in circulation.John Foxe gave it a still wider...

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...

RH 's father, William Lok or Locke (1480-1550), had been married before and he was twice more married after the death of his second wife, Katherine (Cook)—who bore him nine children—and whose protestant faith he...

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.

Despite her personal achievements, Margaret Roper's fame has and to some extent still does rest primarily on her status as the eldest and favourite daughter of Thomas More , Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII

Her mother, Margery, née Gwynneth or Guinet (variously spelled), was reported to be witty and housewifely. She worked beyond her immediate family, serving as silkwoman to two of Henry VIII 's queens. She died...

Elizabeth's father, Sir Goddard Oxenbridge of Brede Place, Sussex, was knighted by Henry VIII at his coronation. He died, as a pious Catholic, in the same year as his wife.

Anne's father, Stephen Vaughan , was a London merchant adventurer with strong ties to the court of Henry VIII . He served as government agent in the Netherlands for Thomas Cromwell . He was a...

His forebears had strong links with the artistic world. While he himself was a friend of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Mary's great-grandfather, Captain Thomas Butts , had been a patron of William Blake