Long before Farnham was a bustling market town, its quiet palace rooms once sheltered the most precious child in the kingdom, ...

In both life and art, Holbein had a “talent for catching every rising tide”, said Mathew Lyons in The Spectator. Goldring’s ...

Of all the estates and houses available to King Henry VIII, Greenwich Palace in southeast London was known to be his favorite. The king spent more than 4,000 nights there (that’s almost 11 years in ...

A new biography explores how Hans Holbein’s portraits shaped the public image and enduring legacy of England’s most famous royal family.

Henry VIII’s jousting yard on the former grounds of Greenwich Palace has been located using ground-penetrating radar. Jousting was one of Henry’s (r. 1509–1547) favorite pastimes, so he ordered a ...

A new biography of the ruler of Scotland, England, and Ireland—the one for whom that famous Bible is named—reveals the way his romantic tastes were used by his court to influence him.

When the British military historian Alexander McKee began searching for shipwrecks near the Isle of Wight in 1965, there was one in particular he hoped to find: the Mary Rose. The Tudor-era ship had ...