Author: Professor David Loades

This is the history of the men and women who occupied the highest position in English, and later British, society. From Richard IIIs infamous life ...

This is the history of the men and women who have occupied the highest position in English, and later British society. For about a thousand years t...

Mary Tudor was the first female English sovereign - a ruling queen who was not simply the consort of the king. Yet little is known about this com...

Thomas Cromwell was a self-made lawyer who served first Cardinal Wolsey and then Henry VIII. His time with Wolsey served him well in his work for t...

A magnificent tale of family rivalry and intrigue set against Henry VIII's court. The fall of Anne Boleyn and her brother George is the classic dra...

Although the Seymours arrived with the Normans, it is with Jane, Henry VIIIs third queen, and her brothers Edward, Duke of Somerset, and Thomas, L...

'A paradise - tall, slender, grey-eyed, possessing an extreme pallor.' The contemporary view of Henry VIII's younger sister, Princess Mary Rose, as...

Henrys fifth queen is best known to history as the stupid adolescent who got herself fatally entangled with lovers and ended up on the block. Howev...

Jane was Henry VIIIs third queen, and she was described by him as his first true wife, both his first two marriages having been annulled. She was t...

The story of Henry VIII and his six wives has passed from history into legend taught in the cradle as a cautionary tale and remembered in adulthoo...

As a youth, Henry VIII was a magnificent specimen of manhood, and in age a gargantuan wreck, but even in his prime he was never the 'ladies man' wh...