More, a Tudor lawyer to the English monarchy, was decapitated on Tower Hill on the orders of King Henry VIII after refusing to recognize the ax-happy monarch as the head of the Church of England ...

Law stars as Tudor monarch Henry VIII, in the historical drama documenting the relationship between the 28-stone King and his sixth wife Catherine Parr, played by Alicia Vikander.

A circa 1545 portrait of Henry VIII and his family. The king's daughters, Mary (left) and Elizabeth (right), appear in the wings of the painting, while his son, Edward, and third wife, Jane ...

Philip Kennicott's poisonous assessment that Henry VIII's bloody rule was "immensely valuable to England and the English-speaking peoples" because it broke from the "enervating hegemony of the ...