June 11 has long been a day marked by significant events that have shaped the world in diverse ways. June 11, 1509, saw the ...

The Pop Idol winner discovered on this week's episode of BBC1’s Who Do You Think You Are? that he is related to King Edward I ...

Some siblings fight. Others change the world. The accomplishments of these famous siblings have changed history. Famous ...

As the 22nd series of the TV show Who Do You Think You Are? is broadcast across the nation, family history website Findmypast ...

It’s been nine years since Danny Dyer unforgettably discovered he was related to English royalty – and now Will Young is following in his footsteps. The EastEnders star, 47, couldn’t have possibly ...

For Damian Lewis, just standing for two weddings of King Henry VIII in "Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light" was a daylong royal marathon. The English monarch is remembered for having six wives ...

A museum in Hartford is now featuring a famous portrait of Henry VIII. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art said Hans Holbein’s Portrait of Henry VIII (1540) is currently on display.

Wolf Hall episode five saw Thomas Cromwell make a major misstep with his marriage plans for Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves, with the union clearly being a total disaster. While Henry is wedded to ...

Episode two of Wolf Hall season two sees Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) dealing with yet another crisis in King Henry VIII's court after the King's beloved niece, Margaret, attempts to marry Lord ...

In new film Firebrand, Jude Law and Alicia Vikander star as Henry VIII and his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, reframing how history and culture have presented the monarch. Inarguably Britain's most ...

Art enthusiasts are losing their heads over this discovery. A highly rare and significant portrait of England’s monarch Henry VIII — thought to be lost in 1781 — has been hiding in plain ...

For someone who sat on the English throne for almost 40 years, Henry VIII is far less famous for being a king than for being a serial husband, serial cheater, and, shall we say, serial killer by ...