Discover the story of Boudicca and why there is a statue of her outside Parliament in London. Who was King Henry VIII? Explore the life of King Henry VIII, his wives and the start of the Church of ...

This is a headless statue originally pictured next to a seat with a surprise view. Because of the effect of the dissolution on the Abbey, and the link with Henry VIII's second wife Anne Boleyn ...

became King Henry VIII. Soon after he obtained the papal dispensation required to allow him to marry his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon. In the first years of his reign Henry VIII ...

The coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon took place on Sunday 24th June 1509. The ceremony is illustrated in the mortuary roll of Abbot Islip dated 1532 in the Abbey's archives. The day ...