The musical SIX is an ode to sisterhood. Call it the Tudor version of The Eurythmics’ Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves or ...

Even after the conclusion of the dramatic events depicted in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, there is still so much more to the story. From Henry VIII’s surprising second thoughts to the ...

And that is Hans Holbein and his court paintings. …Holbein did primarily paint the court, because portraiture was incredibly expensive to have done. And he did a couple of pet portraits of Henry ...

Namely, he was not able to conceive a male heir who survived early childhood with his first wife, Catherine of Aragon ... Renaissance artist Hans Holbein the Younger painted a portrait of Anne, the ...

King Henry VIII of England is surrounded by his 6 wives, including Anne of Cleves, Jane Seymour, Catherine ... Hans Holbein the Younger, to the German duchy, and he approved based on the portrait.

Arthur died young, and his widow Catherine of Aragon became his brother Henry ... The Duchy of Cleves was a useful ally for the religiously isolated England and Hans Holbein’s portrait of Anna looked ...

WATCH: Mark Rylance stars in the BBC’s Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light While what really happened has been debated, which reports claiming that Hans Holbein had painted Anne more flattering ...

Portrait of a Lady, perhaps Katherine Howard, Hans Holbein the Younger The first of these portraits is a miniature held today in the Royal Collection Trust. Dated to 1540, the year Catherine Howard ...

To pay for their African agricultural dreams, the Delameres sold off their 7,000-acre estate in Cheshire, their Vale Royal Abbey home that had been in the family for 322 years, Holbein’s portrait of ...

In new film Firebrand, Jude Law and Alicia Vikander star as Henry VIII and his sixth wife, Catherine Parr ... from the celebrated portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger. Vast in stature and covered ...

Tudor-era portraits of monarchs ... s painting “Cranmer Endeavouring to Obtain a Confession of Guilt from Catherine Howard” (1849) drips in Victorian moralizing, for example.

Katherine of Aragon (c.1520) by unknown artist © National Portrait Gallery, London, by permission of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Church Commissioners; on ...