SIX the Musical, one of the great successes in musical theatre in recent years, is based on a simple idea. The six wives of ...

We’re in a bucolic Essex marsh in 1536. Anna is wiping herself down after a romp against a tree with her wealthy (and betrothed) lover Richard. But then news arrives from London (it’s taken three days ...

Retreat to the castle - feeling like a queen, Karen Rockett beds down in a serene lodge at Leeds Castle, Kent and takes a ...

Two men had a significant impact on Kirkstall Abbey’s existence. Henry the VIII ordered its dissolution in 1539. Thomas North ...

British and Irish Lions head coach Andy Farrell has backed Henry Pollock to maintain his “cocky” attitude in Australia while leaving the door open to adding his son, Owen, into the squad in an ...

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The courtiers that he gathered about him included some of the finest European poets, humanists, historians, and scientists of his age— men who came in contact with the future Henry VIII, often as his ...

In an old cartoon I saw many years ago, a wealthy-looking codger gleefully defaces a series of old portraits as two museum guards look on with dismay.

But even his close bond with King Henry VIII couldn’t save Cromwell from the same fate that befell two of Henry’s wives. The Mirror and the Light opened its first episode with a shot of ...

Oil on canvas by Bikash Bhattacharjee (Indian, 1940-2006), titled Worshipper (1982), signed and dated lower right, titled on reverse, 40 inches by 42 inches. Estimate: $80,000-$120,000 Oil on canvas b ...

But more entertaining was the ritual innocent hostage-taking of the festival. Henry VIII tried to ban Hocktide (Photo via Getty) A perculiar Hocktide custom, on ‘Hock Monday’ women would capture men ...

In the saga of King Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves holds her secrets ... bison and rhinoceroses depicted in prehistoric cave art kept hidden in France GE2025: 'Free education, free schoolmeals ...