These included Henry VIII, and his daughters Mary I and Elizabeth ... from her youth to her uncle’s abdication, her father’s coronation as King George VI, her experience during World War ...

Married to Edward II, Queen Isabella of France retired from the throne to Castle Rising, where she lived at first a chaotic, ...

The "Rainbow Portrait" of Queen Elizabeth I ... Elizabeth’s father was King Henry VIII, rotund, red-haired and irascible. Her mother was Anne Boleyn, a coquettish young lady of the court ...

Maximillian I of the Holy Roman Empire was never officially crowned by the Pope, and instead by Julius I at Trend, which went against the tradition of a true Papal coronation ... years of his life.

The texts of the oaths and prayers used in coronation and consecration rituals were first ... it is in essence a collection of royal portraits, focusing more on individual lives than political ...

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.

The Hartford museum is hosting an event called Gallery Talk – Hans Holbein’s Portrait of Henry VIII with Matthew Hargraves and Oliver Tostmann – on May 3. Wadsworth said the Henry VIII ...

The Renaissance court portraiture “Portrait of Henry VIII (1540)” was created by Hans Holbein. It’s on special loan from the Palazzo Barberini in Rome through the summer. Wadsworth museum ...

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 ...

Damian Lewis on the embodiment of majesty, the heft of the fat suit, and the complicated king of The Mirror and the Light as ...