Catherine of Aragon was King Henry VIII’s first wife and longest-lasting Queen of England. Although Catherine's successor Queen Anne Boleyn suffered an infamously dark fate, Aragon's own life was ...
Literary scholar Vanessa Braganza suggests that Catherine commissioned the pendant design as "a sign of her conviction of her own enduring legitimacy." Illustration ...
In the historian Sarah Gristwood’s “The Tudors in Love,” for both monarchs and courtiers the stakes are higher than romance. Card one, clockwise from top: Henry VIII; Mary I; Queen Elizabeth I. Card ...
The gold pendant likely dates to around 1521. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Birmingham Museums Trust under CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons under public domain In June 1520, the rulers of ...
When one thinks of portraits of Henry VIII, his wives, or any member of the Tudor Dynasty, 16th-century Renaissance paintings are likely to come to mind. But, photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto offers ...