Tudor monarchs

After seven years' research, the National Portrait Gallery has revealed what the Tudor monarchs really looked like – and it's fascinating, says Alastair Smart

An interactive article exploring how Tudor king Henry VIII ruled at a time when the average life expectancy was just 35 years old.

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Excite and engage the audience with King Henry based facts in advance of London Dungeon's move to Waterloo. SMACK created a photographic style fact fi

The Tudor dynasty oversaw a transformative period of English history, with monarchs including Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. This era was marked by religious and political upheaval, including the English Reformation and the establishment of the Church of England. Henry VIII's six marriages and his break from the Catholic Church are particularly well-known. Elizabeth I's reign saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada and a flowering of English culture, with playwrights…

Holbein's famous portrait of Henry VIII

An exhibition at the Met features 100-plus paintings, sculptures, decorative works and objects that testify to the splendor of 16th-century English court

The history that gets recorded is always skewed by the politics of the time, and Elizabeth’s makeup is no different.

Henry VIII succeeded his father, Henry VII as the second Tudor monarch. Henry’s six wives and marriages were driven as much by a need for sons as infatuation. In order. his wives were Catherine or Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Kathryn Howard and Katherine Parr. Two ended by execution, and ultimately caused a schism with Rome and the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Parliament proclaimed Henry head of the Church in England (later Church of England).

Elizabeth Tailboys was the Tudor monarch's illegitimate lovechild who would have changed the course of English history had the King, pictured acknowledged her as his at the time.