The Times of the Tudors

This document was written on 12 February 1511 for a joust given by Henry VIII as a celebration for the birth of a son to the young King an...

Hatfield House as it stands today was completed in 1611 - that is after the death of Elizabeth I. But the old castle played an important par...

The only official portrait of Jane Seymour shows her wearing a massive necklace in gold. The chain itself consists of four pearls (two by tw...

The Chains of Office or Livery Collar were used as signs of status during the Tudor times. The chains were heavy with an equally heavy - and...

Sounds unpleasant, does it not? Nevertheless, the huge figure that Henry VIII acquired over the years has been a source of fascination for q...

The Tudor family was not very large but sometimes it can be difficult to remember exactly how the different people were related. So, if you ...

Henry VII was determined to fill the treasury to its limits and he succeeded. But in doing so he had to raise taxes which led to a rebellion...

Thomas Flamank was a lawyer who became a prominent figure in the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 when the people rose up against Henry VII's c...

Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley worked for Henry VII performing a job just as unpopular then as it is know: tax collecting. Henry VII was d...

Joan Boughton was tried for heresy and sentenced to be burned at the stake; the sentence was carried out on April 28, 1485 (according to Fox...

On February 20 1547 Prince Edward Tudor was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey - at nine years of age. Edward's clothes were m...

The House of Percy descends from William de Percy who came to England from France in 1067. Apparently, he must have made an impression on Wi...

When Cardinal Wolsey "handed over" Hampton Court Palace to Henry VIII, considerable changes were made to the kitchens' functio...

The Great Kitchen was the main room in the vast "kitchen apartments" and it was from here that the finishing touch would be added ...

Alison Weir is the author behind this book about the three children of Henry VIII and his great-niece Lady Jane Grey.

The most famous portrait of Anne Boleyn in which she is wearing her signature necklace If we are to judge from the few portraits of Anne...

Wolsey's Closet is the only room that we know to have been one of the Cardinal's personal rooms. The ceiling clearly shows Wolsey...

The Queen's Gallery was not created during the Tudors - actually work was begun in 1689 which makes it 78 years after the death of Eliza...

The Clock Tower (so named due to Henry VIII's large astronomical clock that hangs on the outside walls) still has traces of Cardinal Wol...

On the night of February 7, 1587 at Fortheringhay Castle Mary Stuart was informed that she had been found guilty in treason and was to die t...