News

Smithsonian Magazine20d
The Real Story Behind ‘Wolf Hall’ and the Fall of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s Most Controversial Adviser
Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)2d
Interview: Damian Lewis on Playing Henry VIII
Damian Lewis on the embodiment of majesty, the heft of the fat suit, and the complicated king of The Mirror and the Light as ...
Rags-to-riches hero or villainous torturer? The truth about Henry VIII's scheming right-hand man Thomas Cromwell
With her Wolf Hall books, novelist Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as a new TV adaptation ...
clickondetroit.com1mon
HENRY VIII OF ENGLAND
Read full article: This portrait may be the only one of England's 9-day queen painted during her lifetime Research by the charity English Heritage suggests it may have found a portrait of England ...
The Independent1mon
This portrait may be the only one of England's 9-day queen painted during her lifetime
One of England's most tragic regal figures ... of the chicanery of the Tudor court in the chaotic aftermath of Henry VIII’s reign. She is perhaps best-known from Paul Delaroche’s painting ...
PBS20d
The Characters of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light
A shrewd soldier and administrator, he has profited from the Dissolution of the Monasteries and is making the most of England’s changing religious landscape. For Henry VIII, power means nothing ...