Henry VII’s victory over Richard III in 1485 catapulted the Tudor dynasty to the pinnacle of power. For the next 118 years, they would be the most powerful family in England and make the country ...

The Beaufort Chronicles by Judith Arnopp. As Henry VIII’s paternal grandmother and matriarch of the Tudor clan, Margaret Beaufort, had a tremendously outsize impact on her family and how they ...

When Anne Boleyn, the worldly, charismatic daughter of a leading English courtier, caught the eye of Tudor king Henry VIII in the mid-1520s, few could have foreseen just how far she would rise ...

Henry VII was the first Tudor king. Born in 1457, to Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, Henry Tudor became, through his mother's side of the family, ...

The Tudor royal dynasty began with King Henry VII acceding to the throne of England, Wales and Ireland in 1485, and ended with the childless death of Elizabeth I in 1603.

Tudor Wall Paintings, Unseen for 300 Years, Are Uncovered in a Loft Space at a Cambridge College The paintings, featuring three crowned motifs, were used to legitimize King Henry VII's reign. The ...

Both Henry and his father, Henry VII, painted the Tudor dynasty as a continuation of the Camelot of Arthurian legend. Henry’s older brother, who died at age 15 in 1502, was even named Arthur in ...