Wolf Hall is the hit BBC adaptation of the bestselling novels by the late author Hilary Mantel. The story chronicles the life of King Henry VIII's advisor Thomas Cromwell in a rags to riches tale ...

Her father was the Duke of Cleves and this was part of Cromwell’s plan to cement an alliance with the leading Protestant states of western Europe. He dispatched the great painter Hans Holbein the ...

The musical SIX at the Vaudeville Theatre, in London is the most tremendous and amazing musical I have seen. This musical was first performed in 2018 at the Norwich Playhouse and it is about the wives ...

Portrait of Anne of Cleves, Hans Holbein the Younger Additionally, Anne of Cleves was also Henry’s queen during 1540 and although it was only for six months, it is still possible that a miniature ...

Lucy Russell as Lady Anne Shelton, Will Tudor as Edward Seymour, Viola Prettejohn as Mary Fitzroy, Thomas Arnold as Hans Holbein, Jordan Kouamé as Martin The Gaoler, Agnes O’Casey as Lady Margaret ...

Katherine of Aragon (c.1520) by unknown artist © National Portrait Gallery, London, by permission of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Church Commissioners; on ...

A 500-year-old manor house in Oxfordshire, England, that belonged to the Queen of England, Anne of Cleves—one of the lucky ...

A second series of Wolf Hall titled The Mirror and the Light will air on the BBC soon starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis ...

A central feature of the Anne Frank House museum, set on one of Amsterdam's historic canals, are the very rooms where the young Jewish diarist and her family hid from Nazi occupiers. Now a full ...

“When We Flew Away” envisions what Anne might have been like before the cataclysm that shut her away and made her into “the voice of the Holocaust.” By Ruth Franklin Ruth Franklin is the ...

Jane Boleyn (née Parker) was the daughter of Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley, a gentleman usher to Henry VIII, and his wife Alice. No record of Jane’s birth survives but she began her court service in ...