Catherine Howard reigned for barely a year-and-a-half. She seemingly left behind no children or legacies—except for one huge tragedy. She was the fifth wife of King Henry VIII, and only the second ...

Acorn TV has renewed its Irish mystery series Harry Wild for a fifth season, star and executive producer Jane Seymour has ...

1381 England’s Peasants’ Revolt begins. Also called Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, it was the first great popular rebellion in ...

1626: An explosion at the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory in Beijing destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people. 1640: Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens dies aged 62.

When King Henry VIII's wife Anne Boleyn was executed in 1536, her Book of Hours went missing for centuries. A recent discovery reveals a string of women who secured the book for decades after her ...

The musical SIX is an ode to sisterhood. Call it the Tudor version of The Eurythmics’ Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves or ...

The hit Broadway musical “SIX,” is coming to the Neal S. Blaisdell Concert Hall next month. The Tony Award-winning show by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss will run ...

Jane Seymour is, well, an icon. Born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg, Seymour has had some iconic roles, including that of Bond girl Solitaire in Live and Let Die and as the titular figure in Dr ...

The sickly nine-year-old son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, King Edward VI had been raised a Protestant. In 1553, at age 15, Edward and his advisers created his “Device for the Succession” in ...

When Anna is asked how she would feel if the king were to die ... while the more naïve, conventional Jane is an allusion to Henry’s subsequent wife, Jane Seymour. If there’s a link between Reynolds’ ...

This effervescent debut refreshes the story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn by filtering it through the perspective of three ...