Mary Baynton, an otherwise ordinary citizen, claimed to be Princess Mary Tudor, the king’s eldest daughter. Incredibly, Baynton not only made her outrageous claim public, but also managed to ...

Centuries later, however, the Tudor queen is remembered as one of the most reviled figures in English history: “Bloody Mary.” This is the story of how a heroic underdog became a monarch who ...

Was Philip's role as King of England merely ceremonial, or did he wield real power?

Karen Gillan (Avengers Endgame) will play Mary Tudor in Fools, an upcoming period comedy about the monarch’s friendship with her female court jester. Patsy Ferran (Hot Milk) is the jester in the ...

One such relationship explored in greater detail in season 2 is between Cromwell and Princess Mary Tudor, whose position at the start of this chapter is challenged by her father's divorce from ...

Mary Tudor is remembered as the first female monarch of England. But her path to the throne was far from guaranteed. When Mary was 17, her father King Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church to ...