At 38, the eldest daughter of King Henry VIII desperately needed an heir, preferably male, to secure an alliance with Spain and continued Catholic rule in England. The stakes were high.

Worsley, voice-over: Hampton Court Palace-- family home of England's original Tudor queen ... been painted because Mary's just been engaged to him. This is the fate of a princess.

Guided by his father, he is learning to navigate the complex, high-stakes world of Tudor politics ... matriarch and a staunch supporter of Princess Mary, who was declared illegitimate after ...

Lady Jane Grey, a teenage pawn in the power struggles that plagued the Tudor court, ruled England for just nine ... prevent her Roman Catholic relative, Mary Tudor, from becoming Queen.

Mary Tudor, from claiming the throne. Mary I of England, 1554 Portrait by Anthonis Mor But within days, Mary seized power, and Grey was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Despite initial ...

Princess Mary and the Reigning Queens of Spain by Dr. Elizabeth Norton (2pm) Dr Elizabeth Norton is a London-based historian specialising in the queens of England and the Tudor period. Elizabeth ...

Viewers will see she has refused to swear an oath of obedience to her father as the head of the Church of England ... in Wolf Hall - playing Princess Mary Tudor in the six-part series.

Viewers will see she has refused to swear an oath of obedience to her father as the head of the Church of England ... in Wolf Hall - playing Princess Mary Tudor in the six-part series.

The highly anticipated second season of Wolf Hall has arrived almost a decade after the first season on the BBC, and it ...

It also features tensions mounting as the king threatens his daughter, Princess Mary, with the same fate ... and Henry VIII’s fears that her extensive estates in the south of England might be used as ...

Here’s what you need to know about the Church of England, the archbishop of Canterbury ... Despite a brief return to papal submission under Queen Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I reversed this when ...

The first movie charts the early years of Elizabeth I's reign, her ascendency to the throne after her half-sister Mary I's death and her retaining ... the film charts the dangerous political landscape ...