He built armouries, a tiltyard, stabes and a banqueting hall as he expanded the palace. Henry VIII had a near-fatal jousting accident here in 1536 which triggered a decline in his behaviour and he ...

Researchers Find Remnants of Jousting Field Where Henry VIII Almost Died In January 1536, the Tudor king fell from his horse and sustained significant injuries that troubled him for the rest of ...

Ruins of the jousting yard, or tiltyard, where that fateful incident took place are located 5.5 feet beneath the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, the former site of Greenwich Palace.

The team has, for the first time, unearthed the remains of one of the Palace's lost Tiltyard Towers, which were built at the height of King Henry VIII’s reign in the 1530s.

Archaeologists working at Hampton Court Palace have solved a mystery that has been puzzling historians for decades. The team has, for the first time, unearthed the remains of one of the Palace's ...