1545) and his third wife Mary Tudor (d.1533), sister of King Henry VIII and widow of King Louis XII of France. She was born on 16th July ... Lady Jane Grey was the "nine days queen", as proclaimed by ...

Conscious of the benefits of an alliance with France, the Scots betrothed the young queen to Francis, the four-year-old heir to the French crown, and sent Mary to be raised at the court of Henry II.

From hand-carved temples and 9th-century stairwells to Raj-era monuments and fortresses dating back to the Mughal dynasty, ...

During the 16th century there were occasional calls for union between England and Scotland. Some believed that the marriage ...

Treason, tyranny, and terror are fabled words of King Henry VIII, one of history’s most controversial autocrats and ...

King Frederik and Queen Mary faced a bittersweet day on Thursday amid their private ... Henrik sparked headlines in 2002 over a row on his royal status, as he fled to his chateau in Caix, France after ...

Starring Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, and Eddie Marsan, Firebrand retells the drama, intrigue, and threat in the Tudor court ... favors of ailing Queen Anne as war looms with France.

It is the spot in London where Catholics were executed in Tudor England. Marble Arch marks the spot today. In the brief reign of Queen Mary ... in 13th-century France because they, too, were ...

It has three illuminations of coronation scenes (the king alone, queen alone and king and queen together). In 1396 Richard married the 7 year old Isabelle of France as his second ... The Virgin Mary ...

Henry VIII's early military campaigns began when he joined Pope Julius II's Holy League against France in 1511 ... with the latest guns including the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545.

In Lourdes, France, in 1844 a baby girl named Bernadette ... On March 25, the Lady finally told Bernadette that she was Mary, the mother of Jesus, and that her purpose in appearing to Bernadette ...

Although romanticised as a Scottish heroine, Mary was brought up in the French court since she was five years old. The unexpected death of Mary’s husband, Francis II of France ... with the English ...