For all the tabloid fuss and docudramas, the messy love lives of today’s British royals seem like pallid reflections of monarchical scandals past. The personalities are smaller, the stakes so much ...
Hans Holbein the Younger, the northern Renaissance’s master portraitist, preserved faces from the 16th-century court of England’s King Henry VIII. But it took the novelist Hilary Mantel to bring the ...
Why is Lucy Worsley whispering from beneath her Tudor-era burgonet helmet, dressed as a Yeoman of the Guard and spilling royal beans? Because she’s placed herself at the first encounter, circa 1522, ...
Tracy Borman investigates the rise of Thomas Cromwell, from the son of a Putney blacksmith to Henry VIII's right-hand man, and his eventual downfall. Tracy Borman investigates the rise of Thomas ...
New insights come on anniversary of Cromwell's death and ahead of the final part of the 'Wolf Hall' trilogy which hits West End later this year The magnificent London mansion of Thomas Cromwell has ...
Imagine a head of state, vain and inept, surrounded by men who bend to enable and justify his worst impulses and decisions – I’m guessing that wasn’t too hard. Now give this man the power of the ...
From the publication of “Wolf Hall” in 2009 until the release of “The Mirror and the Light” last March, devotees of Hilary Mantel’s portrait of Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell always had more to look ...
Thomas Cromwell: A Life. By Diarmaid MacCulloch. Viking; 752 pages; $40. Allen Lane; £30. WALTER CROMWELL, father of Henry VIII’s right-hand man Thomas, lurches drunkenly through the early scenes of ...
Historical procedurals are expensive to make and therefore all too rare on television. Enter the Tudor-era murder mystery “Shardlake” on Hulu, set during the reign of Henry VIII and adapted from the ...
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