Though others learning of the royal's scandalous love life may even do so through the musical Six, which centres on Henry VIII's wives rather than the monarch himself. But which wife came first ...

That's got to affect you - ten days before your wedding, your husband has his previous wife beheaded ... She was, remember, a devout Catholic and Henry had just been excommunicated in order ...

Though others learning of the royal's scandalous love life may even do so through the musical Six, which centres on Henry VIII's wives rather than the monarch himself. But which wife came first and ...

what did he want in a wife, and, more specifically, a queen? Image caption, A family portrait of the first Tudor kings by Remi van Leemput, painted 1669. Clockwise from back left: Henry VIII's ...

Stars Alicia Vikander and Jude Law tell EW about the movie that leans more into the "domestic drama" than royal history.

when King Henry VIII broke with Rome and legalised marriage between first cousins so that he could marry Catherine Howard, his fifth wife and a cousin of his second wife, Anne Boleyn. ' ...

Anne was his second wife. Their marriage was 3 years ... like her sister was. Henry VIII wanted to cancel his first marriage to marry her, but the Catholic church refused to allow it, so he ...

The BBC began the 1970s with the colour costume drama The Six Wives of Henry VIII. The first episode, broadcast on 1 January, was devoted to Catherine of Aragon, played by Annette Crosbie.

The musical, which tells the tale of the six wives of King Henry VIII in the context of a present-day pop concert, returns to ...