Curated playlist
House of Tudor
- Henry VIIIHenry VIII broke England from Rome after the pope would not annul his first marriage.
- Catherine of AragonWidowed at sixteen, Catherine of Aragon became the first known female ambassador in European history.
- Jane SeymourJane Seymour once returned King Henry the Eighth's purse of gold without breaking its seal.
- Anne of ClevesHenry VIII married Anne of Cleves after approving her portrait, then wished he hadn't. It was annulled in July 1540.
- Elizabeth IElizabeth I came to the throne as a declared bastard whose mother had been executed.
- Wives of Henry VIIIHenry VIII never actually divorced any of his six wives. Three of his marriages were annulled instead.
- Henry VII of EnglandHenry VII faked stomach cramps to avoid being handed to his enemies. The exiled Tudor then slipped away to a monastery.
- Mary IMary I came into the world on the 18th of February 1516 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, the only child of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon to survive infancy. She died on the 17th of November 1558, aged 42, at St James's Palace,…
- Elizabeth of YorkElizabeth of York died on her 37th birthday. She was Henry VII's queen and Henry VIII's mother.
- Lady Jane GreyLady Jane Grey was queen of England for only nine days in July 1553. Her own Privy Council then turned on her.
- Tudor roseThe Tudor rose's red-and-white peace story was largely invented by Henry VII. Historian Thomas Penn makes that argument.
- House of TudorHenry VII won England's crown in battle, yet his wife had the stronger claim.
- Edward VIEdward VI was king at nine and dead at fifteen. In those years he helped turn England's church Protestant.
- Mary Tudor, Queen of FranceMary Tudor secretly married Charles Brandon in Paris weeks after her husband, the King of France, died.
- Arthur, Prince of WalesPrince Arthur died six months after his wedding, and England's church later split from Rome.