Anne of Cleves
The monumental failure that was Henry VIII
The much-vaunted Tudor dynasty would only last one further generation, with the royal treasury severely depleted and the nation more divided than ever
At last we see Henry VIII’s wives as individuals
Specialist knowledge of Tudor portraiture, book bindings, music and jewellery enables us to see each woman anew, possessed of a distinct life and afterlife
The Putney boy done good
The travel writer Colin Thubron once told me that to understand a country and its people he first asks, ‘What…
