Katherine of Aragon

The perils of waiting on a Tudor queen

11 May 2024 9:00 am

Henry VIII considered the queen’s household a fruitful hunting-ground – for a mistress, a future wife, or a pawn, whose testimony could provide useful damaging evidence

The woman who set our country in a roar

9 September 2023 9:00 am

Such was the emotion Anne Boleyn inspired in Henry VIII. But before long that scalding love had turned to a brutalising hatred of his second wife, culminating in her bloody beheading