The BBC drama, based on Dame Hilary Mantel’s final novel in her epic Tudor trilogy, returned last year with Wolf Hall: The ...

Another one of Henry VIII's wives also has a connection to the palace. In 1541, Henry took his fifth wife Catherine Howard on ...

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This lofty 1960 play about Henry VIII’s Lord Chancellor may attract serious-minded audiences – but it has not quite stood the ...

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America in 1776 decided to abolish kings, and in 1787, gave its citizens the right to metaphorically behead their king ...

The director of one of BBCs best-loved historical dramas has revealed that a British acting legend took a pay cut to save the ...

This time 10 years ago the first episode of a highly popular six-part BBC series aired on TV - but why was it filmed in Somerset?

DRAMA fans have been left mourning a historical period drama after it was revealed the series has been axed after just one ...