Five years ago, members of a British historical society set out on a search to find a lost 15th-century palace that belonged to Henry VIII's grandmother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. Now, "against all the ...
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Elizabeth, the last Tudor monarch, was born in Greenwich on 7 September 1533. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. When Elizabeth was just two years old ...
And with her ended than legendary House of Tudor. Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603) would not have expected to become queen. Her younger brother - Edward (1537 - 1553) - became king on the death of Henry ...