King Henry VIII wrote a romantic letter to his "mistress" Anne Boleyn - but just three years after they married his head was ...

By the time he died, Henry VIII was plagued by illness, frequently depressed, suffered violent mood swings and was ...

He claimed Aquitaine through marriage to the heiress Eleanor in 1152. Henry's many French possessions caused him to live for more than half his reign outside England. This made it essential for him to ...

King of England from 1422, son of Henry V. He assumed royal power 1442 and sided with the party opposed to the continuation of the Hundred Years' War with France. After his marriage 1445, he was ...