Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles ...

The Mirror and the Light, Season 2 Episode 2, titled Obedience, was released in the U.S. on April 30, 2025, on PBS's ...

The king tasks Cromwell with finding beneficial matches for his daughter and niece, but a secret affair is soon discovered, ...

Henry VIII believed that men should rule the country. He wanted a son to reign after his death, but he and his first wife's only surviving child was a daughter, Mary. The Pope allowed Henry to put ...

Find out why Margaret Douglas' dangerous forbidden love scandalized Henry VIII's court, as seen in Episode 2 on MASTERPIECE.

When Henry VIII came to power upon his father’s death ... The couple had at least six pregnancies, but only the fifth, their daughter Mary (b. 1516), survived. Henry was the second monarch ...

On his deathbed Tudor King Henry VIII remembers his long reign ... her children died, except daughter Mary, so he pressed Rome for an annulment, and when that failed, out went Cardinal Wolsey ...

There are many. Lewis's Henry VIII is a man-child who rages over imagined betrayals one instant, and in the next tenderly embraces one of those betrayers (his daughter Mary). He's hobbled by an ...

Historian Helen Geake said he appeared to have been particularly harsh towards people he saw as heretics in a way that "turns ...

Marital bliss does nothing to quell Henry’s rage at his daughter, and Cromwell makes a risky play to save Princess Mary from her father’s murderous streak. Funding for MASTERPIECE is provided ...

Archaeologists have been revealing the ethnic diversity of the crew on the Mary Rose using remains from ... black sailor on Henry VIII's flagship," said Jessica Scorrer of Cardiff University.

Henry VIII believed that men should rule the country. He wanted a son to reign after his death, but he and his first wife's only surviving child was a daughter, Mary. The Pope allowed Henry to put ...