Like many people during Tudor times, 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 ...

“He’s the most unlikely hero, in a way, because he’s a bureaucrat,” says historian Tracy Borman, author of Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant.

Or, for more Tudor history, dive into the complicated story of King Henry VIII’s children.

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Like many people during Tudor times, 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 ...

Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII and his queen Katherine of Aragon was buried ... constructed by Sir Gilbert Scott in the 1860s a small lead coffin of a child was found to the ...