“Don’t get too close to the king ... of France; Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor; and Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman, the Turk, who we get a brief glimpse of when Henry dresses ...

After being exploited for decades by France, Haiti ended up forking over huge sums of money to its former colonizer. Now, the Caribbean nation’s calls for restitution are becoming harder to ignore.

You are reprising your role as King Henry VIII a decade after Wolf Hall ... who had spent her childhood, a lot of it in France. And then, we know what happens to Anne Boleyn.

Romantic legend holds that Henry ... long before King John and Magna Carta. The commandments handed down by God to Moses, the Roman Code of Justinian and the Salic law of Germanic France had ...

Thomas of Argos was a Greek mercenary who served King ... England, Henry VIII. They were Thomas of Argos, Theodore Luchisi, and Antonios Stesinos. Thomas was named the overall commander of the ...

However, the obverse side of this strategic coin could also inspire greater risk taking – particularly if the adversary perceives that its vital interests are threatened in a crisis. It is ...

On June 2, 1471, under the cover of darkness, they left Tenby en route for France. However, bad weather forced the pair to land in Brittany instead. HistoryPoints.org, which maps Henry Tudor's escape ...

A man known by many aliases, Henry Avery, also known as Henry Every, John Avery and Benjamin Bridgeman, was first and foremost the ‘King of Pirates’, a man ... quell the growing ambitions of Louis XIV ...

silver pennies were the only Royal coins in circulation. Gradually a range of denominations began to emerge, and in the mid-fourteenth century a regular coinage of gold was introduced. The gold ...

Since 1542 Abergavenny has had a school named after King Henry VIII. With KHS soon to leave its current ... and The Times were placed in a bottle alongside coins of the realm and placed in a cavity ...

An ingenious piece of artillery to come out of King Henry VIII’s court is the famed ... The swords were most popular in France and Germany, but examples can be found worldwide, notably in ...

King Charles has presented commemorative coins to 152 people at a traditional Maundy Thursday service, held this year at Durham Cathedral, as part of royal Easter celebrations. The King gave out ...