The Tudor Family

House of Tudor Family Tree

"Allegory of the Tudor Succession", c. 1572. Attr. to Lucas de Heere. Sudeley Castle.

The House of Tudors is one without shortage of fascinating stories that never ceases to captivate history buffs. See our list here of the best books about Tudor history.

Detail from Henry VIII’s First Interview with Anne Boleyn by Daniel Maclise, c.1835

Take this Wives of Henry VIII Quiz to determine which of the six wives of King Henry VIII you are most like.

Ugliest wife, or luckiest wife? Anne of Cleves is known to history as being the “ugly” fourth wife of King Henry VIII, but we have reasons to believe this is mostly a case of historical slander. Anne grew up in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of what is now Germany. She was the daughter of a

Did Queen Elizabeth have a lover? Did they conspire to murder his wife so that they would marry? The Tudor era is genuinely fascinating - read about Robert Dudley and his role in the queen's life.

There was a stretch of time when Henry VIII was madly in love with Anne Boleyn, the woman he made his second wife. In the year before the king married

There's something about tragic figures in history that catches our interest and contributes to our desire to learn as much as we can about their life and the