Mary Queen of Scots ... and became Queen of Scots when she was six days old. She was first promised as a wife to Henry VIIIs son Edward who was born in 1553, but no sooner had the treaty been arranged ...

1553 Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen by her father-in-law The Duke of Northumberland ... 1556 Philip becomes King Philip II of Spain; he leaves England, never to return 1557 Philip II persuades ...

These should not be taken at face value, however. Even the fiercest of enemies would disguise their antipathy with the elaborate, courtly language of the Tudor age. Thus, Elizabeth I referred to her ...

The death of James's mother, Margaret Tudor, in 1541 removed any incentive for peace with England ... Mary on 6 September 1550 to visit her young daughter Mary in France. At Rouen, the Dowager Queen ...

Thomas Cromwell’s final six months were a Greek tragedy of hubris and political venom, all presided over by a tyrannical king ...

Lewes Priory Trust has announced that a minor character in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy might not be not so minor after ...

Conscious of the benefits of an alliance with France, the Scots betrothed the young queen to Francis, the four-year-old heir to the French crown, and sent Mary to be raised at the court of Henry II.

Although romanticised as a Scottish heroine, Mary was brought up in the French court since she was five years old. The unexpected death of Mary’s husband, Francis II of France, left her with no role ...

The modern Highland Games have been a fixture since the 19th century, enjoyed by everyone from farm hands to royalty.

What happened to Henry VIII after Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light? Henry is believed to have regretted having Cromwell ...

By now pregnant with the Earl of Angus's child, Margaret Tudor fled to England. In October she gave birth to Margaret Douglas, the future Countess of Lennox and mother of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, ...

The BBC series is set during the Tudor monarch's tumultuous reign and explores his six marriages from Thomas Cromwell's point ...