Philippa Gregory is going Boleyn again. The best-selling author returns to the world of the Tudor court 25 years after The Other Boleyn Girl launched her into the publishing stratosphere. With Boleyn ...

In the historian Sarah Gristwood’s “The Tudors in Love,” for both monarchs and courtiers the stakes are higher than romance. Card one, clockwise from top: Henry VIII; Mary I; Queen Elizabeth I. Card ...

The Tudors in Love. By Sarah Gristwood. St Martin’s Press; 400 pages; $29.99. Oneworld Publications; £20 As “The Edifying Book of Erotic Chess” shows, chess once carried a more thrilling charge than ...

For all the tabloid fuss and docudramas, the messy love lives of today’s British royals seem like pallid reflections of monarchical scandals past. The personalities are smaller, the stakes so much ...

Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn - the first two wives of the Tudor king, Henry VIII - are so often portrayed as opposites ...

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Historian Gristwood (The Queen’s Mary) offers an engrossing look at how the Tudor dynasty employed the “stylish and stylised game” of courtly love. Popularized by medieval Arthurian legends depicting ...

In May 1536, Henry had his second wife, Anne Boleyn, beheaded on trumped-up charges of adultery and incest. For centuries, historians blamed Anne's sister-in-law, Jane Boleyn, for testifying against ...

Jane Boleyn, a.k.a Lady Rochford—the scheming sister-in-law of Anne Boleyn—has come to us as a shadowy figure on the margins of Henry VIII’s court, wielding power as only a woman could then: by ...

Wondering where to stream the second season of The Tudors online? Then go no further as we have all the streaming details. Created by Michael Hirst, season two picks up from where season 1 left off ...

Twenty-five years after "The Other Boleyn Girl," Gregory tells the story of Jane Rochford. Philippa Gregory is going Boleyn again. The best-selling author returns to the world of the Tudor court 25 ...