Henry VII’s victory over Richard III in 1485 catapulted the Tudor dynasty to the pinnacle of power. For the next 118 years, they would be the most powerful family in England and make the country ...

Its founder was Tudor ... Windsor family. He said by his reckoning the Queen has 1/32,768th part of Queen Margaret's blood. Mr Stedall wrote: "Elizabeth II is descended from Henry VIII’s sister ...

Mary Boleyn (right) served as Henry ... “The Tudor public [was] used to the falls of kings and princes but even they might not have imagined a fall as graphic as that of the Boleyn family ...

No matter what we do, no matter how many times we tell their stories, we can’t seem to get enough of England’s Tudor family. From feature films and prestige television series to successful ...

the Tudor family rose steadily to royal stock. The Tudor royal dynasty began with King Henry VII acceding to the throne of England, Wales and Ireland in 1485, and ended with the childless death of ...

After 1485, when the grandson of this odd couple had seized the English crown on the battlefield at Bosworth to become King Henry VII ... the sprawling royal family tree, the singular and fragile ...

The Tudor Age – not known to them such – was a short one, from Henry VII to Elizabeth I ... that Leanda de Lisle's focus on the Tudors' "family" history is to indulge in prurient detail ...