For most of London's largest parks we have, somewhat surprisingly, King Henry VIII to thank.
In 1540, Thomas Cromwell, principal adviser to King Henry VIII of England, was executed for treason.
In 1547, King Henry VIII of England died and was succeeded by his son, Edward VI.
Cardinal Wolsey, who was Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor, became hugely powerful under King Henry VIII.
King Henry VIII watched from Southsea Castle as his ship sank killing all but 35 of the 500-strong crew.
Beginning Sunday, Showtime will air The Tudors, a sex-drenched period drama about the early reign of England's King Henry VIII.
Bring Up the Bodies, which will continue the story of King Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, will be published in May 2012.
Skeletons recovered from the wreck of a King Henry VIII's warship the Mary Rose are being studied to discover more about life in the 1500s.
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The final leg will run from Hampton Court Palace, the former home of King Henry VIII, before arriving at the opening ceremony on July 27.
In 1534, England's Parliament met and passed an Act of Supremacy which made King Henry VIII head of the English church -- a role formerly held by the Pope.
Wolf Hall followed the life of Thomas Cromwell from his impoverished beginnings as the son of a violent blacksmith, to his meteoric rise in the court of King Henry VIII.
Sutton House was built in 1535, when King Henry VIII ruled over England and this part of London -- now busy with cars and tower blocks -- was set against miles of open grassland.
The entity, initially criticized by some as an attempt to poach faithful from a rival Christian church, aims to bridge divisions between Roman Catholicism and the Church of England dating to the reign of King Henry VIII.
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But as it was in the days of the courts of King Henry VIII, executives are going to depend ever more on trusted human agents, dispatched to the far corners of kingdoms to carry sensitive messages, learn sensitive information, negotiate and close deals.
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Some of the weeks incorporate both history and fiction, for example the reading of "A Man for All Seasons, " Robert Bolt's 1954 play -- later reworked into a famous 1966 film - about the life of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor to England's mercurial King Henry VIII in the 16th century.
The document urges him to grant King Henry VIII an annulment of his first marriage. (When the pope wouldn't do so, Henry founded the Church of England, which did.) The 1654 deed of abdication of Sweden's Queen Christina, who left her Protestant nation's throne to join the church of Rome, is tied to over 300 round containers, many today empty of wax.
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Highlights include a 16th Century signet ring of Johann Ernst von Sachsen, Julich, Kleve and Berg the great grandson of Sibylle von Julich, Kleve and Berg, sister of Anne of Kleve (Cleves) (1515-1554) wife of Henry VIII, King England(1491-1547), illustrated above left.
It was the charismatic, even sacral powers of the king, and not bureaucracy, that underpinned regality in the reign of Henry VIII, and such powers were concentrated in the Privy Chamber, the innermost sanctum of the court, and not in institutions such as the exchequer, the courts of law, or even Parliament.
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