• 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.

    BBC: Mary Rose skeletons studied by Swansea sports scientists

  • None of the deletions to the list of locations that was previously declared to the IAEA pursuant to Article 2.a.(i), Article 2.a.(iv), Article 2.a.(v), Article 2.a.(vi)(a), Article 2.a.(vii), Article 2.a.(viii), and Article 2.b.(i) of the U.S.-IAEA Additional Protocol were due to such locations having direct national security significance.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • Chronicling Thomas Cromwell's rise from blacksmith's son to a prominent position in Henry VIII's court, the novel became a best-seller after winning the 2009 Man Booker Prize and various other awards.

    BBC: Hilary Mantel: Double Man Booker winner profiled

  • He continued as a favourite under Henry VIII until his death in 1525.

    BBC: Richard III wounds match medieval Welsh poem description

  • Mantel, whose novel is part of a trilogy about Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell, already holds the record for being the first woman and the first living British author to win the Man Booker Prize twice.

    BBC: Hilary Mantel up for third major book award

  • Her novels focus on the Tudors -- and in the lecture, she draws a parallel between the current fascination with Catherine's body and the public scrutiny under which the wives of Henry VIII sought to produce a male heir.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Her novels focus on the Tudors -- and in the lecture, she draws a parallel between the current fascination with Catherine's body and the public gaze under which the wives of Henry VIII sought to produce a male heir.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Despite this artifice, Mr Wilson succeeds in recreating a sense of what Henry VIII was like and how power was deployed in his reign.

    ECONOMIST: Tudor history

  • My first stop, Nike.com, ushers me to a rakish-looking pair called Air Deschutz VIII.

    FORBES: E-Commerce Stinks

  • Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies chart the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, a powerful minister in the court of Henry VIII.

    BBC: Hilary Mantel

  • Labour Peer Lord Ivor Richard, Chair of a Cross Party Commission that reviewed Assembly powers in 2004 also warns that the mechanism, known in Parliamentary language as "Henry VIII powers" will "raise a few eyebrows" in the upper house.

    BBC: NEWS | Programmes | Politics Show | Wales: Assembly powers

  • James D'Arcy, who starred in ITV2 opposite Billie Piper in Secret Diary of a Call Girl, has been cast as Edward VIII.

    BBC: Madonna casts Fox family for Wallis Simpson film

  • This is brave of Mantel, even bravely peculiar, given the reputation of the actual Thomas Cromwell, who acted as a brutal fixer for both Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII.

    NEWYORKER: Invitation to a Beheading

  • Not to be outdone by his French counterpart, on the other side of the English Channel, Henry VIII (1509-47) was a skilled practitioner of the sport and famously built a court at the Royal Palace of Hampton Court, which still survives today and is used for modern competition.

    CNN: A short history of tennis: Henry VIII to Federer the great

  • 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.

    CNN: Monday,

  • But it was largely destroyed in 1538 during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries and is now a ruin.

    BBC: Reading Abbey manuscript

  • The middle part of the book takes a more serious turn and some events, such as King Edward VIII's abdication and the cabinet discussions of 1938, provide good passages, but the diary stops for most of 1926-36 and in 1939-44.

    ECONOMIST: High society

  • 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.

    BBC: Hilary Mantel reveals plans for Wolf Hall trilogy

  • Only Thomas More and his political rival, Thomas Cromwell, were actually executed by Henry VIII, and Cardinal Wolsey, who died of fright and dysentery a year after his ignominious disgrace, was the earliest victim.

    ECONOMIST: Tudor history

  • And also shown are the events with which Lorenzo's magnificent era ended: Charles VIII's entry into Florence, Savonarola preaching against luxuries in a city that derived so much wealth from making them, and the fundamentalist friar's own execution in the very square in which the Bonfires of the Vanities had been held.

    ECONOMIST: Botticelli and his bankers

  • But he was so miserable as Pope Celestine V that he abdicated after five months, returned to the Majella region and was later arrested by his successor, Boniface VIII (presumably to get rid of him) and died in prison less than a year later.

    BBC: Italy��s wilderness, far from the madding crowds

  • The Queen Mother was a person who symbolised service... she sustained this country and the royal family when King Edward VIII was forced to abdicate over his relationship with twice-married Wallis Simpson.

    CNN: Amanpour, Quest: Britain's lament

  • He has to cheat a bit to engineer this result: neither Thomas Cranmer nor Thomas Wriothesley died in the reign of Henry VIII, and Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, although condemned, was miraculously reprieved.

    ECONOMIST: Tudor history

  • The meeting is a gesture of reconciliation on both sides, as Catholic archbishops lived at the palace until England, under Henry VIII, broke with Rome.

    BBC: Papal visit: Pope Benedict XVI focuses on education

  • At that point, the monarch is emerging as a triumphal figure, not even three years into his surprise reign on the abdication of his older brother, Edward VIII.

    FORBES: Rich Film Slice of Royal History

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