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The actor struggled to put on weight to play the Tudor monarch

This exhibition tries to present each of the six wives as feisty and interesting, with mixed results

Actor, who is starring as Henry VIII in new movie ‘Firebrand’, has admitted he wished he did one thing a bit differently

The Disney+ series Shardlake is a mystery drama following the journey of Matthew Shardlake (Arthur Hughes), a barrister navigating Tudor England during the reign of Henry VIII. Shardlake’s character has scoliosis, a condition characterised by an irregular sideways twist of the spine, resulting in a visibly curved back with misaligned…

The gunpowder mill on Java Wharf made the munitions that may have sunk King Henry VIII’s favourite ship

Here are the palaces, parks and stately homes that form the programme’s regal backdrop

This groundbreaking exhibition re-introduces 110 forgotten female professional artists. Here are 10 of the trailblazing women who paved the way for future generations of artists

Sean Bean gloriously channels his inner-Cromwell in this tale of a loner lawyer investigating a gruesome decapitation at a Tudor monastery. It’s mean, moody – and the perfect tribute to its author who died this week

He was the first disabled actor to play Richard III at the RSC. As he appears as Shardlake, the star recalls the parts that made him – and explains why this latest character is like the Lone Ranger