It was during the reign of Henry II that the nature of England's relationship with the rest of Britain, and with the kings of France was defined. Henry was the first English king to go into ...

Renaissance England is inseparable ... absolute authority that was King Henry VIII. Holbein’s portrait of Henry VIII is currently on view in “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England ...

An exhibition at the Met features 100-plus paintings ... medals of Mary I of England and Philip II of Spain, 1555 The British Museum under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Henry VIII’s second daughter, Elizabeth ...

The arrival of King Henry II of England (r. 1154–89) in Ireland in the winter of 1171 put the royal stamp on the conquest and marked the moment when Ireland was absorbed into an empire which at ...