Six hundred years ago this weekend, a wet and battered English army was fleeing France. King Henry V of England had invaded, hoping to press a claim to the French throne — a weak claim that was ...

Henry V, King of England is not much more than a puppet King. Clergymen lead him to believe that he ought to invade France to secure his legal ancestral claim to the throne. The French King ...

emerging as a politically astute King Henry V: a valiant monarch who will ultimately lead his depleted army to victory over ...

Furthermore, annulling the marriage could endanger the pope’s connection with Charles V, the Holy Roman emperor, who had already taken the Pope prisoner after the Battle of Pavia in 1525.

sister of the formerly appointed King Edward V, once the wife of King Henry VII, and the renowned mother of Henry VIII. She met her day of death in the Tower of London on the 11th day of February in ...

Henry VIII: Britain’s most famous king. Big, bold and brash, he is the epitome of 'Merrie England'. Ruling between 1509 and 1547, his marriages to a succession of six women became something of a ...

In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed from a ...