On January 24, 1536, the 44-year-old Henry VIII was injured in a jousting accident. His horse fell on top of him, knocking him unconscious for two hours and tearing open an old injury in his leg.

During the 2008 History Channel documentary, Inside the Body of Henry VIII Robert Hutchinson, a biographer of the King; Catherine Hood, a doctor; and the historian Lucy Worsley, offer a picture of ...

Hans Holbein the Younger’s famous “Portrait of Henry VIII” is on loan to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art from the ...

From Henry VIII’s surprising second thoughts to the Duke of Norfolk’s unlikely ability to evade execution, and improved fortunes or diminished standing for others, find out what happened to ...

This "closer to the body" type of fashion encouraged the male gender to equip themselves with a protuberance that was meant to be suggestive, inspired – as in the case of Henry VIII – by the ...

A highly rare and significant portrait of England's monarch Henry VIII -- thought to be lost in 1781 -- has been hiding in plain sight on a British official's wall, a historian discovered through ...

On January 24, 1536, the 44-year-old Henry VIII was injured in a jousting accident. His horse fell on top of him, knocking him unconscious for two hours and tearing open an old injury in his leg.