LONDON — Many British schoolchildren will be familiar with the rhyme “Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.” It was a common mnemonic device to help children learn the sequence of ...

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker best known for his detailed and realistic portraits—indeed, he is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th ...

If the Tudors “exercise a stronger hold on the public imagination than their Plantagenet precursors or Stuart successors”, it is largely “because we can all picture them so clearly”, said Peter ...