For most of London's largest parks we have, somewhat surprisingly, King Henry VIII to thank.
In 1540, Thomas Cromwell, principal adviser to King Henry VIII of England, was executed for treason.
In 1547, King Henry VIII of England died and was succeeded by his son, Edward VI.
Cardinal Wolsey, who was Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor, became hugely powerful under King Henry VIII.
King Henry VIII watched from Southsea Castle as his ship sank killing all but 35 of the 500-strong crew.
Lord Lieutenants were originally appointed in Henry VIII's reign to control the military.
But it was largely destroyed in 1538 during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries and is now a ruin.
Henry VIII sells well, and his biography is once more up for grabs.
He continued as a favourite under Henry VIII until his death in 1525.
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Beginning Sunday, Showtime will air The Tudors, a sex-drenched period drama about the early reign of England's King Henry VIII.
Few collections such as those of The Great Hospital survived Henry VIII's attack on the monasteries in the 16th century.
They may be colourful, even voyeuristic who ever knew that Henry VIII liked custard fritters or what he wore in bed?
"Henry VIII didn't like the power and wealth of this abbey so sent his men here to desecrate it, " she said.
Bring Up the Bodies, which will continue the story of King Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, will be published in May 2012.
It is one of the few books written by monks to have survived the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII in the 1530s.
"As Henry VIII discovered, with at least two of his wives, this is the perfect place to bring an old flame, " Mr Johnson said.
The Archbishop of York's Palace, next to Southwell Minster, is the former home of Tudor statesman Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who served under Henry VIII.
Despite this artifice, Mr Wilson succeeds in recreating a sense of what Henry VIII was like and how power was deployed in his reign.
She claimed the bill would actually hand more than 140 new "Henry VIII-style powers" to ministers, despite being designed to devolve power to councils.
Jets used to spray the hull of Henry VIII's flagship the Mary Rose have been switched off for the first time in almost 30 years.
Skeletons recovered from the wreck of a King Henry VIII's warship the Mary Rose are being studied to discover more about life in the 1500s.
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Earlier this century, when the roof was repaired, it was rumoured that tennis balls thought to have belonged to Henry VIII were found lodged inside.
The final leg will run from Hampton Court Palace, the former home of King Henry VIII, before arriving at the opening ceremony on July 27.
The meeting is a gesture of reconciliation on both sides, as Catholic archbishops lived at the palace until England, under Henry VIII, broke with Rome.
Community engagement officer Trevor Sapey takes his Tudor roadshow to special needs groups and day centres to teach people about life in the time of Henry VIII.
Once a candidate for Pope, he lived in Hampton Court Palace, but he fell from favour after failing to secure Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies chart the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, a powerful minister in the court of Henry VIII.
In 1535, Sir Thomas More, former Lord Chancellor of England, was executed for treason after refusing to recognize Henry VIII as the head of the Church of England.
The survival of the Howard family in Protestant England dating from Henry VIII is regarded by historians as an example of tenacity and by many Catholics as miraculous.
This is brave of Mantel, even bravely peculiar, given the reputation of the actual Thomas Cromwell, who acted as a brutal fixer for both Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII.
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