Henry VIII: Britain’s most famous king. Big ... A female heir was not good enough – in England there’d never been a ruling queen and a daughter’s accession could be challenged.

She was born on 31st May 1443, daughter of ... mother of Henry VII, grandmother of Henry VIII, who gave a salary to three monks of this convent and founded a grammar school at Wimborne, and to a ...

They were parents happy in their offspring, to whom, land of England, you owe Henry VIII ... Queen Elizabeth, daughter of the former King Edward IV, sister of the formerly appointed King Edward V, ...

Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and ... to invade England, they were defeated at Flodden in 1513. However war with France ultimately proved expensive and unsuccessful. Henry VIII is ...