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Hace 15 horas · Thomas Cromwell ( / ˈkrɒmwəl, - wɛl /; [1] [a] c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution. Cromwell was one of the most powerful proponents ...
Hace 3 horas · 1516: King Henry VIII creates a country-wide postal network that operates only for the King and the Court for the next 119 years. 1635: King Charles I opens the service to the public.
Hace 15 horas · Royal Mail's parent company, International Distributions Services, agreed to be acquired by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky for 3.57 billion pounds ($4.55 billion). Here is a brief history of the over 500-year-old company, which has recently struggled with worker strikes, lower volumes and increased regulatory scrutiny over missed delivery targets. King Henry VIII creates a country-wide ...
Hace 15 horas · Henry VIII. Cornelis Massys, ... England. Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images. ... Jonathan Yeo’s portrait of King Charles III will go on public display on May 16 at Philip Mould Gallery in London.
Hace 15 horas · These martyrs reaped the immediate consequences from King Henry VIII’s break with the Catholic Church. Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher were imprisoned for treason because they rejected the king as head of the Church in England, which would have been tantamount to rejecting papal supremacy, and refused to acknowledge his illegitimate child as his successor.
Hace 15 horas · The Tudors is also popular among period drama fanatics. (Channel 4) This noughties banger - which first hit our screens back in 2007 - is set primarily in 16th-century England and while it's named after the extremely eventful Tudor dynasty as a whole, it is based specifically upon the reign of the infamous King Henry VIII.
Hace 15 horas · The King’s Head Theatre stands on a plot of land that has been used as a public house since 1543, though for most of its history it has been known as the King’s Head Tavern (the name itself coming from an old story about Henry VIII supposedly stopping for a pint on his way to see his mistress).
