New research suggests that mother and daughter's likenesses were blurred to reinforce Elizabeth I's claim to the throne. A portrait of Anne Boleyn from the late 16th century (c.1500-1536) by an ...

No monarch in our history has understood the power of image more than Elizabeth I. And she needed to. This “illegitimate ...

Ellizabeth I’s refusal to go to bed was a deliberate final act, shaped by a lifetime of political strategy, emotional ...

Elizabeth I was the last great ruler of the Tudor dynasty and, much like her forebears, she shaped her public image through portraiture. This summer, a suite of rarely seen paintings that reveal the ...

Anne Boleyn is arguably one of the most well-known figures in Tudor history. She was King Henry VIII's second wife of six wives, and she was famously beheaded at the Tower of London for treason in ...