Henry VIII of England

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The Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 was arranged as an 18-day celebration to solidify a new era of peace between England and France. It was fun—but the goodwill was short-lived.

Ireland has just repealed thousands of antiquated laws, including talking smack about Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII.

You can now watch Wolf Hall as both a six-hour Broadway epic and acclaimed TV drama. The novelist Hilary Mantel is relishing her creation’s success, and looking to the future.

Prince Andrew’s sex scandal may be the most recently scandalous, but male royalty has always courted hot, horny trouble between the sheets.

Two masters of the crime novel have new works: Jo Nesbo’s Police and George Pelecanos’s The Double.