Rare 22-carat gold Henry VIII coin sells for £64,000

Rare 22-carat gold Henry VIII coin issued by Tower of London between 1538 and 1541 which was the ‘origin of the pound’ sells for £64,000 at auction The Sovereign gold coin is one of only five known examples on the market   Minted around the time that Henry made himself head of new Church of England … Read more

Rare 22-carat gold Henry VIII coin sells for £64,000

Rare 22-carat gold Henry VIII coin issued by Tower of London between 1538 and 1541 which was the ‘origin of the pound’ sells for £64,000 at auction The Sovereign gold coin is one of only five known examples on the market   Minted around the time that Henry made himself head of new Church of England … Read more

Rare 22-carat gold Henry VIII coin which was the ‘origin of the pound’ set to go under the hammer

Rare 22-carat gold Henry VIII coin issued by Tower of London between 1538 and 1541 which was the ‘origin of the pound’ is set to go under the hammer for £50,000 The Sovereign gold coin is one of only five known examples on the market It was minted at a time when Henry VIII was … Read more

Helicopter-flying millionaire businessman, 41, faces eviction from his £1.4m Henry VIII castle

A millionaire businessman faces eviction from a castle on a country estate where King Henry VIII once hunted and jousted. Simon Giles, 41, could be ordered to leave the south wing of the Grade II-listed Lullingstone Castle, at Eynsford in Kent, over allegations he used it to launder cash. Father-of-three Mr Giles used the extensive … Read more

Car that allegedly helped King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson’s relationship to go up for auction

The car which is alleged to have helped develop a controversial royal romance is set to be auctioned this week. King Edward VIII abdicated the throne on December 11, 1936, after refusing to split from Wallis Simpson. It is believed that Simpson traveled around London in secret in 1933 with the future king in a 1933 … Read more

Creepy waxwork models of the Queen, Henry VIII and even Adolf Hitler go on sale as museum shuts down

Creepy waxwork models of the Queen, Henry VIII and even Adolf Hitler go on sale alongside a giant military transport plane as museum shuts down Collectors can buy waxwork models of the Queen, Henry VIII and Hitler A Blackburn Beverley transport aircraft XB259 is also up for sale for  £30,000 The elderly owner of the Fort Paull … Read more

Why Henry VIII was king of the lockdown, reveals author Dame Hilary Mantel

Why Henry VIII was king of the lockdown and would have been only too aware of the risks posed by scourges such as the plague, reveals author Dame Hilary Mantel Dame Hilary Mantel believes life in a crisis under King Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell would have been even tougher She explained Tudors knew more … Read more

Henry VIII hated camping so much he slept in easily-erected ‘houses of timber’ 

Henry VIII hated camping so much he slept in easily-erected ‘houses of timber’ while on campaign, a historian has revealed.  Alden Gregory, curator of historic buildings at Historic Royal Palaces, said that while Henry was associated with the sumptuous tents at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, there was no evidence that he ever … Read more