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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...
Damian Lewis on the embodiment of majesty, the heft of the fat suit, and the complicated king of The Mirror and the Light as ...
Henry VIII’s reign is often remembered for his many marriages and his relentless pursuit of a legitimate heir. While his ...
"That was the tragedy of Henry. He really did become the Tudor Elvis. He went from one king to the other," Lewis says. "He was not the attractive young man he used to be." "The Mirror and the ...
Her dazzling, jocular novel “The Pretender” recounts the journey of one John Collan, from his anonymous boyhood in a rural ...
Standing alongside the armed soldiers depicted in the monument is a young drummer boy. He is Henry Christophe, then a boy of 12, and the future king of Haiti. Born in 1767 in the British colony of ...
"That was the tragedy of Henry. He really did become the Tudor Elvis. He went from one king to the other," Lewis says. "He was not the attractive young man he used to be." ...
(Emma Lee/WHYY) Much of ''The Ballad of King Henry'' takes place in a tavern, where young Prince Hal (portrayed by Scott Berkowitz (center), does his carousing and womanizing. Sir John Falstaff (left, ...
From Shakespeare to the Silver Screen, Henry V's epic story remains a gem, and fostered the early talent of one of Britain's ...
Portrait of Henry VIII, painted during the king’s lifetime by an artist from ... reflects a broader cultural and spiritual trend: that young people, particularly those from ethnic minority ...