Life in Tudor England was hard and you had to be tough ... pettier theft of items worth more than 5 pence could result in execution. Henry VIII's reign was particularly bloody and estimates ...

An intriguing portrait believed by some to be of England’s ill-fated queen, Lady Jane Grey, could be the only one painted during her lifetime, research suggests — but not everyone is convinced.

A portrait purporting to be of a living Lady Jane Grey, best-known from a post-death painting of her execution, has gone on display.

But there were only two executions for heresy in this reign. The Catholic Mary Tudor came to the throne in 1553 after a brief attempt by the Protestants to have Lady Jane Grey crowned Queen.

One of England's most tragic regal figures, she was executed at the Tower of London in 1554. Jane was a devout Protestant at a time of religious upheaval, the ultimate innocent victim of the chicanery ...