The White Princess tells the story of Elizabeth of York and King Henry VII of England. We’re going to the start of the Tudor period. Yes, it’s the start of the dynasty, picking up off the back ...

The new Tudor exhibition at the Met is not about politics: it is a brilliant collection of paintings, manuscripts, textiles, metalwork, and even armor as a symbol of the dynasty’s power and legacy.

Henry and various successive Tudor monarchs sponsored artworks and decorative objects that linked the family to such real and mythic figures as King Arthur, King David, Saint Paul, and Hercules.

The Tudor dynasty was short in duration, but it has become perennial in memory. Just over a century passed between 1485, when Henry Tudor became Henry VII, and 1603, when his granddaughter ...

Then there was the Battle of Bosworth, and Richard III was defeated by Lancastrian Henry Tudor, who became Henry VII. But he inherited a little bit more tenuously via his mother, ...