Authors: David Starkey
Elizabeth: Apprenticeship
The Reign of Henry VIII: Personalities and Politics
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
The Monarchy of England: The Beginnings
Monarchy: From the Middle Ages to Modernity
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First Plate Section
Henry VI, unknown artist, oil on panel,
c
.1540.
National Portrait
Gallery, London
.
Edward IV, British school, oil on panel, 15th century.
The Royal
Collection
©
2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
.
Elizabeth Woodville, unknown artist,
c
.1465.
By courtesy of the
President and Fellows of Queens’ College Cambridge
.
The Battle of Barnet, 1471
, English school, vellum, 15th century.
Centrale Bibliotheek van de Universiteit, Ghent/The Bridgeman Art
Library
.
Richard, Duke of York and Edward V, from the Royal Window, Canterbury Cathedral.
Woodmansterne/Topfoto
.
Richard III, British school, oil on canvas, 1480–1500.
The Royal
Collection
©
2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
.
Lady Margaret Beaufort, unknown artist, oil on panel, second half 16th century.
National Portrait Gallery, London
.
Charles VIII of France, unknown artist,
c
.1485.
Musée Condé,
Chantilly/ akg-
images
.
Henry VII, unknown artist, oil on panel, 1505.
National Portrait
Gallery, London
.
Elizabeth of York, unknown artist, oil on panel, late 16th century.
National Portrait Gallery, London
.
Arthur Prince of Wales, Anglo–Flemish school,
c
.1500.
Hever
Castle, Kent
.
Ferdinand of Aragon, Spanish school, oil on panel, 15th century.
The Royal Collection
©
2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
.
Isabella of Castile, Spanish school, oil on panel, 15th century.
The
Royal Collection
©
2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
.
Catherine of Aragon, by Michiel Sittow,
c
.1510.
Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna/ akg-
images/Erich Lessing
.
Laughing Child, possibly Henry VIII, by Guido Mazzoni, painted and gilded terracotta,
c
.1498.
The Royal Collection
©
2008, Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
.
Old Greenwich Palace,
c
. early 17th century.
Kingston Lacy, The
Bankes Collection (The National Trust)
. ©
NTPL
.
Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, English school, oil on panel, 16th century.
Society of Antiquaries, London/The
Bridgeman Art Library
.
Maximilian I, Archduke of Austria and Holy Roman Emperor, by Albrecht Dürer, oil on limewood, 1519.
Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna/akg-
images/Erich Lessing
.
Perkin Warbeck, Flemish school, sanguine on paper, 16th century.
Bibliothèque Municipale, Arras/The Bridgeman Art
Library
.
Second Plate Section
Four images from
Writhe’s Garter Book
, late 15th century, in the collection of The Trustees of the 9th Duke of Buccleuch’s Chattels Fund.
By courtesy of the British Library
.
Drawings I, III, V, VII, IX, XI and XIII from
The Panorama of
London
by Anthonis van den Wyngaerde, pen and ink and chalk on paper,
c
.1544. ©
Ashmolean Museum, University of
Oxford/The Bridgeman Art Library
.
The North-East View of Eltham Palace in the County of Kent
, coloured engraving by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, 1735.
Eltham Palace, London/Copyright
©
English Heritage Photo
Library
.
The Family of Henry VII with St. George
, unknown artist,
c
.1505–9.
The Royal Collection
©
2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
.
John Skelton, woodcut from an edition of
Collyn Clout
, his satirical poem of 1522.
Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage Image
Partnership
.
Sir Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger, chalk,
c
.1527.
The Royal Collection
©
2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
.
Desiderius Erasmus, by Quinten Massys, oil on panel, 1517.
The
Royal Collection
©
2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
.
Philip I ‘The Fair’, Archduke of Burgundy and King of Castile, copy after the Master of the Magdalen Legend, oil on wood,
c
.1497.
Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck/ akg-
images/Erich Lessing
.
Juana ‘The Mad’, Queen of Castile, by Juan de Flandes, oil on oakwood,
c
.1496.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/akgimages/
Erich Lessing
.
The Round Table of King Arthur in the Great Hall at Winchester Castle. ©
2004 Fortean/Healy/Topfoto
.
Manuscript illustration of a joust between Jean Chalons and Loys de Beul at Tours in 1446, French school, mid-15th century. ©
The Board of Trustees of the Armouries/Heritage Image
Partnership
.
Images from Prince Henry’s Prayer Roll by kind permission of Ushaw College, Durham.
Third Plate Section
Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland, by Daniel Mytens, oil on canvas,
c
.1620–38.
The Royal Collection
©
2008, Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II
.
James IV of Scotland, oil on panel, artist and date unknown.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
.
Mary Tudor, detail from a double portrait with Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, after Clouet ©
By kind permission of His Grace
the Duke of Bedford and the Trustees of the Bedford Estates
.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, by Bernart van Orley, oil on wood,
c
.1516.
Museum of Fine Arts,
Budapest/akg-
images
.
Richmond Palace in the reign of Charles I
, unknown artist, oil on canvas,
c
.1640.
Society of Antiquaries of London
.
Henry VII on his deathbed, from the Collections of Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms, early 16th century.
British
Library, Add.45131, f.54
.
Henry VIII, English school, oil on panel,
c
.1509. ©
The Berger
Collection at the Denver Art Museum, USA/The Bridgeman Art
Library
.
Coronation of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, woodcut from
A Joyfull Medytacyon to All Englonde
by Stephen Hawes, 1509.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
.
The Royal procession to Parliament at Westminster, detail from the Parliament Procession Roll of 1512, 17th-century copy.
British Library, Add.22306, Section 6
.
Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, English school, oil on panel, 16th century. ©
Corpus Christi College Oxford/The Bridgeman
Art Library
.
William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Hans Holbein the Younger, chalk and wash, 1527.
The Royal Collection
©
2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
.
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Flemish school, sanguine on paper, 16th century.
Bibliothéque Municipale, Arras/The Bridgeman Art
Library
Part of The Great Tournament Roll of Westminster, showing Henry VIII jousting before Catherine of Aragon in 1511.
The
College of Arms, London
.
Armour of Henry VIII, English,
c
.1514–15, with horse armour, probably Flemish,
c
.1515. ©
The Board of Trustees of the
Armouries/Heritage Image Partnership
.
Henry VIII, unknown artist, oil on panel,
c
.1520.
National
Portrait Gallery, London
.
Endpapers
Part of The Great Tournament Roll of Westminster, showing Henry VIII jousting before Catherine of Aragon in 1511.
The
College of Arms, London
.
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