The History of England Magazine

Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses. She was the mother of Henry VII and matriarch of the Tudor dynasty…

After the execution of his father King Charles I, Charles became King of Scotland from 1649 until defeated by Cromwell’s forces at the Battle of Worcester in1651. After the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, he took the throne as King Charles II of Scotland, England and Ireland…

Now famous as the ‘king under a car park’, Richard III was the last English king to die in battle…

After the death of Elizabeth I, James VI of Scotland, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, became King James I of England, Scotland, and Ireland, thereby uniting the thrones of Scotland and England…

Henry VI succeeded to the thrones of England and France at the age of just nine months, following the death of his father Henry V from dysentery whilst on campaign in France…

Having ascended the throne at nine years of age on the death of his father Henry VIIl, the boy king Edward VI was just fifteen when he died. Brought up a Protestant, he left Lady Jane Grey as his successor, a fate that would see her reign last for just nine days…

Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster took the throne by usurping his cousin Richard II. Interestingly, King Henry IV was the first English ruler since the Norman Conquest whose mother tongue was English rather than French…

The son of Edward the Black Prince and grandson of Edward III, King Richard II was deposed by his first cousin Henry of Bolingbroke in 1399…