If you lived in 1541 and you were going on King Henry VIII’s Great Progress from London to York, you’d have been walking for weeks in the cold and wet, through mud and horse droppings ...

As I watched a biography of Henry VIII recently, I found it striking the similarities between him and our own monarch residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

HENRY VIII: Ah ha! Yes! Go on, big me up! NARRATOR: Perhaps the most famous king in English history. He ruled England for 38 years from 1509 to 1547. Time enough for six marriages and one major ...