The king they couldn’t kill

If she had given the monarch a male heir, the crowns of England and Scotland might never have been united

The Ear of the Beholder Huon Mallalieu (Thomas ...

Review of reviews: Books

I had watched Richard III meet a bloody end at Bosworth, come face to face with a plague victim, stood in the shadow of a mighty trebuchet, and been put on trial for my life. And it was barely lunchti

Holbein Elizabeth Goldring (Paul Mellon Centre, £40) ACCORDING ...

Johannes Vermeer brightened his native Delft with luminous pictures of women caught in intimate moments, but the serenity of his work, of which he produced remarkably little, is at odds with a life mired in debt, as Carla Passino discovers