THE formal reconciliation of England with the Holy Sec was the first, business undertaken by Reginald Pole in his character of cardinal legate. For the few days immediately following his own official ...

Portrait of Reginald Pole, who lived through the reigns of three Tudor monarchs, became a cardinal and almost Pope, enraged Henry VIII and was once suggested as a prospective husband for Mary Tudor.

Reginald Pole has been styled as both the nemesis of Henry VIII and as Mary I's bloody accomplice. Pole was related to the English royal family through the Plantagenets and was himself implicated in a ...

OF all the picturesque lives of the eminently picturesque sixteenth century, none excels in the range of its chances and changes that of the man who aspired by turns to the throne of England and the ...