The little rain from the day before was long gone, and we had blue skies and mild temperatures for our last full day in England, Thursday, May 30. Our final two gardens were Penshurst Place and Hever ...

Hever Castle's popular jousting returns this summer for its 40th anniversary season, this year with a new theme: Battle of the Queens. Taking place on selected weekends in July and August, the ...

Two rare manuscripts are being displayed in a Kent castle on Tuesday, marking the 490th anniversary of one of the most infamous executions in history. Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, was ...

If you’d like a night living like royalty, stay for a night at Hever Castle. Sink into your deep, sumptuous bed and imagine that, Henry VIII slept a few feet away when he came to the castle during his ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Taking the plunge into the cool waters of Hever Castle lake was something like a dream come true. I had spent ...

Henry VIII had many links to Hever Castle, apart from it being home of one of his wives, Anne Boleyn. Sir Thomas Boleyn, Anne's father, was an ambassador in France, and Anne, her sister and her mother ...

Dr David Starkey said he was "delighted" the portrait was now part of the castle's collection A portrait of Richard III has gone on display at Hever Castle - 567 years to the day he was born.