The royal family’s annus horribilis of 2024 has been a relentless series of trials and tribulations. The year opened with a ...

The premise of this version of British royal “herstory” is that the six ex-wives of Henry VIII have gathered in some ...

JC Mantel’s skill reaches its zenith in the fall of Anne Boleyn and the rise of Cromwell – told so vividly it almost seems the author was herself a witness. JC ...

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light drew to a dramatic close on Sunday night and viewers were left saying the same thing as ...

In its first season, the BBC's Wolf Hall adapted Hilary Mantel's first two books about Thomas Cromwell's rise to power under Henry VIII. Thanks to a mesmerising performance by Mark Rylance ...

In terms of what viewers have come to expect from a historical drama, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (BBC1, Sunday, ...

In a 2022 article in The New Yorker, writer Hilary Mantel discusses her endometriosis, which was eventually identified in her late 20s, but not before a hysterectomy. (A few years later ...

If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn how we test. Hilary Mantel, the author of the original trilogy, was not one to add modern twists or fantastical elements to her ...

The BBC series follows the rise and fall of Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell, and is an adaptation of the novel written by Dame Hilary Mantel, who died shortly before filming for series two began.

Hilary Mantel stressed she was concerned with depicting the outer world faithfully but her chief concern was her character’s interior drama. This adaptation shows how much she strayed from that ...

The BBC drama is based on Hilary Mantel's historical fiction series of the same name, with the second season charting Cromwell's (Mark Rylance) fall from grace following the execution of Anne Boleyn.