Westminster Abbey is undertaking a new project using the latest 3D technology to scan the funeral effigy head of Henry VII ... it from the same death mask that he used for the V&A’s contemporaneous ...

He was the first Tudor monarch, the king who vanquished Richard III at ... that Torrigiano must have used a model of Henry's death mask to make it so lifelike. A death mask was traditionally ...

Henry VIII is known as the 'father of the Royal Navy.' When he became king there were five royal warships. By his death he had built up a navy of around 50 ships. He refitted several vessels with ...