Click on the various links below to go to profiles of key figures in the Tudor period, including their basic information, portraits, portrayals in fiction and further reading:-
Monarchs
Consorts
- Elizabeth of York
- Katherine of Aragon
- Anne Boleyn
- Jane Seymour
- Anne of Cleves
- Katherine Howard
- Katherine Parr
- Philip II of Spain
Royal Family
- Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
- Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
- Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond
- Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley
- Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
- Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales
- Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford
- Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland
- Mary Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk
Nobility
- Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
- Elizabeth Boleyn (nee Howard), Countess of Wiltshire
- George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford
- Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
- Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
- Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
- John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland
- Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
- Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
- Mary Howard, Duchess of Richmond
- Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
- Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
- Anne Seymour (nee Stanhope), Duchess of Somerset
Advisors & Courtiers
- Bessie Blount, Lady Tailboys
- Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford
- Mary Boleyn, Lady Stafford
- Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys
- Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex
- Sir Thomas More
- Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley
- Sir Francis Walsingham
- Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
- Sir Thomas Wyatt