| TUDOR | Royal house of which Henry VIII was a member (5) |
| STUART | Royal house of which Queen Anne was the last British monarch (6) |
| ANJOU | Former province of France of which Henry II was count (5) |
| ESTE | Italian princely house of which Britain's Hanoverian monarchs were descendants |
| LAMPREYS | Fishlike jawless vertebrates (of which Henry I is said to have eaten a surfeit and died) (8) |
| ADULTERY | Offence of which Henry Vlll's second and fifth wife were accused (8) |
| WORDSWORTH | Dove Cottage was the home of which English poet? (10) |
| MACLEOD | Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye is the ancestral home of which Scottish clan? (7) |
| HALMA | A game in which Henry leads mother (5) |
| URBAN | VIII was pope from 1623-44 (5) |
| SINEW | One of those bodily parts which Henry V wanted stiffened in Shakespeare's play (5) |
| PROUD | Sticking out for what 8 was said to be (5) |
| EDGAR | 'The A†theling,' last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England who was proclaimed King of England in 1066 |
| SAVOY | Noble family that formed the royal house of Italy from 18611946 (5) |
| TILTYARD | A jousting area, such as that where Henry VIII was thrown from his horse in 1536 and nearly died (4,4) |
| THINKING | As at first, Henry VIII was intellectual (8) |
| AGINCOURT | Scene of a 1415 battle in which Henry V's army defeated the French, anagram of RACING OUT (9) |
| LANCASTER | Royal house to which Henry IV, V and VI belonged |
| TWOANDSIX | 8 was most of 11 a 3 (3,3,3) |
| JOHNOFGAUNT | Founder of the royal House of Lancaster who was the son of Edward III and father of Henry IV (4,2,5) |
