| PEMBROKE | Welsh town, home to a castle where Henry Tudor was born in 1457 (8) |
| MONMOUTH | Welsh town, site of a castle where Henry V was born in 1386 (8) |
| MDXVI | Year that Mary Tudor was born, in roman numerals |
| PEMBROKESHIRE | Welsh county, location of Tenby, St Davids, Freshwater West and a castle where Henry VII was born (13) |
| KINGJAMESII | Scotsman who banned golf in 1457 because it took time away from military training |
| WINDSOR | Market town in Berkshire that is home to a castle, the Queen's main residence, approached by a tree-lined avenue or "Long Walk" extending for some three miles in its Great Park (7) |
| BERKELEY | Gloucestershire town with a castle where Edward II was killed in 1327 (8) |
| BOSWORTH | - Field; site of the battle of the Wars of the Roses where Richard III was killed with a halberd enabling Henry Tudor to be crowned as king (8) |
| TINTAGEL | Cornish castle where King Arthur was born, according to legend (8) |
| WOOLWICH | District in the London Borough of Greenwich where Henry VIII established a naval dockyard in 1512 (8 |
| TILTYARD | A jousting area, such as that where Henry VIII was thrown from his horse in 1536 (4,4) |
| ERICBANA | Actor who portrayed Henry Tudor in 2008 biopic The Other Boleyn Girl (4,4) |
| IRONGATE | Entry to a castle, maybe |
| CHARTRES | City where Henry IV was crowned in 1594 (8) |
| CATAPULT | Onetime threat to a castle's walls |
| ETON | Berkshire town around 10 minutes on foot from Windsor Castle where Henry VI founded a school in 1440 (4) |
| ROSEMARY | Plant where Henry VIII's warship gets parts exchanged |
| COSETTE | The ingenue character in Les Miserables - in her sleep she likes to go to a castle on a cloud |
| PENRITH | Cumbrian market town, home to a now-ruined 14th-century castle (7) |
| TALLAROOK | Lofty gets a castle where things are crook! (9) |
