King Henry VIII was the second monarch of which European royal house?

The story behind the answer

Tudor is correct because Henry VIII (r. 1509–1547) was the second monarch of the Tudor dynasty, succeeding his father Henry VII, who founded the house after defeating Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. The Tudors symbolized the end of the Wars of the Roses by uniting the rival houses of Lancaster and York through Henry VII’s marriage to Elizabeth of York—hence the Tudor rose emblem.

Remember it this way: Lancaster and York were earlier Plantagenet branches, Stuart came later (from Scotland in 1603), but Henry VIII—famous for six wives and breaking from Rome to form the Church of England—was unmistakably Tudor. Think “Tudor rose” and “Henry VIII’s six wives” to pin him to the Tudor house.