A papal envoy has come to discuss the annulment of the King’s marriage to Katherine of Aragon, as requested by the King. In this episode the king receives a special guest.
Fortunately for him, a change is coming up. He starts having doubts about the future and his ability to rule the country.
As a result, King Henry feels depressed and not his usual, confident self. As a result, Cardinal Wolsey’s position is weakening, leaving him vulnerable to his enemies.Įngland ’s population is suffering, both from a lack of food and from a lethal plague called ‘The Sweats’. He’s equally surprised when Anne Boleyn turns him down after offering to make her his sole mistress.Īs King Henry gains in confidence, his displeasure with the way the Catholic church handles his request for an annulment of his marriage to Katherine of Aragon grows. Henry is shocked when he learns that his ally, Emperor Charles V of Spain, has released France’s King Francis I from prison. Princess Margaret marries the decrepit King of Portugal reluctantly, but the union is short-lived Henry’s desire for Anne Boleyn intensifies when Anne goes home to her family estate. We learn more of why Anne’s father and uncle want her to seduce the King.Īs a reward for his denunciation of Martin Luther, the Pop christens Henry “Defender of the Faith,” but a brush with death causes the king to seek a solution to his lack of an heir. It is learned that the King of France knows of the treaty talks and the Cardinal is quick to find a scapegoat. The Emperor is invited to the King’s court. Anne catches the King’s notice in a play.
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The envoys from the Holy Roman Emperor meet with Cardinal Wolsey and determine how to cement the treaty between the two nations. The King asks Charles to escort his sister, Margaret, to her betrothed and promotes him to Duke of Suffolk. He soon tires of her and her father summons her sister Anne to court and tells her to find a way to keep the king’s interest. Meanwhile, Henry takes on a new mistress named Mary Boleyn. Tensions are understandably high, and tempers of both kings flare up more than once. Henry and the court go to the summit to sign the treaty with France. Synopsis: King Henry VIII appoints the very men who worked to bring down Wolsey to head the management of his kingdom, and soon finds that his realm was in much better shape when Wolsey was in charge.Henry prepares for war with France but receives cautious counsel from the powerful Cardinal Wolsey, who urges a peace treaty the king learns that his queen’s lady-in-waiting Elizabeth Blount is pregnant with his child. Meanwhile, in his desperation to be reinstated in court, Wolsey makes an unlikely ally out of Queen Catherine, with an ingenious plan that would benefit them both. Regrettably, his plan quickly does him a disservice. Times are changing, and the Church and its devout followers including Sir Thomas More despite his concentrated effort of dispelling heretics are finding that they are edging closer to the abyss.Įpisode Summary: King Henry VIII appoints Duke Norfolk and Duke Suffolk as presidents of the council, a position, Cardinal Wolsey once had. Despite this new appointment, and Cardinal Wolsey’s banishment from court, the Duke of Norfolk continues to be apprehensive about his position, aware that the king may someday have a change of heart and reinstate Wolsey back in court. There might be some cause to Duke Norfolk’s anxiety. Cardinal Wolsey, who remains Archbishop of York, now lives in the Church House in Yorkshire that had gone in disrepair. Forced to live an austere life, the cardinal reaches out to the woman who had brought him to his knees with the hope of getting in her good graces.
Having kept Anne Boleyn’s letter that promises the cardinal a reward for all his pains and efforts in the event that she is crowned the new Queen of England, Wolsey desperately hopes that she comes through with her promise.
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