Pope Clement’s special envoy arrives in London to oversee the court deciding upon the legitimacy of Henry‘s marriage to Katherine of Aragon. The findings of this trial will have far-reaching consequences: the future of the King’s amorous relationship with Anne Boleyn, Cardinal Wolsey‘scareer and influence, and England’s relationship with Rome all hang in the balance.
At the court of Henry VII the young orphan became a page to two-year-old Prince Henry, and a close friendship was forged that continued long after the Prince became King.
The ambitious politician Otto Truchsess von Waldburg was an imperial councilor who, as a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, strongly opposed the Protestant Reformation.
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Pope Clement’s special envoy arrives in London to oversee the court deciding upon the legitimacy of Henry‘s marriage to Katherine of Aragon. The findings of this trial will have far-reaching consequences: the future of the King’s amorous relationship with Anne Boleyn, Cardinal Wolsey‘scareer and influence, and England’s relationship with Rome all hang in the balance.
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