Mistress Anne Boleyn has replaced the banished Queen Katherine, and Christmas at the Tudor court is a time for ringing in the new. The King’s chaplain, Thomas Cranmer, makes a fact-finding visit to Lutheran Germany while Henry withdraws both the authority and taxes of the Catholic Church at home. A royal visit to France finally convinces Anne to consummate her relationship with Henry, even as his best friend, Charles Brandon, suggests that she is no virgin.
Sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn and lady-in-waiting to Henry’s subsequent wives, Lady Rochford helped arrange romantic trysts between Queen Katherine Howard and Thomas Culpepper.
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Mistress Anne Boleyn has replaced the banished Queen Katherine, and Christmas at the Tudor court is a time for ringing in the new. The King’s chaplain, Thomas Cranmer, makes a fact-finding visit to Lutheran Germany while Henry withdraws both the authority and taxes of the Catholic Church at home. A royal visit to France finally convinces Anne to consummate her relationship with Henry, even as his best friend, Charles Brandon, suggests that she is no virgin.
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Lord Thomas Darcy
A statesman and sympathizer to the rebel uprising, Darcy joined Robert Aske and the ‘Pilgrims of Grace.’
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Thomas More held many positions in Henry’s court, including Lord Chancellor, and was well-known for his harsh sentences regarding religious matters.
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Sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn and lady-in-waiting to Henry’s subsequent wives, Lady Rochford helped arrange romantic trysts between Queen Katherine Howard and Thomas Culpepper.
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Patient, gracious and demure—and the only one of Henry’s wives to produce a male heir—Jane Seymour was considered Henry’s favorite wife.
MoreThomas Cranmer
Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury thanks to ties with the Boleyn family, Thomas Cranmer rose to power from a relatively minor status.
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