As the Reformation gathers pace, Sir Thomas Cromwell becomes more powerful as propagandist-in-chief of a new moral order. Royal confidence has given way to doubt. Henry is haunted by the memory of the executed Thomas More, while Queen Anne Boleyn‘s insecurities border on paranoia. Her husband’s affairs continue and an effort to have her daughter Elizabeth betrothed to a French royal is thwarted when the French King refuses to recognize that the infant Princess is of legitimate birth.
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As the Reformation gathers pace, Sir Thomas Cromwell becomes more powerful as propagandist-in-chief of a new moral order. Royal confidence has given way to doubt. Henry is haunted by the memory of the executed Thomas More, while Queen Anne Boleyn‘s insecurities border on paranoia. Her husband’s affairs continue and an effort to have her daughter Elizabeth betrothed to a French royal is thwarted when the French King refuses to recognize that the infant Princess is of legitimate birth.
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Edward Stafford
Henry VIII was both jealous and suspicious of Edward due to his wealth, land and royal blood.
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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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Henry broke from the Catholic Church and instated the Church of England just so he could marry his mistress Anne Boleyn.
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A key player in the Reformation and supporter of the Royal Supremacy, it was Thomas Cromwell’s efforts that finally won King Henry his first divorce.
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Henry’s eldest daughter grew up disowned by her father and separated from her mother, Katherine of Aragon and eventually earned the epithet ‘Bloody Mary.’
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