Cardinal Campeggio\’s long awaited papal legation has arrived at court to decide with colleague-cardinal Thomas Wolsey on the royal request for divorce, claiming Catherine\’s first marriage to Henry\’

Sir William Compton is diagnosed on his Warwickshire estate with highly contagious \’sweating sickness\’, the physician bleeds his back- death comes swift, his body is burned before burial, Thomas Tal

Henry is still besotted with Anne Boleyn, queen Catherine asks a diplomat to appeal to her Habsburg relatives. Now the emperor has captured the pope in Italy, cardinal Woolsey promises the king to get

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Henry is shocked when he learns that his ally, Emperor Charles V of Spain, has released France\’s King Francis I from prison. He\’s equally surprised when Anne Boleyn turns him down

As a reward for his denunciation of Martin Luther, the Pope christens Henry \”Defender of the Faith,\” but a brush with death causes the king to seek a solution to his lack of an heir. Princess Margar

The King asks Charles to escort his sister, Margaret, to her betrothed and promotes him to Duke of Suffolk. The envoys from the Holy Roman-Emperor meet with Cardinal Wolsey and determine how to cement

Henry and his court look to sign the treaty with France, though tempers of both kings flare up at the summit. Meanwhile, Henry takes on a new mistress named Mary Boleyn, though he soon tires of her an

King Henry VIII, the young and ambitious monarch of England, prepares for war with France but is dissuaded by the diplomatic manipulation of his powerful Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey, who proposes