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Original Air Date: Apr 8, 2007

Henry contemplates an alliance with Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of Spain despite his "Field of Cloth of Gold" ceremony celebrating allegiance to France, and executes a rival; Elizabeth gives birth to the king's illegitimate son.
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Cast
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
King Henry VIII
Henry Cavill
Charles Brandon
Natalie Dormer
Anne Boleyn
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Queen Catherine of Aragon
Nick Dunning
Thomas Boleyn
James Frain
Thomas Cromwell
Jamie Thomas King
Thomas Wyatt
Hans Matheson
Thomas Cranmer
Written by
Michael Hirst
Created By
Michael Hirst
Directed by
Charles McDougall
Rating
TVMA
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Adult Content, Violence

4 Seasons, 38 Episodes

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  • Season 4

    Henry's marriage to randy, unfaithful teenager Catherine Howard ends in her swift execution, but he finds domestic tranquility at last with the steady Catherine Parr; a war with France and Brandon's death signal Henry's waning days.

    Season 4

  • Season 3

    Henry's marriage to Jane Seymour is happy, fruitful, and tragically short; the king brutally suppresses a rebellion against his religious reforms; England, Spain and the Pope ally against England, forcing Henry to marry a Protestant.

    Season 3

  • Season 2

    Henry quickly embraces Lutheran ideas, breaks with the Church, and marries Anne Boleyn, but Brandon sows seeds of doubt about his new queen's fidelity in the king's mind; a loyalty oath pits Henry against his mentor Thomas More.

    Season 2

  • Season 1

    Desperate for an heir, England's King Henry VIII shuns his wife Queen Katherine and casts his eye on the alluring Anne Boleyn, while Cardinal Wolsey's loyalty to the Catholic Church and the Pope strains his relationship to the king.

    Season 1
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