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S3:E5 #305

Original Air Date: May 3, 2009

Henry remains in seclusion while mourning the queen's death, an opportunity that enemies of the crown seize to murder several friends of the court; Cromwell is disturbed when Henry doesn't resist his new church's similarities to Catholicism.
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Michael Hirst Talks about Will Summers

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Michael Hirst Talks about Will Summers

Sneak Peek: The King's Absence

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Sneak Peek: The King's Absence

Sneak Peek: Thinking is Dangerous

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Sneak Peek: Thinking is Dangerous
Cast
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
King Henry VIII
Henry Cavill
Charles Brandon
James Frain
Thomas Cromwell
Annabelle Wallis
Jane Seymour
Alan Van Sprang
Sir Francis Bryan
Gerald McSorley
Aske
Max von Sydow
Cardinal Von Waldburg
Sarah Bolger
Mary Tudor
David Bradley
Will (Court Fool)
Max Brown
Edward Seymour
Charlotte Salt
Lady Ursula Misseldon
Mark Hildreth
Cardinal Reginald Pole
Simon Ward
Bishop Gardiner
Written by
Michael Hirst
Created By
Michael Hirst
Directed by
Jeremy Podeswa
Rating
TVMA
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Adult Content, Violence, Nudity

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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