![]() ![]() ![]() Cardinal Wolsey agrees that there is just cause for the war and the King tells him to make preparations for war. This act causes the grief-stricken and furious Henry VIII to call his council together and put forward the idea of war on France, something which is backed by the Duke of Buckingham and Duke of Norfolk. The episode opens at Ducal Palace, Urbino, Italy, in 1518, with the brutal assassination of Henry VIII’s uncle, the English ambassador, by the French. The Tudors Season 1 Episode 1 – In Cold Blood Summary ![]() The court convenes a special session at which both Henry and Katherine initially are present, and it eventually decides in favor of Katherine.Please do feel free to add any inaccuracies you have spotted in the comments section below. A papal envoy arrives in England to decide on the annulment. Anne Boleyn contracts the illness but recovers. In episode 7, the mysterious sweating sickness arrives in England, killing both the high-born and low-born, and Henry is terrified of catching it he secludes himself in the countryside away from court with his herbal medicines. In Episode 6, Wolsey makes increasingly desperate efforts to persuade the Catholic Church to grant a royal divorce, primarily as a result of Emperor Charles V’s influence over the Pope as Katherine’s nephew but this starts to weaken his position. The King instructs him to get papal dispensation for his divorce, on the grounds that his wife did indeed consummate her marriage to his brother Arthur. ![]() She refuses to become his mistress but insists that he marry her, which pushes him to use Cardinal Wolsey to take action against the Queen. Her father and uncle encourage her to seduce the King, though she also falls in love with Henry as the season unfolds. ![]()
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