Cromwell is stripped of his titles and brought to the Tower of London on a charge of treason. He has no friends to speak for him but plenty of enemies among his prosecutors.

After uncovering treasonable offences, Cromwell exacts the ultimate revenge.

The Act of Supremacy has declared Henry supreme head of the church of England.

As the dissolution of the monasteries gathers speed, Cromwell makes a personal pilgrimage to Shaftesbury Abbey to speak with a young nun, who profoundly shakes his view of himself.

Lacking a male heir, the King is desperate to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon.

Cromwell has Parliament acknowledge Henry as head of the Church of England.

Cromwell’s marital diplomacy brings Princess Anne of Cleves to Henry’s court. Will the alliance create a Protestant superpower in northern Europe, or has Cromwell’s luck run out?

As Anne Boleyn’s blood is sluiced from the scaffold, Thomas Cromwell picks his way through the wreckage of her death to take his place as principal councillor to King Henry VIII.