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After uncovering treasonable offences, Cromwell exacts the ultimate revenge.

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.

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

As Cardinal Wolsey retreats north, he urges Cromwell to get close to Anne Boleyn.

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

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?

The birth of a prince gives England the heir that Henry longs for, but at a terrible price. As the court grieves for Jane, it falls to Cromwell to find a fourth bride for the king.

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.