After utterly abject humiliation at Henry's feet, Charles Brandon is allowed to win his return to court by arm-wrestling.
Ann's father Thomas Boleyn tells the incredulous king about the cardinal's stealing confiscated monastical goods. Now the emperor has captured the pope in Italy, cardinal Woolsey promises the king to get a mandate from the cardinals to handle Henry's divorce demand and personally goes to Paris in triumph, to sign a treaty with the French king Francis I. Henry is still besotted with Anne Boleyn, queen Catherine asks a diplomat to appeal to her Habsburg relatives. Anne Boleyn turns down the king's proposal that she be the royal mistress, demanding nothing less than being declared queen. Meanwhile Katherine's alliance with Charles intensifies as does her hatred of Wolsey. Henry is displeased to learn that the Emperor Charles V, Queen Katherine's nephew, has released King Francis of France from prison and is forced to look for a foreign ally elsewhere. Princess Margaret marries the decrepit King of Portugal reluctantly, but the union is short-lived Henry's desire for Anne Boleyn intensifies. Season 1, Episode 4: His Majesty, the KingĪs a reward for his denunciation of Martin Luther, the Pope christens Henry 'Defender of the Faith,' but a brush with death causes the king to seek a solution to his lack of an heir. We learn more of why Anne's father and uncle want her to seduce the King. It is learned that the King of France knows of the treaty talks- and the Cardinal is quick to find a scapegoat. The Emperor is invited to the King's court. Anne catches the King's notice in a play. The envoys from the Holy Roman-Emperor meet with Cardinal Wolsey and determine how to cement the treaty between the two nations. The King asks Charles to escort his sister, Margaret, to her betrothed and promotes him to Duke of Suffolk. Season 1, Episode 3: Wolsey, Wolsey, Wolsey! Meanwhile, Henry takes on a new mistress named Mary Boleyn, though he soon tires of her and Mary's sister, Anne, is summoned to the court. Henry and his court look to sign the treaty with France, though tempers of both kings flare up at the summit. King Henry VIII, the young and ambitious monarch of England, prepares for war with France but is dissuaded by the diplomatic manipulation of his powerful Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey, who proposes that the King sponsor a 'Treaty of Universal Peace.' The harmony of the King's domestic affairs is threatened, however, when he discovers that Elizabeth Blount, the young and beautiful lady-in-waiting to his Queen, Katherine of Aragon, is pregnant with his child.
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