Damian Lewis on the embodiment of majesty, the heft of the fat suit, and the complicated king of The Mirror and the Light as ...

The Pope refused to annul the marriage as he was afraid to go against the will of Catherine's nephew Charles V, The Holy Roman Emperor. Although she resisted Henry VIII's advances, by 1533 Anne ...

the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V – the Pope refused. Thomas Wolsey's ascendancy was cut short by this failure. In 1533, Henry VIII broke with the church and married the now pregnant Anne Boleyn ...

The dissolution of Henry VIII’s marriage to his first wife ... annulling the marriage could endanger the pope’s connection ...

Find out why Margaret Douglas' dangerous forbidden love scandalized Henry VIII's court, as seen in Episode 2 on MASTERPIECE.