La vie très tourmentée du jeune Henry VIII lors de son début de règne au 16ème siècle en Angleterre ! De ses relations tumultueuses avec les femmes à ses alliances politiques...
1520. Si Henry VIII meurt sans héritier mâle, l'Angleterre pourrait voir son royaume détruit par la guerre civile. Thomas Cromwell, fils d'un forgeron brutal, est un génie politique, un corrupteur, un tyran et un charmeur. Dans son ascension au pouvoir, il a su briser tous les codes d'une société rigide et est prêt à continuer sur la voie de la destruction. S'opposant au Parlement, à l'ordre politique établi et à la papauté, il est prêt à remodeler l'Angleterre à sa manière et aux désirs de Henry VIII.
Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization of the trials and tribulations surrounding Henry and his wives. Keith Michell ties the episodes together with his dignified and magnetic performance as the mighty monarch.
Biopic qui retrace les derniers mois d'Anne Boleyn, la seconde épouse du roi Henri VIII, en réimaginant sa lutte avec la société patriarcale de l'Angleterre des Tudor, son désir d'assurer un avenir à sa fille, Elizabeth, et la réalité brutale de son échec à fournir à son mari un héritier mâle.
The life of Henry VIII of England from the disintegration of his first marriage to an aging Spanish princess until his death following a stroke in 1547, by which time he had married for the sixth time.
Part documentary, part historical drama, this series follows the fortunes of the different members of the Boleyn family, ultimately made notorious for daughter Anne’s marriage to Henry VIII and execution.
Historian Dr Suzannah Lipscomb unfolds the extraordinary story of the tumultuous love affair between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and asks: was it really love that brought them together – and was it love that tore them apart? Suzannah's journey will take her from Anne's childhood home at Hever Castle in Kent to the French palace where, some say, she learned the art of love. She will also visit Hampton Court, where Henry built the Great Hall for his new queen, and the Tower of London, where he had her beheaded.
Tracy Borman tells the story of the downfall of Henry VIII's second wife, charting her arrest, trial and execution.