Overview
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverbates with political intrigue and accusations of treachery.
Cast
- Tony Church as Prologue
- John Stride as Henry VIII
- Julian Glover as Duke of Buckingham
- Jeremy Kemp as Duke of Norfolk
- David Rintoul as Lord Abergavenny
- Timothy West as Cardinal Wolsey
- John Rowe as Cromwell
- Lewis Flander as Duke of Suffolk
- Alan Leith as Sergeant-at-Arms
- Claire Bloom as Katharine of Aragon