King Henry marries for the third time, taking as his queen the demure noblewoman Jane Seymour. A growing number of his subjects protest the king’s decision to abandon the Catholic…

The uproar over the king’s break with the Catholic Church turns into a full-blown rebellion that comes to be known as “The Pilgrimage of Grace.” Immobilized by an old jousting…

Henry reconciles with his estranged daughters Mary and Elizabeth in time for the Christmas holidays, but betrays and brutally suppresses the rebellion against him after making conciliatory promises to the…