Author: dickshistory

It’s Jane Seymour marrying by now no longer handsome prince Henry. May not be wedded bliss though. Lady formerly princess Mary will be back at court and baby Betty will also now be lady formerly princess. Tom Cromwell will make some foreign policy mistakes. Bad move Tom. Here’s Jane – nice hat.

In which we will meet Jane Seymour but that also means we say goodbye to Anne Boleyn. Sad.

We’ll be saying goodbye to Henry’s sister Mary. Don’t worry about her man Charles Brandon, he has his eye on his son’s girlfriend. Our Spanish princess Catherine will also be off to heaven. Anne will manage to get Henry to swap his mistress for one of her supporters so Henry will be all happy in the banging department. Here’s Henry and Catherine from the movie Anne of a thousand days.

Suleiman popped up in our episodes giving Supersausage Chuck’s brother Ferdinand a hard time in Vienna. I thought we might have a squiz at this guy and find out what’s so magnificent about him. (Hint – it may be his missus) Here’s a picture of Suleiman and his missus Roxelana which means hot Russian chicky babe in Turkish.

Sir St Tom More will refuse to take the oath that says Henry is the head of the church in England. Tom Cromwell knows how to sort that out. Here’s a picture I took in Canterbury where Sir St Tom has his very own window. So perhaps it was all worth it for him.

In which Henry will totally fix up the Supremacy thingy meaning Clement is out. He can then meet the holy maid Elizabeth Barton and listen to her not nice prophecies. May not end well for Elizabeth and her team. Sir St Tom is causing a bit of grief for Henry and his family are getting a bit worried. Here’s Hans Holbein’s picture of the More family.

It’s all coming together for Anne Boleyn and she will be getting some of Henry’s baby juice. Plus a wedding or two and then it will be a nice rub with the holy oil and on goes the silly hat. May not be going so well for Catherine though.

Tom Cromwell will have a meteoric rise in Henry’s court. He’s terribly smart. Anne Boleyn will have a temper tantrum. Fair enough, she’s been waiting a long, long time to get a silly hat.

We’re back with Sir St Tom who will cop the top job as Chancellor. But Tom is more interested in torture and burning people than helping Henry get a divorce. It won’t go well when Henry declares himself to be the head of the church in England. Tom will resign his job but will he settle down to a nice retirement? Here’s Tom and Henry from A Man for all Seasons.

Henry’s top advisor Tom Wolsey is dead, but fear not – he still has Sir St Tom More and there’s the new boy Tom cromwell. Another Tom – Boleyn is off to see the pope and the emperor to sort things out. Bonus for Henry is that universities all over the place will agree he should have his divorce but Pope Clement won’t be having it. Here’s our disgraced Cardinal Wolsey wondering where it all went wrong.