Joust – The King challenges the Duke of Buckingham and wins. In return, he wants something that only the Bishop can give him. Unfortunately, Catherine is at prayer so Henry sleeps with one of her ladies-in-waiting.Ĭardinal Wolsey meets with the French Ambassador and Bishop Bonnivet and presents him with the outline to a new peace treaty between England and France. In the next scene, Henry symbolically devours a pomegranate, Catherine’s symbol and the symbol of fertility, before visiting Catherine’s bedchamber. Henry has stopped visiting Catherine of Aragon’s bedchamber and she begs him to visit her so that she can be his proper wife again. Henry VIII is having an affair with Elizabeth Blount whose husband is jealous and is threatening to make a scandal and put Bessie in a nunnery. Cardinal Wolsey agrees that there is just cause for the war and the King tells him to make preparations for war. This act causes the grief-stricken and furious Henry VIII to call his council together and put forward the idea of war on France, something which is backed by the Duke of Buckingham and Duke of Norfolk. The episode opens at Ducal Palace, Urbino, Italy, in 1518, with the brutal assassination of Henry VIII’s uncle, the English ambassador, by the French. The Tudors Season 1 Episode 1 – In Cold Blood Summary Please do feel free to add any inaccuracies you have spotted in the comments section below.
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