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.
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
John Bailey
as Griffith / Gentleman Usher
David Troughton
as A Surveyor
