The Tudors Season 2 Episodes

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Season 2 Episode Guide

Episode 1 - Episode I

Divorce, Tudor style. As the Catholic Church struggles in vain to control Henry VIII's (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) demands for an annulment, the King appoints himself head of the Church of England. A cook is blackmailed into poisoning a high-ranking bishop, then boiled alive for his crime. When Anne Boleyn (Natalie Dormer) insists Henry break all contacts with Katherine, (Maria Doyle Kennedy) the noble Queen is banished from court. The Reformation has begun.
Episode 2 - Episode II

Christmas at the Tudor court is a time for ringing in the new. Mistress Anne Boleyn has replaced the banished Queen Katherine. The King's chaplain, Thomas Cranmer (Hans Matheson), makes a fact-finding visit to Lutheran Germany while Henry withdraws both the authority and taxes of the Catholic Church at home. A royal visit to France finally convinces Anne to consummate her relationship with Henry, even as his best friend, Charles Brandon (Henry Cavill), suggests that she is no virgin.
Episode 3 - Episode III

Henry destroys all ties with authority and the past. After many failed attempts to have his marriage to Katherine annulled by the Catholic Church, Henry runs out of patience and marries Anne Boleyn in secret. He appoints Thomas Cranmer, a young Lutheran, as the head of the Church of England and strips Queen Katherine of her title and status.
Episode 4 - Episode IV

Questions of faith dominate the court. As the infant Princess Elizabeth is baptized, the 'Act of Succession' is unveiled, declaring that only children of Henry and Anne are legitimate successors to the English throne. A law is passed where every Royal subject must take an oath, on pain of death, recognizing the validity of the King's new marriage and Henry's supremacy in all matters.
Episode 5 - Episode V

Attempts to legitimize the King's marriage and increase his power encounter unmovable obstacles as Sir Thomas More (Jeremy Northam) and Bishop Fisher insist that only God can be head of the church. Imprisoned in the Tower of London, they face likely execution unless they take the Oath of Allegiance. Meanwhile, Henry's wandering eye continues to roam.
Episode 6 - Episode VI

As the Reformation gathers pace, Sir Thomas Cromwell (James Frain) becomes ever more powerful as propagandist-in-chief of a new moral order. Royal confidence has given way to doubt. Henry is haunted by the memory of the executed Thomas More, while Queen Anne Boleyn's insecurities border on paranoia. Her husband's affairs continue and an effort to have her daughter, Elizabeth, betrothed to a French royal is thwarted when the French King refuses to recognize that the infant Princess is of legitimate birth.
Episode 7 - Episode VII

As Thomas Cromwell's increasingly ruthless 'reforms' spread terror through an ever more vulnerable Catholic Church, Anne Boleyn has nightmares that her position at the King's side is under threat from the continued existence of former Queen Katherine and her daughter Mary. Meanwhile, Henry is occupied by sad news and a happy encounter.
Episode 8 - Episode VIII

At Henry's command - and to Anne's discomfort and suspicion - Jane Seymour (Anita Briem) is made a lady-in-waiting to the Queen. When Henry is seriously injured in a jousting match, all thoughts turn to who might succeed him. There will be far-reaching consequences if Anne's pregnancy does not deliver a healthy son.
Episode 9 - Episode IX

Anne has lost a son, and with it, her final chance at a lasting marriage with Henry. The King's affections are shifting anyway: the Seymour family are awarded rooms at court and seem likely to replace the Boleyns as royal favourites. Several in the court begin to move against Anne, who is accused of adultery. Her suspected lovers - and Anne herself - are arrested. All, including the Queen, are sentenced to death.
Episode 10 - Episode X

Endings and beginnings. As Anne Boleyn awaits her death, painfully delayed by the executioner's late arrival, Henry visits Jane Seymour and asks for her hand in marriage. Declaring his marriage to Anne null and void means that their daughter, Elizabeth, becomes illegitimate and is no longer in line to the throne. This clears the way for a legitimate heir to come from his marriage to Jane. Henry begins this momentous occasion with a magnificent breakfast at which is served a dish reserved for the English King alone: an exquisite roasted swan.


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