- Henry settles on Anne Of Cleves as his fourth wife but is disappointed with her attractiveness and blames Cromwell for his unhappy situation.
- With a French fleet in the Channel, England needs an alliance with the Protestant League, hence Cromwell's endorsement of a wedding to German Anne of Cleves though the king is disappointed that she is less beautiful than her portrait, which fact reflects badly on Cromwell, who urged Holbein to lie in his painting. Brandon and Edward Seymour are amused at Cromwell's discomfort. Mary, a Catholic, is less than cordial to her new stepmother, though Elizabeth favours her. The king's putrid leg wound means that Anne finds him equally repulsive in bed whilst Bryan's obsessive pursuit of Pole once more ends in predictable and comedic failure.—don @ minifie-1
- Arrangements for his marriage to Anne of Cleves continue but when he finally sees her, the King is not at all pleased. He does not find her pretty and she repels him. With Catholic countries possibly uniting against him however, Cromwell tells him he has little choice but to marry the Protestant Anne and gain the support Protestant countries. The King submits and the wedding is a somber affair, as is the wedding night where the marriage isn't consummated. The King orders those around him to find a way to have the marriage annulled. The King clearly blames Cromwell for his current predicament and plotters continue to scheme against him.—garykmcd
- Before it becomes clear an imperial-French alliance against schismatic England under papal inspiration was still-born, Cromwell seizes his chance to persuade Henry, misled by an atypically false-flattering Holbein-portrait, to contract a marriage with Anne, sister of the impossible duke of Cleves, to secure the support of Germany's Protestant League. Ever-courteous Brandon introduces the bride to English court life, but hopes with Thomas Seymour the minster has overplayed his hand. Sir Francis Bryan and young Seymour fail to murder cardinal Pole in the papal city of Carpentras. Tormented by his festering leg wound and her plane face, Henry can't consummate his involuntary, actually needless fourth marriage and wants it annulled.—KGF Vissers
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