The Tudors: Divorce and Malice

Published: April 24, 2008, 3:27 am

Tags: books movies media, europe, catherine of aragon, church of england, england, hbo, henry viii, showtime, the tudors, thomas cranmer, tudors

Just to disabuse readers about The Tudors, I included the bloopers reel. After months of hits for the last post on Showtime's newest costume drama, I couldn't resist biting the links that feed me. My heart is still somewhere in the late 19th Century Dakotas.Here's the story so far: A year later, Queen Catherine was banished from court and her old rooms were given to Anne. With Wolsey gone, Anne now had considerable power over government appointments and political matters. When Archbishop of Canterbury William Warham died, Anne had the Boleyn family's chaplain, Thomas Cranmer, appointed to the vacant position. Through the intervention of the King of France, this was conceded by Rome, the pallium being granted to him by Clement. The breaking of the power of Rome in England proceeded little by little. In 1532, a lawyer who was a supporter of Anne, Thomas Cromwell, brought before Parliament a number of acts including the Supplication against the Ordinaries and the Submission of the

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