Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization of the trials and tribulations surrounding Henry and his wives. Keith Michell ties the episodes together with his dignified and magnetic performance as the mighty monarch.
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Score
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Maurice Cowan
BBC Two

Sheila Burrell
Lady Rochford
Wolfe Morris
Wolfe Morris
Thomas Cromwell

Angela Pleasence
Catherine Howard

Dorothy Tutin
Anne Boleyn

Howard Goorney
Will Somers

John Ronane
Thomas Seymour

Anne Stallybrass
Jane Seymour
Edward Atienza
Edward Atienza
Eustache Chapuys

Alison Frazer
Princess Mary

Patrick Godfrey
Sir Thomas Wriothesley

Daniel Moynihan
Lord Hertford Edward Seymour

Rosalie Crutchley
Catherine Parr

Peter Cellier
Sir Christopher Hales

Simon Prebble
Francis Dereham

Annette Crosbie
Catherine of Aragon