Cromwell is accused of betrayal by Anne after she discovers that he attempted to protect Mary and not Elizabeth in a time of crisis. Anne's power is waning and her enemies are coming together. Anne argues with Jane Rochford and ends up divulging that the musician Mark Smeaton and the nobles Francis Weston and Harry Norris have all declared their love to her, which is a treasonable offence.
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impass steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day cuddleous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
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