Boleyn's beautiful daughters Mary and Anne prepare to meet King Henry meanwhile, Henry discovers that a mistress of his named Lady Elizabeth Blount, who is one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting, is pregnant with his child. Buckingham plots to murder Henry and thus grab the throne for himself, letting Thomas Boleyn and the Duke of Norfolk in on his plan. Meanwhile, Henry has an unsuspected rival to the throne in the person of Duke of Buckingham, who is a blood relative to earlier kings.
The Chancellor arranges a summit that is to take place in France, and the king's daughter Mary is to be betrothed to the Dauphin of France, much against Katherine's expressed wishes. Thomas More, who is Henry's former teacher and a humanist, supports the treaty which further persuades a reluctant Henry to abandon his war plans. The Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey, who is more interested in his own ambitions than organising a war, manipulates the young king to propose a "Treaty of Universal Peace" with France instead. Henry's uncle, the Ambassador to Urbino, is assassinated by the French and Henry seizes upon this event to plan a war with France to establish his immortal reputation and seize back the title of King of France. The aunt of the powerful Spanish king and Holy Roman Emperor Charles, Katherine is all that a Queen should be, and popular, but the difficult pursuit of a divorce approved by the Pope becomes a seductive option - especially when he encounters the beautiful, bold and intelligent Anne Boleyn. And weighing most on his mind is his failure thus far to produce a male heir with his Queen, Katherine of Aragon so far their only child (who survived beyond birth) is the young Princess Mary, on whom he dotes.
However, he is troubled by religious unrest in his own kingdom, as well as political struggles and changing allegiances with other countries.
Henry VIII is the young and virile king of England, one of the most powerful nations in the world, and seems to have it all.
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