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A six-episode dramatisation of Henry VIII's relationships with each of his six wives. Each episode, with a different writer, is devoted to one wife, and is a complete play in itself.
8.0
Score
15
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