Season

Season 1

by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Perdita Weeks, Sam Neill, Callum Blue, Henry Cavill and 29 others

Desperate for an heir, England's King Henry VIII shuns his wife Queen Katherine and casts his eye on the alluring Anne Boleyn, while Cardinal Wolsey's loyalty to the Catholic Church and the Pope strains his relationship to the king.

(11 total)

Characters

Michael Hirst (11)Henry VIII of England (3)Jonathan Rhys Meyers (3)Henry Cavill (1)Catherine Of Aragon (1)Maria Doyle Kennedy (1)Jamie Thomas King (1)Nick Dunning (1)Emmanuel Leconte (1)Thomas Boleyn (1)

“My friend, if all ambassadors were beautiful women I'd be serving my country day and night.”

— Michael Hirst, Charles Brandon, Henry Cavill, imdb.com

Tagged: Ambassadors, Beautiful, Women, serving my country

“You hate him like a scorpion. And why? Because he would not satisfy your ambition and make you pope by force.”

— Michael Hirst, Catherine Of Aragon, Maria Doyle Kennedy, imdb.com

Tagged: Hate, Simile Examples, force

“You can love, perhaps for a year, a month, a day, even for an hour. And in that hour I do believe you love as well and deeply... as any man. But after that hour, you love not! You love another, and then another. Your love is most generous where it is most hurtful.”

— Michael Hirst, Princess Margaret Tudor, Gabrielle Anwar, imdb.com

Tagged: Love, Fleeting love, Loving Others, generous, Hurtful

“Diplomacy is nearly always settled by such proximity.”

— Michael Hirst, Foxe, Philip Desmeules, imdb.com

Tagged: Diplomacy, settled, Proximity, Logic

“I write poems, I don't know how to be 'a poet.'”

— Michael Hirst, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Jamie Thomas King, imdb.com

Tagged: Poems, Poet, writer

“If it pleases you to be my true loyal mistress and friend, to give yourself up to me body and soul, I promise, I'll take you as my only mistress. I won't have a thought or an affection for anyone else.”

— Michael Hirst, Henry VIII of England, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, imdb.com

Tagged: loyal, Mistress, Friend, Body, Soul

“I call Mary my English mare, because I ride her so often.”

— Michael Hirst, Francis I of France, Emmanuel Leconte, imdb.com

Tagged: Sex, Riding, English Mare, Metaphor Examples

“You are a poet as I am a woman. Poets and women are always free with their hearts, are they not?”

— Michael Hirst, Anne Boleyn, Natalie Dormer, imdb.com

Tagged: Poet, Woman, Free, Hearts

“There's something deep and dangerous in you, Anne, those eyes of yours are like dark hooks for the soul.”

— Michael Hirst, Thomas Boleyn, Nick Dunning, imdb.com

Tagged: Deep, dangerous, Eyes, dark hooks, Soul

“As a humanist I share your opinion. As a King, I'm forced to disagree.”

— Michael Hirst, Henry VIII of England, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, imdb.com

Tagged: humanist, king, Forced, Disagree

“Queen Katherine: Though I love Your Majesty and I'm loyal to you, in every way, I cannot disguise my distress and unhappiness. King Henry VIII: Well, you're going to have to.”

— Michael Hirst, Henry VIII of England, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, imdb.com

Tagged: Love, loyal, Distress, Unhappiness, Sassy