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King Henry the EighthEpisode Number: 6 Season Num: 1 First Aired: Sunday February 25, 1979 Prod Code: n/a |
This is the story of King Henry VIII, who broke his country's links with Rome and set himself up as head of the Church of England, abolishing England's monasteries and nunneries and seizing their wealth. Meanwhile, he ran through six wives in his ambition for sons to carry on the Tudor line.
Shakespeare was rather kind to Henry - no doubt because he was the father of England's reigning Queen, Elizabeth I.
Shakespeare was rather kind to Henry - no doubt because he was the father of England's reigning Queen, Elizabeth I.
| Director: | Kevin Billington |
| Guest Star: | Peter Vaughan (Gardiner), David Dodimead (Bishop of Lincoln), Jeremy Kemp (Duke of Norfolk), John Rowe (Cromwell), Lewis Flander (Duke of Suffolk), Nigel Lambert (Sir Thomas Lovell), Charles Lloyd Pack (Lord Sands), Jack McKenzie (Sir Nicholas Vaux), John Nettleton (Lord Chamberlain), Oliver Cotton (Earl of Surrey), David Rintoul (Lord Abergavenny), Jack May (Lord Chancellor), Sylvia Coleridge (Old Lady), Michael Poole (Cardinal Campeius), Claire Bloom (Katharine of Aragon), Ronald Pickup (Cranmer), John Stride (King Henry VIII), Timothy West (Wolsey), Julian Glover (Duke of Buckingham) |
King Henry the Eighth was largely filmed on location at Leeds Castle, Kent, in rooms Henry VIII had actually lived in five hundred years before.
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Cardinal Wolsey:
I have touched the highest point of all my greatness,
And from that full meridian of my glory
I haste now to my setting. I shall fall
Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
And no man see me more. (edit) Griffith:
Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues
We write in water. (edit) Norfolk: Be advised;
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself. We may outrun,
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over-running. (edit)
I have touched the highest point of all my greatness,
And from that full meridian of my glory
I haste now to my setting. I shall fall
Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
And no man see me more. (edit) Griffith:
Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues
We write in water. (edit) Norfolk: Be advised;
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself. We may outrun,
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over-running. (edit)
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