HOLLYWOOD—On last week’s episode of “The Tudors,” an ailing Henry was reluctant to believe his army’s physician when he stated that the deadly bloody flux was killing his soldiers. The separation between the haves and have-nots was very evident when the King and his men ate lavish meals, while the men in the field were picking for scraps and any piece of bread left in the garbage by a king who has become not only desensitized by his greed and viciousness but his very mental health is unraveling before witnesses’ very own eyes. The Duke of Suffolk, Henry’s best friend Charles Brandon was becoming increasingly alarmed by his king’s lack of reality when it came to the military campaign against the French.

Just as Henry was about to lose the war, the men who sacrificed even their lives to dig a tunnel under the French king’s wall and his palace, then managed to light a fuse, which blasted by gun powder. Viewers watched in horror and amazement as the great wall fell and the palace with it. Henry’s efforts to bring King Francis under his submission were successful but short-lived. For Henry found out King Charles The Fifth of Spain, who is the Holy Roman Emperor, had signed a treaty with the French before Henry and his military had made their way back to London.

A furious king was becoming very ill and frail, while the Bishop of Essex began his religious crusade against the protestants in English branding them heretics. When his grace the bishop asked the Regent Queen Catherine Parr to sign his warrants for arrest to interrogate possible heretics, her majesty refused him. She’s now made a very dangerous enemy and he is out for not only protestants’ blood but her majesty’s head as well. The most magnificent scene in the episode came when the British Army was able to finally bring down the walls surrounding the French palace and the joy the troops showed on their faces knowing they’d soon be on their way home, less thousands of soldiers who died of the bloody flux was amazing.

When King Henry banished the Spanish Ambassador from Court, he warned him that his master’s agreement with France was the last straw. Henry has now successfully pushed the Catholic Church out of England and has taken back lands his ancestors lost to the French decades earlier. He’s very happy, but delusional and physically becoming an old man. His daughter Mary, who became a spinster, vowed to the outgoing Spanish ambassador in a tearful moment, “I may never be married nor become the Queen of England. However, if I become the Queen of England, I will burn every heretic and spill as much blood as it takes in order to bring this unfortunate realm of England back to the catholic faith.” We all know from history that Mary will become a wife and a very unpopular queen, who will bring bloodshed to England to the point that at her death she was referred to as “Bloody Mary.”

By the end of the episode King Henry had collapsed on the floor. The military defeat of France has taken a great toll on his mental and physical health. Next week we find his advisors plotting to gain the upper-hand in the King’s final days on this earth. We know the outcome, but until that final episode in another week airs, we’ll leave you hanging. Now is the last chance to watch Showtime’s “The Tudors” on Sunday nights at 9 p.m. and again at 11 p.m. before it all becomes history.

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