The Howard family's attempt to undermine Cromwell's influence and secure their own power through strategic marriages and manipulation, particularly surrounding Lady Margaret Douglas's secret union with Thomas Howard (Truth).
The Howard family's attempt to undermine Cromwell's influence and secure their own power through strategic marriages and manipulation, particularly surrounding Lady Margaret Douglas's secret union with Thomas Howard (Truth).
Events in This Arc
In a single, masterful maneuver, Thomas Cromwell orchestrates two commissions that reveal the duality of his power: one public, one private. Before a blank wall in Austin Friars, he tasks …
In the aftermath of Lady Margaret Douglas’s explosive confession of her secret marriage to Thomas Howard, Cromwell’s study becomes a battleground of political wills. While Wriothesley—eager and ruthless—presses Cromwell to …