Mary Tudor's struggle for legitimacy and agency in a court dominated by political maneuvering.

Jolted awake by a nightmare, Thomas Cromwell is immediately confronted by two riders bearing urgent news of a violent rebellion in Lincolnshire. The riders report that rebels in Louth have …

Thomas Cromwell interrupts a private meeting between Lady Mary and the Spanish ambassador Mendoza, leveraging his authority to cut short their conversation. After Mendoza departs, Cromwell presses Mary about her …

In the Great Hall of Austin Friars, Cromwell receives a veiled young woman from Antwerp—Anselma’s daughter—who arrives unannounced and probes his past through the Queen of Sheba tapestry, a coded …