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The Tudors — Season 3

Henry's marriage to Jane Seymour is happy, fruitful and tragically short; the king brutally suppresses a rebellion against his religious reforms; England, Spain and the Pope ally against England, forcing Henry to marry a Protestant.

Episodes

  • E01 Civil Unrest

    ★ 6.6

    Apr 5, 2009 · 48m

    King Henry marries for the third time, taking as his queen the demure noblewoman Jane Seymour. A growing number of his subjects protest the king's decision to abandon the Catholic Church.

  • E02 The Northern Uprising

    ★ 8.2

    Apr 12, 2009 · 47m

    The uproar over the king's break with the Catholic Church turns into a full-blown rebellion that comes to be known as "The Pilgrimage of Grace." Immobilized by an old jousting injury, Henry sends Charles Brandon to deal with the uprising and focuses his attention on the Lady Ursula Misseldon.

  • E03 Dissention and Punishment

    ★ 7.0

    Apr 19, 2009 · 49m

    Henry reconciles with his estranged daughters Mary and Elizabeth in time for the Christmas holidays, but betrays and brutally suppresses the rebellion against him after making conciliatory promises to the uprising's leaders.

  • E04 The Death of a Queen

    ★ 7.9

    Apr 26, 2009 · 49m

    The leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace uprising are put to death, but Brandon is disturbed by the cruelty and mercilessness of the suppression; Henry celebrates the birth of a son but his joy is short-lived as Queen Jane dies within days.

  • E05 Problems in the Reformation

    ★ 6.7

    May 3, 2009 · 51m

    Henry remains in seclusion while mourning the queen's death, an opportunity that enemies of the crown seize to murder several friends of the court; Cromwell is disturbed when Henry doesn't resist his new church's similarities to Catholicism.

  • E06 Search for a New Queen

    ★ 6.5

    May 10, 2009 · 54m

    Matchmaking begins in earnest as Cromwell schemes to secure the Reformation by marrying Henry to a Protestant wife - but the king's marital reputation precedes him; the condition of Henry's wounded leg turns life-threatening.

  • E07 Protestant Anne of Cleves

    ★ 8.2

    May 17, 2009 · 52m

    War looms with France and Spain aligning against England with backing from Rome, so Henry agrees to a politically fortuitous marriage with Anne of Cleves (Joss Stone), a plain and unsophisticated German aristocrat he has never met.

  • E08 The Undoing of Cromwell

    ★ 7.1

    May 24, 2009 · 52m

    Henry moves swiftly to annul his loveless marriage to Anne of Cleves, and beds a new mistress, 17-year-old Katherine Howard; Princess Mary falls in love with Duke Philip of Bavaria; Cromwell's fall from favor is sudden and dramatic.

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