Magnificence & Power

It’s the summer of 1536 and everybody is trying to come to terms with the execution of Anne Boleyn and her replacement by Jane Seymour. Hans Holbein is now The King’s Painter and at the centre of the court. Guided by his mentor and protector Thomas Cromwell, he is busy expressing the king’s new motto Magnificence and Power. But knowing the king’s will turns into guessing the king’s mind and when Cromwell gets it wrong, by choosing Anne of Cleves as the king’s fifth wife, it is he who is executed. Now Holbein finds himself alone, and tainted by the same event. When the king marries Catryn Parr, it seems an opportunity may arise to redeem himself. But will it?