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Jun 16, 2010 · It all comes to an end on The Tudors this week, as Henry is forced to surrender Boulogne. He retreats more and more into himself with death clearly imminent.
Apr 4, 2011 · The Tudors Finale – Death of a Monarchy. BBC 2 aired the final “The Tudors” episode on Saturday night in the UK and I must admit to being very moved watching it. I thoroughly enjoyed it and breathed a satisfied sigh as the credits rolled, I felt that it was a fitting end to the series.
Wriothesley tells Gardiner what happened. Council meeting in the King’s absence – Wriothesley asks council to show their agreement to the peace treaty with France. They all agree.
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Season Four of The Tudors is the final season of the show and focuses on Henry's last years, and his marriages to his last two wives Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr. It was aired in 2010.
The fourth and final season covers Henry's ill-fated marriage to Catherine Howard and his final, more congenial, marriage to Catherine Parr. The ageing King seeks military glory by capturing Boulogne, France. In his final hours, he is troubled by the ghosts of his dead wives.
Henry marries 17 year old Catherine Howard, and, besotted by her beauty, calling her "his rose without a thorn", feels rejuvenated. Catherine starts to dally with the King's groom, Thomas Culpepper, and is encouraged by her senior lady-in-waiting, Lady Rochford - Henry's sister-in-law - who is also being bedded by Culpepper. In Episode 2, Henry invites his former wife, Anne of Cleves, to court to celebrate Christmas as he wants to reward her for keeping her word to him and for her loyalty. She, in turn, is grateful for the charity he has shown towards her. After the festivities, he is struck down once again by his leg wound - from his former jousting days - while Catherine is with Culpepper.
Feeling the need for company, Henry visits Anne of Cleves and has a liaison with her. He and Catherine embark on the royal Passage to the North to forgive the former rebels, accompanied by the Princess Mary who is popular with the King's northern subjects. It is during this period that Catherine and Culpepper consummate their relationship and Catherine is truly in love with him. In Episode 4, Henry makes friendly overtures to the French Ambassador, hoping to prevent an invasion, and Francis Dereham, Catherine's former lover when they both resided with the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, arrives at court and blackmails the Queen into making him her private secretary. Some weeks later Henry receives a secret letter about their prior sexual exploits.
In Episode 5 the King grants permission to the Earl of Hertford to investigate the Queen's infidelity. He plans to pardon her but is then informed by his Council of her affair with Culpepper — revealed by Dereham under torture - and he has all three executed, along with Lady Rochford who has gone mad in the Tower. On the scaffold, Catherine states that, although Queen of England, she would have preferred to have been Thomas Culpepper's wife. In Episode 6, Henry is courted by both Spain and Rome to form a military alliance against the French, who have allied with the Turks, and he is persuaded to form an alliance with the Emperor and invade France. Thomas Seymour introduces Catherine Parr at court and she catches the King's eye, even though married. Henry pursues her and sends Seymour over to Belgium to remove him as a love rival.
Military preparations are made and English troops lay siege to Boulogne, bombarding it with cannon as an Italian engineer digs a tunnel to blow up the castle. Charles Brandon, the Duke of Suffolk, captures a French father and daughter and falls in love with the daughter Brigitte. At home, Catherine Parr is acting as Regent in Henry's absence and uses her power to further the Protestant cause but is checked by Bishop Gardiner and his Catholic faction, supported by the Princess Mary. In Episode 8, the castle of Boulogne is overcome and the keys to the city handed over to Henry by the French mayor. Henry returns to court in triumph, leaving the Earl of Surrey in charge of the new possession.
At home, Henry is disturbed by the struggle between the Catholic and Protestant factions and Catherine alienates him through her support of the Reformation. Bishop Gardiner continues his campaign against heretics and gathers enough evidence to persuade the King to issue an arrest warrant against the Queen for heresy. In the meantime, Henry Howard, now Lieutenant General Surrey, loses a disastrous battle at Boulogne and, in an attempt to usurp power away from the new men like the Seymours and Richard Rich, he is arrested and tried for treason and executed, despite the paucity of evidence against him.
4.01 - Moment of Nostalgia
4.02 - Sister
4.03 - Something for You
4.04 - Natural Ally
4.05 - Bottom of the Pot
4.06 - You Have My Permission
Jonathan Rhys Meyers - King Henry
Henry Cavill - Charles Brandon
Tamzin Merchant - Katherine Howard
Joely Richardson- Catherine Parr
Sarah Bolger - Lady Mary Tudor
Max Brown- Edward Seymour
Jun 20, 2010 · Death of a Monarchy is the 10th episode of Season 4 and the finale of The Tudors series. King Henry is forced to surrender Boulogne, his great prize, as part of a peace treaty with France.
Feb 18, 2021 · Series 4. Henry's almost 40-year-long reign draws to a close. In his final years, he marries twice more, and enters into an ill-advised war with France that takes its toll on both his health and...
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Jun 21, 2010 · It's all over on The Tudors. What did you think of the series finale? We've reviewed it in depth here and now.
