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The Tudors - 01x09 Look to God First

1x09 Look to God First

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First Aired: Jun. 03, 2007 on Showtime
Summary: As an unthinkable event unfolds, Cardinal Wolsey is removed of his power. Everyone is shocked when his successor is announced.

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Guest Stars

Norfolk played by Henry Czerny
Cardinal Campeggio played by John Kavanagh
Willoughby played by Michael Patric
Court Cryer played by Martin Maguire
Man in Tavern played by Rory James Wilson
Old Man played by Des Braiden
Sailor in Tavern played by Michael Condron
Chamberlain played by Guy Carleton

Episode Quotes

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey: Try to discover by subtle means, through his agents, if the emperor is prepared to support his aunt by use of force.
Sir Thomas More: You think he might invade England in support of the queen?
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey: [smiling] I don't think anything, but I imagine everything.
Princess Margaret: Softly love and to love softly. Dew on the sycamore branch. By the creaking gate where my heart hurries afterwards through the path of wheat along the briar, to that stone, under which I lie.
King Henry VIII: Wolsey promises me I will have a divorce by summer.
Anne Boleyn: Promises are easy.

Mistakes/Goofs

  • Goof (factual errors): (possibly deliberate by filmmakers) Henry is seen to be composing the song "Greensleeves." There is a persistent belief that Greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII for Anne Boleyn. It is said that Boleyn's alleged rejection of King Henry's attempts to seduce her may be referred to in the song when the writer's love "cast me off discourteously." However, Henry did not compose "Greensleeves," which is probably Elizabethan in origin and is based on an Italian-style of composition that did not reach England until after his death.
  • Goof (anachronisms): When the Spanish ambassador makes the baise-main to the Queen, we can clearly see a telephone pole in the background.
  • Goof (anachronisms): Christian Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, lived from 1629 to 1695. Wolsey could not have had such clock a century earlier.