The Tudors: Season 3

TV-MA

2009

Created by Michael Hirst
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8 episodes
Drama

Bodice ripper drama series from Vikings creator Michael Hirst following the courtly and romantic exploits of the young King Henry VIII (played... More

Bodice ripper drama series from Vikings creator Michael Hirst following the courtly and romantic exploits of the young King Henry VIII (played by Jonathan Rhys Myers). Henry Cavill (The Witcher) co-stars.

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Where to watch The Tudors: Season 3

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The Tudors: Season 3 episodes

Civil Unrest

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

The Northern Uprising

The uproar over the king's break with the Catholic Church... More 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.

Dissention and Punishment

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

The Death of a Queen

The leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace uprising are put... More 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.

Problems in the Reformation

Henry remains in seclusion while mourning the queen's death, an... More 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.

Search for a New Queen

Matchmaking begins in earnest as Cromwell schemes to secure the... More 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.

Protestant Anne of Cleves

War looms with France and Spain aligning against England with... More 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.

The Undoing of Cromwell

Henry moves swiftly to annul his loveless marriage to Anne... More 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.