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From: The Spanish Princess, 2.01, 2.04, & 2.08 Character: Catherine of Aragon Actor: Charlotte Hope Costume By: Pam Downe

TAMZIN MERCHANT as Catherine Howard The Tudors (2007-2010) — Season four, episode five

He [Cromwell] was brought from his cell to the scaffold on Tower Hill. Beside him in death was Walter Lord Hungerford. This relatively minor nobleman’s fate was connected to Cromwell’s because he undertook administrative tasks for the Lord Privy Seal in his West Country homeland, and because he provided discreetly by association. His arrest seems to have arisen out of traditionalist remarks about the King by his chaplain, but investigation triggered a wave of lurid accusations against Hungerford himself which at the very least showed what a dysfunctional life he led, not for the first time in the Hungerford family: a spectrum of wife-beating, incest and buggery, sickening if even half true. It was the last charge that ensured Hungerford’s execution, under a statute Cromwell himself had steered through Parliament in earlier years. All this distracted usefully from the initial charges against Hungerford’s chaplain, which suggests that the wretched peer may actually have been arrested in the course of the Lord Privy Seal’s normal round of scenting out conservative religious dissidence. Hungerford did not die gracefully or with tranquillity: ‘at the hour of his death [he] seemed unquiet, as many judged him rather in a frenzy than otherwise,’ one chronicler observed. By contrast, Cromwell was the model of control. His duty, customary for prominent condemned people, was to make an appropriate speech expressing repentance and saying something about the offence for which he was dying. Unless one had nothing to lose, the limits on what could be said were considerable. Cromwell was conscious of performing a last service for his much loved son and grandchildren, to distance them from his own attainder and give the King reason to look well on them in the future. So he chose his words carefully, though actually giving no ground to his enemies. Yes, he had lived a sinner – but have not we all under Christian teaching? – ‘and it is not unknown to many of you that I have been a great traveller in this world, and being but of a base degree, was called to high estate, and sithence the time I came thereunto, I have offended my prince.’ — Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch

SARAH BOLGER as Lady Mary Tudor (Mary I) The Tudors (2007-2010) — Season four, episode three

"He, Cromwell."