Episode two of Wolf Corridor season two sees Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) coping with one more disaster in King Henry VIII’s courtroom after the King’s beloved niece, Margaret, makes an attempt to marry Lord Thomas Howard with out Henry’s permission. The episode additionally explores a deeply private matter for Cromwell as he meets Wolsey’s daughter, Dorothea. So, what actually occurred?
What occurred to Woman Margaret Douglas?
Henry VIII’s niece, Margaret, was the daughter of Henry’s sister, Margaret Tudor. As portrayed in Wolf Corridor, historic data point out that Henry and Margaret had a great relationship, with the King bestowing her with beneficiant presents – till her involvement with Lord Thomas Howard. Within the present, Margaret claims that she and Thomas are promised to at least one one other, however with out Henry’s permission.
That is certainly traditionally correct, as Henry was livid when he discovered of their engagement with out his consent.
This example was significantly problematic, as with Henry’s daughters Mary and Elizabeth each declared illegitimate following the failure of his marriages to their moms, Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn respectively, Margaret was subsequent within the line of succession whereas Henry hoped for a son together with his third spouse, Jane Seymour.
As punishment, each Margaret and Thomas had been despatched to the Tower, and an Act of Attainder accused Thomas of aspiring to change into the following King of England, sentencing him to loss of life. The act additionally decreed that no member of the King’s household may marry with out his permission.
© Nick BriggsWhereas Thomas’s loss of life sentence was not carried out, he remained imprisoned within the Tower. In the meantime, Woman Margaret renounced their relationship, and their engagement was ended, as proven within the episode. After falling unwell, Margaret was ultimately moved from the Tower to Syon Abbey and was later launched, returning to her uncle’s good graces by 1537.
Thomas, nonetheless, died within the Tower after contracting an sickness. He was 26.
Who was Sister Dorothea?
In a heartbreaking scene in episode two, Cromwell meets Thomas Wolsey’s illegitimate daughter, Dorothea, who had been positioned in a nunnery following her father’s loss of life. Within the scene, Cromwell is devastated when Dorothea rejects his presents and provides to search out her a cushty house exterior of the nunnery – in addition to his personal hand in marriage.
© Nick BriggsDorothea informs Cromwell that she is aware of he’s a liar who betrayed her father, Wolsey, leaving Cromwell to grasp that she may solely have believed this by listening to it from her father. He’s heartbroken to be taught that Wolsey thought Cromwell had betrayed him earlier than his loss of life. However how a lot of that is true?
© Nick BriggsIt’s certainly true that Wolsey had an illegitimate daughter named Dorothy, who was adopted by John Clansey and later positioned in Shaftesbury Abbey’s convent. Nevertheless, there is no such thing as a proof {that a} assembly between Thomas and Dorothy ever occurred. When the abbey was dissolved, Dorothy did obtain a pension from Cromwell.
