Presents the biography of Henry VIII, second monarch of the House of Tudor, who was married six times, unified Wales and England, and was known for executing people with beheadings, including two of his wives.
When rumors begin to circulate that King Henry VIII is no longer intimate with his wife who has been unable to give him a male heir, Sir Thomas Boleyn concocts a plan to bring his family back to prominence.
Hoping to revive his distressed family fortune, the Baron of Stone arranges the engagment of his twelve-year-old daughter, Eliza Rose Camperdowne, to the son of the Earl of Westmoreland.