Episode 4.05

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Tudors episode: 4.5

First aired: May 9, 2010

Tudors season: 4

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Writer(s):
Michael Hirst

Name of Episode:
Bottom of the Pot

Director(s): Ciarán Donnelly

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Mini-synopsis:
Lord Hertford’s investigation into allegations of the Queen’s infidelities moves with speed. Deeply upset by revelations of his beloved young wife’s sexual past, Henry weeps. But once adultery is uncovered, his response is swift and decisive.

Queen Katherine (Tamzin Merchant) is shocked by the King’s (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) orders that she be confined to her apartments. The investigation into her past moves with speed: Francis Dereham is arrested and interrogated. Joan Bulmer is questioned as is the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk – at whose home Joan and Catherine lived as young women and where their immoral acts are rumored to have taken place. Dereham confesses that he and Katherine Howard had planned to get married and that he knew her carnally before she became Queen. A serious revelation, but not adultery.

Uncharacteristically, Henry weeps when told of these discoveries. But his response is unsentimental and swift: Katherine Howard is removed from court and her title as Queen withdrawn. Her pleas for understanding and forgiveness are coldly ignored but she knows she is lucky to escape with her life.

Francis Derehem is brutally tortured as Lord Hertford (Max Brown) seeks to establish if Katherine Howard committed adultery. Dereham denies the charge but points to Thomas Culpepper (Torrance Coombs) who is promptly arrested. Furious that the betrayal was widely known, Henry isolates himself from his court. Betrayed, bruised but unbowed the King gives a banquet, attended only by 26 beautiful young women.

ANOTHER QUEEN FALLS OUT OF FAVOUR

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■ BEST QUOTES

Katherine Howard-'Henry! It's me Katherine. It's Katherine. Your Majesty. Please. No Please!'

Katherine Howard-'He called me his little fool.'

Jailer -'Do you want a confessor?'
Katherine Howard - 'No.I have spoken to God so rarely,I do not think he would know who I was.'

Katherine Howard (on the scaffold) -'I have come here to die. I die a Queen,but I would rather die the wife of Culpepper.'

Katherine Howard (on the scaffold)-'Life is very beautiful'

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Katherine dancing while Dereham and Culpepper are executed

Katherine Howard's Execution.

Katherine Howard asking for the block so she could practice putting her head on it.

King Henry having the party with just women while Katherine lived out her last night.

Katherine running out of her chamber to try to talk to Henry.

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