Sunday, Nov. 24 at 8 p.m.
January, 1547. The King of England’s fetid, 400-pound frame lies on his deathbed, his nation left as rotten and broken as his body. Once Europe’s most promising and enlightened prince, “Inside the Court of Henry VIII” examines how Henry VIII squandered Britain’s riches on futile wars, tore apart the centuries-old religious certainties of his people and threw off the shackles of papal authority.
