

Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She convinces her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as part of a peace agreement.

Marion Davies
Mary Tudor
Lead
Forrest Stanley
Charles Brandon

Lyn Harding
Henry VIII

Theresa Maxwell Conover
Queen Catherine

Pedro de Cordoba
Duke of Buckingham
Ruth Shepley
Lady Jane Bolingbroke

Ernest Glendinning
Sir Edwin Caskoden
Arthur Forrest
Cardinal Wolsey
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