Garai is Mary, Henry’s eldest baby, daughter of his first spouse, the Spanish princess herself, Catherine of Aragon. Mary is equally dedicated to her God and her little brother the King and it cleaves her in two that her twin devotions are fully incompatible. For if she honours one, she dishonours the opposite.
Raine portrays Catherine Parras, Henry’s widow, a intelligent, educated girl, who performed the a part of Regent as soon as throughout Henry’s sickness and bitterly resents that she isn’t capable of play it once more. Because the younger King ascends to the throne, Catherine is left on the sidelines, however is eventually free to pursue her former lover, the King’s uncle Thomas Seymour.
Cullen performs Thomas Seymour. Concurrently charming, playful and humorous while being hotheaded, formidable and probably harmful, Thomas Seymour expects the spoils that ought naturally to fall to the King’s uncle. His ambitions are ruined by the machinations of his older brother Edward Seymour, the Duke of Somerset who shortly seizes the place of Lord protector to the brand new boy king. He marries his former lover the dowager Queen Catherine for each energy and love however then his eye falls on the teenage Elizabeth and a complete new pathway to energy opens up in entrance of him.
Ramsey is Jane Gray. Woman Jane is introduced underneath Catherine and Thomas’s wing, as a part of their and her father’s plan to marry her to the king. Younger, critical, intelligent and staunchly Protestant, she has a transparent sense of her personal place on this planet: as close to to the throne as she will be able to get with out sitting within the king’s lap. (Though then once more…)