The King's Curse

As an heir to the Plantagenets, Margaret of York is seen by the King's mother as a rival to the Tudor claim. She is married off to a Tudor supporter - Sir Richard Pole - and becomes guardian to Arthur, the young Prince of Wales, and his beautiful bride, Katherine of Aragon. Tragedy throws Margaret into poverty and only a royal death restores her to her place at young Henry VIII's court. Amid the rapid deterioration of the Tudor court, Margaret must choose whether her allegiance is to the increasingly tyrannical Henry VIII or to her beloved queen. Caught between the old and the new, Margaret must find her own way, concealing her knowledge that an old curse cast upon all the Tudors is slowly coming true...