#Vincent regan jasper tudor series#
This series begins to hit its stride with the third outing, Burgundy, an episode focused on life and death both in literal and figurative form. However, as in the pilot episode, it is Michelle Fairley and Essie Davis who command our attention as Lady Margaret and the Dowager Queen Elizabeth, matching wits and doing waging their own psychological war to keep their children in power. Collins-Levy is giving his Henry many layers, at the surface a seemingly hard ruler, but capable of showing tenderness toward Lizzie. Comer shines in the moments where her Lizzie shows her spirit, her determination and her heart in trying to get help for the people afflicted with the sickness. Just as Henry and Lizzie are growing into their roles as the King and his bride, Jamie Comer and especially Jacob Collins-Levy are growing in their performances. It seems the young king and queen have formed a tentative bond. She tells him he could start by freeing her young, mentally challenged cousin, Teddy from the Tower of London. She tells him he reaps what he sows if he rules with kindness he gets loyalty in return. Once again intrigued by his bride, Henry tells her she knows just what to do to make the people love her.
It seems in his absence and after learning of sickness, Lizzie has defiantly stood up to Bishop Morton (Kenneth Cranham) left in charge of her in the king's absence and broken into the Royal Treasury and given the funds there to the people to help them. Seeing that his country is still divided, a dejected Henry returns home, only to be surprised by the reception of grateful subjects. Henry is equally disturbed to find that not only did his mother lie to him about the sickness that is now plaguing the country, a sickness being called a curse from God because Henry is king, but he believes she is developing an unhealthy attraction to his uncle, Jasper Tudor (Vincent Regan). She was willing to sow dissent but she did not want her husband killed. Lizzie lashes out at her mother after learning of an assassination attempt, organized by her mother, on her husband on his journey to York. Lizzie and Henry both begin to doubt the counsel and guidance their warring mothers are giving them. After seeing to it Lizzie is made a virtual prisoner in her rooms in the palace, Lady Margaret has her mother imprisoned in Westminster Palace. Then is a masterful stroke tricks Lizzie into believing her mother would be taking her place on the trip. First, she nixes Lizzie from going with him by saying that rumors of a spreading sickness would be a threat to her and her unborn child. However, Henry's mother, Lady Margaret (Michelle Fairly) is one step ahead of them.
It is in York that she, as her mother the Dowager Queen Elizabeth (Essie Davis) has told her, they can rally York supporters. In a remarkably easy fashion Lizzie (Jamie Comer) uses his insecurity to trick him into traveling through York. Henry is to take a tour through the country, a Royal Progress, asserting his newly gained power over his people.
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