Wolf Hall concluded with the heartbreaking execution of Thomas Cromwell after displeasing King Henry VIII. The show has been a smash hit with viewers and critics alike, but how true is it to real ...

After Thomas Cromwell’s execution in 1540, Rafe Sadler—Cromwell’s trusted right-hand man—managed to stay alive and in the game. Henry VIII likely saw him as a non-threatening, ...

Wolf Hall has reached its grisly conclusion with the execution of Thomas Cromwell, who died by beheading after being accused of treason and heresy without a trial. There have been various reports ...

Cromwell was executed, and it took three blows of the ax because the executioner wasn’t that great — this may have been planned by Cromwell’s enemies to make the death more painful.

Thomas Cromwell faces his end in Wolf Hall: ... He heads through Traitor’s Gate to the Tower of London, going into the same place Anne Boleyn was held before her own execution.

Despite all his knowledge of Henry (Damian Lewis), Mark Rylance‘s Cromwell held out hope that Henry would change his mind about his execution, just like Anne did in the Wolf Hall 2015 finale ...

There was nothing Catherine could have done to prevent that Bill of Attainder, and it led to her execution on Feb. 13, 1542, almost two years after the execution of Thomas Cromwell.

Thomas Wyatt: One of Anne Boleyn’s accused lovers and, with Cromwell’s protection, the only one spared execution, Wyatt returns to the king’s favor as an ambassador.

Thomas Cromwell was born around 1485, the son of a brewer, ... Henry had executed his second wife, Anne Boleyn, while his third wife Jane Seymour, had died following child birth.