- Catherine's buys the silence of an indiscreet former lover with a position in her chamber as her affair with Culpepper becomes more tempestuous.
- Henry's trip north to mend fences with his northern provinces appears to be going well, but Francis Derehan, Catherine's first lover, appears and coerces her into reluctantly appointing him to her chamber as a price for silence. The brash and immature young man soon becomes overly familiar with her and puts the Queen, who is still passionately involved with Culpepper, in jeopardy. The young Prince Edward catches a dangerous fever but the Seymour doesn't want to alarm the king on his diplomatic mission. Unfortunately this becomes a moot point, when King James refuses to meet him and the Scottish army begins to attack their southern neighbors along the border. A distraught Henry returns home to his ill Prince of Wales.—Anonymous
- Showered with gifts and abject apologies for the northerners former revolt during his visit to Pontefract castle and archiepiscopal see York, Henry triumphs and proclaims the reconciliation completed. In view of a war against the emperor, France seeks English support. Thomas Culpepper suddenly gets a 'rival' besides the still unsuspecting king when Katherine concedes creating, as a bribe for discretion, a queen's secretary and usher post for Francis Derehan, her first love in the duchess-dowager's 'care'. Alas he proves unfit for court life, lacking gentlemanly qualities like self-control and discretion. Henry invited the Scottish king to negotiate a peace, but is stood up while border incursions multiply. Just then prince Edward's mysterious infection deteriorates so badly that Thomas Seymour must inform the king, who returns anxiously to London, but his heir luckily recovers when his state seemed hopeless.—KGF Vissers
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