Tag: Cardinal Wolsey

11 June 2012

Review of Wolsey, the Rise and Fall

  To sit in the pews of a 14th century Suffolk church, watching the dramatic life story of one of the county’s most famous characters, Cardinal Wolsey, was very appropriate. Bucklesham church (although extensively rebuilt in Victorian times), with its plain glass windows and whitewashed walls, is a good reminder of the consequences of Henry VIII’s desperate search for an heir that led to the […]