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January 1547: The King of England's fetid 400-pound frame lies on his deathbed, his nation left as rotten and broken as his body. Pull back the veil to expose the vicious rivalries and conspiracies that characterized Henry VIII's court, where a man could find ultimate riches — or his head impaled on a traitor's spike.