His marriage to Anne of Cleves ending as quickly as it started, Henry remarries randy teenager Catherine Howard, but her infidelity soon results in her execution; Henry finally finds domestic peace in his advanced years with the steady Catherine Parr, who unites his fractured family; a war with France ends in victory but exhausts Henry's energy; the deaths of the French king and his best friend Brandon cause Henry to keenly feel his mortality, and he commissions a magnificent royal portrait.