El trueno en el reino

England. May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, beheaded in the blink of an eye, at the hands of a French executioner. While his remains rest underground, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors and continues his rise to power and wealth. His master, Henry VIII, settles for short-term happiness in the arms of his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwell knows that he can only trust himself. He does not have a large family to back him up, nor a private army. And despite internal rebellion, traitors multiplying abroad and the threat of invasion that puts Henry VIII's reign to the test, Cromwell seeks to turn England into a new country that looks into the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, really shed its past like dead skin? "What will you do -the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell- when the king turns against you as he does sooner or later against all those who are close to him?"