Our furthest journey so far to 1547, a year filled with Henry VIII's extraordinary appetite and suspicious good looks, a young King Edward VI outlaws boiling people alive, the questionable parenting skills of both Ivan The Terrible and Francis I of France, also Magnus Pegel is born, the first person to write about blood transfusions and we learn how Bobby and Red first met.

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