There is bittersweet news for fans of The Spanish Princess on Starz. Episode eight, titled Peace is the last instalment in The Spanish Princess and there are no plans for the show to continue. The eighth episode was the final part of the show’s epic two-part finale and fans will be sad to see the series come to an end.

Ferdinand of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile in Valladolid, thus beginning a cooperative reign that would unite all the dominions of Spain and elevate the nation to a dominant world power.

The marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, in 1469 at the Palacio de los Vivero in Valladolid began the familial union of the two kingdoms. In 1492, the Kingdom of Castile conquered the last Moorish state of Granada, thereby ending Muslim rule in Iberia and completing the Reconquista.

In 1533, Henry VIII broke from the church and married the now pregnant Anne Boleyn in a secret ceremony. This solved his heir problem, but Henry was excommunicated by the Pope . The English Reformation had begun. Thomas Cromwell became Henry’s chief minister (advisor).

She sought to return England to the Catholic Church and stirred rebellions by marrying a Spanish Habsburg prince. But she is most remembered for burning nearly 300 English Protestants at the stake for heresy, which earned her the nickname “Bloody Mary.”

Upon assuming the throne, Queen Elizabeth I restored England to Protestantism. This broke with the policy of her predecessor and half-sister, Queen Mary I, a Catholic monarch who ruthlessly tried to eliminate Protestantism from English society.

There was a rebellion in 1554 against her marriage to Philip of Spain, known as Wyatt’s rebellion. However, many modern historians think that England was only Protestant on the surface during the reign of Edward VI and that most English people were delighted to go back to the Catholic religion under Mary I.