A husband becomes infuriated when his wife and household staff abandon him as a result of their fixation with murder trials.

Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She convinces her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as part of a peace agreement.

Young lawyer Peter Donaldson tries to achieve fame by defending a man accused of murder, but the case is complicated by his love for a woman who is a witness for the prosecution.