If it seems an age since the first series of Wolf Hall aired, that’s because it is: Mark Rylance made his debut as the scheming Thomas Cromwell all the way back in 2015.
Now, the adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s acclaimed last Cromwell novel, The Mirror and the Light, is finally set to air on BBC One this week. But given that it’s been nine whole years since we last saw her world on screen, you might be forgiven for forgetting a thing or who about what went down.
