Following Edward VI’s death, English noble houses quickly began maneuvering to secure him a wife or an heir. It was Northumberland (John Wood), along with the equally driven Suffolk (Patrick Stewart) and his spouse (Sara Kestelman), who devised a scheme: marrying his son Guilford (Cary Elwes) to their daughter Jane (Helena Bonham Carter). The goal was to strengthen her fragile claim to the throne once the ailing youn…