The situation looks desperate for both sides, but the French fortifications are undermined decisively before the English troops succumb to diseases. Hearing his imperial ally isn't making any progress into France, Henry decides against marching on Paris and returns home to celebrate lavishly his historic victory. Duke Charles arranges for his French 'captive' lover Brigitte Rousselot to join him as mistress, while releasing her father. Queen Catherine discretely employs a covert Lutheran tutor for crown prince Edward, who long for his nearly inaccessible father. Imperial ambassador Bishop Chapuys, gout-crippled, retires as his master consecrated a separate peace with France by promising a princess to the Dauphin, who is marching on Surrey's English occupation garrison. Although that makes the exhaustingly expensive war a disaster for henry, he remains obsessed with celebrating his 'military triumph' nationwide.
—KGF Vissers