article_snippet.sent: Damien Lewis, pictured left, with a small and modest codpiece, and a Renaissance portrait, right, with a much more noticeable and prominent garment .
article_snippet.sent: Homeland star Damian Lewis played King Henry VIII in the six-part series on the rapid rise to power of Sir Thomas Cromwell in King Henry VIII's court . '
article_snippet.sent: In the time of King Henry VIII
article_snippet.sent: Damian Lewis, who played King Henry VIII, admitted that the codpieces were a source of some 'giggling'  during filming.
article_snippet.sent: Historians also pointed out that Montacute House in Somerset, which was used to portray Greenwich Palace, is from the Elizabethan period.
article_snippet.sent: That's a massive historical question, in some ways they were and in some ways they weren't.'
article_snippet.sent: as a Tudor drama was a time when sugar was yet to become widely available.
highlights_snippet.sent: Drama tells story of Sir Thomas Cromwell's rise in King Henry VIII's court .