1 00:00:00,002 --> 00:00:01,739 Previously on The Spanish Princess... 2 00:00:01,740 --> 00:00:04,395 How is my magnificent son and heir? 3 00:00:04,526 --> 00:00:06,267 Do you believe that true union is possible 4 00:00:06,397 --> 00:00:07,461 more than once in a lifetime? 5 00:00:07,485 --> 00:00:09,313 I do. 6 00:00:09,444 --> 00:00:12,012 A woman was seen entering the king's rooms. 7 00:00:12,142 --> 00:00:13,380 It is the way of the English kings. 8 00:00:13,404 --> 00:00:15,102 They jump into so many beds. 9 00:00:15,232 --> 00:00:18,496 Catherine is distressed, and I am worried for the baby. 10 00:00:18,627 --> 00:00:22,065 Sir Compton, I was hoping I might seek your help. 11 00:00:22,196 --> 00:00:23,893 Sir William kissed another woman. 12 00:00:24,024 --> 00:00:25,547 I must refuse him. 13 00:00:25,677 --> 00:00:27,114 And nothing will come between us. 14 00:00:27,244 --> 00:00:29,551 - Get out! - We are married! 15 00:00:29,681 --> 00:00:32,206 You have betrayed your country, madam. 16 00:00:32,336 --> 00:00:34,425 No! Bring them back to me! 17 00:00:34,556 --> 00:00:35,905 Push! 18 00:00:36,036 --> 00:00:37,602 How is my son? 19 00:00:37,733 --> 00:00:39,039 It's a girl. 20 00:00:40,953 --> 00:00:42,999 Thank you for your efforts. 21 00:01:31,923 --> 00:01:37,923 *CREDITS* 22 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:43,625 - Come, let's go now. - Go where? 23 00:01:43,755 --> 00:01:45,322 Where are we going? 24 00:01:45,453 --> 00:01:47,368 I want to show you my family shield. 25 00:01:49,761 --> 00:01:51,415 Well, let's find out. Come on, in here. 26 00:01:51,546 --> 00:01:53,069 Where are you taking me? 27 00:01:57,204 --> 00:01:59,249 Highness? 28 00:02:00,946 --> 00:02:02,818 Catherine? 29 00:02:05,386 --> 00:02:07,866 How can you bear this? 30 00:02:09,303 --> 00:02:11,043 I cannot bear it. 31 00:02:13,133 --> 00:02:14,525 I hate her. 32 00:02:16,527 --> 00:02:18,399 And I do not want to hate, 33 00:02:18,529 --> 00:02:20,618 so now I hate her twice for making me this way. 34 00:02:20,749 --> 00:02:22,316 Have you spoken to him? 35 00:02:25,188 --> 00:02:27,451 What is there to say? 36 00:02:27,582 --> 00:02:29,845 That I do not like it? 37 00:02:33,022 --> 00:02:35,677 I gave him every chance to tell me, and he did not. 38 00:02:50,039 --> 00:02:52,607 What are you doing? 39 00:02:52,737 --> 00:02:54,783 Not this one. 40 00:02:54,913 --> 00:02:57,873 Don't dress me like some dowager. 41 00:02:58,003 --> 00:03:00,615 If you can't even do your job, get out. 42 00:03:00,745 --> 00:03:02,356 Lina will dress me. 43 00:03:09,319 --> 00:03:10,842 See how good a matchmaker I am? 44 00:03:10,973 --> 00:03:13,105 Henry Stafford and Ursula Pole are delighted 45 00:03:13,236 --> 00:03:14,716 to have reached their wedding day. 46 00:03:14,846 --> 00:03:18,850 They've even sent me a golden purse as thanks. 47 00:03:18,981 --> 00:03:22,245 I fancy we shall have a masked performance after the service. 48 00:03:22,376 --> 00:03:25,248 In fact, I've already arranged it. 49 00:03:25,379 --> 00:03:27,207 Have they said they want one? 50 00:03:27,337 --> 00:03:29,121 Everybody loves a masque! 51 00:03:29,252 --> 00:03:31,254 The sun is shining. 52 00:03:31,385 --> 00:03:33,256 It's a beautiful day for a wedding! 53 00:03:35,737 --> 00:03:38,174 Princess Mary wants her mother. 54 00:03:38,305 --> 00:03:41,351 She thrives. She is strong. 55 00:03:41,482 --> 00:03:44,398 But she is not a boy. 56 00:03:55,626 --> 00:03:58,542 Uh, Charlie, have you set the day for your marriage? 57 00:03:58,673 --> 00:04:01,632 Uh, I'll tell you what, let's eat today for two weddings. 58 00:04:01,763 --> 00:04:04,766 We'll get bloated on an orgy of beer and wine and pastry. 59 00:04:04,896 --> 00:04:06,463 What do you say? Come on. 60 00:04:06,594 --> 00:04:09,553 Well, you are the king. If you say, I must. 61 00:04:09,684 --> 00:04:11,163 Wonderful. 62 00:04:16,908 --> 00:04:20,477 The wedding is over, so speak with me. 63 00:04:20,608 --> 00:04:22,063 You said your mind was on the wedding. 64 00:04:22,087 --> 00:04:23,654 It is now done. 65 00:04:23,785 --> 00:04:25,874 So give me my inheritance from Arthur 66 00:04:26,004 --> 00:04:28,529 so I can pay for troops and take my children back. 67 00:04:28,659 --> 00:04:29,984 Well, Meg, I told you you would have it 68 00:04:30,008 --> 00:04:32,141 if you kept the peace in Scotland. 69 00:04:32,272 --> 00:04:34,317 You have failed to do that, so now... 70 00:04:34,448 --> 00:04:36,248 I kept the peace, until these last few months, 71 00:04:36,363 --> 00:04:38,147 as you know full well. 72 00:04:38,278 --> 00:04:40,236 How long a peace had you in mind? 73 00:04:40,367 --> 00:04:41,890 Until I died? 74 00:04:42,020 --> 00:04:43,892 Oh, how convenient for your treasury. 75 00:04:44,022 --> 00:04:46,198 The terms of your regency in Scotland 76 00:04:46,329 --> 00:04:48,766 were that you did not marry. 77 00:04:48,897 --> 00:04:50,638 You chose to disobey those terms. 78 00:04:50,768 --> 00:04:52,857 Therefore your regency is over, and you are... 79 00:04:52,988 --> 00:04:54,424 How can you bear him, Catherine? 80 00:04:54,555 --> 00:04:57,122 How can you bear my lying pig of a brother 81 00:04:57,253 --> 00:04:58,559 and his pet dog Wolsey? 82 00:04:58,689 --> 00:05:00,561 It is a wedding, Meg. 83 00:05:00,691 --> 00:05:03,825 I will go to Scotland, and I will take my sons, 84 00:05:03,955 --> 00:05:05,635 and I will reclaim everything that is mine, 85 00:05:05,740 --> 00:05:08,482 with or without your consent. 86 00:05:08,612 --> 00:05:11,180 Or yours, Archbishop. 87 00:05:11,311 --> 00:05:13,574 The fairer sex... often very loud. 88 00:05:13,704 --> 00:05:15,315 I have a houseful of them. 89 00:05:28,980 --> 00:05:31,853 Your Graces, we give our thanks to God 90 00:05:31,983 --> 00:05:35,204 that He has joined my son, Henry Stafford, 91 00:05:35,335 --> 00:05:37,772 with his bewitching bride, Ursula. 92 00:05:41,558 --> 00:05:43,604 - The bride and groom. - The bride and groom. 93 00:05:43,734 --> 00:05:45,823 And as a very special wedding gift 94 00:05:45,954 --> 00:05:48,260 to our newly wedded couple, 95 00:05:48,391 --> 00:05:50,437 I have commissioned a masked performance, 96 00:05:50,567 --> 00:05:53,091 a celebration of love. 97 00:06:43,751 --> 00:06:46,710 Henry... 98 00:06:46,841 --> 00:06:49,321 will you come to my rooms tonight? 99 00:06:53,630 --> 00:06:54,979 Yes, of course. 100 00:07:52,820 --> 00:07:55,475 Apologies. I have disturbed your peace. 101 00:07:55,605 --> 00:07:57,085 No. 102 00:07:57,215 --> 00:07:58,869 No, the child was crying. 103 00:08:00,654 --> 00:08:01,872 Thank you. 104 00:08:05,267 --> 00:08:07,356 You are troubled at your daughter's marriage? 105 00:08:07,487 --> 00:08:08,487 No. 106 00:08:10,359 --> 00:08:13,449 No, she would have whoever the king selects for her. 107 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:19,107 But I have never much enjoyed carousing. 108 00:08:19,237 --> 00:08:21,109 As a child, I always found the darkest corner 109 00:08:21,239 --> 00:08:23,590 or hid beneath the table. 110 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,810 My mother scolded me because she thought I'd run away. 111 00:08:28,943 --> 00:08:31,598 She died young, didn't she? 112 00:08:31,728 --> 00:08:33,556 They both did. 113 00:08:36,777 --> 00:08:38,518 Ah. 114 00:08:38,648 --> 00:08:39,954 I think your suitor has returned 115 00:08:40,084 --> 00:08:41,564 to try his chance again. 116 00:08:43,740 --> 00:08:46,613 Sir William, are you quite well? 117 00:08:48,702 --> 00:08:50,094 Oh. 118 00:08:50,225 --> 00:08:52,488 Oh, no. 119 00:08:54,011 --> 00:08:55,665 No, move back. It is the plague. 120 00:08:55,796 --> 00:08:58,233 - Oh, goodness. - My Lord? 121 00:08:58,363 --> 00:09:01,192 Stay back, or you'll be infected. 122 00:09:01,323 --> 00:09:03,064 Tell the king the court must be evacuated. 123 00:09:03,194 --> 00:09:05,457 No one should come down here or near us. 124 00:09:07,764 --> 00:09:09,604 We will bury him when the court is safely gone. 125 00:09:11,289 --> 00:09:12,639 Please do as she says. 126 00:09:23,998 --> 00:09:26,150 I knew Europe had had outbreaks but not here in London. 127 00:09:26,174 --> 00:09:27,804 Your ladies have gone to pack your trunk and a cloak. 128 00:09:27,828 --> 00:09:29,046 We'll go to Windsor and... 129 00:09:29,177 --> 00:09:30,787 Your Grace, if I may be so bold. 130 00:09:30,918 --> 00:09:33,181 My residence at Hampton Court is closer. 131 00:09:33,311 --> 00:09:34,835 There would be less time on the road, 132 00:09:34,965 --> 00:09:36,377 and it would be my pleasure to accommodate the court. 133 00:09:36,401 --> 00:09:38,665 - No, Henry... - We ride to Hampton Court! 134 00:09:38,795 --> 00:09:41,015 - To Hampton Court! - Hampton Court! 135 00:09:41,145 --> 00:09:45,062 Your Grace, the horses are too few for everyone. 136 00:09:45,193 --> 00:09:47,499 Could the ladies ride with the children in the wagons? 137 00:09:47,630 --> 00:09:49,676 - Henry. - Yes. 138 00:09:49,806 --> 00:09:52,113 Take Princess Mary. 139 00:09:52,243 --> 00:09:55,507 Bessie, Lina, tend to the queen. 140 00:09:59,076 --> 00:10:00,948 Oviedo. 141 00:10:01,078 --> 00:10:03,690 The king asks me to stay here in the palace 142 00:10:03,820 --> 00:10:06,388 in case of looting. 143 00:10:06,518 --> 00:10:08,956 Henry Pole will fetch our boys and bring them to you. 144 00:10:11,175 --> 00:10:12,960 My mother says that she will not come. 145 00:10:13,090 --> 00:10:15,136 She stays behind for your sake and the court's. 146 00:10:15,266 --> 00:10:16,626 Her lady mother tended Sir William. 147 00:10:16,659 --> 00:10:17,921 She fears she is infected. 148 00:10:18,052 --> 00:10:19,052 No. 149 00:10:23,623 --> 00:10:25,668 Wiltshire, your daughters will ride with the queen. 150 00:10:28,758 --> 00:10:29,996 Attend the queen. It will advance us in court. 151 00:10:30,020 --> 00:10:31,935 Go. Go. 152 00:10:32,066 --> 00:10:34,503 - Ride out to Hampton Court. - Ride to Hampton Court. 153 00:10:34,634 --> 00:10:36,592 Guard the ladies on the road. 154 00:10:36,723 --> 00:10:38,725 Anne, come, get in beside me. 155 00:10:56,307 --> 00:10:59,746 I have wrapped him in some muslin. 156 00:10:59,876 --> 00:11:02,357 Perhaps it will contain the sickness as we bury him. 157 00:11:03,837 --> 00:11:05,795 He was a good man, 158 00:11:05,926 --> 00:11:07,884 and I wasn't always kind to him. 159 00:11:11,409 --> 00:11:13,934 Let me help you carry him to the garden. 160 00:11:14,064 --> 00:11:17,154 Please, don't come too close. We may be infected. 161 00:11:17,285 --> 00:11:19,766 My God may take me when He chooses. 162 00:11:19,896 --> 00:11:21,855 A lady does not carry. 163 00:11:23,334 --> 00:11:26,294 My men will dig a grave, and I will lay him there to rest. 164 00:11:26,424 --> 00:11:27,706 Come. I have left him in the chapel. 165 00:11:27,730 --> 00:11:29,384 I will help you. 166 00:11:29,514 --> 00:11:31,691 You should change your clothes, and we will burn them. 167 00:11:33,867 --> 00:11:36,173 The same for us when he is in the ground. 168 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:48,577 What else should we do? 169 00:11:48,708 --> 00:11:50,144 There is nothing. 170 00:11:50,274 --> 00:11:52,799 Wait. Live. 171 00:11:52,929 --> 00:11:55,105 Hope we don't get sick. 172 00:11:55,236 --> 00:11:56,759 Or go home to your family. 173 00:11:56,890 --> 00:11:59,762 They are still in London, no? 174 00:11:59,893 --> 00:12:01,982 I will not risk infecting them. 175 00:12:04,332 --> 00:12:06,012 I'm afraid you'll have to endure my company 176 00:12:06,116 --> 00:12:09,076 for a little while longer. 177 00:12:09,206 --> 00:12:11,078 We go to secure the palace. 178 00:12:27,834 --> 00:12:31,141 Come, let us, uh, pray for William Compton's soul... 179 00:12:33,361 --> 00:12:35,798 ...and that your children and our king and queen 180 00:12:35,929 --> 00:12:37,669 are safe now. 181 00:12:55,644 --> 00:12:57,211 Good morning, Your Grace. 182 00:13:01,215 --> 00:13:03,217 He will tire of you, you know? 183 00:13:05,567 --> 00:13:08,396 You were a plaything while I was with child, nothing more. 184 00:13:08,526 --> 00:13:11,225 But his light will soon return to me... 185 00:13:11,355 --> 00:13:14,706 his constant and his queen. 186 00:13:15,969 --> 00:13:18,145 And when it does, you will be cast out of the palace. 187 00:13:23,324 --> 00:13:25,413 Stop the wagon! 188 00:13:30,026 --> 00:13:32,812 The rocking of the cart is unsettling to the stomach. 189 00:13:32,942 --> 00:13:35,858 The queen is not unwell from it. 190 00:13:35,989 --> 00:13:38,687 And nor are we. 191 00:13:41,429 --> 00:13:43,866 It is not the rocking. 192 00:13:56,792 --> 00:13:58,011 Drive on! 193 00:13:58,141 --> 00:13:59,708 Drive! 194 00:14:02,624 --> 00:14:04,557 Let us get to wherever it is 195 00:14:04,582 --> 00:14:06,652 in hell's name we are going. 196 00:14:14,976 --> 00:14:16,976 _ 197 00:14:34,264 --> 00:14:35,962 This is bigger than Westminster Palace. 198 00:14:36,092 --> 00:14:37,224 Mm. 199 00:14:37,354 --> 00:14:38,834 So where in God's name 200 00:14:38,965 --> 00:14:41,445 does a young upstart boy from Ipswich get his wealth? 201 00:14:41,576 --> 00:14:42,727 Mm, perhaps we should enquire 202 00:14:42,751 --> 00:14:44,013 while we are here. 203 00:14:44,144 --> 00:14:46,363 I'm ever your servant, madam, 204 00:14:46,494 --> 00:14:48,931 especially when it might relieve our host of some cheer. 205 00:14:49,062 --> 00:14:51,847 Ten groats says his hospitality is a new bid 206 00:14:51,978 --> 00:14:53,805 for the Chancellorship of England. 207 00:14:55,416 --> 00:14:57,853 Ah, Your Grace. 208 00:14:57,984 --> 00:15:00,856 I trust the journey was not too great a hardship 209 00:15:00,987 --> 00:15:02,945 for the princess and yourself? 210 00:15:03,076 --> 00:15:06,035 A small price to arrive at such grandeur. 211 00:15:06,166 --> 00:15:08,124 You've been too modest about the scale 212 00:15:08,255 --> 00:15:10,300 of your ambition, Wolsey, and your means. 213 00:15:12,128 --> 00:15:13,608 A feat of great design, 214 00:15:13,738 --> 00:15:16,654 which looks far grander than it is, Your Grace. 215 00:15:16,785 --> 00:15:19,396 How fortunate, though, that your funds can stretch 216 00:15:19,527 --> 00:15:22,051 to housing the entire court, Wolsey. 217 00:15:22,182 --> 00:15:24,314 We must thank your benefactors. 218 00:15:30,538 --> 00:15:32,279 Yes, I will. 219 00:15:32,409 --> 00:15:34,194 I will go to help Lina. 220 00:15:37,632 --> 00:15:39,436 We should set up a nursery for the children of the court. 221 00:15:39,460 --> 00:15:40,940 I will help you. 222 00:15:43,681 --> 00:15:45,074 This way. 223 00:15:45,205 --> 00:15:48,773 I will show you to your rooms. 224 00:15:48,904 --> 00:15:51,080 No, you will take me to the king. 225 00:16:06,574 --> 00:16:08,184 Ah, you are unharmed from the journey. 226 00:16:08,315 --> 00:16:10,360 And Princess Mary? 227 00:16:10,491 --> 00:16:13,102 We survived it. 228 00:16:13,233 --> 00:16:14,582 Though it may take Bessie Blount 229 00:16:14,712 --> 00:16:16,105 a day or so to readjust. 230 00:16:16,236 --> 00:16:18,151 Bessie Blount? 231 00:16:18,281 --> 00:16:19,674 Oh, she is with child. 232 00:16:22,242 --> 00:16:23,895 With child? 233 00:16:25,985 --> 00:16:27,682 Well, is it mine? 234 00:16:29,771 --> 00:16:32,730 I know of no other man reputed to be in her bed most nights. 235 00:16:36,038 --> 00:16:37,997 Fetch her. 236 00:16:38,127 --> 00:16:39,346 Fetch her to me now. 237 00:16:39,476 --> 00:16:40,497 You mistake me for a servant, Henry. 238 00:16:40,521 --> 00:16:41,521 Fetch her to me! 239 00:16:49,312 --> 00:16:51,358 Anne? 240 00:16:51,488 --> 00:16:53,142 Please fetch my lady Bessie Blount here. 241 00:16:53,273 --> 00:16:54,404 Yes, Your Grace. 242 00:17:10,203 --> 00:17:12,161 Your Graces. 243 00:17:12,292 --> 00:17:14,163 I'm told you are carrying a child. 244 00:17:14,294 --> 00:17:15,904 Yes, Your Grace. 245 00:17:16,035 --> 00:17:17,906 Well, is it mine? 246 00:17:18,037 --> 00:17:20,343 Yes, Your Grace. 247 00:17:20,474 --> 00:17:22,389 You are my first and only. 248 00:17:24,260 --> 00:17:25,629 You will be sent back to your family. 249 00:17:25,653 --> 00:17:27,481 No, no, no, you... 250 00:17:27,611 --> 00:17:31,224 you will remain here in the service of the queen 251 00:17:31,354 --> 00:17:33,008 until such time as you cannot work. 252 00:17:33,139 --> 00:17:34,419 Then you will be made comfortable 253 00:17:34,488 --> 00:17:35,648 until the birth of the child. 254 00:17:40,668 --> 00:17:43,584 I have a feeling you carry a boy. 255 00:17:43,714 --> 00:17:45,281 A bastard boy. 256 00:17:47,109 --> 00:17:48,284 A bastard. 257 00:17:50,634 --> 00:17:52,854 If it is a boy at all or... 258 00:17:52,984 --> 00:17:55,639 or if he lives. 259 00:17:55,770 --> 00:17:57,772 And the child may be a girl. 260 00:18:16,015 --> 00:18:18,015 _ 261 00:18:18,140 --> 00:18:19,489 Halt. 262 00:18:21,535 --> 00:18:22,816 I trust your memories are not so short 263 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:25,147 that you have forgotten who I am. 264 00:18:25,278 --> 00:18:26,409 Step aside. 265 00:18:26,540 --> 00:18:28,498 I will see the Duke of Albany. 266 00:18:28,629 --> 00:18:31,240 Now. 267 00:18:31,371 --> 00:18:33,547 I will take you to the Duke, Your Grace. 268 00:18:33,677 --> 00:18:36,158 Thank you, Negasi. 269 00:18:42,773 --> 00:18:45,298 Your Grace, the Duke of Albany. 270 00:18:45,428 --> 00:18:47,561 At your service. Welcome home. 271 00:18:47,691 --> 00:18:49,389 Where are my children? 272 00:18:49,519 --> 00:18:51,869 You cannot keep them from me or my rightful home. 273 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,610 I have not tried to. 274 00:18:53,741 --> 00:18:55,153 It was you who left the country of your own accord. 275 00:18:55,177 --> 00:18:56,439 Uh, bring in the boys. 276 00:18:56,570 --> 00:18:58,833 I am appointed regent, 277 00:18:58,963 --> 00:19:01,792 and the princes will stay with me at the castle in my care, 278 00:19:01,923 --> 00:19:04,404 but you may visit them as often as you care to. 279 00:19:04,534 --> 00:19:06,971 No, my boys must be with me. 280 00:19:07,102 --> 00:19:09,496 Jamie is the future king of Scotland. 281 00:19:09,626 --> 00:19:12,412 The Stewart Clan insist there will blood enough 282 00:19:12,542 --> 00:19:15,284 to form a river if the Earl of Angus 283 00:19:15,415 --> 00:19:17,982 ever gets his hands on him. 284 00:19:20,637 --> 00:19:22,770 Where is Angus? 285 00:19:22,900 --> 00:19:25,555 Uh, he is at your home, Holyrood. 286 00:19:27,470 --> 00:19:29,472 I think it's only fair to warn you 287 00:19:29,603 --> 00:19:31,363 that he has had Jane Stewart in his bed there 288 00:19:31,474 --> 00:19:32,475 since you left. 289 00:19:35,522 --> 00:19:37,263 Mama! 290 00:19:37,393 --> 00:19:41,136 Oh. 291 00:19:41,267 --> 00:19:45,271 Oh, how I've missed you both. 292 00:19:45,401 --> 00:19:47,969 Can I stay here at the castle for a little while? 293 00:19:48,099 --> 00:19:49,884 I need to be with my boys. 294 00:19:50,014 --> 00:19:51,581 You'd be welcome. 295 00:19:51,712 --> 00:19:53,235 I'd be grateful 296 00:19:53,366 --> 00:19:56,064 for some civilized companionship. 297 00:20:11,514 --> 00:20:14,082 We're a burden to your household, Wolsey. 298 00:20:16,084 --> 00:20:20,349 But you serve us all on such fine French gold plate. 299 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,873 Do you have a wealthy wife stowed away out of sight? 300 00:20:23,004 --> 00:20:24,788 Everything you see here is a gift 301 00:20:24,919 --> 00:20:26,747 from the devout and the faithful. 302 00:20:26,877 --> 00:20:29,037 I've heard you have a hidden mistress and two bastards. 303 00:20:31,534 --> 00:20:34,581 There will always be malicious talk. 304 00:20:34,711 --> 00:20:36,583 The Lord grants me the grace to weather it. 305 00:20:38,498 --> 00:20:41,065 Oh, and the Pope has sent word 306 00:20:41,196 --> 00:20:43,285 that he has made me Cardinal. 307 00:20:43,416 --> 00:20:45,026 So... 308 00:20:48,464 --> 00:20:50,771 I am blessed indeed. 309 00:20:50,901 --> 00:20:54,340 May I be the first to offer my congratulations, Cardinal, 310 00:20:54,470 --> 00:20:56,211 and that of my family. 311 00:20:56,342 --> 00:20:58,082 Well, to the ever-rising Wolsey, eh? 312 00:20:58,213 --> 00:20:59,301 To Wolsey. 313 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,529 Felicitations must also be extended 314 00:21:09,659 --> 00:21:12,445 to His Grace, the king... 315 00:21:12,575 --> 00:21:15,491 who sires another child. 316 00:21:15,622 --> 00:21:19,016 I wasn't aware the queen had such happy news. 317 00:21:21,149 --> 00:21:23,456 The queen has not. 318 00:21:23,586 --> 00:21:25,153 No, it's, um... it's Bessie Blount here. 319 00:21:26,763 --> 00:21:28,635 But this time I'm certain it's a boy. 320 00:21:39,863 --> 00:21:41,212 Congratulations, Your Grace. 321 00:21:41,343 --> 00:21:43,302 Congratulations. 322 00:21:48,959 --> 00:21:50,352 Leave us, Bessie. 323 00:22:10,807 --> 00:22:13,636 I do not want her tending to me. 324 00:22:13,767 --> 00:22:15,551 It is too much to ask of me. 325 00:22:15,682 --> 00:22:18,293 Catherine, you must not mind about your lady. 326 00:22:18,424 --> 00:22:20,382 - She is nothing to me. - And Wolsey? 327 00:22:22,210 --> 00:22:24,299 Why do you let him humiliate me before the court? 328 00:22:24,430 --> 00:22:26,345 God has given me a second chance, 329 00:22:26,475 --> 00:22:28,259 a chance to have a son. 330 00:22:28,390 --> 00:22:30,392 But he will not be a prince 331 00:22:30,523 --> 00:22:32,699 and never can be. 332 00:22:32,829 --> 00:22:35,354 But if Bessie can produce a boy, then I know. 333 00:22:35,484 --> 00:22:38,226 I know. 334 00:22:38,357 --> 00:22:40,837 What do you know? 335 00:22:40,968 --> 00:22:43,405 That it isn't me He punishes. 336 00:22:48,889 --> 00:22:50,717 Why would He punish either of us? 337 00:22:54,024 --> 00:22:55,591 Who says He does? 338 00:22:57,506 --> 00:22:59,465 Who says it, Henry? 339 00:23:17,657 --> 00:23:18,919 Your Grace. 340 00:23:19,049 --> 00:23:20,703 It is the French. 341 00:23:20,834 --> 00:23:22,313 It is the French who make him rich. 342 00:23:22,444 --> 00:23:24,011 They pay that bastard Wolsey 343 00:23:24,141 --> 00:23:25,554 to backchannel for them with the king. 344 00:23:25,578 --> 00:23:27,362 How do you know? 345 00:23:27,493 --> 00:23:29,103 He keeps a locked room in the gate house. 346 00:23:29,233 --> 00:23:31,497 I managed to persuade a servant to open it, 347 00:23:31,627 --> 00:23:33,847 and when I did, I found a stack of gold plate 348 00:23:33,977 --> 00:23:36,371 adorned with fleur-de-lis... 349 00:23:36,502 --> 00:23:38,242 and the French royal coat of arms. 350 00:23:38,373 --> 00:23:40,331 And yet Henry doesn't see it. 351 00:23:42,508 --> 00:23:43,813 Thank you. 352 00:24:11,101 --> 00:24:12,668 Lady Pole? 353 00:24:15,802 --> 00:24:16,846 Lady... 354 00:24:26,639 --> 00:24:27,683 Lady Pole. 355 00:24:29,424 --> 00:24:31,034 Maggie. 356 00:24:31,165 --> 00:24:32,819 Call me Maggie. 357 00:24:34,037 --> 00:24:35,648 Maggie. 358 00:24:35,778 --> 00:24:36,649 Huh. 359 00:24:36,779 --> 00:24:39,216 Listen. 360 00:24:43,003 --> 00:24:44,483 I hear nothing. 361 00:24:44,613 --> 00:24:45,613 No. 362 00:24:46,789 --> 00:24:48,356 No spies, 363 00:24:48,487 --> 00:24:49,792 no gossip, 364 00:24:49,923 --> 00:24:51,402 no judgment, 365 00:24:51,533 --> 00:24:52,708 nothing. 366 00:24:54,275 --> 00:24:56,407 It is a wonder. 367 00:25:00,716 --> 00:25:04,764 When I was a girl, the king was away on progress, 368 00:25:04,894 --> 00:25:08,768 and Lady Margaret Beaufort had the palace all closed up, 369 00:25:08,898 --> 00:25:11,597 and Lizzie and I and Teddy 370 00:25:11,727 --> 00:25:14,338 walked through this chamber, 371 00:25:14,469 --> 00:25:16,906 and I put my arms out wide, 372 00:25:17,037 --> 00:25:18,908 and I spun. 373 00:25:21,737 --> 00:25:25,654 And I thought that I could say anything at all 374 00:25:25,785 --> 00:25:27,526 and receive no punishment for it. 375 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,532 I'm sorry, Master More. 376 00:25:33,662 --> 00:25:35,055 We should take food to the sick. 377 00:25:35,185 --> 00:25:38,537 What might you say here in this silent palace, 378 00:25:38,667 --> 00:25:40,713 if... if you could say anything? 379 00:25:42,758 --> 00:25:44,194 I would say many things. 380 00:25:44,325 --> 00:25:45,325 Tell me. 381 00:25:50,113 --> 00:25:51,767 Dreams I've had... 382 00:25:53,552 --> 00:25:55,771 ...thing I wish I could do but cannot. 383 00:25:55,902 --> 00:25:58,513 Such as? 384 00:26:03,213 --> 00:26:06,652 I would speak of books I've read, 385 00:26:06,782 --> 00:26:08,567 pageants I remember... 386 00:26:10,917 --> 00:26:12,745 ...and prayers when I've felt close to God... 387 00:26:15,051 --> 00:26:17,445 ...my mother's touch, 388 00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:20,056 good things. 389 00:26:20,187 --> 00:26:22,668 Only good things before the bad things happened... 390 00:26:24,278 --> 00:26:25,671 ...before I lost my innocence. 391 00:26:29,892 --> 00:26:31,720 I would speak of my deepest feelings... 392 00:26:33,722 --> 00:26:36,029 ...thoughts I hardly admit to myself. 393 00:26:38,858 --> 00:26:40,599 I would speak of love. 394 00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:47,910 Now you. 395 00:26:54,221 --> 00:26:57,528 Freedom to speak and license to speak 396 00:26:57,659 --> 00:26:59,922 are two different things. 397 00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:03,578 I cannot say what I would. 398 00:27:05,580 --> 00:27:09,149 Though my heart has longed to 399 00:27:09,279 --> 00:27:11,542 most deeply for a long while. 400 00:27:17,548 --> 00:27:19,986 What does God want from us? 401 00:27:21,727 --> 00:27:23,511 He tests our faith... 402 00:27:25,948 --> 00:27:28,385 ...to see if we are worthy of an everlasting life 403 00:27:28,516 --> 00:27:31,040 in His heavenly kingdom. 404 00:27:31,171 --> 00:27:33,913 Perhaps He tests us through, 405 00:27:34,043 --> 00:27:37,568 um, temptation. 406 00:27:41,703 --> 00:27:44,880 Perhaps it is our courage that He tests... 407 00:27:47,361 --> 00:27:48,971 ...to see if we are brave enough 408 00:27:49,102 --> 00:27:52,018 to seize what is before us now 409 00:27:52,148 --> 00:27:55,064 and take joy even in the face of suffering? 410 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:58,981 Would it be transgression 411 00:27:59,112 --> 00:28:01,592 if it took place in a silent palace? 412 00:28:07,947 --> 00:28:11,124 Sir Thomas, I take food out to the sick. 413 00:28:11,254 --> 00:28:12,908 Of course. I will come and help. 414 00:28:14,301 --> 00:28:15,606 Maggie. 415 00:28:18,871 --> 00:28:21,395 Please stay here. Do not risk yourself. 416 00:28:21,525 --> 00:28:23,963 I will return. 417 00:28:36,889 --> 00:28:39,630 "To my dearest brother Henry. 418 00:28:39,761 --> 00:28:42,633 I hear there is a plague in London. 419 00:28:42,764 --> 00:28:44,635 I hope that you and the queen are safe. 420 00:28:46,594 --> 00:28:49,728 I write to say that I have been a dutiful sister, 421 00:28:49,858 --> 00:28:52,469 though I would be hard-pressed to pretend it has been easy. 422 00:28:57,126 --> 00:28:59,607 I write now with a solemn heart to inform you 423 00:28:59,738 --> 00:29:01,783 of the death of my husband, Louis. 424 00:29:03,785 --> 00:29:05,656 His heart has run its course. 425 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,320 I will be confined here for a period of mourning 426 00:29:17,451 --> 00:29:21,020 until they are satisfied that I am not with child, 427 00:29:21,150 --> 00:29:24,153 and then I will be a free woman once again, 428 00:29:24,284 --> 00:29:27,069 free to marry whomever I choose." 429 00:29:53,487 --> 00:29:55,097 You are crying. 430 00:29:55,228 --> 00:29:57,752 Uh, it's nothing, Your Grace. Forgive me. 431 00:29:57,883 --> 00:29:59,188 It's nothing. 432 00:29:59,319 --> 00:30:01,060 Why? 433 00:30:04,498 --> 00:30:06,892 Cardinal Wolsey says that if this is a girl, 434 00:30:07,022 --> 00:30:08,850 then I'll be sent away. 435 00:30:11,026 --> 00:30:13,115 And I can't go to my family. 436 00:30:13,246 --> 00:30:14,789 They've already said they will not have me back 437 00:30:14,813 --> 00:30:17,032 because I've... 438 00:30:17,163 --> 00:30:20,166 spoiled myself for any decent man 439 00:30:20,296 --> 00:30:24,387 and that I must make my living on the streets. 440 00:30:26,825 --> 00:30:28,870 What did you think would happen, Bessie? 441 00:30:29,001 --> 00:30:31,960 The king told me I'd be safe no matter what. 442 00:30:32,091 --> 00:30:34,833 But w-where will I go? What will I do? 443 00:30:37,009 --> 00:30:39,272 Please. 444 00:30:39,402 --> 00:30:42,318 I know you're angry with me, 445 00:30:42,449 --> 00:30:44,581 but he said he would care for me. 446 00:30:44,712 --> 00:30:47,323 You should have thought of that before you bedded him. 447 00:30:49,108 --> 00:30:50,718 You think only of your own fate, 448 00:30:50,849 --> 00:30:53,025 while London is struck down with plague. 449 00:30:53,155 --> 00:30:55,897 Do not ever leave my daughter unattended again. 450 00:31:00,249 --> 00:31:02,329 She would love to feel her mother's arms, Your Grace. 451 00:31:11,739 --> 00:31:13,610 I am deeply honored that Hampton Court 452 00:31:13,741 --> 00:31:16,875 will have played its part in history, Your Grace. 453 00:31:17,005 --> 00:31:19,268 I am Queen of England, Wolsey. 454 00:31:19,399 --> 00:31:21,183 I move freely as I please. 455 00:31:28,277 --> 00:31:30,453 Is that news from London? 456 00:31:30,584 --> 00:31:33,152 I hoped for news from Lady Pole these last few weeks. 457 00:31:33,282 --> 00:31:35,328 So which suitor best serves our alliance? 458 00:31:35,458 --> 00:31:37,001 Is it the Duke of Lorraine or the Duke of Savoy? 459 00:31:37,025 --> 00:31:38,940 Suitor? 460 00:31:39,071 --> 00:31:41,421 For whom? 461 00:31:41,551 --> 00:31:43,989 My sister Mary is now dowager Queen of France. 462 00:31:44,119 --> 00:31:46,426 Louis didn't last a year. 463 00:31:46,556 --> 00:31:48,602 So now I must arrange another marriage 464 00:31:48,732 --> 00:31:50,252 that cements our Anglo-French alliance. 465 00:31:50,299 --> 00:31:52,171 But... 466 00:31:52,301 --> 00:31:54,173 you promised Mary she would have her own choice 467 00:31:54,303 --> 00:31:56,479 when her husband passed. 468 00:31:56,610 --> 00:31:58,655 Those were the terms on which she married him. 469 00:32:02,094 --> 00:32:04,923 You made a promise to her, and I brokered it. 470 00:32:05,053 --> 00:32:06,413 Well, this is none of your concern. 471 00:32:06,489 --> 00:32:08,839 It is entirely my concern. 472 00:32:08,970 --> 00:32:10,276 Go. 473 00:32:10,406 --> 00:32:12,147 Go so I may have an audience with my wife. 474 00:32:17,413 --> 00:32:19,633 You would make a liar of me and yourself. 475 00:32:23,724 --> 00:32:26,335 Wolsey listing French suitors isn't for the good of England. 476 00:32:26,466 --> 00:32:28,555 It's to feather his own nest. 477 00:32:28,685 --> 00:32:30,861 The man is in the pay of France. 478 00:32:35,344 --> 00:32:37,303 Where do you think his riches come from? 479 00:32:39,609 --> 00:32:42,264 He has a locked room filled with bribes 480 00:32:42,395 --> 00:32:43,962 of the very best French plate. 481 00:32:45,746 --> 00:32:47,966 He is not loyal to you but them. 482 00:32:54,146 --> 00:32:56,452 I know about it. 483 00:32:56,583 --> 00:32:59,499 Wolsey takes bribes with my blessing, 484 00:32:59,629 --> 00:33:01,544 because there's nothing that Wolsey owns 485 00:33:01,675 --> 00:33:03,982 I can't take from him one day, should I choose. 486 00:33:07,202 --> 00:33:09,509 So, while you and Stafford and Charlie Brandon 487 00:33:09,639 --> 00:33:12,033 seek to mock him, 488 00:33:12,164 --> 00:33:14,296 Wolsey is the one who does my bidding. 489 00:33:14,427 --> 00:33:17,212 And what's more, he understands me. 490 00:33:24,437 --> 00:33:26,613 Charlie Brandon! 491 00:33:26,743 --> 00:33:28,180 Ride to Fontainebleau 492 00:33:28,310 --> 00:33:31,922 and fetch my sister Mary back here! 493 00:33:32,053 --> 00:33:34,403 Do you jest, Henry? 494 00:33:34,534 --> 00:33:37,754 My title is "Your Highness" or "Your Grace." 495 00:33:37,885 --> 00:33:40,888 The fat French king is dead, so fetch her back. 496 00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:42,281 There's plague. 497 00:33:42,411 --> 00:33:45,284 Yes, try not to let her die of it. 498 00:33:45,414 --> 00:33:48,374 A dead girl will not fetch so high a marriage price. 499 00:33:52,117 --> 00:33:54,119 And then I'll decide who I'll wed her to. 500 00:33:57,644 --> 00:33:59,385 "Dearest Mary, 501 00:33:59,515 --> 00:34:01,561 the king has told me of your loss, 502 00:34:01,691 --> 00:34:03,606 and I am sorry for it." 503 00:34:03,737 --> 00:34:05,826 Lina. 504 00:34:05,956 --> 00:34:07,175 Oh. 505 00:34:07,306 --> 00:34:11,005 Children, wait for Lady Stafford. 506 00:34:11,136 --> 00:34:12,441 "Although I fear the news 507 00:34:12,572 --> 00:34:15,966 I must impart may bring a deeper grief. 508 00:34:16,097 --> 00:34:19,187 He says he will not honor his agreement with you 509 00:34:19,318 --> 00:34:20,841 and that, with Louis' passing, 510 00:34:20,971 --> 00:34:22,651 he will choose your next husband himself... 511 00:34:24,497 --> 00:34:28,109 ...that it may benefit the Anglo-French alliance. 512 00:34:28,240 --> 00:34:31,808 Wolsey's hand is in it, as you can guess. 513 00:34:31,939 --> 00:34:36,204 Charlie Brandon has been sent to bring you home. 514 00:34:36,335 --> 00:34:39,381 You must act as you see fit now 515 00:34:39,512 --> 00:34:43,342 with what little time you have before you are returned here. 516 00:34:43,472 --> 00:34:46,823 Your ever-loving sister Catherine." 517 00:35:11,631 --> 00:35:13,850 Not too much, not too much. That's fine. 518 00:35:18,333 --> 00:35:20,205 Meg. 519 00:35:20,335 --> 00:35:23,382 Blessed saints, you're safe. 520 00:35:23,512 --> 00:35:26,167 You have returned to me. 521 00:35:26,298 --> 00:35:28,648 "Returned to you"? 522 00:35:28,778 --> 00:35:31,433 You betrayed me to a pack of kilted dogs, 523 00:35:31,564 --> 00:35:33,455 ripped my boys from my arms, and stabbed me in the back! 524 00:35:33,479 --> 00:35:34,741 No, I knew they would kill you 525 00:35:34,871 --> 00:35:36,240 when we stepped out of the kitchens, 526 00:35:36,264 --> 00:35:37,700 so I formed a plan to save you. 527 00:35:37,831 --> 00:35:41,269 Oh, Jane Stewart. 528 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,707 What a shock to see you here. 529 00:35:44,838 --> 00:35:48,450 Jane's been helping with James' other children 530 00:35:48,581 --> 00:35:50,974 and to keep them safe from plague. 531 00:35:51,105 --> 00:35:52,802 We heard that England quivers 532 00:35:52,933 --> 00:35:54,253 in its sick bed with this scourge. 533 00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,069 I, um... 534 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,550 I wrote an ode for you. 535 00:36:01,681 --> 00:36:04,901 "Long were the nights, hollow was my heart. 536 00:36:05,032 --> 00:36:08,427 "If she returns to me... 537 00:36:08,557 --> 00:36:10,864 never more shall we part." 538 00:36:14,824 --> 00:36:18,567 There is a worse scourge here in Scotland, 539 00:36:18,698 --> 00:36:21,657 and it's called infidelity! 540 00:36:21,788 --> 00:36:24,704 You think that I don't know that you're bedding her? 541 00:36:24,834 --> 00:36:26,923 - You lying, cheating... - Your Grace! 542 00:36:27,054 --> 00:36:28,273 ...son of a whore! 543 00:36:28,403 --> 00:36:30,536 You left me! You went to England! 544 00:36:30,666 --> 00:36:32,277 I thought you were never coming back! 545 00:36:32,407 --> 00:36:34,627 And your heart broke so much 546 00:36:34,757 --> 00:36:36,237 that you had to dip your wick in her! 547 00:36:36,368 --> 00:36:38,718 Hen, please. 548 00:36:38,848 --> 00:36:41,242 I love you. 549 00:36:41,373 --> 00:36:43,853 I'm weak for women. I-I admit that. 550 00:36:45,594 --> 00:36:47,901 Jane was here, and the bed was cold. 551 00:36:48,031 --> 00:36:49,424 She's nothing more than that to me. 552 00:36:49,555 --> 00:36:52,340 You lying sod! 553 00:36:52,471 --> 00:36:54,995 He's been bedding me since before the two of you were wed! 554 00:36:55,125 --> 00:36:57,215 No, I... 555 00:36:59,391 --> 00:37:01,480 No. She's lying! She's lying! 556 00:37:01,610 --> 00:37:04,222 No, no, I-I'll be worthy of you, Meg! 557 00:37:04,352 --> 00:37:06,311 I'll send her away. 558 00:37:06,441 --> 00:37:08,574 Go. This is my wife. 559 00:37:08,704 --> 00:37:10,271 Get out of here. Get out. 560 00:37:10,402 --> 00:37:12,447 That's right, just-just-just go! 561 00:37:12,578 --> 00:37:15,798 The pair of you! 562 00:37:15,929 --> 00:37:19,237 Get out and do not come back. 563 00:37:19,367 --> 00:37:21,761 But... 564 00:37:21,891 --> 00:37:23,066 I'm your husband. 565 00:37:23,197 --> 00:37:26,766 No, you're not. 566 00:37:26,896 --> 00:37:29,725 I will find a way to end this marriage, 567 00:37:29,856 --> 00:37:32,293 or I will die in the attempt. 568 00:37:32,424 --> 00:37:34,164 You can have my word on that. 569 00:37:34,295 --> 00:37:36,254 Now get out! 570 00:37:37,907 --> 00:37:39,257 We're not done here. 571 00:37:40,823 --> 00:37:43,565 I'm your husband. 572 00:37:43,696 --> 00:37:45,350 So all of this is mine. 573 00:38:09,504 --> 00:38:12,159 Hello, Charlie Brandon. 574 00:38:12,290 --> 00:38:14,335 Hello, Horse. 575 00:38:35,313 --> 00:38:37,532 _ 576 00:38:37,556 --> 00:38:39,556 _ 577 00:38:48,935 --> 00:38:52,242 Horse, I'm sorry about old Louis. 578 00:38:52,373 --> 00:38:54,680 I'm not. He was a fat pig. 579 00:38:54,810 --> 00:38:58,336 Yes, I'll probably go to hell. 580 00:38:58,466 --> 00:39:00,381 Mm. 581 00:39:00,512 --> 00:39:02,557 Well, if you do, it can't be worse than this tastes. 582 00:39:02,688 --> 00:39:04,254 Chartreuse. 583 00:39:04,385 --> 00:39:05,647 It's what's kept me going 584 00:39:05,778 --> 00:39:07,997 through the worst hell of my marriage. 585 00:39:08,128 --> 00:39:09,671 You don't look as though you're struggling. 586 00:39:09,695 --> 00:39:12,437 You look radiant. 587 00:39:12,567 --> 00:39:15,222 Well, a little death does wonders for the complexion. 588 00:39:17,355 --> 00:39:20,053 Mary, I've missed your humor. 589 00:39:22,055 --> 00:39:23,883 We've been holed up with the ghastly Cardinal 590 00:39:24,013 --> 00:39:26,538 while the plague moves through the city. 591 00:39:26,668 --> 00:39:28,888 But now you're sent to bring me home. 592 00:39:29,018 --> 00:39:30,605 What does my brother say my fate should be? 593 00:39:30,629 --> 00:39:32,500 I haven't asked. 594 00:39:32,631 --> 00:39:34,546 I didn't care to know. 595 00:39:34,676 --> 00:39:36,156 Why not? 596 00:39:37,636 --> 00:39:39,986 It doesn't matter. 597 00:39:40,116 --> 00:39:43,119 I feel I don't know Henry as I used to. 598 00:39:44,556 --> 00:39:46,514 - Wolsey? - Yes. 599 00:39:46,645 --> 00:39:50,692 Henry, he's... he's lost his joy. 600 00:39:50,823 --> 00:39:53,869 He has an anger now about him. 601 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,656 Whoever you are married to, he'll be a lucky man. 602 00:39:59,614 --> 00:40:01,311 What of you, Charlie? 603 00:40:03,444 --> 00:40:05,228 Are you married yet? 604 00:40:05,359 --> 00:40:06,359 No. 605 00:40:07,753 --> 00:40:08,753 No. 606 00:40:29,035 --> 00:40:30,776 You spy on the king's bedchamber now? 607 00:40:30,906 --> 00:40:32,604 Would you take my place there, too? 608 00:40:32,734 --> 00:40:34,475 Mm, there are others for that. 609 00:40:34,606 --> 00:40:36,869 I sleep but little. 610 00:40:36,999 --> 00:40:39,959 Like the night owl, I prowl my territory. 611 00:40:40,089 --> 00:40:42,570 A territory paid for by French bribes. 612 00:40:42,701 --> 00:40:44,964 No, no, no, not bribes. 613 00:40:45,094 --> 00:40:47,401 How business is transacted, plain and simple. 614 00:40:47,532 --> 00:40:50,056 I understand business, Wolsey. 615 00:40:50,186 --> 00:40:51,753 I ran my own household for long enough 616 00:40:51,884 --> 00:40:53,668 when I was forced into poverty. 617 00:40:53,799 --> 00:40:57,542 Indeed, the queen was a woman of business... 618 00:40:57,672 --> 00:41:01,067 politics and warfare, too. 619 00:41:01,197 --> 00:41:04,462 How excellent to be so well-rounded. 620 00:41:04,592 --> 00:41:07,726 Of mind at least, if not of body. 621 00:41:10,163 --> 00:41:13,906 If you cannot deliver an heir to your king... 622 00:41:16,735 --> 00:41:18,519 ...your other attributes are nothing. 623 00:41:35,884 --> 00:41:38,408 Do you remember how you used to tease me? 624 00:41:38,539 --> 00:41:40,759 You deserved it. You were a ghastly thing. 625 00:41:40,889 --> 00:41:43,936 What am I now? 626 00:41:44,066 --> 00:41:47,026 Even ghastlier. 627 00:41:47,156 --> 00:41:49,811 You see, that's the thing about us, Charlie. 628 00:41:49,942 --> 00:41:51,944 We always made each other laugh. 629 00:41:52,074 --> 00:41:54,424 We always understood each other, 630 00:41:54,555 --> 00:41:56,688 and yet here we are, 631 00:41:56,818 --> 00:41:58,907 both of us instructed by my brother 632 00:41:59,038 --> 00:42:01,519 into marriages we do not wish to make. 633 00:42:01,649 --> 00:42:03,346 You don't know who yours is yet. 634 00:42:03,477 --> 00:42:05,610 He might be handsome. 635 00:42:05,740 --> 00:42:07,568 He'll be an ancient goat 636 00:42:07,699 --> 00:42:09,570 who I am forced to spread my legs to. 637 00:42:12,791 --> 00:42:14,793 Why should I be faithful to a king 638 00:42:14,923 --> 00:42:16,838 who cannot keep his word to me? 639 00:42:16,969 --> 00:42:19,580 He uses you. He bullies me. 640 00:42:23,758 --> 00:42:26,544 Let's make our own choice. 641 00:42:26,674 --> 00:42:27,675 What do you mean? 642 00:42:27,806 --> 00:42:29,764 Let's choose each other. 643 00:42:32,027 --> 00:42:34,726 Mary, I-I've wanted to for a long time. 644 00:42:34,856 --> 00:42:37,076 I-I've thought about it. 645 00:42:37,206 --> 00:42:38,991 But it's treason. 646 00:42:39,121 --> 00:42:40,621 If Henry didn't take our heads, he'd banish us. 647 00:42:40,645 --> 00:42:42,429 He's my brother. 648 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:44,080 He's your best friend. He'd forgive us. 649 00:42:44,126 --> 00:42:45,475 Our fall would be... 650 00:42:45,606 --> 00:42:47,695 Quite biblical. Exciting. 651 00:42:49,784 --> 00:42:52,308 He'd only see betrayal, and I'm betrothed to... 652 00:42:52,439 --> 00:42:55,137 To a child. 653 00:42:55,268 --> 00:42:58,837 He could have sent anyone out here to fetch me. 654 00:42:58,967 --> 00:43:01,404 But God made him choose you. 655 00:43:05,060 --> 00:43:07,149 If you won't have me, then I'll enter a nunnery, 656 00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,080 because I will not be my brother's pawn again. 657 00:43:09,151 --> 00:43:10,588 You cannot join a nunnery. 658 00:43:13,678 --> 00:43:15,375 Let's fall in love, then. 659 00:43:16,681 --> 00:43:18,639 Fall with me, Charlie Brandon. 660 00:43:45,623 --> 00:43:47,755 Highness? 661 00:43:47,886 --> 00:43:50,410 Highness? 662 00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,328 You must eat. 663 00:43:55,458 --> 00:43:57,175 You have to keep your strength up if you hope... 664 00:43:57,199 --> 00:43:59,854 I have terrible thoughts, 665 00:43:59,985 --> 00:44:03,945 thoughts that shame me and should see me go to hell. 666 00:44:04,076 --> 00:44:05,512 No. 667 00:44:05,643 --> 00:44:07,688 Evil creeps into my prayers unbidden. 668 00:44:10,038 --> 00:44:11,692 That her baby dies. 669 00:44:13,825 --> 00:44:15,391 That they both do. 670 00:44:19,047 --> 00:44:20,832 You must forgive yourself. 671 00:44:20,962 --> 00:44:24,183 Thoughts are not actions, 672 00:44:24,313 --> 00:44:26,533 or we would all of us burn in hell. 673 00:44:28,578 --> 00:44:30,493 God will forgive us those. 674 00:44:33,714 --> 00:44:35,411 I know she will be a good mother. 675 00:44:36,848 --> 00:44:38,719 I see it in her. 676 00:44:40,025 --> 00:44:42,723 But must it always fall to me to be magnanimous? 677 00:44:45,987 --> 00:44:49,251 Perhaps that is what God would have me do? 678 00:44:49,382 --> 00:44:51,645 Show Bessie Blount compassion to make amends to Him 679 00:44:51,776 --> 00:44:52,976 for the sins I have committed. 680 00:44:53,038 --> 00:44:55,431 You have no sin. 681 00:44:55,562 --> 00:44:56,955 Your only sin 682 00:44:57,085 --> 00:45:00,872 was fulfilling the destiny God set for you. 683 00:45:01,002 --> 00:45:04,963 He called you to be Queen of England, 684 00:45:05,093 --> 00:45:06,704 and you are. 685 00:45:06,834 --> 00:45:08,154 But did I do it for His sake or... 686 00:45:09,968 --> 00:45:11,752 ...or my own? 687 00:45:15,060 --> 00:45:16,844 Was it all my own ambition, 688 00:45:16,975 --> 00:45:20,108 and I just told myself it was for Him? 689 00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:21,414 Highness... 690 00:45:21,544 --> 00:45:24,243 No, I am a sinner. 691 00:45:24,373 --> 00:45:27,855 But if I show my Christian charity, 692 00:45:27,986 --> 00:45:30,902 perhaps God will ensure that Henry doesn't cast me out... 693 00:45:33,078 --> 00:45:36,646 ...with my own useless girl. 694 00:45:40,041 --> 00:45:42,130 He cannot cast you out. 695 00:45:43,784 --> 00:45:46,700 You are his wife 696 00:45:46,831 --> 00:45:49,050 and queen. 697 00:45:49,181 --> 00:45:50,965 Nothing can change that. 698 00:46:14,467 --> 00:46:16,469 Amen. 699 00:46:16,493 --> 00:46:18,993 _ 700 00:46:19,117 --> 00:46:22,117 _ 701 00:46:22,641 --> 00:46:24,741 _ 702 00:46:25,165 --> 00:46:27,165 _ 703 00:46:28,829 --> 00:46:30,788 I love you, Mary Brandon. 704 00:46:30,918 --> 00:46:33,094 How could you not? 705 00:47:15,354 --> 00:47:16,877 Seņor More? 706 00:47:50,171 --> 00:47:52,565 - You are sick? - No. 707 00:48:01,704 --> 00:48:02,967 I merely burn. 708 00:48:28,340 --> 00:48:30,820 Highness, Oviedo writes to me. 709 00:48:30,951 --> 00:48:33,388 The plague is passed. 710 00:48:33,519 --> 00:48:36,217 They are all well. Lady Pole and Master More, too. 711 00:48:36,348 --> 00:48:38,350 We can return to London. 712 00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,048 We will give thanks to God. 713 00:48:41,179 --> 00:48:42,832 But first I must speak with Henry. 714 00:48:53,669 --> 00:48:57,108 Henry, your sister writes to me with news from France. 715 00:48:57,238 --> 00:48:59,240 She begs me for her own choice, I imagine. 716 00:48:59,371 --> 00:49:01,242 She has married Charlie Brandon. 717 00:49:01,373 --> 00:49:04,028 Is that a joke? 718 00:49:04,158 --> 00:49:05,333 What, is this a bloody joke? 719 00:49:09,555 --> 00:49:11,209 Damn them both to hell! 720 00:49:11,339 --> 00:49:13,037 They'll both hang for this! 721 00:49:13,167 --> 00:49:15,363 There'll be no mercy for them! They'll both be executed! 722 00:49:15,387 --> 00:49:18,520 Mary is a loving sister and loyal subject. 723 00:49:18,651 --> 00:49:20,498 She only did what you had promised was her right. 724 00:49:20,522 --> 00:49:22,046 And Charlie? 725 00:49:22,176 --> 00:49:23,545 What promise I made him compelled him 726 00:49:23,569 --> 00:49:26,746 to betray his best friend and king? 727 00:49:26,876 --> 00:49:29,314 This is treason. 728 00:49:29,444 --> 00:49:32,534 He is betrothed here in this court. 729 00:49:32,665 --> 00:49:35,233 To a child to whom he was promised for politics. 730 00:49:37,104 --> 00:49:39,498 Henry, read this letter. 731 00:49:39,628 --> 00:49:41,979 They write to beg for your forgiveness. 732 00:49:42,109 --> 00:49:44,590 I will not grant it to them. 733 00:49:44,720 --> 00:49:47,723 I will not have another woman slip from my command. 734 00:49:47,854 --> 00:49:50,074 Is this your work? 735 00:49:50,204 --> 00:49:52,685 I told her you would break your promise, 736 00:49:52,815 --> 00:49:55,122 that Wolsey sought to marry her to the highest bidder 737 00:49:55,253 --> 00:49:56,819 France could find for his own gain. 738 00:49:58,430 --> 00:50:01,172 I told her she should make her own decision. 739 00:50:01,302 --> 00:50:02,956 But did I bid her marry Charlie Brandon? 740 00:50:03,087 --> 00:50:04,087 No, I did not. 741 00:50:06,612 --> 00:50:07,874 They did that out of love. 742 00:50:09,745 --> 00:50:11,443 We were those lovers once. 743 00:50:13,532 --> 00:50:15,882 Perhaps you have forgotten. 744 00:50:16,013 --> 00:50:17,710 Get out, Wolsey. 745 00:50:20,147 --> 00:50:22,106 You betrayed her, Henry. 746 00:50:24,151 --> 00:50:26,153 You have betrayed us all. 747 00:50:26,284 --> 00:50:27,894 You told your sister Meg 748 00:50:28,025 --> 00:50:29,263 she would have her inheritance from Arthur, 749 00:50:29,287 --> 00:50:31,767 and yet you will not hand it over. 750 00:50:31,898 --> 00:50:33,421 You told your sister Mary 751 00:50:33,552 --> 00:50:35,554 she may choose her second husband for herself, 752 00:50:35,684 --> 00:50:38,383 and yet you plot behind her back to do the opposite. 753 00:50:38,513 --> 00:50:40,907 You promised me fidelity, 754 00:50:41,038 --> 00:50:43,127 yet there is Bessie Blount. 755 00:50:43,257 --> 00:50:46,347 And to your mistress, Bessie, you promised food 756 00:50:46,478 --> 00:50:49,524 and water and a roof above her head, 757 00:50:49,655 --> 00:50:51,309 yet that, too, is a lie, 758 00:50:51,439 --> 00:50:53,311 and now she cries herself to sleep at night. 759 00:50:53,441 --> 00:50:55,922 You talk to me of promises and betrayals? 760 00:50:56,053 --> 00:50:58,098 Take your own. 761 00:50:58,229 --> 00:51:01,493 You promised me a son and heir, and yet no boy arrives. 762 00:51:01,623 --> 00:51:03,973 The world must know that God makes me powerful, 763 00:51:04,104 --> 00:51:06,541 that He blesses me. 764 00:51:06,672 --> 00:51:10,371 I will not be denied what lesser men find easy. 765 00:51:10,502 --> 00:51:12,286 If you do not do as I command, 766 00:51:12,417 --> 00:51:14,593 then I will treat you as I please 767 00:51:14,723 --> 00:51:17,074 and any other woman on this earth as well. 768 00:51:21,078 --> 00:51:22,383 Catherine. 769 00:51:22,514 --> 00:51:23,514 Catherine! 770 00:51:28,781 --> 00:51:31,349 I have a need 771 00:51:31,479 --> 00:51:33,699 for something I cannot get. 772 00:51:33,829 --> 00:51:35,396 Give it to me, Catherine. 773 00:51:37,268 --> 00:51:39,270 Give me a son. 774 00:51:50,150 --> 00:51:52,065 The craftsmanship is very skilled. 775 00:51:52,196 --> 00:51:54,067 I also made one for my boys. 776 00:51:54,198 --> 00:51:56,635 Hmm. 777 00:51:56,765 --> 00:51:59,420 The plague has passed, so now I will return home 778 00:51:59,551 --> 00:52:01,988 and ready for my wife and children. 779 00:52:10,257 --> 00:52:13,434 How soon till the court return? 780 00:52:13,565 --> 00:52:16,089 In a few days, I think. 781 00:52:16,220 --> 00:52:19,136 There... there was a letter from the king. 782 00:52:19,266 --> 00:52:20,789 Thomas... 783 00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:24,141 Let me tell you something from my childhood. 784 00:52:24,271 --> 00:52:26,099 I had a toy. It was a simple thing. 785 00:52:26,230 --> 00:52:27,318 It was a puppet soldier. 786 00:52:30,103 --> 00:52:31,191 And... 787 00:52:34,194 --> 00:52:35,630 ...I gave it to my own daughter 788 00:52:35,761 --> 00:52:38,459 when she was afraid of the dark. 789 00:52:38,590 --> 00:52:42,289 And I told her it would guard her 790 00:52:42,420 --> 00:52:44,552 and that no anguish would befall her. 791 00:52:48,469 --> 00:52:50,384 That is a father's promise, isn't it? 792 00:52:52,386 --> 00:52:55,259 That as best he can, 793 00:52:55,389 --> 00:52:58,871 he will not do anything 794 00:52:59,001 --> 00:53:01,917 that would bring pain or anguish upon his children. 795 00:53:05,617 --> 00:53:08,228 Oh, to be children. 796 00:53:08,359 --> 00:53:10,970 Such simple joys. 797 00:53:22,895 --> 00:53:27,160 I will cherish our time alone in our palace, Maggie. 798 00:53:31,251 --> 00:53:33,079 That was a joy to me. 799 00:53:51,489 --> 00:53:53,317 "Dearest Mary, 800 00:53:53,447 --> 00:53:56,102 I write with joy, if some surprise, 801 00:53:56,233 --> 00:53:57,669 at your news. 802 00:53:57,799 --> 00:54:00,802 But as you feared, the king is angry. 803 00:54:00,933 --> 00:54:03,196 You should not return to England, 804 00:54:03,327 --> 00:54:05,764 either one of you, until his blood has cooled. 805 00:54:05,894 --> 00:54:08,114 I myself have trials of my own." 806 00:54:15,817 --> 00:54:17,428 Bessie. 807 00:54:17,558 --> 00:54:19,908 I will go to her. 808 00:54:20,039 --> 00:54:23,782 Elizabeth, take Anne with you and help her. 809 00:54:27,829 --> 00:54:31,137 Deep breaths, Bessie. 810 00:54:39,450 --> 00:54:40,842 I'm dying! 811 00:54:40,973 --> 00:54:42,627 You have to push now. 812 00:54:48,894 --> 00:54:51,113 What? What... what is it? 813 00:54:51,244 --> 00:54:53,377 Just keep pushing. 814 00:54:53,507 --> 00:54:56,162 Oh, no. Oh, no. 815 00:55:08,870 --> 00:55:11,438 The baby's head crowns then goes back inside again. 816 00:55:11,569 --> 00:55:12,809 She cannot squeeze the baby out. 817 00:55:12,918 --> 00:55:14,746 You should not be in here. 818 00:55:20,839 --> 00:55:23,363 Your Highness, he will die. 819 00:55:23,494 --> 00:55:25,365 We will both die. 820 00:55:25,496 --> 00:55:27,889 Shh. We are here to help you, Bessie. 821 00:55:28,020 --> 00:55:29,020 Oh, no. 822 00:55:31,589 --> 00:55:33,330 - No, no, Highness! - Get... get off me! 823 00:55:33,460 --> 00:55:35,244 No, no, no, no, no! 824 00:55:35,375 --> 00:55:38,639 Now, push! 825 00:55:38,770 --> 00:55:42,034 Push! 826 00:55:47,387 --> 00:55:48,693 What do you think I meant to do? 827 00:55:48,823 --> 00:55:51,522 Slice the child in two? 828 00:55:51,652 --> 00:55:53,524 Let... let me see. 829 00:55:53,654 --> 00:55:55,308 Let me see my baby. 830 00:55:55,439 --> 00:55:56,614 A boy. 831 00:55:58,877 --> 00:56:00,835 It is boy. 832 00:56:00,966 --> 00:56:03,098 Let me... let me have him. 833 00:56:09,757 --> 00:56:12,412 I will take him to the king. 834 00:56:12,543 --> 00:56:14,762 No, oh, no. 835 00:56:14,893 --> 00:56:17,069 No. 836 00:56:20,289 --> 00:56:21,289 Henry. 837 00:56:27,906 --> 00:56:30,648 This day... 838 00:56:30,778 --> 00:56:32,693 I give to you a son. 839 00:56:35,653 --> 00:56:37,132 A son. 840 00:56:51,886 --> 00:56:53,061 My son. 841 00:56:59,807 --> 00:57:02,027 I will give thanks to God. 842 00:57:14,953 --> 00:57:16,171 Catherine? 843 00:57:18,826 --> 00:57:20,175 Thank you. 844 00:57:32,999 --> 00:57:38,999 *CREDITS*