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Who will govern England after me?
The answer lies in there.
I will take what I'm owed in gold.
Think of it as a border raid.
We understand that the duke of Albany
proposes a petition for your marriage to be annulled.
If they were lovers, the pope would throw out
their petition without consideration.
Yes, that would be so.
A marriage made in God's eyes
cannot be undone.
Martin Luther's reformists.
They say the king is not anointed by God.
If you burn books, will you soon burn people?
I fight a war for God and for the Crown.
- I do good. - There is no good in that machine.
It no longer feels safe anywhere.
This is a different England.
Help me.
You must tell no one. Please, not the king.
I swear to you.
Edward Stafford, you stand convicted of treason.
You are sentenced to death.
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Ahh!
No! I will not hear this!
You stand before me
and you tell me another son of mine is dead.
What demon are you?
How shall I bear this?
How shall I?
You're not cramped in pain.
There's no blood.
How long have you kept this from me?
- When did you kill him? - I did not kill him!
You carried him, so when?
Was it brought about by Stafford's execution?
No.
No, it was before.
It was the reason he was with me in my rooms.
He was...
was tending to me.
So Stafford knew... before I did?
He was kind.
He was a dog!
It was his duty to tell me,
and he kept it from me!
I'm glad I took his head.
Yeah, maybe I should take yours too.
Then do it.
It could not cause me more pain
than I feel from you this moment.
Bring my Henry Fitzroy to me.
I will have my son here at the palace.
And have my aunt ejected from the palace
and never in my sight again.
Unless you'd rather a view from Traitor's Gate
beside Lord Stafford.
How can you bear him, Catherine?
He flays you, wounds your daughter,
and takes the lives of loyal men...
Do not malign the king.
- Mary, come. - He is a monster!
Your words are treasonous, Lady Pole.
And this time, if he locked you in the Tower,
I would not come to help you.
Come. Come, Mary!
Pray with me.
I am sorry for your father's mood.
It is not your doing.
I love you very much.
Good. They're here.
Men of Arran and men of Hamilton,
you know me.
You loved my husband.
King James gave his life for this country
and its future.
That future, which lives in my son
and heir to the Scots throne, James...
my wee Jamie,
who is now held captive by Albany in Stirling.
So I ask you,
pure noblemen of Scotland,
help me put my son
onto his rightful throne
so our country may be healed,
and I will pay you all
in English gold.
Will you do it?
Get back!
That's it! That's better!
Come on, block me.
Huh? Find my weak spot!
And we have.
Lady Mother!
What the fuck is this?
Call it "justice," Alexander Stewart.
Jamie, where's your brother?
Oh, he's inside.
- Go and fetch him! - Aye.
Jamie, come here.
So it's a kidnapping.
No.
It is a coronation.
I can't believe the queen would say that, even her.
To turn against us...
The court is rotten...
all of them.
What will happen to us?
Will we starve or hang?
I wish that I had listened to you
and made myself invisible.
There is nothing wrong with what you wanted, nothing,
and I will not hear you say it.
We will not starve.
We will eat sweetmeats from great golden plates again,
or I will see the Tudors burn in hell.
Open the gate!
- Who is that? - Stand aside!
Henry!
By order of the king, all goods and chattels
of the Stafford estate are hereby to be confiscated.
How are you so lost
- that you would do this to your own - Confiscated...
- flesh and blood? Your sister... - And seized by the Crown in accordance
with the laws of treason.
... and I am your mother.
Lady Mother, no.
Madam, by order of the king,
you will move out of our path
or I'll have the soldiers move you.
Step aside.
We knew this had to come.
No.
No, I will not move.
May God have mercy on your rotten soul.
I will not be commanded by a boy
and one who answers to a tyrant
rather than his own good conscience.
Please. Please, Lady Mother.
Move aside.
I will not move for you or for anyone.
So draw your sword, you big, brave knight,
and run your mother through.
Your Grace.
Well...
this is all very...
- curious. - I'm taking back my castle.
You may return to France.
I will be regent to King James myself.
I have only ever tried to help you.
You are besmirched with lies and gossip
that would have us as lovers.
I cannot have this said.
It tarnishes us both.
I prefer your sister, Mary.
I assume your brother, the king,
does not sanction this.
I care not for his opinion
or that of his Spanish queen.
I care for Scotland and my boys.
Enough of this circus of fools.
Good-bye, Alexander.
May God bless you and keep you, King James.
Do not mistake my gentle sex for weakness or yielding.
No more in the shadows.
I shall rule this kingdom with my son,
and all who stand against me will be punished.
The king has summoned us.
He will make an announcement about our son.
What announcement, Bessie?
The queen is not required.
You have never looked more queenly, Mary.
You have in you the strength of Aragon and Castile.
Come.
You do what His Majesty
and the good cardinal tell you.
Don't stoop like a farmhand.
Straight, like a knight.
Where were you?
I had need of you today.
My father doesn't want me here.
Then we will make him change his mind.
Catherine, are you sure this is wise?
Your Grace, what an unexpected joy to see you here.
"Unexpected," to see the queen
and her pureblood royal princess?
His Majesty the king.
Your great Majesty...
we're humbled by your invitation.
Our Lord God tells us of His joy
bestowing gifts upon His children.
Henry.
Pater meus...
Meus adiutor meus...
bene...
What are you trying to say?
He attempts to say,
"I shall receive your blessing, Father."
Pater mee, benediction tuum accipiam.
And Henry, now you.
Pater mee, benedict-on...
accipiam, Father.
You said "father" twice.
Do you have two?
But of course, dear Mary, he has two great fathers...
one in heaven and one here, on the throne of England.
He's a delightful child.
Hmm.
Through the auspices of this court...
I hereby bestow upon my son, Henry,
the dukedoms of Richmond and Somerset.
Oh, the duke!
And he is also this day appointed
Lord High Admiral,
President of the Council of the North,
and Warden of the Marches.
God save the king!
For our daughter, Majesty?
There's nothing I can give a girl.
The throne.
You can give her England.
No, I'll have a son for that.
Catherine.
- Mary. - I'm sorry about the baby.
My sister wrote to me of a rumor
that she and Albany are lovers.
She says it came from you.
Your sister is engaged in folly.
Albany is gone.
He has returned to France.
Meg has put her own son on the throne
and will rule with him as regent until he is of age.
Then she will rule with Angus,
as he will not be denied his husband's rights.
My brother is more... sympathetic
to her cause than he has been.
He now supports her hope for an annulment.
Mary, come.
We must congratulate the king and his son.
I'm sorry that we won't be friends as we once were.
Congratulations.
Go to the king, Anne.
Smile and win his favor.
Please, leave us just that one shield.
That was given to my father by the king.
Don't be such a fool, Henry.
Sir Thomas, I'm sorry. I couldn't...
She will not move.
"Sir" Thomas?
Is that how torturers are rewarded
in this brave, new England? You have been knighted?
Let this confiscation run its course, please, Maggie.
Do not use my name, Sir Thomas.
I am Lady Pole, Countess of Salisbury.
No, you are not.
Your title is rescinded.
Look, I came here... and you may dispute this if you wish...
But I came here as a friend.
A friend?
Do you know how many friends I have lost?
Family?
Those I have loved and cared for?
And you, who I came to think of as a dear friend,
not one capable of listening to men in agony...
I've explained my reasons.
Oh, yes, "For God and for the Crown."
That's right.
I have struggled my whole life
to be a loyal servant to them both,
and look where it's got me.
I'm afraid for you, Lady Pole.
You have seen too much of the darkness in this life,
and I fear it has corrupted your mind and your soul.
If you have nothing, then there is nothing to be afraid of.
It is those who have everything who need be afraid.
Why?
What do you intend to do?
Henry, we will mend this.
I am still strong and healthy.
Don't; it diminishes us both, Catherine.
I worship at the altar three times every day
and beseech Him for a son.
What more can I do?
Is my marriage cursed?
Wondered for a long time, Catherine.
Did you lie with my brother?
I'll have the truth this time.
Why would you ask me this again?
After all these years and all this pain,
I did not lie with him.
Why, then? Why would God deny me?
- Henry, please... - No, no, it's too late for us.
You know it. I know it too.
Then our daughter is enough.
Is it beyond all possibility in your mind
that God has given us a daughter to rule England
in place of a son?
A new dawn for our country.
You're remarkable.
Rather than admit to your own failings,
you would actually twist the will of God out of shape.
It's you God denies.
- I have Henry Fitzroy. - He is a bastard.
Whereas Mary is a true princess.
Don't you say that of my son.
Don't you dare!
And God has promised me a dozen more, Catherine.
A dozen more sons.
Shh...
Lina...
there is a sickness in the king,
and it will take us all if we don't...
Don't what?
You said yourself,
the boys have not felt safe here since the riots.
There is nowhere we can go.
Oviedo, this will pass. It must.
I have heard word from the other soldiers.
Rosa and her husband have docked at Tilbury
on their ship.
I know.
She wrote to me.
What did she say?
She would like to see us.
Where are they headed? After England?
Now is not the time, Oviedo.
I cannot reach him.
He's locked in his belief that God is judging us.
I am being punished.
It is Wolsey who fans the flame
to further his own power.
Do you think he will seek to claim
our marriage is unlawful?
I do not know.
- Rosa has arrived in London... - I have no time for that!
How are your family?
Are they well?
Our boys are taunted for not being English.
At least you have boys.
You make it look so easy.
Lady Pole is here.
I suppose she comes to beg the king for charity.
Lady Pole.
Uh, Sir Thomas, we were not expecting her.
Perhaps you thought me dead already
of starvation in a ditch.
She tells me she has information for the king,
but she will not reveal it.
Be warned, Lady Pole, the king will not be trifled with.
His mood is-is inconstant.
I should have told him many years ago, but I did not.
Oh, Thomas.
You were so quick to join in Wolsey's attack
- of your friend Stafford. - You will hold your tongue.
There is no one you would not send to the block
to keep your family name, Boleyn, in favor.
So maybe now I learn from you.
I do not wish to hear the word "no" from you again.
Have you got that, Wolsey?
Yes, Your Majesty, but as a cardinal
of the Catholic church, I must speak plainly
that a marriage made before God cannot simply be undone...
Your Majesty, your lady aunt requests an audience with you.
Your Majesty.
You have sought to punish my family and I
in many different ways, and I have
asked the Lord my God why you would do that.
And He has given me His answer.
That I was wrong to keep the truth from you.
Madam, there is nothing you can tell His Majesty...
The truth about a lie.
What lie, Lady Aunt?
- I'm sure it is nothing... - What truth?
- Go. - Your Majesty.
Go!
Well, speak, Lady Aunt.
Those who will repent will find me generous.
The queen lay with your brother.
She was not a maid when you wed.
You will ensure she is versed
- in politics and economics. - Yes, Your Grace.
And do not tell me they are not the subjects for a girl.
Lady Mother.
What is it?
- Show me. - "Spanish dog."
Look.
It was meant for me to find.
I come to invite you to go hunting.
Just you and I.
Of course.
I am ever at your pleasure, but before we go...
may I?
Good lords of this parliament,
I thank you for acknowledging
that my son James is now
the full and righteous king.
Of course, he will be advised on all state matters
by myself and others until he comes of age.
Fuck that.
God has granted us a new era
of peace and prosperity and strength in unity.
We will be more than a match now
for that greedy English king and his deceitful wife.
You mean, your brother, Your Grace,
and your own family?
- This is my family. - You're a Tudor.
And you married a Douglas when you promised
not to wed at all.
How can we know that when you give
our sovereign advice that you're not speaking Tudor
out of your mouth and Angus out of your asshole?
Well, you can consider that from your prison cell.
No, you can't do that.
- I'm brother to... - I can do as I wish.
And I just did.
No.
Move.
Anyone else?
Henry, is there something wrong?
What could possibly be wrong?
It doesn't seem there will be much prey down here.
Go further.
Just there.
Henry, unless you want us to shoot fish...
Go.
Ow. Stop!
Ow! Ow!
No! He-Hen-Henry what is happening?
You're a liar...
and a sinner!
My lady aunt confessed it all.
You lay with my brother,
and you lied to me for years.
No, I-I have not!
She stood outside your door, and she heard you, Catherine!
No, she-she lies to you to try to win her way
back in your favor. Get off of me!
Stop!
She stood before me, Catherine,
and she swore it on the Bible.
She was not inside the chamber,
so her testimony is false.
Arthur was.
He told her himself of his great joy at your lovemaking.
Say many things about my brother, Catherine...
but he's not a liar.
You're a jezebel, and you've cast me into sin...
- Henry, I... - and all of England with me.
I have not.
"If a man takes his brother's wife,
"it is an unclean thing,
and they shall be childless."
Leviticus.
You have burned all my sons in the fire of God's wrath!
There is another passage in the Bible!
Deuteronomy.
"When a brother dies and has no child,
"the wife shall not be given to a stranger,
"but her husband's brother shall take her as his wife
and be a husband to her."
Then you admit it.
Finally.
After all these years.
You're a wanton whore.
You loved me, Henry.
You love me still.
No, I hate you.
You've cast me into the flames of hell, Catherine.
I have given you my heart and soul.
I have loved you more than any woman ever loved a man.
I have given you myself...
my loyalty...
my body...
my devotion.
But you were not a maid.
I was yours from the first moment I saw you.
Please.
Henry, please.
Please.
Who is here?
Henry, who is here?
Who is it, Henry?
No one.
Is it Wolsey?
Did you bring him here to kill me?
Bring me my horse!
No, Henry.
Henry! Henry, please!
No!
Bring me my horse!
Henry, no.
Henry!
Oviedo, promise me that you won't say too much.
I need more time.
Lina!
Dear, dear Rosa!
I am so happy you're coming with us.
My girls and your boys will grow up all together
in the Ottoman Empire.
Coming with you?
Rosa, we have not decided yet.
My husband, Alvaro, has a job for Oviedo,
a good job as a shipwright.
Your boys may be apprentices.
You already know this?
You did not tell me.
Lina, we will have a better life.
That is what we came to England for.
No.
Rosa.
I, um... I have missed you.
I would love to sail away...
but the queen...
she is in pain.
You are kind and ever loyal.
Oviedo's in pain as well.
So are your boys.
Come.
I will need a page with me to carry the deeds
to the Stafford estate,
and see to it that all the goods and chattels
that were confiscated are returned.
The king is generous to those who will do his bidding.
Your Grace, where are your guards?
What did you say to him?
I am a loyal servant to the king.
Is that not what you'd have me be?
You must do as your conscience tells you.
As we all must.
Leave me.
Tell Lina to come when she is here.
"Dearest Meg...
I know that you are angry with me,
but I write to you for help.
The king believes that I have lied to him.
He will seek annulment of our marriage.
Whatever now becomes of me, I must protect my daughter
and her place in England.
You have your brother's ear now,
and I bid you, please,
have him think of Mary.
Catherine, your faithful sister."
Come in.
One is from the King of England, your brother.
The other's from Queen Catherine.
A letter from each of them.
I must be doing something right.
What do you think they say?
They say the queen was not a maid when she was wed.
Perhaps King Henry would commiserate on being married
to a spouse you'd be rid of.
And Catherine, what does she say?
Catherine is unknowable to me.
And to me now.
And once, she was my inspiration.
But I believe she is as lost as he is now.
What a sad face you pull, Hal Stewart.
There is word that your hus...
Lord Angus says you're unfit to rule.
He draws men to this banner
and will mount a challenge to you.
Well, then we...
will blast him out of Scotland.
Hal, I'm making you my most senior officer.
Your Grace... Meg...
your son's reign is still parlous with some of the clans.
I'm a Stewart, so perhaps promoting from another house
- would be more... - But I want you, Hal.
Forever.
Until the end of Heaven and Earth.
Come.
Wash your hands and face for bed.
Barnaby, who did this to you?
The English boys.
Lady Pole told him that I was not a maid
when we were wed.
The king... will not forgive me.
He will not even see me.
But he must.
You are his wife.
I believe he will seek to change that.
But he can't.
I am sorry, Lina...
for how I've been of late.
I have been unfair to you, my dearest friend.
I could not be without you.
Please forgive me.
- Catherine... - What can I do for you?
For the boys and Oviedo?
Are there things you need?
My king.
I would speak with you...
It seems you are already.
Thomas, I wish to honor you.
Your daughters shall be part of the queen's household
as her ladies.
Your Majesty, you are too kind.
Who is here? Henry, who is here?
What demon are you? No!
God forgive me.
Well, come on!
Meg! Meg!
My Lord, why don't you go back to the tavern
that you have come from?
Watch your tongue.
Meg!
Advance.
He's coming around the west side.
Good!
He may receive my gift!
Charge!
What the fuck?
Fire! Keep firing!
Get up!
Meg! You bitch!
Highness...
What is it?
You have bad news.
Highness, you are crying.
No.
What is it?
Rosa... is at Tilbury.
You wish to leave.
No...
not leave you.
But it is a chance for us... my boys.
Of course you must.
- Highness... - I wish I could come with you.
Catherine, what has happened?
I thought...
I thought to do something so wicked
that it would cast me into hell.
I thought...
to finish him.
- I will not go. - No, no, you must.
It has passed now.
I will draw strength from my pain.
I will endure.
Then you will be saved.
Isn't that what the Bible says?
"He who endures to the end
shall be saved."
Yes.
Yes, you're right.
It is God's will.
Lina, you have been my dearest friend.
I love you very much.
And I love you.
You will always be the light.
You see, and then my father took the crown
by God's grace at Bosworth, and all of England benefitted.
My lady aunt now benefits from God's good favor...
and mine.
Or does this not please you, Lady Aunt?
Sit up, Henry. Such posture.
You dishonor your father.
You know, sometimes in you now, I see my lady grandmother.
I believe I am wealthier, Your Majesty.
"Better the little that the righteous have
"than the wealth of many wicked...
for the Lord upholds the righteous."
Psalms 37.
Henry, I will speak with you alone.
Lady Aunt, please take my son out to archery.
I'll join you presently.
Your Majesty.
I know you would be rid of me.
And I will grant it.
I will leave Westminster
and live quietly far from court.
- But this is my decision, and I... - No.
No, I have made it.
I love you.
I pity you.
But know this, Henry.
I will not let you push me from this marriage.
I will always be your wife.
There is nothing you can do to change that.
I hope you may find peace.
Savor what you have with him.
It will not last,
and you may sleep in my bed for now,
but you will never take my place as Queen of England.
"My dearest daughter Mary,
there is much that you are yet too young to understand...
About why we are leaving the palace and your father.
But there is nothing I regret.
Were God to grant me all my time again,
I would live exactly as I did the first time,
and I would not change my course.
I have known love...
and joy...
and friendship.
For a time, we built what others only dreamt of...
Camelot for England
and a paradise for us."
Lady Mother, is it dead?
God tests our faith, and we do not always know
what he is testing.
Is it our strength to stay the course,
or is it to accept the things we cannot change
and find peace in acceptance
and our supplication to the Lord?
I hear God speak to me.
He asks me to find peace...
to fill my heart with loving you and Him.
"Your father casts himself in many troubles, Mary.
He fears he has offended God,
and so he breaks his mind upon a goose chase
for a prize that he can never win.
But in his search, he fails to see
the biggest prize of all that God has given us,
and it is you.
Forgive him.
Pray that he may find his way again...
and that he be may granted his peace."
People call me Harry.
"Believe your purpose, Mary.
Be of merry heart."
There.
That's north. See?
"I love you very much...
as I love him.
Shall we set him free?
I am his wife.
I am Queen of England.
I am God's obedient servant.
But you... you are England's future."
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