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What is it?
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- Sante vierge!
- What is it?
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- My head. My head.
- Francois?
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- Mary, help me.
- Be still, be still.
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- Are you mad? Or do you wish my son death?
- No, madame, I love him!
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I know that what you have done
is stupid and reckless!
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- Don't touch him! I forbid you to hurt him!
- Vos majesties.
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- Uncle!
- Be patient, my child.
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The doctors may be trusted
with the life of the king.
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It is his third attack in a month.
He may well die of this illness.
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- No!
- We would be stupid not to consider it...
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- and the effect upon us if he does.
- He will not die!
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- I will not let you talk of it!
- Oh, yes, you will, Mary.
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I shall be plainer
than my brother.
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We of the family of De Guise are finished if
Francois dies and there is no child of your body.
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- I will not think of life without him.
- You must!
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You are queen of Scotland by birth
and queen of France by marriage.
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And the queen
of England by right!
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Elizabeth is bastard and has
no right to the throne of England.
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A woman who consorts
with her horse master.
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Now must I bear
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my hope and fear
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of love in her
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waking.
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Beautiful, Robin. Beautiful. You
write songs as well as you sing them.
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Your Majesty, the composer of such a
melody rises far above my poor talent.
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I came across the tune when I was
looking through some old manuscripts...
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at the Greenwich Palace.
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- I thought it might amuse
you to hear it. - Who wrote it?
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It is said that your father composed it
for your blessed mother, Anne Boleyn.
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- Before they were married.
- Oh?
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It is also said that when he
asked her how she liked it,
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she countered by asking him
how his wife liked it.
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By God, my mother had the courage of 10,
and so have you, you whore son!
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A message for the queen!
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Message for the queen!
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From Sir William Cecil,
my lord.
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Your wife has been found dead.
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Of a broken neck
at the foot of a staircase.
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I grieve for you,
Lord Robert.
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Lady Dudley was alone in her
house. There is talk of murder.
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You will leave the court at once
and not return until I send for you.
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Now will the great
scandal begin.
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Now will my enemies rejoice.
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What do your spies at court say the
Spanish ambassador made of this news?
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- He remains silent.
- And the French ambassador?
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- He exults.
- And says?
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And says?
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That soon he will see Mary
Stuart on the English throne,
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for not even the Protestant English will
support the bastard and usurper Elizabeth...
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when she marries her horse master Dudley,
who has killed his wife...
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to make room for her.
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- He is innocent.
- Let him prove it.
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When I was in great danger in my late sister's reign,
he did not desert me.
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Your Majesty, you are in great danger
now from Mary Stuart and the Catholic cause.
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Mary Stuart? She's safe
in France for a lifetime.
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Is she?
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They say her husband
has fevers of the brain.
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If he should die,
what direction would Mary turn?
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Remember, her mother rules
as regent in Scotland.
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Mary Stuart's mother
does not rule in Scotland;
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She tyrannises Scotland
with a French army.
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She forces the Catholic faith
down Scottish throats.
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Half her nobles are Protestant
and in open rebellion. Rule, you say?
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She barely survives. I fear neither Mary
Stuart in France nor her mother in Scotland.
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Nor your own Catholic nobles who live in the North,
hard upon the Scottish border?
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Why should I?
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They are not persecuted.
I am no tyrant.
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Scotland is the back door
to England.
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It must not be unbarred by a
scandal in the English court.
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If you protect Lord Robert Dudley
and seem to condone a murder,
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the Northern lords are going to
believe that next you will marry him.
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The rumour is everywhere.
They are certain to rebel.
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Bring him to trial in
open court. Hide nothing.
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It hurts! It hurts! It's like
burning arrows in my brain!
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His Majesty!
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Please, Francois, come in.
Please, come in.
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No, no, no.
I will ride from the pain. It goes when I ride.
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- Please! Francois...
- No, no!
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I must!
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Francois, please!
Francois!
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Francois!
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- Bring me a chair.
- Apportez une chaise.
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Please come back inside,
Your Grace.
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I must keep vigil for the king.
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Almighty God, if you love Francois more than I do,
then take him to you.
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But take me as well,
for I have no wish to live without him.
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- Your Majesty.
- Who goes there?
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A Scottish lord.
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Lord Bothwell,
emissary from your brother Lord James Stuart,
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regent of Scotland.
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James?
No, my mother is regent.
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Madam, your mother is dead.
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Your mother is dead.
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No!
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I was sent ahead by your
brother to prepare you.
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Whatever James Stuart says to you,
remember this, madam:
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There is terrible disorder
in your land.
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The clans already
fight for power.
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- This is my land.
- You're needed in Scotland, madam.
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Francois! Francois!
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Enough!
Against my will, my son married her.
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Now he's dead.
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- She is the cause.
- Oh, no!
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I'll rule here until my
second son is of age.
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If you defy me, my lords,
I will not only banish her from the court.
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I will exile her from France.
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Brother, help me.
What must I do?
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You were always so kind to me. When we were
children together. Tell me what to do now, James.
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Mary, if you wish it, I will take you home
to Scotland and there you will rule as queen.
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You have no need of
foreign marriages or armies.
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But would the people
of Scotland love me?
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Tolerate the new religion, Your Grace,
and they will give you their hearts.
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- She shall not!
- Uncle, I must.
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I cannot live out
my years in exile.
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I must believe there is hope
for a new life in Scotland.
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Will you help me,
my lords?
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- Your Majesty.
- Your Majesty.
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My lords.
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- The usurper Elizabeth will be my neighbour, yes?
- She will.
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Well, then, I will make a new beginning
with her as well as my Protestant subjects.
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I will travel to Scotland
through England.
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I will go to the court of
Elizabeth and win her friendship.
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Never! I will have no
dealings with that lady,
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and I will use force, if I must,
to stop her returning to Scotland.
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That is unwise,
Your Grace.
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Explain.
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Because, Your Majesty,
if we do not bring her to Scotland,
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subservient to
a Protestant court,
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she will soon arrive with a Catholic army
at her back; Her uncles will see to that.
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If that happens,
she'll soon be knocking on the back door.
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And what will prevent
her doing that now?
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Are the Protestant lords of the
congregation in Scotland so devoted to me?
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Madam, I am first among them and I am
devoted to peace and order in our two lands.
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Once we have her safe in
Edinburgh there is no further danger.
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Mary Stuart will rule in name;
I will rule in fact.
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If you value my friendship,
you will keep that promise.
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Then she shall come home?
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Yes, but not through my realm.
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Duc De Guise, madam.
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Uncle Francois!
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Mary.
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Is it from Elizabeth?
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She... She refuses me safe
conduct through England!
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- She hates me.
- She fears you.
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She says,
"Renounce your claim to the English throne..."
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You'll renounce nothing,
neither your voyage home to Scotland...
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nor your true claim
to the throne of England.
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Quite right, brother.
That is the ruling of Holy Mother Church.
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Madam, you are the English queen.
Elizabeth is bastard and heretic.
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You're right!
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Who is this priest, Uncle?
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He is Father Ballard,
your new chaplain and confessor.
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- An English priest?
- There are no longer Englishmen...
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or Frenchmen or Scotsmen.
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There are in all life-and-death
Catholic and heretic.
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- Only a fool thinks otherwise.
- I shall not forget it.
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And this is David Riccio,
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a singer from Italy.
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I have travelled far
to serve you, Your Grace.
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And we have far to go.
Walk with me.
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Only two sorts of men?
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Which sort are the English
priest and the little Italian?
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The priest is a Jesuit serving only you,
the true Queen of England.
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You may trust him
with your life.
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The singer is the
agent of the Pope.
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Yours will be
a Protestant court.
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You need a safe and secret
way to your real friends...
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Ourselves in France,
Philip in Spain...
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and His Holiness in Rome.
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Riccio is the way.
Let him seem to sing for his supper.
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Promote him, slowly,
and trust him.
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He speaks many languages
and he's expert with cyphers.
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Andrew!
Move those lazy whoreson peasants...
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before I take the flat
of my sword to them!
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Lower your voice, my gracious lord.
The sound of it is hard to bear.
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Then you must stuff your delicate ears,
madam, for you're going to hear...
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many like it in Scotland when you've left
the twitterings of the French court behind.
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If that is an example of Scottish wit,
we're in for a bleak winter.
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Lord Bothwell, we now sail
direct to Scotland.
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Oh? That will be a rougher voyage
than the Channel, madam.
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I'm not afraid of the sea,
my lord.
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We shall next meet at the Port of Leith,
Your Grace,
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where I shall have your white horses
fit for your triumphal ride into Edinburgh.
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Shall I ride in triumph?
Will all be well?
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Well...
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there's only one question,
Your Grace:
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Will you rule the Scottish lords,
or will they rule you?
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I shall rule the lords.
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I wish you then,
Queen Mary Stuart,
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a fair journey.
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Ride out!
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Adieu, Francois.
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Goodbye, dear France.
Goodbye.
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I never thought to be sad
at returning home.
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It's so long
since we all left there.
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Sad? Dear Fleming, now it comes to it,
I welcome Scotland.
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There will be two ships...
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The queen in one and
Bothwell as escort in the other.
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- So? - Your sea captains can
take Bothwell's ship here.
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Why? It will provoke French
anger... and Scottish... to no purpose.
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If I am to keep my promise,
we must cage Bothwell. He's dangerous.
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With him to help her,
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Mary might find a way to finish
me and rule Scotland alone.
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- But he is no papist.
- He's worse.
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He's an atheist who mocks God
and fears no man.
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His pride is his loyalty to the Stuart Queen,
and he cannot be bribed.
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Cannot?
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I hope we catch him alive,
my lord.
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I'd like to study such a rarity.
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Where are we,
in the name of God?
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I don't know, Majesty.
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The Captain swears this is
the charted landing place.
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Listen!
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Jamie!
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Good health to Your Majesty.
Welcome to Scotland.
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James, what has happened?
Where are my people?
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For five days fog has lain over land
and sea. You were not expected so soon.
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- But you are here.
- We rode hard when the warning gun fired.
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Your loyal lords of the
congregation welcome you.
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Oh, I understand.
Then soon the royal guards will be here;
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The carpet for me to stand upon,
the canopy; There will be gun salutes.
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No, madam. There will be nothing.
We can waste no money on idle show.
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- Aye.
- This is not France.
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God bless Scotland!
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And God bless the Scottish queen
who is so near her throne at last.
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My lords of the congregation.
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You do me great honour to
ride in such haste to meet me.
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My good brother
shows great wisdom...
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that he wastes no money
upon ceremony.
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Aye.
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Good brother,
I embrace you for your wisdom.
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And before these lords,
I name you my chief minister.
234
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God save the queen!
235
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I thank you, dear sister.
Bring the horses.
236
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Bring the queen's horses!
237
00:20:45,662 --> 00:20:48,398
These are not mine. I will
wait till mine have landed.
238
00:20:48,498 --> 00:20:51,860
Your stable was taken
by the English.
239
00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:55,321
Taken? How can that be? They are on
the other ship. Bothwell has them safe.
240
00:20:55,421 --> 00:20:58,908
His ship was captured. It had no
safe conduct through English waters.
241
00:20:59,008 --> 00:21:01,661
Elizabeth's ambassador
has already complained to me.
242
00:21:01,761 --> 00:21:06,140
- And Bothwell? Is he dead?
- They have him, safely.
243
00:21:09,018 --> 00:21:13,506
It is only three days since the two
ships parted company in the fog,
244
00:21:13,606 --> 00:21:16,885
and yet, you, brother,
know everything of its fate...
245
00:21:16,985 --> 00:21:18,887
and the fate of Lord Bothwell.
246
00:21:18,987 --> 00:21:23,308
Even the fastest horseman could not
ride from London to Edinburgh in three days.
247
00:21:23,408 --> 00:21:28,121
Will you mount, Your Majesty?
It's a sharp morning and we must move on.
248
00:21:45,138 --> 00:21:49,017
Faster! Faster!
Faster!
249
00:22:21,090 --> 00:22:25,453
- Well, Robin?
- My wife's death is judged to be an accident.
250
00:22:25,553 --> 00:22:27,538
I am declared innocent,
Your Majesty,
251
00:22:27,638 --> 00:22:31,376
despite all efforts of Cecil's
spies to find evidence against me.
252
00:22:31,476 --> 00:22:36,214
Then you are indeed innocent.
So you may return to court.
253
00:22:36,314 --> 00:22:39,842
- If you permit it.
- I order it.
254
00:22:39,942 --> 00:22:43,513
And I order you to take
the apartment above my own.
255
00:22:43,613 --> 00:22:48,409
I feel I will have need
of your advice... constantly.
256
00:22:50,995 --> 00:22:54,065
If you will have me
constantly at your side,
257
00:22:54,165 --> 00:22:55,441
then marry me, my love.
258
00:22:55,541 --> 00:23:00,488
In this land there will be
but one mistress and no master.
259
00:23:00,588 --> 00:23:06,577
Then, madam, I will come no more to court.
I will leave this land.
260
00:23:06,677 --> 00:23:08,204
You shall not!
261
00:23:08,304 --> 00:23:09,956
You are my master of horse.
262
00:23:10,056 --> 00:23:11,791
When they jibe at me
in Catholic courts,
263
00:23:11,891 --> 00:23:16,045
they say the horse master who mounts the queen
so freely would now put a bridle on her.
264
00:23:16,145 --> 00:23:18,840
You dare to talk to me
of marriage!
265
00:23:18,940 --> 00:23:21,301
Forgive me.
It was my delight in seeing you again.
266
00:23:21,401 --> 00:23:25,847
You are a commoner whose head itches for a crown.
Attend to your common business.
267
00:23:25,947 --> 00:23:31,661
Keep the Scottish queen's horses well.
It may suit me to return them one day.
268
00:23:34,997 --> 00:23:36,524
The Scottish queen.
269
00:23:36,624 --> 00:23:41,112
There's a pretty widow
for an ambitious lord.
270
00:23:41,212 --> 00:23:42,905
Your Grace?
271
00:23:43,005 --> 00:23:45,408
I said, "Robin, you shall
dine with me tonight."
272
00:23:45,508 --> 00:23:51,013
And we will keep each other loving
company until the morning light.
273
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:17,273
There you are, Sister.
Your palace at Holyrood.
274
00:24:17,373 --> 00:24:18,941
Mary Stuart!
275
00:24:19,041 --> 00:24:24,197
God struck down your mother
and he will destroy you!
276
00:24:24,297 --> 00:24:28,534
- Who is this man? - John Knox,
madam. The leader of our church.
277
00:24:28,634 --> 00:24:30,912
- Of your church, not mine, Brother.
- Hear me!
278
00:24:31,012 --> 00:24:36,459
I have prayed that this queen would
die before she set foot on this land.
279
00:24:36,559 --> 00:24:39,921
See what she brings with her...
A priest!
280
00:24:40,021 --> 00:24:42,382
Better she had come
with French troops.
281
00:24:42,482 --> 00:24:47,136
She will comfort the papists
we have driven from this land.
282
00:24:47,236 --> 00:24:50,890
Monks, friars, priests, nuns...
283
00:24:50,990 --> 00:24:53,851
and all such filthy persons.
284
00:24:53,951 --> 00:24:59,899
One mass is more fearful
than 10,000 armed soldiers!
285
00:24:59,999 --> 00:25:01,901
Not to me, sir!
286
00:25:02,001 --> 00:25:03,569
You defend the mass?
287
00:25:03,669 --> 00:25:07,448
I defend the church of Rome,
for that I think is the true church of God.
288
00:25:07,548 --> 00:25:12,286
- Ride on. - No. I will hear with
patience your ugly words, John Knox.
289
00:25:12,386 --> 00:25:16,999
For you, like all my subjects,
shall have the free use of your conscience.
290
00:25:17,099 --> 00:25:19,310
- And I of mine!
- Ride on!
291
00:25:28,611 --> 00:25:29,887
Papist whore.
292
00:25:29,987 --> 00:25:36,118
- You have humiliated me.
- You shall keep your religion, Sister.
293
00:25:36,994 --> 00:25:40,064
But I suggest you are a
little more discreet about it.
294
00:25:40,164 --> 00:25:45,153
- Am I to rule here?
- We must have no illusions, you and I.
295
00:25:45,253 --> 00:25:48,906
We shared a father
in James V of Scotland,
296
00:25:49,006 --> 00:25:51,659
and I came out on the wrong side
of the blanket.
297
00:25:51,759 --> 00:25:56,080
It is the fate of bastard sons of
kings never to be kings themselves.
298
00:25:56,180 --> 00:25:56,914
This I accepted long ago.
299
00:25:57,014 --> 00:26:01,502
I'm not ambitious for your crown.
I'll resist any man that tries to take it from you.
300
00:26:01,602 --> 00:26:06,007
- You are the queen.
- I am the queen, but you are to rule.
301
00:26:06,107 --> 00:26:08,217
I want you to be happy.
302
00:26:08,317 --> 00:26:13,014
You shall have dancing and hunting,
music and good eating.
303
00:26:13,114 --> 00:26:16,576
But leave the troubles
of state to me.
304
00:26:17,827 --> 00:26:19,996
Come, Mary.
305
00:26:24,292 --> 00:26:27,753
A secret way
to the royal apartments.
306
00:26:31,632 --> 00:26:34,010
Follow me.
307
00:26:48,190 --> 00:26:50,259
Your bedchamber.
308
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:51,886
I persuaded your uncle
the cardinal...
309
00:26:51,986 --> 00:26:57,308
to permit me to bring from
France all your personal belongings.
310
00:26:57,408 --> 00:26:59,769
I thank you with all my heart.
311
00:26:59,869 --> 00:27:05,416
Here you will dine
and take your ease.
312
00:27:06,709 --> 00:27:08,419
Hmm.
313
00:27:17,011 --> 00:27:20,831
And this is where
we will hold council.
314
00:27:20,931 --> 00:27:22,917
Your presence chamber.
315
00:27:23,017 --> 00:27:27,672
Prepare yourself, and in an hour I
will bring all the lords of Scotland...
316
00:27:27,772 --> 00:27:29,966
and present them to you.
317
00:27:30,066 --> 00:27:32,218
You have made a good beginning.
318
00:27:32,318 --> 00:27:36,889
But remember,
be discreet and consult me in all things.
319
00:27:36,989 --> 00:27:40,476
There will be a private chapel
for the practice of your religion.
320
00:27:40,576 --> 00:27:45,314
Stay out of the public eye, priest,
and do not provoke the lords of the congregation.
321
00:27:45,414 --> 00:27:51,112
And, Mary, you may travel if you wish.
Scotland is a fine land.
322
00:27:51,212 --> 00:27:53,906
I thank you, dear brother.
323
00:27:54,006 --> 00:27:56,467
Dear sister.
324
00:28:07,603 --> 00:28:10,172
Did you hear him, Davie?
Did you hear him?
325
00:28:10,272 --> 00:28:14,927
Run away and play, he tells me,
as if I was a child. Davie, I am trapped.
326
00:28:15,027 --> 00:28:18,889
- Not yet, Your Grace.
- He has me in a cage!
327
00:28:18,989 --> 00:28:21,892
Then you must appear to sing
sweetly and happily, madame.
328
00:28:21,992 --> 00:28:25,396
I cannot do that forever. The
lies stick in my throat. I hate him!
329
00:28:25,496 --> 00:28:26,230
He is learning to trust you.
330
00:28:26,330 --> 00:28:29,650
When he trusts you, he will become
careless and then you will have him in a cage.
331
00:28:29,750 --> 00:28:32,903
- Davie, I have no army, no treasury,
no allies. - You have allies.
332
00:28:33,003 --> 00:28:37,325
Your uncles first among them. They will
solve your problems by finding you a husband.
333
00:28:37,425 --> 00:28:40,161
- A great prince with an
army at his back. - A Catholic...
334
00:28:40,261 --> 00:28:42,163
to deal with
the good James Stuart.
335
00:28:42,263 --> 00:28:44,915
Then you will march south...
to England.
336
00:28:45,015 --> 00:28:47,335
- First let us secure Scotland.
- Is it possible?
337
00:28:47,435 --> 00:28:49,795
- Certainly!
- Then I will marry quickly.
338
00:28:49,895 --> 00:28:51,964
I will not drag out my days
in this barren land.
339
00:28:52,064 --> 00:28:55,676
Did you smell those
fine Scottish lords?
340
00:28:55,776 --> 00:28:57,987
Mother of God!
341
00:28:58,446 --> 00:29:03,184
And to think my sweet mother
endured all this for my sake.
342
00:29:03,284 --> 00:29:04,894
Marriage, then,
shall be our policy.
343
00:29:04,994 --> 00:29:08,356
The marriage of Mary Stuart
to any Catholic prince...
344
00:29:08,456 --> 00:29:11,751
will be treated as
an act of war against England.
345
00:29:14,795 --> 00:29:18,741
Tell that, my lords ambassador,
to your royal masters.
346
00:29:18,841 --> 00:29:23,012
We will have no foreign power
upon our Northern border.
347
00:29:23,512 --> 00:29:28,918
We realise that our sweet young
cousin in Scotland has been deluded...
348
00:29:29,018 --> 00:29:32,421
by dangerous
and self-seeking men.
349
00:29:32,521 --> 00:29:36,175
So now we offer
a wise and just solution.
350
00:29:36,275 --> 00:29:39,053
We have a plan
for the marriage of Mary.
351
00:29:39,153 --> 00:29:44,225
We offer our most loyal and loving subject,
Robert Dudley,
352
00:29:44,325 --> 00:29:45,976
to Mary Stuart in marriage.
353
00:29:46,076 --> 00:29:49,897
And we shall tomorrow
create him Earl of Leicester...
354
00:29:49,997 --> 00:29:53,000
that he is more worthy.
355
00:30:07,848 --> 00:30:10,126
Hmm.
Mary will not take it.
356
00:30:10,226 --> 00:30:14,255
She will rage against
the insult as they do.
357
00:30:14,355 --> 00:30:17,967
No, madam,
I must object again most strongly...
358
00:30:18,067 --> 00:30:20,886
against this proposed marriage
between Mary and this gentleman.
359
00:30:20,986 --> 00:30:25,057
- My God, it is not my choice to go north
to that barbarous country. - It is mine.
360
00:30:25,157 --> 00:30:27,852
A commoner,
a Protestant and the subject of scandal and rumour?
361
00:30:27,952 --> 00:30:30,563
- My choice.
- However, I shall obey with a better heart,
362
00:30:30,663 --> 00:30:33,441
knowing that I am opposed
by Master Cecil.
363
00:30:33,541 --> 00:30:34,734
You are not suitable!
364
00:30:34,834 --> 00:30:38,904
My duty is to foresee the result of
English policy and convince the queen.
365
00:30:39,004 --> 00:30:43,826
What you judge ill for me must benefit me.
That is the lesson of our past dealings.
366
00:30:43,926 --> 00:30:47,705
And you can feel
a crown upon your head.
367
00:30:47,805 --> 00:30:51,292
It is you I love.
Only you.
368
00:30:51,392 --> 00:30:52,168
Then marry Mary.
369
00:30:52,268 --> 00:30:56,380
For only when she is married to a
loving subject of mine will I be safe...
370
00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,092
from the assassin,
the fanatic and the rebellion in her cause.
371
00:31:00,192 --> 00:31:04,054
And she will take him, because I will
send with him the thing she most lusts after:
372
00:31:04,154 --> 00:31:08,017
The promise sealed and witnessed
of the English throne at my death.
373
00:31:08,117 --> 00:31:14,081
Go prepare for your journey. Go quickly,
before my heart wins over my head.
374
00:31:17,001 --> 00:31:19,670
Sweet Majesty.
375
00:31:25,009 --> 00:31:29,288
Her Majesty
will regret this day.
376
00:31:29,388 --> 00:31:33,584
If you think Robert Dudley
will put aside his ambitions...
377
00:31:33,684 --> 00:31:36,378
- Do you really believe she will not take him?
- I do!
378
00:31:36,478 --> 00:31:39,840
Good. For I do not
intend her to have him.
379
00:31:39,940 --> 00:31:41,842
Though I mean the world
to think I do.
380
00:31:41,942 --> 00:31:44,678
Oh, no, William. She shall not
have the brave and faithful Robin.
381
00:31:44,778 --> 00:31:48,516
I have someone quite different in
mind as a husband for Mary Stuart.
382
00:31:48,616 --> 00:31:55,539
But first, with your help,
I must find a suitable ambassador to bait the trap.
383
00:32:02,004 --> 00:32:04,882
Out. Do not bolt the door.
384
00:32:06,008 --> 00:32:08,994
Good sir, I'm told
you cannot be bought.
385
00:32:09,094 --> 00:32:12,723
Ah, you're Cecil.
386
00:32:12,890 --> 00:32:16,018
You give gold
to Scottish traitors.
387
00:32:16,268 --> 00:32:20,589
You are penniless because the
Lord James Stuart has sold your lands,
388
00:32:20,689 --> 00:32:25,135
and you may remain here in the tower
until your death; You have no friends.
389
00:32:25,235 --> 00:32:28,722
I've long had it in mind
to kill you.
390
00:32:28,822 --> 00:32:32,785
I have it in mind
to release you.
391
00:32:33,619 --> 00:32:35,996
The price?
392
00:32:36,246 --> 00:32:39,900
That you speak honestly
to your queen from mine.
393
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,004
Here is the deed of succession.
394
00:32:45,005 --> 00:32:48,993
Nothing is hidden.
I freely offer her the crown.
395
00:32:49,093 --> 00:32:55,391
After much thought I consider Mary
to be the just and rightful claimant.
396
00:32:58,435 --> 00:33:00,671
There is no signature,
Your Grace.
397
00:33:00,771 --> 00:33:02,256
There will be.
398
00:33:02,356 --> 00:33:06,218
When your sweet mistress takes
the noble Earl of Leicester in marriage,
399
00:33:06,318 --> 00:33:09,763
she guarantees peace
between our two realms.
400
00:33:09,863 --> 00:33:12,641
Then I will sign
this sacred promise,
401
00:33:12,741 --> 00:33:14,602
and she will inherit all here...
402
00:33:14,702 --> 00:33:18,939
After my death, which, pray God,
will not be too soon. Amen.
403
00:33:19,039 --> 00:33:26,030
And I am to take your offer in
secret to my queen. That is all.
404
00:33:26,130 --> 00:33:26,864
All.
405
00:33:26,964 --> 00:33:32,970
And as a gesture of my sincerity,
I am sending with you Lord Henry Darnley.
406
00:33:33,804 --> 00:33:36,624
Not only will he see you
safely back to Scotland,
407
00:33:36,724 --> 00:33:41,420
he will bear my personal
greetings and gifts to your sovereign.
408
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:46,884
Ah! He will return to Her
Majesty her fine stable of horses.
409
00:33:46,984 --> 00:33:48,928
Lord Darnley is also a cousin,
410
00:33:49,028 --> 00:33:51,889
a member of one of England's
oldest Catholic families.
411
00:33:51,989 --> 00:33:57,269
He has a royal claim by blood to
England's throne second only to Mary's.
412
00:33:57,369 --> 00:34:00,814
Oh, he is the finest flower
of our nobility...
413
00:34:00,914 --> 00:34:03,734
Gentle, brave and chivalrous.
414
00:34:03,834 --> 00:34:06,086
Are you ready, my lord?
415
00:34:06,795 --> 00:34:08,405
Ready, Your Grace.
416
00:34:08,505 --> 00:34:10,658
God give you
a good journey, my lord.
417
00:34:10,758 --> 00:34:15,371
I charge you to tell our Cousin
Mary it is our deepest regret...
418
00:34:15,471 --> 00:34:18,082
that these fine horses
were taken in error.
419
00:34:18,182 --> 00:34:23,712
Say to Her Majesty Elizabeth
most abjectly begs her forgiveness.
420
00:34:23,812 --> 00:34:27,883
- Trust me, Your Grace.
- I do, good Henry.
421
00:34:27,983 --> 00:34:30,844
To fulfil all my hopes.
422
00:34:30,944 --> 00:34:33,405
Farewell, my lords.
423
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,901
Darnley looked beautiful,
did he not?
424
00:34:46,001 --> 00:34:48,946
I wager you 50 gold crowns
Mary will take him.
425
00:34:49,046 --> 00:34:52,408
Madam, it is too serious
a matter for gambling.
426
00:34:52,508 --> 00:34:57,204
Cecil, you may be an expert in matters of state,
but you know very little of women.
427
00:34:57,304 --> 00:35:00,916
Mary is a young widow.
Her blood is hot.
428
00:35:01,016 --> 00:35:04,211
It is a strange thing.
I feel I know her.
429
00:35:04,311 --> 00:35:07,464
We have never met,
and yet I... know her.
430
00:35:07,564 --> 00:35:09,049
Your reasoning is beyond me.
431
00:35:09,149 --> 00:35:14,471
If I were in her position, would I take the
cast-off lover of my enemy as a husband?
432
00:35:14,571 --> 00:35:16,181
No, madam!
You'd be full of fury.
433
00:35:16,281 --> 00:35:20,894
And would I, in my pride,
ignore the document of the act of succession...
434
00:35:20,994 --> 00:35:23,814
and look elsewhere for a
husband to spite my enemy?
435
00:35:23,914 --> 00:35:27,151
- No, madam, you would not.
- No, I would not. But she will.
436
00:35:27,251 --> 00:35:31,155
And supposing at this time
there should come to my court...
437
00:35:31,255 --> 00:35:33,657
a beautiful young man
on a white horse...
438
00:35:33,757 --> 00:35:37,911
with some claim to the English
throne and a Catholic to boot.
439
00:35:38,011 --> 00:35:39,913
Would I not look
upon him with favour?
440
00:35:40,013 --> 00:35:41,915
But with Dudley comes
the future crown of England.
441
00:35:42,015 --> 00:35:44,460
No true monarch would turn her back on that,
not even Mary of Scotland.
442
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:50,174
- That monarch is first a woman. - You would
never ignore such an offer for a pretty fellow.
443
00:35:50,274 --> 00:35:54,053
This woman is first a monarch.
444
00:35:54,153 --> 00:35:57,156
Ah. Here comes Robin.
445
00:35:58,323 --> 00:36:01,935
Madam, you are wrong.
Now I am certain.
446
00:36:02,035 --> 00:36:06,648
No woman would choose the boy
before the man. I will accept your wager.
447
00:36:06,748 --> 00:36:10,027
Fifty golden crowns she chooses
Dudley and the succession.
448
00:36:10,127 --> 00:36:14,865
If she chooses Dudley,
then we are safe from foreign Catholic princes.
449
00:36:14,965 --> 00:36:19,369
Though I admit,
it will be a hard price for me to pay.
450
00:36:19,469 --> 00:36:21,789
If she takes Darnley,
we have given nothing...
451
00:36:21,889 --> 00:36:24,917
and she has a weak,
degenerate fool as her consort.
452
00:36:25,017 --> 00:36:28,687
Win or lose the wager,
I cannot lose the game.
453
00:37:07,684 --> 00:37:10,771
Harry! Harry!
454
00:37:15,817 --> 00:37:18,487
Oh, my love, my love!
455
00:37:32,459 --> 00:37:34,962
Don't move!
456
00:37:43,387 --> 00:37:45,222
Be still.
457
00:37:45,555 --> 00:37:51,019
What a happy fall
to have such comfort afterwards.
458
00:37:52,980 --> 00:37:56,149
There are tears on your cheeks.
459
00:37:59,987 --> 00:38:04,032
I saw again the death
of my husband, that's all.
460
00:38:28,015 --> 00:38:31,268
- I beg you, my lord.
- Leave us!
461
00:38:32,227 --> 00:38:35,881
- Robin!
- I am rejected.
462
00:38:35,981 --> 00:38:37,716
She rejected me!
463
00:38:37,816 --> 00:38:40,677
She kept me waiting five days
without an audience.
464
00:38:40,777 --> 00:38:43,805
She flaunted herself before me
in the company of Darnley!
465
00:38:43,905 --> 00:38:48,185
She dances with Darnley. She dines
with Darnley. She rides with Darnley.
466
00:38:48,285 --> 00:38:51,313
- And has rejected you?
- With insults!
467
00:38:51,413 --> 00:38:54,024
Encouraged by Bothwell,
your honest messenger.
468
00:38:54,124 --> 00:38:59,446
She spoke of me openly as your cast-off
lover and far beneath any true queen.
469
00:38:59,546 --> 00:39:04,676
She must be demented. Before my eyes
she tore up the document of succession.
470
00:39:06,386 --> 00:39:09,414
And she consorts with that boy.
471
00:39:09,514 --> 00:39:13,018
That lewd, mincing, pouting boy.
472
00:39:13,310 --> 00:39:18,982
And by all the saints, madam,
she is a woman that needs a man.
473
00:39:19,483 --> 00:39:21,927
Hmm!
What kind of a woman, Robin?
474
00:39:22,027 --> 00:39:26,974
- Formed like a goddess.
- More than I? Is she better formed than I?
475
00:39:27,074 --> 00:39:29,643
- No, no, madam.
- Does she dance more elegantly?
476
00:39:29,743 --> 00:39:31,937
- No, but with a certain fire.
- Oh, she's fiery?
477
00:39:32,037 --> 00:39:34,273
I'd heard she was very dull
and sits by the hour sewing.
478
00:39:34,373 --> 00:39:36,358
Does she play instruments
more skilfully than I?
479
00:39:36,458 --> 00:39:39,111
No, but to do her justice,
she loves music.
480
00:39:39,211 --> 00:39:41,905
Can she converse freely in Italian,
Latin, Greek as I can?
481
00:39:42,005 --> 00:39:46,159
No,
but she speaks most charmingly.
482
00:39:46,259 --> 00:39:48,245
She charmed you.
483
00:39:48,345 --> 00:39:52,708
This woman,
who has offered me the most deadly insult,
484
00:39:52,808 --> 00:39:55,143
charms you, my lord.
485
00:39:56,019 --> 00:39:59,631
- Oh, no, no, no.
- I find her tiresome.
486
00:39:59,731 --> 00:40:00,257
Liar!
487
00:40:00,357 --> 00:40:01,633
- Oh! Madam! Madam!
- Liar! Liar! Liar!
488
00:40:01,733 --> 00:40:05,887
You were as eager as a young lover to ride to her,
to wed her and bed her!
489
00:40:05,987 --> 00:40:10,992
I went only at your command.
I love only you.
490
00:40:14,037 --> 00:40:19,693
Well, you have played your part.
I cannot complain.
491
00:40:19,793 --> 00:40:20,902
My part?
492
00:40:21,002 --> 00:40:24,906
Oh, it is her loss
if she rejects you.
493
00:40:25,006 --> 00:40:28,869
Oh, how glad I am
to have you home.
494
00:40:28,969 --> 00:40:34,207
Now, tell me truly.
I am no longer angry.
495
00:40:34,307 --> 00:40:37,419
Is she really as
beautiful as they say?
496
00:40:37,519 --> 00:40:40,297
Well, she is quite beautiful.
497
00:40:40,397 --> 00:40:42,341
- Oof! Oh!
- Get out!
498
00:40:42,441 --> 00:40:47,804
I have it in me to send you to
cool your passion for her! Get out!
499
00:40:47,904 --> 00:40:49,990
Out!
500
00:40:54,870 --> 00:40:58,940
May it please Almighty God
she hates me as I hate her,
501
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:04,004
for then she must marry Darnley
and I have won.
502
00:41:16,641 --> 00:41:19,811
You seem very rich,
Davie.
503
00:41:20,729 --> 00:41:22,964
I am valued.
504
00:41:23,064 --> 00:41:27,819
- No, you are hated.
- But not by you, sweet Harry.
505
00:41:27,986 --> 00:41:31,723
The commoner.
The detested little foreigner.
506
00:41:31,823 --> 00:41:35,535
Ah.
You are jealous of my influence.
507
00:41:37,037 --> 00:41:41,024
You must speak for me, Davie.
I will be king here.
508
00:41:41,124 --> 00:41:43,485
I have the right to be a king.
509
00:41:43,585 --> 00:41:46,947
All the Catholic nobles of England
will support Mary's cause if I am king.
510
00:41:47,047 --> 00:41:50,992
But you are vicious, Harry.
You have a taste for all the vices.
511
00:41:51,092 --> 00:41:53,912
- I thought you loved me.
- I love the queen better.
512
00:41:54,012 --> 00:41:59,851
And I think it a cruel act to
help put you between her sheets.
513
00:42:00,727 --> 00:42:02,754
You want to keep me
between yours.
514
00:42:02,854 --> 00:42:04,172
Oh,
Edinburgh is full of pretty boys.
515
00:42:04,272 --> 00:42:09,778
And like you, I have a taste for a
woman as well. I shall not lack comfort.
516
00:42:11,196 --> 00:42:13,348
We are outcasts in this court.
517
00:42:13,448 --> 00:42:18,103
No man is your friend, save me,
and no man is mine, save you.
518
00:42:18,203 --> 00:42:23,900
Like it or not, sweet Harry,
we must hold to each other.
519
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:28,338
- Signor Riccio, la Regina Sta Venendo.
- The queen!
520
00:42:44,354 --> 00:42:47,883
- Working, always working.
- I could not sleep.
521
00:42:47,983 --> 00:42:51,887
- Nor I. Davie, you must advise me.
- If I can, Your Grace.
522
00:42:51,987 --> 00:42:55,765
Is it not true that all our hopes for my
freedom through marriage are dashed,
523
00:42:55,865 --> 00:42:57,058
because we are told if
I marry a foreign prince...
524
00:42:57,158 --> 00:43:00,812
- there will be war with England?
- It is true.
525
00:43:00,912 --> 00:43:04,900
But...
what if I married an Englishman?
526
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,211
- Englishman?
- Harry Darnley.
527
00:43:08,753 --> 00:43:13,909
Answer me! Is he a good match?
Will the Holy Father give his blessing to us?
528
00:43:14,009 --> 00:43:14,910
I cannot deny it.
529
00:43:15,010 --> 00:43:21,082
I believe it is God's will. Both wise policy
and my deepest longings are fulfilled in him.
530
00:43:21,182 --> 00:43:25,086
I love him! It is the good
fortune of queens to choose...
531
00:43:25,186 --> 00:43:26,755
where other women
must wait to be chosen.
532
00:43:26,855 --> 00:43:30,425
I choose him, Davie. He will be my husband,
my lover, my companion.
533
00:43:30,525 --> 00:43:33,803
- And your master, if you make him king.
- No, I am the queen.
534
00:43:33,903 --> 00:43:36,973
He will be my consort.
He will understand that if he loves me.
535
00:43:37,073 --> 00:43:39,893
Who could fail
to love Your Majesty?
536
00:43:39,993 --> 00:43:42,354
But will the Scottish lords
hate him, Davie?
537
00:43:42,454 --> 00:43:45,899
No more than any other
foreigner set over them.
538
00:43:45,999 --> 00:43:48,068
What will James say?
539
00:43:48,168 --> 00:43:54,299
Oh, what a fine king Darnley will make.
I must have him.
540
00:43:55,967 --> 00:43:58,595
Pray for me, Davie.
541
00:44:23,620 --> 00:44:27,899
- Does she often visit you at night, Davie?
- We work here in secret.
542
00:44:27,999 --> 00:44:30,527
Is it only for state
matters that she comes?
543
00:44:30,627 --> 00:44:32,904
You have the mind
of a brothel keeper.
544
00:44:33,004 --> 00:44:35,031
Did you not listen at
the door to find out?
545
00:44:35,131 --> 00:44:37,909
I listened,
but the door was too thick.
546
00:44:38,009 --> 00:44:39,661
- Harry.
- Hmm?
547
00:44:39,761 --> 00:44:42,914
If I speak for you
with the queen,
548
00:44:43,014 --> 00:44:44,916
will you at all times give
her first place,
549
00:44:45,016 --> 00:44:47,919
acknowledging her the
true monarch of this realm?
550
00:44:48,019 --> 00:44:50,672
No. I will be the master.
551
00:44:50,772 --> 00:44:53,775
Then I will oppose you.
552
00:44:54,693 --> 00:44:58,154
"I choose him, Davie."
553
00:45:02,701 --> 00:45:05,854
- When will she find the courage to ask me?
- Do not betray her!
554
00:45:05,954 --> 00:45:10,442
- I warn you. Listen to me!
- No, listen to her!
555
00:45:10,542 --> 00:45:12,235
"I must have him, Davie."
556
00:45:12,335 --> 00:45:15,238
Oh, she shall have me,
and I shall be the master.
557
00:45:15,338 --> 00:45:21,678
Kiss the hand of your king, Davie,
and I will forgive you for your little warnings.
558
00:45:26,015 --> 00:45:28,017
Kiss it, Davie.
559
00:45:30,812 --> 00:45:32,547
Come.
560
00:45:32,647 --> 00:45:35,066
Kneel to me.
561
00:45:37,318 --> 00:45:38,887
Kneel!
562
00:45:38,987 --> 00:45:42,991
Say,
"I will love and serve you, King Henry."
563
00:45:44,534 --> 00:45:46,578
Say it, Davie.
564
00:45:47,537 --> 00:45:50,106
It is in God's hands, Harry.
565
00:45:50,206 --> 00:45:52,984
But you are reckless
to scorn your only friend.
566
00:45:53,084 --> 00:45:56,780
Now the sly little Italian
will try poison against me.
567
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,784
He will whisper in her ear.
He will plant doubts.
568
00:46:00,884 --> 00:46:04,345
He fears to lose his place.
569
00:46:06,681 --> 00:46:10,310
It's not in God's hands,
Davie.
570
00:46:12,145 --> 00:46:15,774
It's in mine.
571
00:46:27,202 --> 00:46:30,246
Admit the Lord James Stuart.
572
00:46:30,997 --> 00:46:34,401
Madam, what is so important
that I am summoned from council...
573
00:46:34,501 --> 00:46:36,194
and then kept waiting
at your door?
574
00:46:36,294 --> 00:46:39,906
Dear brother, I wish you
to make preparations...
575
00:46:40,006 --> 00:46:43,593
for my marriage to Henry,
Lord Darnley.
576
00:46:45,011 --> 00:46:46,121
I forbid that.
577
00:46:46,221 --> 00:46:49,124
He is a Catholic,
and neither I nor John Knox...
578
00:46:49,224 --> 00:46:52,585
John Knox? That hypocrite
who's just married a girl of 15?
579
00:46:52,685 --> 00:46:57,273
That aged lecher who hides
behind the words of God?
580
00:46:57,732 --> 00:47:00,552
Madam,
you forget yourself.
581
00:47:00,652 --> 00:47:03,888
No, I do not.
You shall not prevent my happiness.
582
00:47:03,988 --> 00:47:05,765
I will marry Henry,
Lord Darnley.
583
00:47:05,865 --> 00:47:09,894
I'll speak to you again when
you have more control of yourself.
584
00:47:09,994 --> 00:47:12,372
Guards!
585
00:47:24,300 --> 00:47:30,056
It was a bad day for you, James,
when you sold off my lands.
586
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:35,462
From this moment, I alone rule in Scotland.
Now who is caged, Brother?
587
00:47:35,562 --> 00:47:38,089
David Riccio, I choose you
as my chief minister.
588
00:47:38,189 --> 00:47:40,258
James Stuart,
I banish you from my kingdom.
589
00:47:40,358 --> 00:47:44,821
Give your keys and seals
of office to Master Riccio.
590
00:47:45,321 --> 00:47:47,974
Riccio, you are a Catholic.
591
00:47:48,074 --> 00:47:52,312
Be sure that you are confessed
and in a state of grace each hour.
592
00:47:52,412 --> 00:47:57,233
For from this moment, I promise you,
death is at your shoulder.
593
00:47:57,333 --> 00:47:59,319
Truly,
I am of the old religion.
594
00:47:59,419 --> 00:48:02,906
And we shall have such
a rebirth of it in this land...
595
00:48:03,006 --> 00:48:06,009
as will rejoice
the hosts of heaven.
596
00:48:07,010 --> 00:48:08,286
Your Majesty.
597
00:48:08,386 --> 00:48:12,999
If you value your safety,
either imprison or execute him.
598
00:48:13,099 --> 00:48:14,918
I will not take that advice.
599
00:48:15,018 --> 00:48:16,419
But I shall give it to you.
600
00:48:16,519 --> 00:48:18,379
When he has gone,
the other lords will bow to you.
601
00:48:18,479 --> 00:48:25,820
But in time, when he returns, they will
join him again for bloody revenge on all here.
602
00:48:28,781 --> 00:48:30,892
I will not begin my reign
like a tyrant.
603
00:48:30,992 --> 00:48:35,146
Escort my brother to the border
and return as soon as possible.
604
00:48:35,246 --> 00:48:39,000
We must prepare for
my marriage to Lord Darnley.
605
00:48:40,418 --> 00:48:42,695
And with my body I thee worship.
606
00:48:42,795 --> 00:48:46,032
And with all
my worldly chattels...
607
00:48:46,132 --> 00:48:48,076
I thee endow.
608
00:48:48,176 --> 00:48:52,288
And with all my worldly chattels,
I thee endow.
609
00:48:52,388 --> 00:48:54,410
In the name of the Father...
610
00:48:54,710 --> 00:48:57,210
In the name of the Father...
611
00:48:57,310 --> 00:48:58,920
and of the son...
612
00:48:59,020 --> 00:49:02,173
- ...and of the son...
- and of the Holy Ghost.
613
00:49:02,273 --> 00:49:05,944
- ...and of the Holy Ghost.
- Amen.
614
00:49:06,653 --> 00:49:07,987
Amen.
615
00:49:35,431 --> 00:49:39,018
I'm so happy
I dare not speak of it.
616
00:49:45,149 --> 00:49:46,259
What is that?
617
00:49:46,359 --> 00:49:50,054
A gift, Your Grace,
from my lord Bothwell to the queen.
618
00:49:50,154 --> 00:49:55,518
The jewel from the hilt of his sword,
Your Grace. It is all he has of value.
619
00:49:55,618 --> 00:49:57,437
Return it.
620
00:49:57,537 --> 00:50:02,108
Lord Bothwell bade me tell you
when you have need of the sword...
621
00:50:02,208 --> 00:50:06,963
from which this jewel was taken,
then send me, Andrew, to summon him.
622
00:50:07,505 --> 00:50:10,133
Yes, I will,
good Andrew.
623
00:50:15,430 --> 00:50:17,765
Harry, look.
624
00:50:19,767 --> 00:50:22,545
If you keep it,
you do not love me.
625
00:50:22,645 --> 00:50:24,881
Ooh-ho!
I love you dearly.
626
00:50:24,981 --> 00:50:28,885
Then do what I ask.
I demand it... as your husband.
627
00:50:28,985 --> 00:50:32,972
I may not, for then you would rule here, Harry.
That cannot be.
628
00:50:33,072 --> 00:50:37,785
You shall rule above all others,
save the queen.
629
00:50:38,578 --> 00:50:40,897
I am the king!
630
00:50:40,997 --> 00:50:43,666
I will be obeyed!
631
00:50:47,795 --> 00:50:49,505
I am the king!
632
00:50:57,180 --> 00:51:02,335
On the night of his marriage,
a king shall be served by his lords.
633
00:51:02,435 --> 00:51:05,588
Morton, Ruthven, Huntly,
you shall serve me.
634
00:51:05,688 --> 00:51:07,924
Come. We will show this queen
who is the master.
635
00:51:08,024 --> 00:51:12,804
Your Grace.
I am the chief minister. I will serve you.
636
00:51:12,904 --> 00:51:14,389
I will kneel to serve you
if you wish it.
637
00:51:14,489 --> 00:51:18,685
Let these good lords continue
their pleasure on this happy day.
638
00:51:18,785 --> 00:51:20,995
No.
639
00:51:21,704 --> 00:51:25,316
No, they shall serve us both, Davie.
I order it.
640
00:51:25,416 --> 00:51:28,903
- I, your king, order it.
- No, Your Majesty...
641
00:51:29,003 --> 00:51:30,905
I order you to sit
with me, Davie.
642
00:51:31,005 --> 00:51:35,451
This is your reward for speaking
to the queen for your loving friend.
643
00:51:35,551 --> 00:51:40,014
Come, my lords!
644
00:51:40,139 --> 00:51:42,959
All servants, get out.
Get out!
645
00:51:43,059 --> 00:51:46,671
We have better servants here.
646
00:51:46,771 --> 00:51:48,423
Sit by the queen,
Master Riccio.
647
00:51:48,523 --> 00:51:52,635
It is your right,
for you are the chief minister.
648
00:51:52,735 --> 00:51:54,987
My lords.
649
00:51:55,863 --> 00:51:56,889
You see how I am obeyed,
madam.
650
00:51:56,989 --> 00:52:00,727
I see how you will behave if you were
ever granted the crown matrimonial...
651
00:52:00,827 --> 00:52:03,604
and become a king
in your own right, my lord.
652
00:52:03,704 --> 00:52:08,776
They obey me. When the queen is served,
serve the chief minister.
653
00:52:08,876 --> 00:52:10,069
Serve him before me.
654
00:52:10,169 --> 00:52:14,198
Serve the little Italian
who is the Pope's friend.
655
00:52:14,298 --> 00:52:17,118
Now their hatred for you
will be so great, Davie,
656
00:52:17,218 --> 00:52:20,847
they'll have none left for me.
657
00:52:21,305 --> 00:52:25,268
My lords, soon I will be
abed with this lady.
658
00:52:25,852 --> 00:52:28,229
My queen.
659
00:52:31,065 --> 00:52:34,986
Therefore, I drink a toast
to my firstborn.
660
00:52:38,156 --> 00:52:41,284
Ahh!
661
00:52:47,206 --> 00:52:49,458
Your Majesty.
662
00:52:54,297 --> 00:52:56,591
Uh, be seated.
663
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:09,812
I sent for you to
thank you for your gift.
664
00:53:11,689 --> 00:53:14,050
Why are you leaving Edinburgh?
665
00:53:14,150 --> 00:53:16,135
Now that you've chosen a king,
666
00:53:16,235 --> 00:53:19,388
it's time I left the court
to care for my own affairs.
667
00:53:19,488 --> 00:53:20,932
But I need you here,
Bothwell.
668
00:53:21,032 --> 00:53:25,937
But, my lady, you now have
a husband to protect you.
669
00:53:26,037 --> 00:53:27,522
He will lead your army,
670
00:53:27,622 --> 00:53:31,484
put down such of your lords
as intrigue against you and, uh,
671
00:53:31,584 --> 00:53:35,504
make wise policy,
I have no doubt.
672
00:53:36,255 --> 00:53:37,406
Do you oppose my marriage?
673
00:53:37,506 --> 00:53:42,995
I never oppose the rightful
monarch. I've grown poor in the habit.
674
00:53:43,095 --> 00:53:46,415
- I will not be mocked.
- Mocked?
675
00:53:46,515 --> 00:53:50,086
I could not find words
to mock a queen of Scotland...
676
00:53:50,186 --> 00:53:52,797
who chooses a smooth-faced boy
as her master...
677
00:53:52,897 --> 00:53:55,424
and a baseborn Italian
as a chief minister!
678
00:53:55,524 --> 00:53:58,527
Go then!
Leave the court! Stay from it!
679
00:53:59,695 --> 00:54:01,489
Bothwell.
680
00:54:02,198 --> 00:54:04,976
You have grown poor
in my service, you say?
681
00:54:05,076 --> 00:54:07,687
- I have.
- You shall be paid off, my lord.
682
00:54:07,787 --> 00:54:09,397
I can manage
well enough without.
683
00:54:09,497 --> 00:54:12,233
Spare me your arrogance!
I will give you money!
684
00:54:12,333 --> 00:54:16,070
Ah, keep it to buy suits
for your husband.
685
00:54:16,170 --> 00:54:18,506
Why are you angry?
686
00:54:19,298 --> 00:54:23,552
Do you fear you are displaced?
Are you jealous?
687
00:54:24,720 --> 00:54:30,418
You could say,
Your Majesty, with truth,
688
00:54:30,518 --> 00:54:32,812
I am jealous.
689
00:54:37,233 --> 00:54:39,527
Then you are foolish.
690
00:54:40,945 --> 00:54:42,763
I need your help,
Bothwell,
691
00:54:42,863 --> 00:54:45,741
to keep order in this country.
692
00:54:46,367 --> 00:54:49,395
And in due time,
we will march south.
693
00:54:49,495 --> 00:54:50,980
We will destroy
that heretic Elizabeth,
694
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:57,003
and I will rule my two kingdoms as I
was ordained to do, if God is willing.
695
00:54:57,503 --> 00:55:00,464
Will you stay at court
and help me?
696
00:55:10,850 --> 00:55:14,629
I will return when I have
settled my affairs on the border.
697
00:55:14,729 --> 00:55:19,592
- When?
- When I have married for money, Your Grace.
698
00:55:19,692 --> 00:55:20,635
Married?
699
00:55:20,735 --> 00:55:25,364
Not without my permission,
my good lord. I promise you.
700
00:55:39,503 --> 00:55:42,006
Why tell Darnley?
701
00:55:42,673 --> 00:55:45,343
No, ma'am.
702
00:55:50,473 --> 00:55:53,501
Now I know who is king here.
703
00:55:53,601 --> 00:55:55,978
This upstart.
704
00:55:56,729 --> 00:55:59,423
And you come
creeping to him at night.
705
00:55:59,523 --> 00:56:03,344
That's not my child you're
carrying. It's his bastard!
706
00:56:03,444 --> 00:56:05,471
The child is yours,
God help me. The child is yours!
707
00:56:05,571 --> 00:56:09,642
You have both betrayed me.
That's why he speaks against me.
708
00:56:09,742 --> 00:56:13,229
You're not fit to rule!
That's why I oppose you.
709
00:56:13,329 --> 00:56:18,334
- I am your enemy, not the queen!
- Now go. You disgust me.
710
00:56:19,794 --> 00:56:22,004
I disgust you?
711
00:56:24,131 --> 00:56:26,509
You loved me.
712
00:56:28,302 --> 00:56:31,597
You loved me
and now I disgust you.
713
00:56:34,892 --> 00:56:37,269
I'm lost.
714
00:56:39,980 --> 00:56:42,066
I'm lost.
715
00:57:03,504 --> 00:57:05,840
Hawk master!
716
00:57:09,677 --> 00:57:11,954
- Your Majesty?
- What is it?
717
00:57:12,054 --> 00:57:14,415
The king,
Your Majesty.
718
00:57:14,515 --> 00:57:16,767
Mary!
719
00:57:17,143 --> 00:57:20,855
Keep the others
at a distance, Seton.
720
00:57:21,522 --> 00:57:23,799
The queen bids you rest.
721
00:57:23,899 --> 00:57:26,735
Mary!
722
00:57:30,489 --> 00:57:33,976
Mary!
723
00:57:34,076 --> 00:57:35,936
You must return at once!
At once!
724
00:57:36,036 --> 00:57:37,521
Why are you shouting?
Are you drunk as ever?
725
00:57:37,621 --> 00:57:41,067
No! No, forgive me, Mary,
for there's a plot and you must return.
726
00:57:41,167 --> 00:57:44,320
Plot? Are you ill? I would like to believe that,
for then I could forgive you...
727
00:57:44,420 --> 00:57:47,406
the bitter shame and pain you have
caused me these past few months.
728
00:57:47,506 --> 00:57:50,159
Your own guards turned me back
from the royal apartments.
729
00:57:50,259 --> 00:57:54,497
When I drew my dagger on them they,
they threatened to kill me! To kill their king!
730
00:57:54,597 --> 00:57:57,041
You are not the king.
You are the king consort.
731
00:57:57,141 --> 00:57:58,417
You are merely Henry,
Lord Darnley, who married a queen.
732
00:57:58,517 --> 00:58:03,339
If that queen dies, you will be Henry,
Lord Darnley again and have no rights to the crown.
733
00:58:03,439 --> 00:58:06,550
It was you. You ordered
them to keep me back!
734
00:58:06,650 --> 00:58:09,637
- Yes. Your habits disgust me!
- You have shamed me.
735
00:58:09,737 --> 00:58:12,932
- The whole court will ridicule me, madam!
- Then leave the court!
736
00:58:13,032 --> 00:58:16,519
- I am forbidden your bed?
- You shall never come near me again.
737
00:58:16,619 --> 00:58:19,622
Ride home, my lord.
You have new apartments.
738
00:58:20,748 --> 00:58:25,277
That little bastard Riccio's
behind this. I will be revenged!
739
00:58:25,377 --> 00:58:29,507
I will be revenged!
740
00:58:35,471 --> 00:58:39,225
Oh!
741
00:58:43,187 --> 00:58:45,381
Don't kill me.
Don't kill me!
742
00:58:45,481 --> 00:58:50,069
Stand up,
Your Majesty. We are your loyal subjects.
743
00:58:59,119 --> 00:59:00,729
We believe you are much wronged,
Your Grace.
744
00:59:00,829 --> 00:59:03,649
- By God, I am.
- The papal spy, Riccio, has bewitched the queen.
745
00:59:03,749 --> 00:59:08,279
- There is talk of their meeting in his
room at night. - State business, they say.
746
00:59:08,379 --> 00:59:10,781
They say you are cuckolded,
my lord.
747
00:59:10,881 --> 00:59:13,325
- Lies!
- It is an unnatural thing for a woman to rule.
748
00:59:13,425 --> 00:59:16,871
And it is most unnatural that the great
lords of Scotland shall sit in council...
749
00:59:16,971 --> 00:59:21,417
to be lorded over by the little
papist... when there is a king in the land.
750
00:59:21,517 --> 00:59:24,128
You mock me. I'm not the
king. I'm the king consort.
751
00:59:24,228 --> 00:59:28,257
A puppet king...
shut out from all power. You know this!
752
00:59:28,357 --> 00:59:31,510
We, your loyal subjects,
will make you the true king.
753
00:59:31,610 --> 00:59:35,389
We, the council, will grant you
the crown matrimonial to rule here.
754
00:59:35,489 --> 00:59:39,101
To be the first in the land.
This is done, Your Grace.
755
00:59:39,201 --> 00:59:42,396
You will rule
even if the queen is dead.
756
00:59:42,496 --> 00:59:45,399
To King Henry I
of Scotland and the Isles.
757
00:59:45,499 --> 00:59:48,043
Long live the king!
758
00:59:56,719 --> 00:59:58,871
And what must I do to gain the prize,
my lords?
759
00:59:58,971 --> 01:00:03,417
Embrace the Protestant faith and
defend it against all papists in this land.
760
01:00:03,517 --> 01:00:07,396
- The queen is a papist.
- All papists.
761
01:00:17,948 --> 01:00:20,284
I agree.
762
01:00:21,493 --> 01:00:23,312
We have drawn up this covenant.
763
01:00:23,412 --> 01:00:24,396
On our part,
we pledge you the crown...
764
01:00:24,496 --> 01:00:29,443
and that we will pursue and slay and
root out all who oppose this resolution.
765
01:00:29,543 --> 01:00:32,404
You will cut Davie's throat?
766
01:00:32,504 --> 01:00:34,823
There is no word of killing
in the bond.
767
01:00:34,923 --> 01:00:41,055
And if need be you will kill...
one other?
768
01:00:41,513 --> 01:00:43,791
We have all signed the bond.
769
01:00:43,891 --> 01:00:48,420
Then no man among you
dare betray the other.
770
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:50,464
It's a good Scottish custom.
771
01:00:50,564 --> 01:00:54,468
- It lacks one signature.
- On your part, you will hold us innocent...
772
01:00:54,568 --> 01:00:58,138
and defend us even in the
presence of the queen herself,
773
01:00:58,238 --> 01:00:59,390
no matter what action
we have to take.
774
01:00:59,490 --> 01:01:03,936
- Is that all? - You will pardon
and recall James Stuart, Earl of Moray.
775
01:01:04,036 --> 01:01:06,397
- Agreed.
- Then sign, Your Majesty,
776
01:01:06,497 --> 01:01:08,691
and hasten the great day
of your coronation.
777
01:01:08,791 --> 01:01:11,669
- One further condition.
- Name it.
778
01:01:12,211 --> 01:01:17,675
That you will kill Riccio in her presence
when I am there to see the deed.
779
01:01:18,217 --> 01:01:20,803
She must come to no harm...
780
01:01:22,513 --> 01:01:24,848
before that moment.
781
01:01:55,504 --> 01:01:59,408
- Is this true?
- That is a copy from our ambassador.
782
01:01:59,508 --> 01:02:04,680
Everyone in the Scottish court knows of it,
save the queen and her Italian. Everyone.
783
01:02:05,180 --> 01:02:08,375
And her loving husband has put
his signature and seal to it.
784
01:02:08,475 --> 01:02:11,687
- He has.
- So much for marriage.
785
01:02:11,812 --> 01:02:14,423
The Lord James Stuart
is ready to travel to Scotland.
786
01:02:14,523 --> 01:02:17,426
- So? - He must have money.
To hold the lords he must pay them.
787
01:02:17,526 --> 01:02:19,678
- Then let him find it elsewhere.
- But, madam,
788
01:02:19,778 --> 01:02:22,389
everything that you
hoped for has happened.
789
01:02:22,489 --> 01:02:24,391
Now we must support
our Protestant friends.
790
01:02:24,491 --> 01:02:29,146
That is a murder bond drawn up by
treacherous subjects against their queen.
791
01:02:29,246 --> 01:02:30,147
Where is my name on it?
792
01:02:30,247 --> 01:02:32,816
Where does it say that Elizabeth of
England shall pay the wages of assassins?
793
01:02:32,916 --> 01:02:36,028
Your Grace, it was you
who sent Darnley to Scotland.
794
01:02:36,128 --> 01:02:40,574
But the rest was in God's hands.
I leave this to him also. Come, Robin.
795
01:02:40,674 --> 01:02:42,409
The lady is with child.
796
01:02:42,509 --> 01:02:45,888
A child that could one day
be King of England.
797
01:02:47,723 --> 01:02:53,353
How long must I live under
the shadow of this other queen?
798
01:02:53,687 --> 01:02:57,424
I desire her to be
without power but not dead.
799
01:02:57,524 --> 01:02:59,927
By God.
If it were not for policy,
800
01:03:00,027 --> 01:03:04,014
I have it in me to ride north into her very
palace and warn her of what is to come.
801
01:03:04,114 --> 01:03:07,685
Madam, these Scottish lords
are set upon a certain course.
802
01:03:07,785 --> 01:03:11,772
It is as wise for us as for them
that they pursue it to the end.
803
01:03:11,872 --> 01:03:15,442
Then let them find
the means elsewhere!
804
01:03:15,542 --> 01:03:17,878
Majesty!
805
01:03:21,048 --> 01:03:26,537
Majesty, if you would but marry me
and bear a child yourself,
806
01:03:26,637 --> 01:03:29,765
then her shadow would be
lifted from you.
807
01:03:33,519 --> 01:03:39,425
Master Cecil, pay James Stuart 3,000 crowns
in gold and send him home on a fast horse.
808
01:03:39,525 --> 01:03:43,846
Let the gold coin be of any kind
save that which has my head on it.
809
01:03:43,946 --> 01:03:48,116
I will have no knowledge
of her death. See to it!
810
01:03:57,501 --> 01:03:59,319
Almighty God,
I thank thee...
811
01:03:59,419 --> 01:04:04,158
for the endless ambition
of Robert Dudley to be king...
812
01:04:04,258 --> 01:04:09,413
and for the many times it has
provoked the queen to wise policy...
813
01:04:09,513 --> 01:04:13,834
against her will
but to Thy glory.
814
01:04:13,934 --> 01:04:16,228
Amen.
815
01:04:24,736 --> 01:04:27,781
- Where are they?
- In the turret.
816
01:04:32,327 --> 01:04:34,897
Elizabeth was so demanding
of the gentleman's affection...
817
01:04:34,997 --> 01:04:41,503
he dare not be reconciled with his own
wedded wife for fear of the royal anger.
818
01:04:42,838 --> 01:04:44,923
Why are you here?
819
01:04:46,967 --> 01:04:49,411
If it please Your Majesty,
let Davie Riccio...
820
01:04:49,511 --> 01:04:53,515
come out of this privy chamber
where he has hidden too long.
821
01:04:55,559 --> 01:04:57,002
It is by my command
that he is here.
822
01:04:57,102 --> 01:05:03,050
- He has offended your honour.
- Your mind is full of fantasies. You have a fever.
823
01:05:03,150 --> 01:05:06,053
Escort Lord Ruthven away
and lock the doors.
824
01:05:06,153 --> 01:05:08,697
Lay not hands on me!
825
01:05:08,947 --> 01:05:12,434
Guards! Guards!
826
01:05:12,534 --> 01:05:15,395
- Oh, God!
- Save me! Save me!
827
01:05:15,495 --> 01:05:18,707
In the name of God,
I beg you!
828
01:05:20,083 --> 01:05:21,585
Save me!
829
01:05:23,837 --> 01:05:28,300
- No!
- Riccio! Kill him!
830
01:05:29,509 --> 01:05:33,388
Stop them.
Harry, stop them!
831
01:06:08,548 --> 01:06:11,510
This is from the king.
832
01:06:12,511 --> 01:06:15,414
- Judas!
- Now, now, Your Grace.
833
01:06:15,514 --> 01:06:16,415
Speak gently to His Majesty.
834
01:06:16,515 --> 01:06:21,420
- I will never rest until you have a
heavier heart than I have now. - Be silent!
835
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:25,299
I have that in my belly
will be revenged on you all!
836
01:06:25,399 --> 01:06:27,050
- If you live!
- Silence!
837
01:06:27,150 --> 01:06:31,405
My lords! Do not threaten
the heir to Scotland.
838
01:06:32,489 --> 01:06:33,765
He shall be born,
839
01:06:33,865 --> 01:06:37,394
but we will keep this queen
imprisoned from that time.
840
01:06:37,494 --> 01:06:39,062
Imprisoned from that time?
841
01:06:39,162 --> 01:06:42,816
This good king shall have the
whole government of the realm.
842
01:06:42,916 --> 01:06:45,611
The heir we will bring up
to the Protestant faith.
843
01:06:45,711 --> 01:06:49,506
And you shall be
a perpetual prisoner.
844
01:06:55,637 --> 01:06:58,999
The child.
I believe it is the child.
845
01:06:59,099 --> 01:07:03,211
Harry. Oh!
846
01:07:03,311 --> 01:07:06,131
Help the queen to her bed.
Take her gently. Gently.
847
01:07:06,231 --> 01:07:11,319
- Harry. Harry!
- With all care. Place the covers over her.
848
01:07:13,780 --> 01:07:15,390
My lords,
give us privacy!
849
01:07:15,490 --> 01:07:20,812
If the queen is in labour after these dreadful events,
then there must be calm.
850
01:07:20,912 --> 01:07:22,497
Yes.
851
01:07:24,041 --> 01:07:26,501
Come, my lords.
852
01:07:35,886 --> 01:07:38,038
- I will stay.
- The palace is guarded.
853
01:07:38,138 --> 01:07:42,334
You have chosen your way, sire.
You must follow it to the end.
854
01:07:42,434 --> 01:07:44,644
I have chosen.
855
01:08:14,007 --> 01:08:18,620
Oh, Davie.
856
01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:21,014
Davie.
857
01:08:24,518 --> 01:08:28,213
The king is there alone,
but the outer door is guarded.
858
01:08:28,313 --> 01:08:31,525
We must escape tonight
or we are lost.
859
01:08:34,277 --> 01:08:35,887
And we must
take my husband with us,
860
01:08:35,987 --> 01:08:39,391
- or the lords will use him to seize the crown.
- But, madam, how?
861
01:08:39,491 --> 01:08:43,520
I must make that traitor,
my husband, into a double traitor.
862
01:08:43,620 --> 01:08:49,042
Find Andrew. If Bothwell
could bring us horses...
863
01:08:57,509 --> 01:09:01,346
Be brave.
God will watch over you.
864
01:09:19,239 --> 01:09:24,269
- Harry.
- What's become of your pain? Why are you here?
865
01:09:24,369 --> 01:09:25,604
Forgive me, Harry.
866
01:09:25,704 --> 01:09:28,440
Our child is still alive.
It is not yet time.
867
01:09:28,540 --> 01:09:34,921
I have never betrayed you. But I have
wronged you and I beg your forgiveness.
868
01:09:38,758 --> 01:09:42,454
- It's too late.
- No, I swear it is not.
869
01:09:42,554 --> 01:09:46,583
You shall be the king without
being elected by those murderers.
870
01:09:46,683 --> 01:09:48,418
But I'm in terror for you,
Harry.
871
01:09:48,518 --> 01:09:53,298
Those murderers will butcher you when
once they have our child safe in their keeping.
872
01:09:53,398 --> 01:09:57,427
What can I do?
What can I do?
873
01:09:57,527 --> 01:10:04,034
Harry, don't be afraid.
I know what to do. Trust me. Trust me.
874
01:10:20,300 --> 01:10:22,786
Hurry!
For God's sake, hurry!
875
01:10:22,886 --> 01:10:25,914
Harry, will you wait?
I cannot go so fast for fear I miscarry.
876
01:10:26,014 --> 01:10:29,209
Miscarry if you will. We can
make another when we're safe.
877
01:10:29,309 --> 01:10:32,796
- Father, Davie...
- I know. Lord Bothwell is waiting.
878
01:10:32,896 --> 01:10:35,507
Can you ride a horse?
There's no coach or litter.
879
01:10:35,607 --> 01:10:38,318
- Yes, I can ride.
- Come.
880
01:10:48,036 --> 01:10:52,399
- Have we enough horses?
- Aye, madam. You shall ride with me.
881
01:10:52,499 --> 01:10:56,503
It will be safer,
so tuck up your skirts...
882
01:10:58,171 --> 01:10:59,406
and hurry.
883
01:10:59,506 --> 01:11:03,618
But if we're caught,
they'll cut us into collops and feed the dogs with us.
884
01:11:03,718 --> 01:11:06,054
Andrew!
885
01:12:02,527 --> 01:12:06,848
Welcome to Hermitage,
my sanctuary, madam.
886
01:12:06,948 --> 01:12:09,701
Thank you,
my lord.
887
01:12:10,452 --> 01:12:13,021
- Are you all right?
- Indeed, I am.
888
01:12:13,121 --> 01:12:16,875
And in good spirits.
Come. Let us go in.
889
01:12:23,089 --> 01:12:23,865
Who is this lady?
890
01:12:23,965 --> 01:12:29,621
She was the Lady Jean Gordon, Your Grace,
daughter of the richest of Highland lords.
891
01:12:29,721 --> 01:12:33,416
- Was?
- She is now Lady Bothwell.
892
01:12:33,516 --> 01:12:36,603
Welcome to Hermitage castle,
Your Majesty.
893
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:41,024
- Married? You are married?
- Yes, madam.
894
01:12:44,152 --> 01:12:46,388
I...
Oh, lord...
895
01:12:46,488 --> 01:12:48,515
I...
896
01:12:48,615 --> 01:12:52,494
Help me!
The child is coming!
897
01:12:54,871 --> 01:13:00,402
I gave you no permission
to marry, my lord.
898
01:13:00,502 --> 01:13:03,797
Take her in quickly.
899
01:13:29,697 --> 01:13:34,327
- Well?
- Scotland has a new prince.
900
01:13:41,793 --> 01:13:43,653
Oooh!
901
01:13:43,753 --> 01:13:47,507
Oh, no!
902
01:13:54,514 --> 01:14:00,420
The queen of Scots
is lighter of a fair son.
903
01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:04,524
And I am but barren stock.
904
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:18,396
I kept it from her
as long as I dared.
905
01:14:18,496 --> 01:14:24,110
But the defeat of the Protestant
lords of Scotland forced me to speak.
906
01:14:24,210 --> 01:14:25,862
- They are defeated?
- Yes.
907
01:14:25,962 --> 01:14:28,156
Bothwell raised an army
and put them to flight.
908
01:14:28,256 --> 01:14:31,743
Ruthven, Morton and Huntly have
come over the border for sanctuary.
909
01:14:31,843 --> 01:14:34,262
Stuart is under siege at Dunbar.
910
01:15:01,498 --> 01:15:03,708
Stuart!
911
01:15:05,376 --> 01:15:06,403
Aye.
912
01:15:06,503 --> 01:15:09,406
Rouse yourself, James.
Do you hear the pipes?
913
01:15:09,506 --> 01:15:13,468
It's your loving sister come to
put a rope around your neck.
914
01:16:28,793 --> 01:16:32,864
Your Majesty,
the rebels are defeated. Dunbar is yours.
915
01:16:32,964 --> 01:16:38,136
The queen has triumphed!
916
01:16:44,267 --> 01:16:45,710
Where is my brother?
Is he dead?
917
01:16:45,810 --> 01:16:48,087
No. I've saved him
for the scaffold.
918
01:16:48,187 --> 01:16:53,092
Then let him make his will and say his
prayers for I shall hang him before tonight.
919
01:16:53,192 --> 01:16:56,763
You cannot hang me
without killing your husband.
920
01:16:56,863 --> 01:16:58,681
I took no part
in Riccio's death.
921
01:16:58,781 --> 01:17:01,392
- Liar.
- But your husband was there.
922
01:17:01,492 --> 01:17:05,872
He signed the murder bond
with the Scottish lords.
923
01:17:08,041 --> 01:17:10,401
- It is a forgery.
- It is a copy.
924
01:17:10,501 --> 01:17:13,446
The original is
safely hidden in England.
925
01:17:13,546 --> 01:17:16,157
No court will condemn me
without him.
926
01:17:16,257 --> 01:17:19,118
And even you,
great Queen,
927
01:17:19,218 --> 01:17:21,788
cannot act
without due process of law.
928
01:17:21,888 --> 01:17:23,581
Then by God,
I will act with it!
929
01:17:23,681 --> 01:17:27,669
It will give me great pleasure to
see you both on the same scaffold.
930
01:17:27,769 --> 01:17:29,754
Bothwell,
let us do it now.
931
01:17:29,854 --> 01:17:32,423
Will you split the kingdom?
932
01:17:32,523 --> 01:17:35,318
End the Stuart line?
933
01:17:35,943 --> 01:17:37,387
If you accuse brave Harry,
934
01:17:37,487 --> 01:17:40,390
he will shout from the rooftops
that your child...
935
01:17:40,490 --> 01:17:44,018
is Riccio's bastard and
that you were Riccio's whore.
936
01:17:44,118 --> 01:17:47,814
And that the killing was the
just execution of a commoner...
937
01:17:47,914 --> 01:17:51,401
who had committed high treason
by cuckolding the king.
938
01:17:51,501 --> 01:17:53,403
- No!
- We do not need the law.
939
01:17:53,503 --> 01:17:56,964
Your brother will have died
of his wounds in battle.
940
01:17:58,675 --> 01:18:03,037
No.
For myself, I care nothing.
941
01:18:03,137 --> 01:18:05,748
For the shame, I care nothing.
942
01:18:05,848 --> 01:18:09,085
But I dare not give the heretics
of Scotland and England...
943
01:18:09,185 --> 01:18:11,504
a case to use against my son.
944
01:18:11,604 --> 01:18:14,549
And I will not risk
his inheritance,
945
01:18:14,649 --> 01:18:18,136
even for the pleasure
of your death.
946
01:18:18,236 --> 01:18:22,390
Scotsmen, here is
your future king,
947
01:18:22,490 --> 01:18:25,351
James VI of Scotland!
948
01:18:25,451 --> 01:18:29,414
And in good time,
James I of England.
949
01:18:37,380 --> 01:18:39,490
I am the queen
by right of birth...
950
01:18:39,590 --> 01:18:42,410
and right of arms,
and tyranny I detest.
951
01:18:42,510 --> 01:18:47,457
I practice the old religion,
but I tolerate the new.
952
01:18:47,557 --> 01:18:51,127
I rule in God's name,
so I rule in justice.
953
01:18:51,227 --> 01:18:53,296
The better part
of justice is mercy.
954
01:18:53,396 --> 01:18:58,092
Therefore, on this great day
of triumph I shall be merciful.
955
01:18:58,192 --> 01:19:01,904
I pardon James Stuart,
Earl of Moray.
956
01:19:08,995 --> 01:19:14,400
Before you all, he shall be reconciled
with my husband and Lord Bothwell.
957
01:19:14,500 --> 01:19:16,319
Not I.
He hates me.
958
01:19:16,419 --> 01:19:18,112
Not as much as he hates me,
Your Grace.
959
01:19:18,212 --> 01:19:23,618
Put a good face on it for policy's sake.
We are deceiving the people.
960
01:19:23,718 --> 01:19:24,535
Take my hand, sire.
961
01:19:24,635 --> 01:19:28,831
A man who first betrayed the queen
and then betrayed his fellow conspirators...
962
01:19:28,931 --> 01:19:30,625
must be glad of a friend.
963
01:19:30,725 --> 01:19:36,089
So I will and wait impatiently for the day
when one of you will slit the throat of the other.
964
01:19:36,189 --> 01:19:37,815
Or yours.
965
01:19:51,370 --> 01:19:54,248
Leave me go!
Leave me go!
966
01:19:55,166 --> 01:19:58,361
I have had enough!
Everywhere I go, I'm shunned.
967
01:19:58,461 --> 01:20:00,029
People look through me
like I'm a ghost!
968
01:20:00,129 --> 01:20:03,449
I will not be made to feel
guilty over a scrap of paper!
969
01:20:03,549 --> 01:20:05,743
- Get to your bed!
- No, madam.
970
01:20:05,843 --> 01:20:09,288
I will go to your bed.
971
01:20:09,388 --> 01:20:10,665
Either that,
or I leave the country.
972
01:20:10,765 --> 01:20:13,668
I shall go to Italy, to the Pope.
He will annul our marriage.
973
01:20:13,768 --> 01:20:17,380
I shall tell him you were so eager
that you forgot the dispensation...
974
01:20:17,480 --> 01:20:20,091
- which cousins must have to marry.
- Traitor!
975
01:20:20,191 --> 01:20:23,219
Annulment will make
your son a bastard.
976
01:20:23,319 --> 01:20:24,846
I know. I know.
977
01:20:24,946 --> 01:20:27,890
And she would do anything
to save her son's inheritance...
978
01:20:27,990 --> 01:20:30,660
as the future king.
979
01:20:31,452 --> 01:20:34,105
So come to bed,
sweet wife.
980
01:20:34,205 --> 01:20:37,191
Bothwell!
981
01:20:37,291 --> 01:20:39,585
Aye.
Leave us!
982
01:20:41,504 --> 01:20:46,634
And quickly.
I have a great appetite.
983
01:20:57,979 --> 01:21:02,525
Oh, for God's sake,
smile, madam.
984
01:21:04,902 --> 01:21:07,780
And bring me some wine.
985
01:21:32,930 --> 01:21:35,291
Even though I disgust you,
986
01:21:35,391 --> 01:21:38,419
you will love...
and fondle me...
987
01:21:38,519 --> 01:21:41,547
and have me by your
side again as king.
988
01:21:41,647 --> 01:21:45,651
As I mount you,
so shall I mount the throne.
989
01:22:04,837 --> 01:22:07,907
- Have you killed him?
- No.
990
01:22:08,007 --> 01:22:11,494
- I came to do you that service.
- He's drugged.
991
01:22:11,594 --> 01:22:15,890
- He's diseased.
- Diseased?
992
01:22:21,854 --> 01:22:25,424
Since before the birth of the prince
he's been vagabonding at night.
993
01:22:25,524 --> 01:22:29,487
He is poxed.
He will rot with it.
994
01:22:33,282 --> 01:22:35,618
Merciful God.
995
01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:41,399
An honourable end
is better than this.
996
01:22:41,499 --> 01:22:47,171
Bring back the lords in exile.
They will bring him to account.
997
01:23:49,442 --> 01:23:51,944
Bothwell.
998
01:24:40,993 --> 01:24:44,480
"I have departed the court
with my Lord Bothwell.
999
01:24:44,580 --> 01:24:45,690
"You will await my return.
1000
01:24:45,790 --> 01:24:50,987
"Husband, there are certain lords in
England who have been punished enough.
1001
01:24:51,087 --> 01:24:53,406
"The lords who murdered Riccio.
1002
01:24:53,506 --> 01:24:56,534
"They are therefore pardoned
by the mercy of their queen.
1003
01:24:56,634 --> 01:24:59,845
Soon you shall meet them again."
1004
01:25:06,310 --> 01:25:07,420
I am betrayed.
1005
01:25:07,520 --> 01:25:12,174
We brought him home
to lie in Scottish soil.
1006
01:25:12,274 --> 01:25:14,927
At his deathbed
we swore vengeance.
1007
01:25:15,027 --> 01:25:17,471
So let us decide which of us
will kill the king in combat.
1008
01:25:17,571 --> 01:25:23,394
He is sick of the pox.
He cowers in his bed. He'll not fight.
1009
01:25:23,494 --> 01:25:26,522
The we'll drag him out
and kill him as we did Riccio.
1010
01:25:26,622 --> 01:25:29,483
Nobody cared about the death
of a little foreigner.
1011
01:25:29,583 --> 01:25:34,447
- Everyone will care about the murder of a king.
- His...
1012
01:25:34,547 --> 01:25:38,159
His Majesty has a house
outside the wall of Edinburgh...
1013
01:25:38,259 --> 01:25:42,246
- where he took his whores and his young men.
- Kirk O'Field.
1014
01:25:42,346 --> 01:25:46,892
He plans to murder Mary Stuart
in that house.
1015
01:25:47,184 --> 01:25:49,962
He has filled the cellars
with gunpowder.
1016
01:25:50,062 --> 01:25:52,089
He means to go there
with the queen...
1017
01:25:52,189 --> 01:25:56,761
and make his excuses to leave
her for a few hours and then...
1018
01:25:56,861 --> 01:25:59,555
Blow her up.
1019
01:25:59,655 --> 01:26:04,643
With a choice of knife, gun, poison, rope,
why would anyone choose gunpowder?
1020
01:26:04,743 --> 01:26:09,190
Nobody chooses gunpowder,
Stuart, in these hard times.
1021
01:26:09,290 --> 01:26:13,402
Nevertheless,
the cellars of Kirk O'Field...
1022
01:26:13,502 --> 01:26:17,256
are full... of gunpowder.
1023
01:26:21,510 --> 01:26:26,874
His Majesty is a notorious drunkard and fool.
Also, he is sick.
1024
01:26:26,974 --> 01:26:31,045
I think that he will bungle
his attempt on the queen...
1025
01:26:31,145 --> 01:26:34,398
and blow himself up.
1026
01:26:35,274 --> 01:26:37,735
Can you help us?
1027
01:26:38,527 --> 01:26:42,489
Bury your dead.
Leave the rest to me.
1028
01:26:46,243 --> 01:26:49,396
The next he will
lord it over us.
1029
01:26:49,496 --> 01:26:51,482
For a while,
1030
01:26:51,582 --> 01:26:55,127
a very little while.
1031
01:26:55,377 --> 01:26:59,198
So we are safely arrived
at Kirk O'Field.
1032
01:26:59,298 --> 01:27:00,533
I have obeyed you,
my love,
1033
01:27:00,633 --> 01:27:04,161
because I believe that he is
condemned to death by the pox,
1034
01:27:04,261 --> 01:27:08,165
which is the wrath of God
upon his vile nature.
1035
01:27:08,265 --> 01:27:11,252
So what is planned is no sin.
1036
01:27:11,352 --> 01:27:14,880
But God forgive me
if I do wrong.
1037
01:27:14,980 --> 01:27:18,384
And after your divorce
we shall be man and wife,
1038
01:27:18,484 --> 01:27:22,096
and you shall be
no puppet king but the master.
1039
01:27:22,196 --> 01:27:24,807
For the first time
I am loved and fulfilled.
1040
01:27:24,907 --> 01:27:30,871
I have turned my back on God for you,
so be true to me, my love. Be true.
1041
01:27:33,499 --> 01:27:35,109
- Andrew.
- My lord?
1042
01:27:35,209 --> 01:27:37,403
Get the ready.
We leave for Edinburgh.
1043
01:27:37,503 --> 01:27:41,173
- There is work for you to do.
- Aye, my lord.
1044
01:28:22,965 --> 01:28:28,078
- It is time to leave, Your Grace.
- You promised to stay.
1045
01:28:28,178 --> 01:28:31,248
It is Fleming's marriage feast.
I must go.
1046
01:28:31,348 --> 01:28:33,559
I will return.
1047
01:28:34,977 --> 01:28:37,087
Why do you keep Davie's guitar?
1048
01:28:37,187 --> 01:28:40,424
Why do you play it?
Is it to anger me?
1049
01:28:40,524 --> 01:28:45,346
No, Harry, but I never forget
those who are loyal to me.
1050
01:28:45,446 --> 01:28:49,475
Davie's dead.
Let him go.
1051
01:28:49,575 --> 01:28:53,495
Yes, it is just a year.
1052
01:31:22,519 --> 01:31:26,215
No. Pity me, kinsmen.
1053
01:31:26,315 --> 01:31:31,236
For the sake of Jesus Christ,
pity me!
1054
01:31:46,835 --> 01:31:51,407
He was to have an honourable death,
to be challenged to a duel.
1055
01:31:51,507 --> 01:31:55,052
Death is death,
however it comes.
1056
01:31:55,969 --> 01:31:57,371
Now we must look to our future.
1057
01:31:57,471 --> 01:32:03,919
The ambassadors of France
and Spain, Your Majesty,
1058
01:32:04,019 --> 01:32:06,980
and of Scotland.
1059
01:32:15,489 --> 01:32:19,852
We are mourning
the late King Henry of Scotland.
1060
01:32:19,952 --> 01:32:24,731
We mourn because
the Scottish court does not.
1061
01:32:24,831 --> 01:32:27,401
He was once our subject.
1062
01:32:27,501 --> 01:32:30,779
We are shocked at
his abominable murder.
1063
01:32:30,879 --> 01:32:34,132
We are astounded
at what followed.
1064
01:32:34,508 --> 01:32:38,412
The king was taken at dead of
night and buried without ceremony.
1065
01:32:38,512 --> 01:32:41,790
His clothes, his goods,
his horse and his armour...
1066
01:32:41,890 --> 01:32:44,251
were given to Lord Bothwell.
1067
01:32:44,351 --> 01:32:48,088
Voices cry out
that Bothwell is the murderer.
1068
01:32:48,188 --> 01:32:50,382
The Scots have risen
in rebellion.
1069
01:32:50,482 --> 01:32:52,551
Catholic and Protestant,
lord and peasant...
1070
01:32:52,651 --> 01:32:55,554
combine to destroy
the tyrant Bothwell.
1071
01:32:55,654 --> 01:32:59,850
And yet Queen Mary Stuart...
1072
01:32:59,950 --> 01:33:02,452
has married him.
1073
01:33:06,498 --> 01:33:09,401
It was once said
in Catholic courts...
1074
01:33:09,501 --> 01:33:12,613
that Elizabeth would
marry her horse master...
1075
01:33:12,713 --> 01:33:14,490
who had murdered his wife.
1076
01:33:14,590 --> 01:33:19,745
Then her people would
turn her out in favour of Mary.
1077
01:33:19,845 --> 01:33:21,705
I have not married.
1078
01:33:21,805 --> 01:33:23,957
Leicester is innocent.
1079
01:33:24,057 --> 01:33:26,418
My people did not rebel...
1080
01:33:26,518 --> 01:33:30,188
and Mary Stuart
does not rule here.
1081
01:33:31,565 --> 01:33:36,303
Tell your masters do not interfere in Scotland,
nor will I.
1082
01:33:36,403 --> 01:33:41,742
Let the Scottish queen settle her
own affairs as I once settled mine.
1083
01:33:44,161 --> 01:33:49,024
How she longs to hear
of Mary's death.
1084
01:33:49,124 --> 01:33:51,752
And how she dreads it.
1085
01:34:01,178 --> 01:34:03,413
No! No! No!
1086
01:34:03,513 --> 01:34:05,682
What is it?
1087
01:34:11,313 --> 01:34:13,298
A dream.
1088
01:34:13,398 --> 01:34:14,383
A dream?
1089
01:34:14,483 --> 01:34:17,177
Be thankful it's not James
Stuart knocking on the door.
1090
01:34:17,277 --> 01:34:20,806
I am full of fears,
waking and sleeping.
1091
01:34:20,906 --> 01:34:23,392
All my forces
will be here by day.
1092
01:34:23,492 --> 01:34:27,062
I sent the messengers
three days ago.
1093
01:34:27,162 --> 01:34:29,206
Do not be afraid.
1094
01:34:31,625 --> 01:34:36,588
It's all right.
It's my Borderers. It's dawn.
1095
01:34:57,859 --> 01:35:00,862
They're all 'round us.
1096
01:35:01,488 --> 01:35:04,616
We can hold them
till my men come.
1097
01:35:06,451 --> 01:35:09,396
Bothwell! Bothwell!
1098
01:35:09,496 --> 01:35:12,691
Show yourself.
Or are you afraid?
1099
01:35:12,791 --> 01:35:15,669
I will speak with him.
1100
01:35:26,263 --> 01:35:27,289
I am here, Stuart!
1101
01:35:27,389 --> 01:35:31,543
Tell Her Majesty to come down to us.
We have no quarrel with her.
1102
01:35:31,643 --> 01:35:35,172
- It's you we've come for.
- I will not go down.
1103
01:35:35,272 --> 01:35:39,092
Bothwell, have you the courage
for single combat?
1104
01:35:39,192 --> 01:35:43,013
Or will you go on hiding
in the skirts of the queen?
1105
01:35:43,113 --> 01:35:45,515
I am not a sick man
like the king you murdered.
1106
01:35:45,615 --> 01:35:49,311
- I will cut him to pieces!
- No, I will not let you go.
1107
01:35:49,411 --> 01:35:51,063
I will not be shamed,
Mary!
1108
01:35:51,163 --> 01:35:54,399
Our forces will be here
within an hour,
1109
01:35:54,499 --> 01:35:58,403
and then I will see you hanged
from these walls.
1110
01:35:58,503 --> 01:36:01,715
You waste your breath.
Roy!
1111
01:36:05,427 --> 01:36:10,123
There are your messengers.
Come now and fight!
1112
01:36:10,223 --> 01:36:12,017
That I will.
1113
01:36:12,350 --> 01:36:15,045
Andrew!
Andrew, bring my armour!
1114
01:36:15,145 --> 01:36:19,608
And when he comes down,
we'll cut his throat.
1115
01:36:24,988 --> 01:36:27,140
Jamie,
you must not go down.
1116
01:36:27,240 --> 01:36:29,476
They will kill you
as they killed Davie.
1117
01:36:29,576 --> 01:36:32,646
I will fight.
I will finish it this time.
1118
01:36:32,746 --> 01:36:36,274
When I go down, you must leave
by the secret way out of here.
1119
01:36:36,374 --> 01:36:39,403
- No. - It leads beyond the castle
ground. Andrew will guide you.
1120
01:36:39,503 --> 01:36:42,280
- Let us go together, I beg you.
- You will not be seen.
1121
01:36:42,380 --> 01:36:45,509
I will not be dishonoured!
1122
01:36:47,511 --> 01:36:51,415
My dear love,
who remembers the honour of the dead?
1123
01:36:51,515 --> 01:36:55,519
You are no match for the
treachery of these times.
1124
01:36:58,855 --> 01:37:01,316
Seton! Seton!
1125
01:37:02,442 --> 01:37:05,011
Mary, I beg you.
Do not disgrace me.
1126
01:37:05,111 --> 01:37:08,306
Listen to me. Your death
will be mine. You must escape.
1127
01:37:08,406 --> 01:37:13,228
Rouse the Borderers yourself.
I am still the queen. While I live, I reign.
1128
01:37:13,328 --> 01:37:18,124
- Do not do this.
- Goodbye, my dear love. Go now!
1129
01:37:22,629 --> 01:37:26,992
Give me courage.
Come with me and look down on those traitors.
1130
01:37:27,092 --> 01:37:31,888
Soon we must open the gates
and give ourselves up to them.
1131
01:37:33,431 --> 01:37:35,517
God help us.
1132
01:37:38,895 --> 01:37:40,922
I shall watch the combat
from here, Brother.
1133
01:37:41,022 --> 01:37:47,487
You shall not wait long. My husband
is determined. I cannot dissuade him.
1134
01:38:00,375 --> 01:38:02,527
The deed...
1135
01:38:02,627 --> 01:38:04,988
of your abdication.
1136
01:38:05,088 --> 01:38:08,258
It is the will of the lords...
1137
01:38:08,758 --> 01:38:13,205
and of the people...
that you sign it.
1138
01:38:13,305 --> 01:38:16,541
I will never abdicate.
I am the queen.
1139
01:38:16,641 --> 01:38:19,352
I will die the queen.
1140
01:38:20,020 --> 01:38:21,855
Huntly.
1141
01:38:22,689 --> 01:38:27,511
In this casket are your
letters to Lord Bothwell...
1142
01:38:27,611 --> 01:38:30,263
that prove that
you are a murderess...
1143
01:38:30,363 --> 01:38:32,098
and that you led the king
to his death.
1144
01:38:32,198 --> 01:38:37,395
Abdicate or I will publish them
and have you tried for murder.
1145
01:38:37,495 --> 01:38:38,396
No.
1146
01:38:38,496 --> 01:38:42,400
The Lord Bothwell will not
be coming to your aid, lady.
1147
01:38:42,500 --> 01:38:46,046
He did not escape.
I have him.
1148
01:38:48,131 --> 01:38:49,533
It's not true.
1149
01:38:49,633 --> 01:38:54,638
And tomorrow...
I shall hang him.
1150
01:38:55,513 --> 01:38:58,416
No! No! No! No!
1151
01:38:58,516 --> 01:39:02,729
I... No! No!
1152
01:39:17,118 --> 01:39:20,188
Will you sign
the deed of abdication?
1153
01:39:20,288 --> 01:39:22,499
Never.
1154
01:39:46,398 --> 01:39:49,301
Jamie. Jamie!
1155
01:39:49,401 --> 01:39:53,346
- Mary, my love.
- Jamie!
1156
01:39:53,446 --> 01:39:54,389
Jamie.
1157
01:39:54,489 --> 01:39:58,685
I thought you were dead.
They told me you were dead.
1158
01:39:58,785 --> 01:39:59,394
No.
1159
01:39:59,494 --> 01:40:04,649
Your brother saw an advantage in
keeping me in this world for a further time.
1160
01:40:04,749 --> 01:40:10,572
They will pardon me, spare you,
give me a passage to Denmark...
1161
01:40:10,672 --> 01:40:14,159
if I can persuade
you to abdicate.
1162
01:40:14,259 --> 01:40:15,619
- Oh, Jamie!
- Listen to me, Mary.
1163
01:40:15,719 --> 01:40:20,498
I'm an ambitious man, hungry for life,
but I do not fear death.
1164
01:40:20,598 --> 01:40:23,418
The only thing I fear
is what can happen to you.
1165
01:40:23,518 --> 01:40:25,795
The Scottish lords demand
your trial and execution.
1166
01:40:25,895 --> 01:40:29,424
Your brother wants you out of
the way alive before it is too late.
1167
01:40:29,524 --> 01:40:34,054
- He lies. He wants me dead too.
- No, above all, he's a Stuart.
1168
01:40:34,154 --> 01:40:36,473
He'll save you if he can.
1169
01:40:36,573 --> 01:40:41,745
If you abdicate,
he'll see you safe to the English border.
1170
01:40:42,495 --> 01:40:47,233
Our deaths or separate exile.
Jamie, there's no choice.
1171
01:40:47,333 --> 01:40:51,404
I can't exist without you.
I cry for death.
1172
01:40:51,504 --> 01:40:53,406
No!
1173
01:40:53,506 --> 01:40:56,159
You are Mary Stuart,
the queen.
1174
01:40:56,259 --> 01:40:58,411
Remember what you said to me.
1175
01:40:58,511 --> 01:41:00,455
While you live there is hope.
1176
01:41:00,555 --> 01:41:04,417
Cling to that.
We shall not be separated.
1177
01:41:04,517 --> 01:41:08,880
One day I shall return
for you with an army.
1178
01:41:08,980 --> 01:41:12,467
Until then,
my love,
1179
01:41:12,567 --> 01:41:16,404
I hold you close to my heart.
1180
01:41:19,741 --> 01:41:22,035
Well?
1181
01:41:22,702 --> 01:41:25,205
Death or exile?
1182
01:41:39,928 --> 01:41:42,038
The English border
is two miles from here.
1183
01:41:42,138 --> 01:41:46,418
I bid you farewell.
We shall not meet again.
1184
01:41:46,518 --> 01:41:47,836
So you must hope.
1185
01:41:47,936 --> 01:41:53,525
Long life, Sister.
We will bring up your son a good Protestant.
1186
01:42:02,909 --> 01:42:06,496
My son, my son!
God help him.
1187
01:42:11,876 --> 01:42:14,404
Seton,
in this little time...
1188
01:42:14,504 --> 01:42:18,408
until we reach the English border,
we are quite free.
1189
01:42:18,508 --> 01:42:21,453
Free.
How it eases the heart.
1190
01:42:21,553 --> 01:42:27,725
And I have good hopes I shall overcome
all and be united with my Bothwell.
1191
01:42:28,476 --> 01:42:31,004
I am but five and 20
years of age.
1192
01:42:31,104 --> 01:42:33,548
I have my whole life before me!
1193
01:42:33,648 --> 01:42:36,526
Free! Free!
1194
01:42:50,498 --> 01:42:54,778
God help us
if Cecil finds out about this.
1195
01:42:54,878 --> 01:42:57,155
Do not fear, madam.
No one will find out.
1196
01:42:57,255 --> 01:42:58,490
The Catholics of the north...
1197
01:42:58,590 --> 01:43:01,534
have flocked to pay her homage
since she came over the border.
1198
01:43:01,634 --> 01:43:05,413
At Carlisle, she held court.
Is she mad to behave so blatantly?
1199
01:43:05,513 --> 01:43:07,707
I fear I may have
misjudged her all these years.
1200
01:43:07,807 --> 01:43:09,459
She has never
learned discretion.
1201
01:43:09,559 --> 01:43:11,419
Is it discretion for me
to meet her in secret?
1202
01:43:11,519 --> 01:43:18,735
It is imperative. It is said you
have a wolf by the ears, madam.
1203
01:43:22,530 --> 01:43:26,367
Well,
let us look at the animal.
1204
01:43:31,664 --> 01:43:34,042
Stay here.
1205
01:43:45,386 --> 01:43:50,266
- Sweet cousin.
- Dear sister and cousin.
1206
01:43:52,060 --> 01:43:55,939
I am here to meet you
as you so urgently demanded.
1207
01:43:56,689 --> 01:44:00,343
My business can only be
discussed between us face-to-face.
1208
01:44:00,443 --> 01:44:04,389
I know you to be the enemy of all
rebels against their rightful prince.
1209
01:44:04,489 --> 01:44:06,391
Indeed, madam,
you are right.
1210
01:44:06,491 --> 01:44:09,352
The crime of my lords against
their anointed queen is so great...
1211
01:44:09,452 --> 01:44:11,855
it buries all past differences
between us.
1212
01:44:11,955 --> 01:44:14,732
I am confident of your help.
I ask it as a right.
1213
01:44:14,832 --> 01:44:16,401
I see that you have courage.
1214
01:44:16,501 --> 01:44:19,404
And I see you are the great
queen of whom all speak.
1215
01:44:19,504 --> 01:44:21,114
And you are young.
1216
01:44:21,214 --> 01:44:23,408
Not too young to ride
at the head of an army.
1217
01:44:23,508 --> 01:44:25,201
You have come
to ask me for an army?
1218
01:44:25,301 --> 01:44:27,453
- Yes, an army, supplies, money.
- And money.
1219
01:44:27,553 --> 01:44:32,417
Which I shall most happily repay to
you when I reign once again in Scotland.
1220
01:44:32,517 --> 01:44:34,460
How else may I aid you?
Be open with me, dear cousin.
1221
01:44:34,560 --> 01:44:38,590
For be assured there is no waking hour in
my day when you are far from my thoughts.
1222
01:44:38,690 --> 01:44:43,428
Your fate is linked with mine.
We are princes both. We are joined by blood.
1223
01:44:43,528 --> 01:44:47,807
- What else have you to tell me or to ask of me?
- Nothing.
1224
01:44:47,907 --> 01:44:50,393
- Nothing?
- What else could there be?
1225
01:44:50,493 --> 01:44:55,331
Some helpful word concerning
the murder of Lord Darnley.
1226
01:44:56,416 --> 01:44:57,775
Yes, of course.
1227
01:44:57,875 --> 01:45:01,963
Rest assured, Elizabeth, that
I am innocent in the matter.
1228
01:45:02,630 --> 01:45:04,407
That gives me great joy.
1229
01:45:04,507 --> 01:45:07,869
For when you are honourably acquitted
of the crime of which you are accused,
1230
01:45:07,969 --> 01:45:10,163
then you shall have your
army and your money.
1231
01:45:10,263 --> 01:45:15,418
Cousin, put it out of your mind that I
came to England merely to save my life.
1232
01:45:15,518 --> 01:45:16,419
I came to recover my honour.
1233
01:45:16,519 --> 01:45:20,590
If you dare to doubt my word that I am innocent,
then I will go at once to France.
1234
01:45:20,690 --> 01:45:22,550
- You shall not.
- Madam, in the past...
1235
01:45:22,650 --> 01:45:26,012
you have sheltered those very
traitors who now rule in Scotland.
1236
01:45:26,112 --> 01:45:29,140
They entered freely into England,
just as freely they returned.
1237
01:45:29,240 --> 01:45:31,643
Do you offer me less
than my treacherous subjects?
1238
01:45:31,743 --> 01:45:33,811
Am I your prisoner?
If so, by what law?
1239
01:45:33,911 --> 01:45:37,023
If you forbid me to go to France,
what will you do with me?
1240
01:45:37,123 --> 01:45:41,294
I shall take you deeper into
England for your protection.
1241
01:45:41,419 --> 01:45:44,447
- Then I am your prisoner.
- If you are innocent, what have you to fear?
1242
01:45:44,547 --> 01:45:49,552
You have deceived me.
You are in league with my brother.
1243
01:45:49,802 --> 01:45:53,206
I will answer no accusations.
Who is there who may try me? Who is my equal?
1244
01:45:53,306 --> 01:45:56,167
Will you do it? In public before
the eyes of the world? No.
1245
01:45:56,267 --> 01:46:00,588
You lack the courage. You hope to
dishonour me. It is you who are dishonoured.
1246
01:46:00,688 --> 01:46:05,426
Did you believe I would send you back
to Scotland at the head of a great army?
1247
01:46:05,526 --> 01:46:09,347
Did you believe I would sacrifice
my reputation on your behalf?
1248
01:46:09,447 --> 01:46:13,393
It is not enough, madam,
to speak one's mind in season and out as you do.
1249
01:46:13,493 --> 01:46:14,852
That is not the conduct
of a queen.
1250
01:46:14,952 --> 01:46:18,147
It is the outpouring of a pampered
woman demanding that all indulge her.
1251
01:46:18,247 --> 01:46:22,235
It does not surprise me that you are here,
helpless, and that your brother rules.
1252
01:46:22,335 --> 01:46:25,405
You are not fit for the high
office to which you were born.
1253
01:46:25,505 --> 01:46:27,699
And you, madam, who hate me
and wish me dead...
1254
01:46:27,799 --> 01:46:29,409
and fear to kill me,
you are my mortal enemy.
1255
01:46:29,509 --> 01:46:32,245
I have noted since the day you
denied me a passport through England.
1256
01:46:32,345 --> 01:46:34,038
All the blows you have
struck against me.
1257
01:46:34,138 --> 01:46:35,999
I glory in your hatred,
for it is clear to me...
1258
01:46:36,099 --> 01:46:40,086
that Elizabeth the bastard, the heretic,
the usurper, is cursed by God,
1259
01:46:40,186 --> 01:46:44,382
and will soon be too old to bear a
child and will die a solitary old woman.
1260
01:46:44,482 --> 01:46:47,510
Above all, it is clear
that Elizabeth fears Mary.
1261
01:46:47,610 --> 01:46:51,948
And whatever my fate,
my son will rule here in time.
1262
01:46:57,703 --> 01:47:01,149
You have noted all the blows
I struck against you.
1263
01:47:01,249 --> 01:47:03,401
- All.
- All save one.
1264
01:47:03,501 --> 01:47:07,530
It was I who sent Henry,
Lord Darnley to your court, sweet cousin.
1265
01:47:07,630 --> 01:47:10,074
- Darnley?
- Any queen who could be gulled...
1266
01:47:10,174 --> 01:47:15,413
by such a pretty, wicked fellow and take
him to her bed and put a crown upon his head...
1267
01:47:15,513 --> 01:47:17,165
does not inspire fear.
1268
01:47:17,265 --> 01:47:20,293
She inspires pity.
You have my pity, madam,
1269
01:47:20,393 --> 01:47:22,128
as you had it on the day
I sent Darnley north,
1270
01:47:22,228 --> 01:47:26,966
knowing you to be without wisdom,
discretion or any of the attributes of a queen.
1271
01:47:27,066 --> 01:47:28,593
I see you have learned
nothing since.
1272
01:47:28,693 --> 01:47:32,388
It is not surprising that you are
spoken of in the courts of Europe...
1273
01:47:32,488 --> 01:47:35,058
as an infamous, royal whore.
1274
01:47:35,158 --> 01:47:35,392
Madam!
1275
01:47:35,492 --> 01:47:41,497
My lord, I urge you to guard your mistress
well for there are many who would wish her dead.
1276
01:47:45,501 --> 01:47:47,403
Now I have no choice.
1277
01:47:47,503 --> 01:47:51,866
I must keep her prisoner
until the day of her death.
1278
01:47:51,966 --> 01:47:54,427
May it be soon.
1279
01:49:04,497 --> 01:49:09,377
Madam, there is an English officer
from the French court to see you.
1280
01:49:09,502 --> 01:49:11,337
Yes.
1281
01:49:12,880 --> 01:49:15,132
Sir.
1282
01:49:18,344 --> 01:49:21,247
I bring you greetings, madam,
and some letters which, I must tell you,
1283
01:49:21,347 --> 01:49:24,067
I have already shown to the authorities here,
for I am a loyal Englishman.
1284
01:49:24,267 --> 01:49:25,418
Very well. Leave them.
1285
01:49:25,518 --> 01:49:29,105
No, ma'am. I'm ordered
to wait for your reply.
1286
01:49:35,152 --> 01:49:39,974
No need to waste time
on these, Your Grace.
1287
01:49:40,074 --> 01:49:42,660
Father Ballard!
1288
01:49:45,371 --> 01:49:48,900
Up. Up, Your Grace.
There's work to do... work of great danger.
1289
01:49:49,000 --> 01:49:54,697
- Mistress Seton, do put an ear to the
door and give us warning. - Aye, Father.
1290
01:49:54,797 --> 01:49:59,911
- This is from King Philip himself. He has a
new plan against Elizabeth. - Another?
1291
01:50:00,011 --> 01:50:02,288
We've been shut up for years,
and no help from him.
1292
01:50:02,388 --> 01:50:07,251
- This one is different. Read the letter, madam.
- Very well.
1293
01:50:07,351 --> 01:50:10,046
What news have you
from Scotland?
1294
01:50:10,146 --> 01:50:12,673
How is my dear son James?
1295
01:50:12,773 --> 01:50:15,927
I've written to him ever since
I judged him able to read,
1296
01:50:16,027 --> 01:50:17,678
but not one reply
in all these years.
1297
01:50:17,778 --> 01:50:21,991
He is well enough to write
regularly and cordially to Elizabeth.
1298
01:50:24,285 --> 01:50:27,605
Well,
he is his father's son, after all.
1299
01:50:27,705 --> 01:50:30,875
The letter, Your Grace.
Read it quickly.
1300
01:50:32,710 --> 01:50:36,130
Just one more question.
1301
01:50:39,717 --> 01:50:43,763
Have you any news of
my husband, Lord Bothwell?
1302
01:50:44,138 --> 01:50:48,392
Lord Bothwell has died insane
in a Danish prison.
1303
01:50:54,815 --> 01:50:56,817
Oh, Father.
1304
01:51:01,280 --> 01:51:06,644
Now I do repent of all my actions that
have brought him to this terrible end.
1305
01:51:06,744 --> 01:51:11,666
Then will I hear your confession,
my sovereign lady?
1306
01:51:15,044 --> 01:51:18,547
Yes, Father Ballard,
it is time.
1307
01:51:25,763 --> 01:51:30,251
We need safeguards.
The risk is great.
1308
01:51:30,351 --> 01:51:32,545
It follows the pattern
of similar plots,
1309
01:51:32,645 --> 01:51:34,672
particularly the one
in Northumberland.
1310
01:51:34,772 --> 01:51:38,426
It would be sensible, madam,
to order her immediate execution.
1311
01:51:38,526 --> 01:51:41,887
No.
I will not have Mary killed.
1312
01:51:41,987 --> 01:51:44,432
Why am I driven to bloodshed?
1313
01:51:44,532 --> 01:51:48,394
In all the years of my reign,
the scaffold has rotted from disuse.
1314
01:51:48,494 --> 01:51:51,397
Until Mary came into England.
1315
01:51:51,497 --> 01:51:53,749
Leave us.
1316
01:51:55,501 --> 01:51:59,196
Madam, I beg you.
Open your eyes.
1317
01:51:59,296 --> 01:52:02,908
Since the Pope has excommunicated
you for keeping Mary prisoner,
1318
01:52:03,008 --> 01:52:05,578
your Catholic subjects
have been torn in two.
1319
01:52:05,678 --> 01:52:07,705
Whom should they serve?
Pope or Queen?
1320
01:52:07,805 --> 01:52:10,833
They risk the block in
this world if they rebel...
1321
01:52:10,933 --> 01:52:13,419
and hell in the next
if they do not.
1322
01:52:13,519 --> 01:52:16,547
Keep this fact
always before you.
1323
01:52:16,647 --> 01:52:19,300
It is now no sin to kill you.
1324
01:52:19,400 --> 01:52:22,553
To the Catholics,
it is the act of a saint.
1325
01:52:22,653 --> 01:52:24,513
I am ill!
I will hear no more.
1326
01:52:24,613 --> 01:52:27,850
Destroy Mary,
and all problems wither away.
1327
01:52:27,950 --> 01:52:32,313
No. I fear her execution.
It threatens me.
1328
01:52:32,413 --> 01:52:34,899
She is an anointed queen
as I am.
1329
01:52:34,999 --> 01:52:38,402
- If I bring you proof that she
plots to kill you? - No.
1330
01:52:38,502 --> 01:52:41,505
Written proof?
Irrefutable proof?
1331
01:52:42,423 --> 01:52:46,802
- Is there such proof?
- There will be.
1332
01:52:51,515 --> 01:52:52,124
William!
1333
01:52:52,224 --> 01:52:57,897
No forgeries. The evidence must stand
up before the people in the Parliament.
1334
01:53:00,524 --> 01:53:03,552
It has always been,
from the beginning,
1335
01:53:03,652 --> 01:53:06,030
her death or mine.
1336
01:53:14,622 --> 01:53:17,775
No, Walsingham.
That priest will die before he speaks.
1337
01:53:17,875 --> 01:53:22,029
Babbington, Tichbourne,
Charnock and Gerrard.
1338
01:53:22,129 --> 01:53:24,407
We have them all.
It was a great conspiracy.
1339
01:53:24,507 --> 01:53:30,413
Yet the absolute proof that Mary is
personally involved we do not have.
1340
01:53:30,513 --> 01:53:32,515
You are wrong.
1341
01:53:38,270 --> 01:53:39,964
This good fellow is from Spain.
1342
01:53:40,064 --> 01:53:45,094
We caught him with Ballard,
but he carried a letter in Mary's own hand.
1343
01:53:45,194 --> 01:53:50,491
She endorses the murder of
Elizabeth as the mainspring of the plot.
1344
01:53:52,785 --> 01:53:55,287
Now we have her.
1345
01:54:14,348 --> 01:54:17,476
"To His Holiness, the Pope."
1346
01:54:20,312 --> 01:54:23,148
From King Philip of Spain.
1347
01:54:25,734 --> 01:54:30,489
From... an English gentlemen.
1348
01:54:33,367 --> 01:54:35,536
And another.
1349
01:54:39,290 --> 01:54:40,399
And yet another.
1350
01:54:40,499 --> 01:54:46,672
Madam, you cast an evil spell
on all you meet, save me.
1351
01:54:47,423 --> 01:54:48,407
And now, my lord?
1352
01:54:48,507 --> 01:54:52,661
It has taken me years
to trap you, madam.
1353
01:54:52,761 --> 01:54:55,848
Now you will come to justice.
1354
01:55:03,689 --> 01:55:09,553
No matter the evidence, I fear a terrible
retribution if I sign her death warrant.
1355
01:55:09,653 --> 01:55:11,305
Your Grace,
until you decide,
1356
01:55:11,405 --> 01:55:16,435
she must be shut away where
no more traitors can reach her.
1357
01:55:16,535 --> 01:55:18,395
- Where will you send her?
- Fotheringay Castle.
1358
01:55:18,495 --> 01:55:23,709
Jesu, that evil place.
My heart goes out to her.
1359
01:55:23,876 --> 01:55:26,879
I have brought you
proof positive.
1360
01:55:30,382 --> 01:55:34,887
If she begs forgiveness of me,
she shall live.
1361
01:55:45,689 --> 01:55:50,402
Fotheringay.
Am I to be murdered here?
1362
01:56:29,900 --> 01:56:34,905
As you see,
despite your efforts, I am not dead.
1363
01:56:37,992 --> 01:56:40,144
Forgive me. I must sit.
1364
01:56:40,244 --> 01:56:43,522
The bitter winters of
my imprisonment and the damp...
1365
01:56:43,622 --> 01:56:48,669
that runs down English walls
has entered my bones.
1366
01:56:50,421 --> 01:56:55,492
My council, my parliament
and my people...
1367
01:56:55,592 --> 01:56:59,930
demand that I bring you
to trial.
1368
01:57:01,974 --> 01:57:03,792
Like your father to your mother,
1369
01:57:03,892 --> 01:57:08,797
will you permit me the sword
and spare me the dull axe?
1370
01:57:08,897 --> 01:57:10,132
Madam, do not play with me.
1371
01:57:10,232 --> 01:57:14,762
From the moment of your imprisonment,
I have lived in constant fear of assassination.
1372
01:57:14,862 --> 01:57:16,180
Your assassins, madam.
Your followers.
1373
01:57:16,280 --> 01:57:18,766
I have forced myself to walk in
the open freely among my people,
1374
01:57:18,866 --> 01:57:22,811
and I have never known at which moment
the pistol or the dagger will do its work.
1375
01:57:22,911 --> 01:57:24,772
So make no jokes with me
about death.
1376
01:57:24,872 --> 01:57:30,210
I am very tired.
Tell me what you want and then go.
1377
01:57:33,380 --> 01:57:38,118
I want to spare you,
but you must beg my forgiveness.
1378
01:57:38,218 --> 01:57:43,098
You must write it now while I am here,
then I will forbid the trial.
1379
01:57:43,807 --> 01:57:45,267
Yes.
1380
01:57:46,018 --> 01:57:49,713
I knew of the plans
for your death.
1381
01:57:49,813 --> 01:57:52,232
I was glad of them.
1382
01:57:56,236 --> 01:58:01,475
But now, in this room,
as I look at you face-to-face,
1383
01:58:01,575 --> 01:58:03,352
it is another matter.
1384
01:58:03,452 --> 01:58:05,980
I am glad you have been spared.
1385
01:58:06,080 --> 01:58:11,318
I will be happy to ask your forgiveness
here between these four walls.
1386
01:58:11,418 --> 01:58:13,153
That is not enough.
Write it.
1387
01:58:13,253 --> 01:58:17,366
No. It would damn me forever
in the eyes of posterity.
1388
01:58:17,466 --> 01:58:22,788
I will keep the letter quite secret from all,
save my chief minister.
1389
01:58:22,888 --> 01:58:24,415
I am offering you your life.
1390
01:58:24,515 --> 01:58:27,793
I long for the trial! I long
to stand before the world...
1391
01:58:27,893 --> 01:58:30,504
after these years of
darkness and defend myself.
1392
01:58:30,604 --> 01:58:34,258
I thank God, in His mercy and wisdom,
He has brought me to it.
1393
01:58:34,358 --> 01:58:39,638
I shall die a martyr to the Catholic faith,
the true and eternal faith.
1394
01:58:39,738 --> 01:58:43,767
Nothing can prevent it.
No man is my judge.
1395
01:58:43,867 --> 01:58:48,122
Not even you, madam,
may judge me now, only God.
1396
01:58:49,039 --> 01:58:51,775
How little you have changed.
1397
01:58:51,875 --> 01:58:56,463
How wildly you rush
to your destruction.
1398
01:59:00,884 --> 01:59:03,245
Your letters to Bothwell,
madam.
1399
01:59:03,345 --> 01:59:06,790
Will you appear a noble Catholic
martyr when these are read to the court?
1400
01:59:06,890 --> 01:59:13,130
What will the world think when, after the details
of the plots to murder me are revealed,
1401
01:59:13,230 --> 01:59:14,798
we turn to the past?
1402
01:59:14,898 --> 01:59:17,885
Your life is steeped
in blood and violence.
1403
01:59:17,985 --> 01:59:22,389
The actions which led to your disgusting
marriage to the murderer Bothwell...
1404
01:59:22,489 --> 01:59:25,893
will be fully recounted before
the court and before the world.
1405
01:59:25,993 --> 01:59:30,773
Hmph. Your absurd love letters will
be read out for the people to gloat upon.
1406
01:59:30,873 --> 01:59:36,528
Will all this evidence of treachery,
cruelty and lust rise like a hymn of praise to God?
1407
01:59:36,628 --> 01:59:38,864
Or will it cast you down
forever?
1408
01:59:38,964 --> 01:59:40,824
Oh, God.
1409
01:59:40,924 --> 01:59:43,452
Write one short page to me,
1410
01:59:43,552 --> 01:59:46,246
and I will spare you the trial
and you will live.
1411
01:59:46,346 --> 01:59:51,710
For the first time in your life, put aside your
personal desires and behave like a queen.
1412
01:59:51,810 --> 01:59:57,858
Think of your son, who will one day
rule these two kingdoms, and do as I say.
1413
02:00:08,952 --> 02:00:15,709
No. You cannot tempt me.
You are the devil. I will not succumb to you.
1414
02:00:16,501 --> 02:00:18,378
Jesu!
1415
02:00:20,881 --> 02:00:24,451
In all my early years,
I was misled and betrayed.
1416
02:00:24,551 --> 02:00:26,787
I sinned most grievously.
I lost my faith.
1417
02:00:26,887 --> 02:00:32,876
I will deny nothing to you here in this room,
madam, for I have repented of it all.
1418
02:00:32,976 --> 02:00:35,629
I have made my peace with God.
1419
02:00:35,729 --> 02:00:40,801
I begged Him that I might
atone for all that has gone before.
1420
02:00:40,901 --> 02:00:44,429
And He has brought me here
to die in glory.
1421
02:00:44,529 --> 02:00:45,764
I was greatly punished.
1422
02:00:45,864 --> 02:00:49,476
My kingdom, my possessions, my child,
my husband were all taken from me.
1423
02:00:49,576 --> 02:00:54,273
I've been shut away for many years in abject misery,
and now I must die.
1424
02:00:54,373 --> 02:01:00,337
It is my destiny. And it is your destiny,
Elizabeth, to kill me.
1425
02:01:00,879 --> 02:01:04,199
I leave to you
the pomp, the power,
1426
02:01:04,299 --> 02:01:09,788
the intrigue and all that a
prince in this world must endure...
1427
02:01:09,888 --> 02:01:11,832
or may enjoy.
1428
02:01:11,932 --> 02:01:16,336
Nothing you can say or do
will avoid my martyrdom.
1429
02:01:16,436 --> 02:01:18,672
So now it is I who pity you,
1430
02:01:18,772 --> 02:01:23,719
for you cannot avoid ordering
the thing you have always feared...
1431
02:01:23,819 --> 02:01:25,429
more than death itself:
1432
02:01:25,529 --> 02:01:28,056
The judicial murder
of an anointed queen.
1433
02:01:28,156 --> 02:01:34,037
It will torment you
to the end of your days.
1434
02:01:35,872 --> 02:01:37,874
Robin!
1435
02:01:44,089 --> 02:01:48,869
My lord, I shall pray for
your mistress, Elizabeth,
1436
02:01:48,969 --> 02:01:51,888
at the moment of my death.
1437
02:02:09,156 --> 02:02:14,953
Madam, if your head
had matched your heart,
1438
02:02:15,203 --> 02:02:18,290
I would be the one
awaiting death.
1439
02:02:40,854 --> 02:02:45,384
Lord,
I put my trust in You.
1440
02:02:45,484 --> 02:02:48,612
Do not let me be confounded.
1441
02:03:07,339 --> 02:03:09,925
It is time, madam.
1442
02:03:11,885 --> 02:03:17,724
No, do not weep. I'm happy.
Yes, I am. I'm happy.
1443
02:03:56,888 --> 02:03:59,791
Goodbye, dear.
1444
02:03:59,891 --> 02:04:04,838
You have been so faithful to me.
I do thank you.
1445
02:04:04,938 --> 02:04:07,357
Pray for me.
1446
02:04:28,628 --> 02:04:30,781
"In you, Lord,
have I put my trust.
1447
02:04:30,881 --> 02:04:33,784
"For you, Lord God,
are the thing I long for.
1448
02:04:33,884 --> 02:04:34,785
"You are my hope,
even from my foes.
1449
02:04:34,885 --> 02:04:41,808
And become as it were, a monster unto many,
but my sure trust shall always be in you."
1450
02:04:48,899 --> 02:04:50,801
"Oh, let my mouth be
filled with Your praise...
1451
02:04:50,901 --> 02:04:55,097
"that I may sing of Your glory
and honour all the day long.
1452
02:04:55,197 --> 02:04:58,600
"Forsake me not when
my strength fails me.
1453
02:04:58,700 --> 02:05:00,685
"Go not far from me, God.
1454
02:05:00,785 --> 02:05:04,456
My God, hasten to help me."
1455
02:05:10,629 --> 02:05:14,408
"I will go forth in the
strength of the Lord God.
1456
02:05:14,508 --> 02:05:16,743
"My lips will be fain
when I sing unto you...
1457
02:05:16,843 --> 02:05:21,223
and so will my soul
whom You have delivered."
1458
02:05:35,320 --> 02:05:37,848
- Forgive me, madam.
- I forgive you with all my heart.
1459
02:05:37,948 --> 02:05:44,871
I thank you even. I hope this death
shall put an end to all my troubles.
1460
02:05:47,916 --> 02:05:51,670
For in my end is my beginning.
1461
02:06:11,481 --> 02:06:16,653
Lord, into Your hands,
I commend my spirit!
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