1 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:07,480 Divorced, 2 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:08,920 beheaded, 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:10,160 died. 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:11,760 Divorced, 5 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:13,360 beheaded, 6 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:14,960 survived. 7 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:18,240 The story of Henry VIII and his six wives 8 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:21,240 is one of the best-known in history. 9 00:00:21,240 --> 00:00:25,760 There's Catherine of Aragon, the bitter, abandoned first wife. 10 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,760 Anne Boleyn, the original "other woman". 11 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,520 Jane Seymour - bit of a doormat. 12 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,080 Then we've got Anne of Cleves, she was the ugly one. 13 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:37,840 Catherine Howard, the one who slept around. 14 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,640 And Catherine Parr, the saintly nurse. 15 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,480 But I'm going to tell you a very different story. 16 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,280 I'm going to take you back in time, 17 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:53,400 and into the private lives of Henry's six wives. 18 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,280 I'm going to see the story 19 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:56,920 from THEIR point of view, 20 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:59,080 and I'll watch as events unfold. 21 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,400 - ANNE: - '..and not defy the Church in this way!' 22 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,560 The fate of my soul is no longer your concern! 23 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,400 It will ALWAYS be my concern. 24 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,840 These events all really happened, 25 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,760 and were recorded in historical documents, 26 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:13,800 or reported by eyewitnesses. 27 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:15,880 I asked for his head. 28 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:17,280 Not his coat. 29 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,760 They reveal six complex women who lived in a dangerous age 30 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:26,160 as they struggled to survive being married to Henry VIII. 31 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,240 You are still prepared to question me? 32 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,160 Six wives, whose names were tarnished 33 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:35,880 by Henry's propaganda machine. 34 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,720 Six queens, whose stories I want to re-examine. 35 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:43,480 Is she here? 36 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:46,800 I'll observe their life at court. 37 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,200 I'll watch them romanced 38 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,160 by a charismatic king... 39 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,920 - Tell me you're the same. - Always. 40 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,680 ..who craves the company of women. 41 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,720 The King is a very...sociable man. 42 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,280 I'll show you how they fall from favour. 43 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,560 I am your loyal wife, my lord! 44 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:09,680 Leave, or I shall have you dragged from here. 45 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,560 I have here a warrant for the arrest of Queen Catherine. 46 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,560 I'll see how their reputations are destroyed... 47 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,840 I beg of you to tell the King that my heart is filled with sorrow. 48 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:20,760 And assure him of my repentance. 49 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:25,240 ..and lives cut short at the hands of a ruthless, brutal man. 50 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,640 Six children born! 51 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:29,120 Five of them dead! 52 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:30,400 SHE GASPS 53 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,680 This is the ultimate true story 54 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:36,840 of love, loss and betrayal. 55 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,520 Remember what happened to my last wife and queen? 56 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,840 It's the 18th of January, 1510. 57 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:09,080 Catherine of Aragon has been married to Henry VIII for seven months. 58 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:17,880 LADIES GROAN 59 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:19,440 60 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,680 Excellently played, Maria. 61 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,560 Luck, my lady, nothing more. 62 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,640 ALL GIGGLE 63 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:31,800 METALLIC SCRAPE 64 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,800 DOOR RATTLES > 65 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,560 DOOR RATTLES 66 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,000 Maud. 67 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:46,120 LOCK CLACKS 68 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:57,080 Who is it? 69 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:03,920 Nobody. 70 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,680 SHOUTING 71 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,520 LADIES SCREAM 72 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,240 SHE GASPS, HE CHUCKLES 73 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:20,720 SHE GASPS 74 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,680 HE LAUGHS, SHE CHUCKLES 75 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:28,760 My darling lady. 76 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,600 - We frightened you? - Half to death! 77 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:32,720 HE LAUGHS 78 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:33,960 I'm sorry. 79 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:35,840 Mmm... 80 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:39,240 We thought you ladies far too clever to be fooled. 81 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:41,120 ALL CHUCKLE 82 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,120 What does the King think of my new robe? 83 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,680 Beautiful. Every inch of you. 84 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:51,320 HE CLEARS HIS THROAT 85 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:55,120 - What does the Queen think of the King's costume? - Quite the rogue! 86 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,080 Friends, 87 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,360 such a pity you have to leave us. 88 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:10,960 HE LAUGHS 89 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:21,840 Henry VIII is a loving husband 90 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:25,520 to his Spanish queen, Catherine of Aragon. 91 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,280 Those two truly believe that theirs is a match made in Heaven. 92 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:35,000 A few hours and I miss you with all my heart. 93 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,960 I feel delirious. 94 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:40,320 What's wrong with me? 95 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:43,480 Perhaps you're coming down with a fever. 96 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,600 - Tell me you're the same. - Always. 97 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,720 Henry has been King of England for nine months 98 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,000 and Catherine is already pregnant. 99 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,800 We don't think of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon 100 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,640 ever being in love. 101 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,120 Catherine was his first wife, 102 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:12,840 and as the rhyme tells us, 103 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:14,600 the one he divorced. 104 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:18,360 The bitter ending of her marriage 105 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:22,960 has come to define her as an angry woman, obsessed with religion, 106 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,560 but I'm going to show you a different Catherine. 107 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:30,080 In reality, she was a steadfast and popular queen. 108 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,160 And for most of the 24 years of her marriage, 109 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,800 she really was rather good at handling 110 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,560 an increasingly difficult man. 111 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,920 In an age of arranged marriages, 112 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,880 that between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon was unusual 113 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:51,760 because it was a love match. 114 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,160 He could have had his pick of all the ladies of the Court, 115 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,000 and he later said, that of all the ladies in the world, 116 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,800 he would, again, have chosen her. 117 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,360 She was a bit older than him. 118 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,800 When they married she was 23, 119 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:06,840 and he was about to turn 18. 120 00:07:06,840 --> 00:07:09,640 But they did have quite a lot in common. 121 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:11,920 They were both the children of dynasties 122 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,240 that had recently come to power through conflict, 123 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,680 and they were both ambitious. 124 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,920 They wanted to create a bigger role for themselves, 125 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,160 and for England on the European stage. 126 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,720 Ambition was something Catherine had had instilled in her 127 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,000 from a very early age. 128 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,760 This is the extraordinary Alhambra Palace in Grenada. 129 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,800 This is the closest thing that Catherine had to a home. 130 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,960 It was just one of many palaces of her parents, 131 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:48,720 Queen Isabel of Castile 132 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,280 and King Ferdinand of Aragon. 133 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,080 The Alhambra was Catherine's favourite, 134 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:59,160 and, by far, the grandest palace in the whole of Spain 135 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,760 with its beautiful gardens. 136 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,480 But it was also a fortress that witnessed battles, 137 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:07,520 sieges and slaughter. 138 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,160 Catherine's parents were fearsome rulers. 139 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,760 They'd forged alliances, and united kingdoms. 140 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,000 Her mother, Isabel, was known as the "Warrior Queen". 141 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:23,280 And Isabel had big ambitions for Catherine. At the age of three, 142 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:26,800 she was promised in marriage to the heir of the throne of England - 143 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,800 we're not talking about Henry here, but his older brother, Arthur. 144 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,280 To Catherine's parents, this was a great opportunity - 145 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:36,680 a new dynastic alliance. 146 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:38,520 But to Catherine herself, 147 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:42,000 it meant that she'd have to go and live in a very different country, 148 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,040 almost a different world. 149 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:45,840 And once she'd left Spain, 150 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,680 she'd never see her parents again. 151 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:59,480 Aged just 15, Catherine landed on the shores of England, 152 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,560 there to marry Prince Arthur. 153 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:03,680 He was the same age. 154 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:07,240 But their marriage would be tragically short-lived. 155 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,960 After just a few months, Arthur sickened and died. 156 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,880 It must have been devastating for Catherine, 157 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:15,720 who was now a teenage widow. 158 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,320 Her father then tried to marry her off 159 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:21,600 to the new heir to the English throne, 160 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:23,800 Arthur's younger brother, Henry. 161 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,080 The Spanish and English kings spent seven years 162 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,920 trying to agree on the marriage contract. 163 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,400 Eventually, Henry's father called the marriage off. 164 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,080 But behind the King's back, 165 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:40,640 the young prince had grown rather fond of his Spanish princess. 166 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:42,840 And when the old king died, 167 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,320 the first thing the new king, Henry VIII, did 168 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,160 was to marry Catherine of Aragon. 169 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:55,720 So, Catherine and Henry were the ultimate thrusting power couple. 170 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,080 But top of the agenda for their marriage 171 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,840 was the continuation of the dynasty. 172 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,560 It was now her job to have children 173 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:08,000 and she did manage to get pregnant pretty easily. 174 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,120 It was only a few months later that the problems began. 175 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,160 Catherine's nearly five months pregnant 176 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,280 but it looks like she's had a miscarriage. 177 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:29,920 Has the King been told? 178 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:33,960 Not yet, my lady. 179 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:35,960 Then he must know. 180 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:37,720 Somebody fetch him. 181 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:40,480 Wait! 182 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:42,160 What is it? 183 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:44,560 Please, speak. 184 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:46,800 I'm confident, Your Highness, 185 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,520 - the situation is not as we had feared. - How so? 186 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:52,760 You are still with child. 187 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,760 - It's impossible. - I have taken the utmost care, 188 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:01,640 a thorough examination has been made, and the evidence is there. 189 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,960 My womb is empty. 190 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:05,720 I've seen the evidence myself. 191 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,720 - How do you dismiss that? - I do not, Your Highness. 192 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:12,120 My explanation is thus. 193 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,200 A twin pregnancy. 194 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,960 One child lost, 195 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,040 the other child continuing to grow. 196 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,200 Your belly is still full. 197 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,200 You're certain? 198 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:33,320 Quite. 199 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,480 Then I must take your word. 200 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,560 The Queen will require meticulous care during her confinement. 201 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:46,840 Of course. 202 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:50,160 Thank you. 203 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:01,960 This is a miracle from Christ, is it not? 204 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,720 The weight of expectation that Catherine is under 205 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:11,080 to produce an heir to the throne is absolutely crushing. 206 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,320 Oh, quickly. 207 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:16,720 Can you feel it? 208 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:18,280 I think so. 209 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:24,680 A miracle. 210 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:33,160 On the physician's word, 211 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,920 relief and excitement flood through the royal household... 212 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:43,120 ..and preparations for Catherine's confinement can proceed. 213 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,520 She will spend the last month before the birth locked away 214 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:50,720 with her personal servants, including her ladies-in-waiting. 215 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:55,240 The Tudors believe that disease travels through the air, 216 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:59,680 so the floors, doors and windows of her chambers are sealed 217 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:02,280 to prevent her or the baby from getting ill. 218 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,400 The groaning chair is prepared. 219 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,080 The mother sits in this to groan her way through labour, 220 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,880 and to give birth with the aid of gravity. 221 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:19,080 And, finally, the bed is blessed. 222 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:30,320 The day has come. My queen must go. 223 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:34,240 - Only as far as my bedchamber. - Which might as well be in Spain... 224 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:41,440 Gentlemen, I trust you'll look after the King in my absence. 225 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:43,920 I'll be in good hands. 226 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,240 But none as fair or kind as these. 227 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,800 - My heart aches at the thought of weeks without you. - Mine too. 228 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,440 But what prize at the end? 229 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:59,080 Indeed. 230 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:02,120 Pray for me. 231 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:04,520 I'll pray for you both. 232 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:19,280 Catherine enters confinement in spring 1510. 233 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:33,880 Ahead now lies the ordeal of childbirth. 234 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,760 It's terrifying, because of the distinct possibility 235 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:38,680 that you might die. 236 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:41,960 Husbands often have portraits painted of their wives 237 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:45,720 while they're pregnant, so that a baby will have something 238 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,000 to remember its mother by if she doesn't make it. 239 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:52,640 I would prefer to undress alone. 240 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:08,040 But there's something Catherine fears more than death. 241 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,680 And that's failing in her royal duty. 242 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,080 With just weeks to go before the birth, 243 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:17,920 should she trust her doctor 244 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:21,720 who believes there's a surviving twin still inside her? 245 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,600 Or should she trust her instincts? 246 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,520 All she can do is wait and pray 247 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:32,640 that God will deliver the Tudor dynasty a son. 248 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,840 SLAMMING 249 00:15:58,440 --> 00:15:59,840 You've loaded them, surely? 250 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,000 KNOCK AT DOOR 251 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:18,080 Your Grace. 252 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,320 - What is it? - The Queen, my lord. 253 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:25,200 What's the matter with her? 254 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,120 The matter is not with the Queen herself... 255 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:30,720 ..but with the baby. 256 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:32,680 It's been born? 257 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:36,040 I'm afraid she has suffered a loss of the child. 258 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,120 The physician has just left the Queen's chamber, 259 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:41,320 he confirms as much. 260 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:44,680 Please leave us. 261 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:52,840 Get out! 262 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:01,520 The child? 263 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:03,600 What was it, 264 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:05,600 male or female? 265 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,320 I do not know. 266 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:08,760 You do not know? 267 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,880 How can that be so? 268 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:13,840 I came in haste. 269 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:18,480 'The Queen asks if you will pay a visit to her chamber.' 270 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:20,720 She is bereft, my lord. 271 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:30,680 Maud, a stillbirth? 272 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:34,240 No birth. 273 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:35,760 There was no child. 274 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,320 Catherine's bump has simply disappeared. 275 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:46,080 It looks like the doctor's got it spectacularly wrong. 276 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:47,680 Not a second baby, 277 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:49,320 but an infection. 278 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:56,400 The infection must have made Catherine's belly swell up. 279 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,320 And I believe she was so desperate to have a child 280 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,600 that she convinced herself that she was still pregnant. 281 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:04,560 It was humiliating. 282 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,240 All of that time spent in confinement, 283 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:11,560 all of that ceremony, and absolutely nothing to show for it. 284 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:13,760 Rumours started to circulate 285 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,720 that Catherine was unable to conceive. 286 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,360 And people at Court began to think that she was, 287 00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:21,880 maybe, unsuitable as a queen. 288 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:26,360 And what about Henry? 289 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:29,160 He must have been disappointed too. 290 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:33,200 After all, he had the future of the dynasty to consider. 291 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:34,560 We sometimes forget, 292 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:39,080 but he was only the second Tudor king after his father, Henry VII. 293 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:42,280 The dynasty was young, it was still insecure. 294 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:46,160 And then, there was the security, the peace of the country. 295 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:49,960 If Henry were to die without an agreed heir, 296 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:52,200 there could be civil war - 297 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,680 exactly what his father had managed to stop. 298 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:59,000 So, it's difficult to underestimate the pressure 299 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,560 that Catherine must have felt, literally, to deliver. 300 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,440 Fortunately for her, 301 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,000 her luck was about to change. 302 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,680 A few months later, she did conceive again, 303 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:14,120 and, this time, it was a real pregnancy. 304 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,800 It was also a smooth pregnancy. 305 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:24,440 On New Year's Day, 1511, 306 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,400 Catherine gave birth. 307 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:27,800 It was a boy, 308 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,280 and he was christened Henry. 309 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:34,400 It looked like God was happy at last with Henry VIII, 310 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:35,880 with the Tudor dynasty, 311 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,080 with the whole kingdom of England. 312 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:40,640 London went wild with celebrations, 313 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,240 there were bonfires and fireworks, 314 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:46,200 and, here at Westminster, there was a joust. 315 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:55,960 The grandest jousting tournament of Henry VIII's reign 316 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,880 was now held in honour of Catherine delivering him a son. 317 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:05,320 The event was recorded on a spectacular 60-foot-long manuscript. 318 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:06,720 For the last 500 years, 319 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,920 it's been looked after by the College of Arms in London. 320 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:15,200 Its custodian is the York Herald, Peter O'Donoghue. 321 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:20,120 So, Peter, this is the actual moment of jousting. 322 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:22,280 What's going on here? It looks very exciting. 323 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,440 This is Henry on his horse, 324 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:29,640 and he has struck his opponent on the head, and broken his lance. 325 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,440 It's the most prestigious blow in jousting - 326 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,320 to break your lance on your opponent's head. 327 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,880 You can't really tell that he's the King, can you? 328 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,440 - Because he's in disguise. - Yeah, that's right. 329 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,600 There is this disguising, this playful element to it. 330 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,000 He's fighting under an assumed name. 331 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,240 You can make out what that name is with the heart, 332 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:48,920 that's a "Coeur Loyal". 333 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:52,240 - He's called "Sir Loyal Heart"? - That's it, exactly. 334 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,400 So, tell me a bit about the ladies. 335 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,840 The most important lady here, of course, is the Queen. 336 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:00,440 So, here's Catherine of Aragon, watching. 337 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,640 And here we have this motif of Ks everywhere. 338 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,160 'By calling himself Sir Loyal Heart, 339 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,920 'Henry was declaring his love for Catherine. 340 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,440 'She'd done everything right. She'd given him a son. 341 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,160 'This really was the high point of their marriage.' 342 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,760 And this is the King on the way home again afterwards? 343 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:23,920 That's right. "Desarmey" - "disarmed", on the way home. 344 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:25,360 He's out of his armour, 345 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:28,200 in his golden robe which is very spectacular. 346 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:33,400 And what I really like is the way you can see his piercing blue gaze 347 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:37,200 and he's training it straight on the beautiful queen. 348 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,720 He is looking right at the woman he loves. 349 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,160 Oh! Look at this, all the other ladies are looking at her 350 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,400 and they're going, "Oh, isn't your husband gorgeous?" 351 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,280 You know, you see him here 352 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:52,000 painted in this, sort of, wonderful work of art. 353 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,120 He's just had his son, so the dynasty is established. 354 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:57,000 The whole kingdom waited with bated breath 355 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,480 to see what the outcome of that pregnancy would be. 356 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,440 If you've got a son and heir, everyone can relax. 357 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,640 And he is the hero of the day. 358 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,160 He's young, he's incredibly rich, 359 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:09,120 he's incredibly glamorous and handsome... 360 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:11,240 And a beautiful wife as well. 361 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,360 What could possibly go wrong(?) PETER LAUGHS 362 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:14,880 Exactly right. 363 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,840 There were endless celebrations for the royal birth. 364 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,040 But they were all in vain. 365 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:31,080 At just seven weeks old, Prince Henry sickened and died. 366 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,080 Three barges draped with black cloth 367 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:40,720 brought a baby's body down the river from Richmond to Westminster 368 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,040 where he was buried in the Abbey. 369 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,440 For Henry, he could hardly bear to talk about it. 370 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,360 One ambassador going in for a meeting with the King 371 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:51,880 was advised not to mention it, 372 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,680 lest it "revive his grief". 373 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:59,320 And we're told that Catherine made much lamentation. 374 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,960 She was inconsolable. 375 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,320 She'd now lost two babies. 376 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:13,200 Catherine is struggling to give the King an heir. 377 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,960 But in pretty much every other respect, 378 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,160 she's still his perfect queen. 379 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:19,600 It's two years later, 380 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,960 Henry is away fighting the French. 381 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,360 This is an on-off war that'll go on throughout his reign. 382 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:28,440 And in his absence, he's made Catherine regent. 383 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,560 She is running the country. 384 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:32,720 Now, this is quite uncommon. 385 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,680 For me, it's evidence that not only does he still love her, 386 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,280 but also, that he respects her judgment. 387 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,560 With Henry away, the Scottish king, James IV, 388 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,320 has seized an opportunity to invade England. 389 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,480 But he hasn't calculated on the Spanish warrior queen, 390 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,120 Catherine of Aragon. 391 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:57,000 DOOR OPENS 392 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,600 She's deployed an army of 26,000 Englishmen 393 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,560 and is awaiting news from the battlefield. 394 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,800 Your Highness... 395 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:12,680 ..the Scot is dead. 396 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,280 CHEERING 397 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,680 And what proof is this? 398 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,600 The Earl of Surrey thought it more...palatable 399 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,000 to send his clothing. 400 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,920 LAUGHTER 401 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,440 SHE CHUCKLES 402 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:29,920 "More palatable"? 403 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:31,520 For whom? 404 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,680 He was killed on the battlefield in Northumbria yesterday, 405 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:37,720 along with scores of his men. 406 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,880 The Queen can be assured that this is his blood. 407 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:43,160 That may be so. 408 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,120 But where is the body? 409 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,520 I asked for his head. 410 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,360 Not his coat. 411 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,920 - The body's in London. - Then have it brought to me. 412 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,640 As you wish, Your Highness. 413 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,520 Majesty. 414 00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:58,960 Your Majesty. 415 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,160 This shall be sent to King Henry. 416 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,520 A reputed 10,000 Scots lie dead on the battlefield - 417 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,920 the invasion defeated. 418 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,560 Catherine's popularity as queen soars, 419 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:28,280 and the dead king's coat is dispatched to Henry in France. 420 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,320 She'd wanted to send something even better, 421 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:33,960 as she wrote to Henry... 422 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:38,080 "I thought to send himself unto you." 423 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,320 By which she means she'd wanted to send 424 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,920 the actual corpse of the dead king. 425 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:47,440 "But our Englishmen's hearts would not suffer it." 426 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,960 By which, she means her wimpy English servants 427 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,440 had thought that this was a bit too much. 428 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,280 Later on in the letter, she says something rather intriguing. 429 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:00,760 That she is off to see "Our Lady at Walsingham". 430 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,080 Walsingham in Norfolk 431 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,800 is the site of a religious shrine. 432 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,240 Since the Middle Ages, 433 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,640 it's been associated with fertility and childbirth. 434 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,600 It was a hugely popular place in Tudor times. 435 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,520 Catherine came here in 1513 436 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,080 to pray and give thanks. 437 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,320 She had lots to give thanks for. 438 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:35,160 There was that victory over the Scots, and, even more significantly, 439 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,240 she was, once again, pregnant. 440 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:49,040 And Catherine believed that she was in need of God's protection. 441 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,560 This was her third pregnancy in four years of marriage 442 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,840 and she still had no children. 443 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:04,520 Catherine of Aragon was now 27 years old, 444 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,520 in Tudor terms, that's middle-aged. 445 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,160 Royal women were giving birth at 16, even 15. 446 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,240 In fact, Henry VIII's own grandmother 447 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,560 gave birth to his dad when she was just 13. 448 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,640 So, Catherine was definitely an older mum. 449 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,640 She must have felt like time was running out. 450 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,440 But Catherine's prayers weren't answered. 451 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,280 For the third time, she'd lose the baby. 452 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:48,040 Tragically, it had been a boy. 453 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,280 Catherine's success as queen was now being overshadowed 454 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,560 by her failure to deliver a healthy son. 455 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,480 She was starting to test the King's patience. 456 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,400 As Catherine struggled to bring babies to term, 457 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,120 her husband's fancy started to wander. 458 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:12,360 There was nothing astonishing about this. 459 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:17,120 Whenever the Queen was expecting, her health came first - no sex - 460 00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:20,000 but nobody expected Henry to go without. 461 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,360 He looked through his wife's ladies-in-waiting, 462 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:23,680 women of good family 463 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,840 chosen as the Queen's companions. 464 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,960 And he picked out Bessie Blount. 465 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,720 They started a relationship. 466 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,160 Bessie got pregnant, she even gave birth to a son, 467 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,120 the only downside was that he was illegitimate. 468 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,120 But Henry was proud of him, recognised him, 469 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,000 and gave him the name Henry Fitzroy, 470 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,640 meaning "son of the king". 471 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:49,640 But Bessie Blount's son 472 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,440 can never be the legitimate heir to the throne of England 473 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,960 and the King respects his queen enough 474 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,640 to send Bessie away from Court. 475 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,120 This must have been awful for Catherine, 476 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,960 her husband's mistress giving him a boy, where she'd failed. 477 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,680 But then, after five pregnancies, 478 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,600 four stillbirths, one infant death, 479 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,760 and six years of marriage, 480 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,960 God smiled on Catherine. 481 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,480 She gave birth to a healthy baby who lived. 482 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,320 The only problem was, 483 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:26,520 it was a girl. 484 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:29,480 Mary? 485 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,360 The Princess Mary is now six years old. 486 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:37,800 Mary? 487 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:38,840 Mother? 488 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,480 Since her daughter was born, 489 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:46,120 Catherine has tried and tried to give Henry the son 490 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,240 that he desperately craves. 491 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,440 But now, her age is against her. 492 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,440 She's 37 years old. 493 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,560 It looks increasingly likely 494 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,680 that Mary will be her only surviving child. 495 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,160 Henry is putting on a pageant. 496 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,320 Catherine's ladies-in-waiting are playing Virtues. 497 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,680 Such as Perseverance, 498 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,720 Beauty, Kindness. 499 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,440 And they await rescue by knights. 500 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:24,320 Mary? 501 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,680 But the Queen is a spectator. 502 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,360 She hasn't been invited to take part. 503 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,160 Mary? 504 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,200 A more apt description I couldn't imagine. 505 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,360 Although...Beauty would be equally fitting. 506 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,920 Beauty belongs to the King's sister, my lord. 507 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,320 Hm. 508 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,760 THEY CHUCKLE 509 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:00,840 And mine? 510 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,880 "Ardent Desire". 511 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,520 Quite. 512 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,600 Henry's new love interest is one of two sisters 513 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:12,160 who've recently arrived at Court as ladies-in-waiting to Catherine. 514 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:16,240 They're the daughters of a landowner and diplomat, Thomas Boleyn. 515 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,760 This is the beginning of a series of events 516 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,320 that will ultimately destroy the royal marriage. 517 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,920 But this isn't Anne Boleyn. 518 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,760 Catherine's husband is kissing Anne's older sister, Mary. 519 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,520 Mary Boleyn grew up here, at Hever Castle in Kent, 520 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,960 along with her brother, George, and her sister, Anne. 521 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,120 Mary and Anne were close in age, 522 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,520 but they were very different girls. 523 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,120 Of the two sisters, everybody thought 524 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,240 that Mary was the more attractive. 525 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,440 She had fair hair, and she was super vivacious. 526 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:11,080 Anne had dark hair and olive-coloured skin. 527 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:15,840 It's definitely fair to say that Tudor gentlemen preferred blondes. 528 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,360 Mary was married 529 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,280 to one of Henry's best friends. 530 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,120 But this didn't stop him from pursuing her. 531 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:24,960 After all, he was the king, 532 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,840 he could have whoever he wanted. 533 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,800 We don't know an awful lot about Henry VIII's affair 534 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,360 with Mary Boleyn, but there is a clue. 535 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,440 A series of mysterious payments 536 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:40,000 from the Crown to her husband, William Carey. 537 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,040 The theory is that that was hush money. 538 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:47,240 Henry's affair with Mary was explosive, but it was short-lived. 539 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:48,600 He got bored. 540 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,400 And in any case, his eye had moved on 541 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,080 to Mary's sister, Anne. 542 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,920 It was probably in 1525 543 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,920 that Henry first really noticed Anne Boleyn. 544 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,720 At this point, she was actually betrothed 545 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:16,040 to somebody else - Henry Percy - and they were probably in love. 546 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,040 But when Henry got to hear about it, 547 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:22,000 he had his advisers break the couple up. 548 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,160 Anne was probably pretty annoyed about this, 549 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,040 but she had to go along with it. 550 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,800 Now that the King's eye had fallen upon her, 551 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,880 I think that Anne looked at the way Henry had treated Bessie Blount 552 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,600 and her own sister, Mary, 553 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,240 and decided that she wasn't going to be 554 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,400 just another mistress like them. 555 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,160 And, in fact, Anne wasn't like anybody else at all. 556 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:55,480 Compared to her fellow ladies-in-waiting, she was exotic. 557 00:33:55,480 --> 00:34:00,160 She'd been schooled in the refined world of the French court. 558 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:09,320 This is Chateau Amboise in the heart of the Loire Valley. 559 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:13,120 Unusually for an English courtier, the teenage Anne 560 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:17,280 had spent seven years in the royal household of Queen Claude, 561 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,480 the young wife of King Francis I. 562 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:26,000 Court life in France was different from court life in England. 563 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,360 It was more...sophisticated. 564 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,080 It was sexier, 565 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,280 and some of this rubbed off on Anne. 566 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:35,640 At the French court, 567 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,440 Anne learnt how to sing, how to dance. 568 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,720 Obviously, how to speak French perfectly. 569 00:34:41,720 --> 00:34:45,440 And she learnt about fashion that was much more seductive 570 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,360 and revealing than the English equivalent. 571 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,760 But, most importantly, she learnt a new way of behaving, 572 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:55,400 flirtatiously and confidently with men. 573 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,280 She picked up this trick 574 00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:58,760 of using her eyes. 575 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,680 It was said that she could... "send them forth as messengers 576 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,600 "to carry the secret witness of the heart". 577 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,680 Anne became indistinguishable, people thought, 578 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,080 from a native-born French lady. 579 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,080 And Anne's European sophistication 580 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,440 enchanted the cultured English king. 581 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:24,760 What really put the seal on Anne's attractiveness was her intelligence. 582 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,640 She was sharp and curious, 583 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,160 and interested in matters of the mind. 584 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,160 So, Anne didn't just flirt with Henry, 585 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:34,920 she also argued with him 586 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,040 on everything from politics to religion 587 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:39,520 and he loved it. 588 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:46,720 It's New Year's Eve, 1527, and the King is receiving gifts. 589 00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:50,160 He's been pursuing Anne Boleyn for well over a year, 590 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:54,080 but, so far, she's resisted all of his advances. 591 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:55,880 - COURTIER: - From Queen Catherine. 592 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:00,960 Your Majesty. 593 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,440 - And where might the Queen be? - She's in her chamber, 594 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,400 resting before the celebrations later this evening. 595 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:21,440 Sent from Anne Boleyn, with her kindest regards, Your Majesty. 596 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:38,280 Is she here? 597 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:53,040 This is exquisite. 598 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:55,640 Thank you. 599 00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,520 Tell me of it. 600 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,520 The diamond is the North Star, 601 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,760 the ship's protector, guiding her home. 602 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:13,400 And the maiden? 603 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,320 Well, despite the rough seas, 604 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,440 she trusts in God that all will be well. 605 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,200 The lady is right to have faith. 606 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:26,160 The storm shall pass. 607 00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:29,760 If she has patience enough. 608 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:31,560 Or the will to see it through. 609 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,000 I will treasure it. 610 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,360 Please offer my sincere thanks to the bearers of these gifts. 611 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,320 Their generosity is greatly appreciated. 612 00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:52,240 Now! 613 00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:55,960 I feel some air is called for before the celebrations commence. 614 00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,720 A walk in the grounds, perhaps? 615 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,760 Anne, would you care to join me? 616 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,120 With pleasure, Your Grace. 617 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:24,800 - I trust it is your will to walk with me? - Indeed, it's my pleasure. 618 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,400 I'm far happier on the safety of dry land. 619 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,640 It is such an important moment. 620 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:37,000 For the first time, Anne's shown that she IS interested in Henry, 621 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,360 and she's done it in public too. 622 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,560 Now, Catherine has seen mistresses come and mistresses go. 623 00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,560 But this time it's different. 624 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,680 Anne is a real threat. 625 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,600 The best insight that we can get into Henry's growing feelings 626 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,880 for Anne Boleyn comes in the form of 17 love letters, 627 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,240 from him to her. 628 00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:12,160 It's extraordinary that they still survive. 629 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:13,880 They're here in Rome, 630 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:15,800 in the Vatican Library. 631 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,800 And, amazingly, I'm the first person who's been allowed in to film them. 632 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,320 It's brilliant! 633 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:28,640 The letters were almost certainly stolen from Anne Boleyn, 634 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,560 perhaps by a supporter of Queen Catherine. 635 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,760 The Vatican paid a handsome sum of money 636 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,440 to get hold of them in the 17th century. 637 00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:49,360 My guide to the Vatican Archives is Emalia Delascio. 638 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,520 She's the only one allowed to touch the letters. 639 00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:58,160 Emalia, are these really the letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn? 640 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,600 - Yes, they are. - Nearly 500 years old. 641 00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:04,000 I open for you. 642 00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,360 This one is the first page. 643 00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:13,840 "Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn." 644 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,080 Wow. 645 00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,440 This is Henry's own handwriting? 646 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:21,720 These are all in French, 647 00:40:21,720 --> 00:40:24,320 the language of love, the language of chivalry. 648 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:30,960 "I'm sending you, by this messenger, my picture set into a bracelet." 649 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:34,920 - It's a gift, a beautiful gift. - Yes. - Very intimate. 650 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,720 And this is... Oh! 651 00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:43,000 This one's very romantic. 652 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,720 And chivalric. 653 00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:47,640 It's like a knight writing to his lady, 654 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:53,560 "Henceforth my heart shall be dedicated to you alone. 655 00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:58,080 "And hoping that my body will follow." 656 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,520 This is getting steamy. 657 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,320 He must have really been in love, 658 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,520 because we know that Henry hated to write letters. 659 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,640 - Yes. - He found it difficult. 660 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:08,760 He was slow. 661 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,360 But here he is, gushing away. 662 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,280 And here is... 663 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,360 This is wonderful. This is like a little Valentine. 664 00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:22,480 - He chooses no other than Anne Boleyn. AB in the heart. - AB. 665 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,240 And then HR. They're embracing. 666 00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:27,920 AB for Anne Boleyn. 667 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:30,880 It's beautiful. 668 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,400 Oh, and now, it's changed to English. 669 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,120 "Wishing myself, especially of an evening..." 670 00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,400 "..in my sweetheart's arms. 671 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:50,600 "Written in the hand of him that was, is, 672 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:54,080 "and shall be yours by his will. 673 00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:56,400 "HR." 674 00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,320 In his desire for Anne, 675 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,360 Henry was promising himself to her. 676 00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:06,800 This last letter was nothing short of a marriage proposal. 677 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,800 What's extraordinary about these letters 678 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,440 is that Henry is making a promise he couldn't possibly keep. 679 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,960 He was already married. 680 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:23,920 They also reveal that Henry and Anne hadn't had sex yet. 681 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,640 Anne was doing what nobody had done before. 682 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,680 She was refusing the King. 683 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,440 Historians have sometimes interpreted this 684 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,360 as tricksy, girlie behaviour on Anne's part. 685 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:39,040 But I prefer to think that she had a bold strategy, here. 686 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:40,640 Anne is impressive to us 687 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,600 because she often acts like a modern person, 688 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,960 like somebody with ambitions who knew where she was going. 689 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,960 And I prefer to think that Anne made Henry wait 690 00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,320 because she wanted to be Queen of England. 691 00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:59,400 But there already was a hugely popular queen 692 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,720 who was alive and well, and believed it was God's will 693 00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:05,000 that SHE remained Queen of England. 694 00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,320 This is St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, 695 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,640 one of the royal residences. 696 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,360 Catherine worshipped here with Henry. 697 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,240 God was at the heart of their marriage 698 00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:27,440 and Catherine had strived to make a success of it, 699 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,640 and God had given her a daughter, Mary. 700 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,360 Henry wanted a son, though. 701 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,040 And after 18 years of marriage to Catherine, 702 00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,760 he now wanted to marry Anne Boleyn. 703 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,720 This meant getting rid of Catherine. 704 00:43:41,720 --> 00:43:44,480 You might wonder why he didn't just get a divorce. 705 00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,680 But it wasn't that simple, 706 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,440 because England was still a Catholic country. 707 00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:55,640 Marriage was the vital glue that stuck society together. 708 00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,560 Only the Church could sanctify marriage, 709 00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:02,160 and ending marriage was also the Church's preserve. 710 00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,560 It was possible to get divorced as a 16th-century person, 711 00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,960 but it was difficult, and the problem was 712 00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,400 that you could not then marry anybody else, 713 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,520 because marriage was for life. 714 00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:18,280 What Henry needed was an annulment of his marriage to Catherine, 715 00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,840 as if it had never existed. 716 00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:25,400 But an annulment was granted only in the rarest of circumstances, 717 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,520 and only by the head of the Catholic Church, the Pope. 718 00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:31,840 In the summer of 1527, 719 00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:35,520 Henry ordered a group of his most trusted advisers 720 00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:39,720 to look into the possibility of getting him an annulment. 721 00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:43,840 They'd have to put together the best possible case to the Pope. 722 00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:48,160 The whole business became known as "the King's great matter". 723 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,480 To try to get the Vatican's agreement, 724 00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,080 Henry started to build his case. 725 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:01,280 There was no mention of Anne Boleyn. 726 00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,560 Instead, he would use his wife's previous marriage 727 00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,480 to his dead brother, Arthur, against her. 728 00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:13,240 Henry discovered this passage in the Bible - 729 00:45:13,240 --> 00:45:15,400 it's Leviticus 20:21. 730 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:21,720 "If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing. 731 00:45:21,720 --> 00:45:24,800 "He has uncovered his brother's nakedness." 732 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:29,200 And this is the key bit. "They shall be childless." 733 00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:33,080 Henry used this to argue that his marriage had been invalid. 734 00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,000 It was a kind of incest. 735 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:39,040 And this was the reason he probably still didn't have a son. 736 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,960 But Catherine had got wind of the "great matter" 737 00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:47,640 and was steeling herself to take on the King. 738 00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:51,000 Because, despite their difficulties, 739 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:52,760 and his dalliances, 740 00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,760 Catherine is determined to oppose Henry - 741 00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,720 to stay married and to remain Queen of England. 742 00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:05,360 My lord. 743 00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,280 - What is it? - My conscience troubles me greatly. 744 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:18,040 - I need to speak with you. - You need to absolve yourself of something? 745 00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:19,840 I wish to find a way forward. 746 00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:33,920 Be still, please. 747 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:36,040 Speak to me. 748 00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:41,000 For some time now, there's been a vast distance between us. 749 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,120 And what do you believe the cause to be? 750 00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:44,960 "Causes". 751 00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:46,400 A number. 752 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,440 - SHARPLY: - As far as I understand it, there is only one. 753 00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,440 It's a complicated matter. 754 00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:53,560 We cannot continue to ignore it. 755 00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:54,920 I agree. 756 00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,480 Following much consideration, the conclusion is this. 757 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:00,840 I wish for us to live apart. 758 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:04,760 No longer as king and queen. 759 00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:06,560 A separation. 760 00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:09,440 We cannot be separated. 761 00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:13,360 We knelt before Christ and took vows. That can't be undone. 762 00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,640 It's possible. I've taken advice on the matter. 763 00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:21,520 My lord... 764 00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,400 ..look me in the eyes and tell me our marriage 765 00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:30,200 - has not been a happy one. - We must be honest with ourselves. 766 00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,360 It's been cursed from the start. 767 00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:34,600 In the eyes of the Church, you are my sister! 768 00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,080 Then the Church is blind! 769 00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,680 My marriage to Arthur was never binding, 770 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:41,880 because we did not lie together. 771 00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,280 You are my one, true husband! 772 00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,080 Grant me the respect I deserve, and please don't dismiss me. 773 00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:52,760 - I would never dismiss you. - No, but you're prepared to cast me aside 774 00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:54,960 in order to marry another woman. 775 00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:58,680 You wish to talk about honesty? 776 00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:00,000 I'm not a fool. 777 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,120 Speak the plain truth, 778 00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,760 and do not use our Church for your own gains. 779 00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,760 Catherine, why do you choose to make this harder than it need be? 780 00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:09,400 You think this should be easy? 781 00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,360 Six children born! 782 00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:14,720 Five of them dead! 783 00:48:14,720 --> 00:48:16,280 SHE GASPS 784 00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:21,280 A life lived in loyal and unswerving devotion. All for nothing? 785 00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,920 Did you really imagine I might bid you farewell 786 00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,880 with a smile on my face? What did you expect from me? 787 00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:28,040 Respect! 788 00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:30,960 For your king's wishes. 789 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,520 What about respect for your queen and daughter?! 790 00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:36,360 You'll want for nothing. 791 00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:37,560 I promise. 792 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:39,000 How can you say that? 793 00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:41,720 I want you. 794 00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:45,640 Catherine, I beg... 795 00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,280 keep your dignity. 796 00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:53,400 Christ forgive you. 797 00:48:59,240 --> 00:49:02,440 Catherine believed her marriage to Henry 798 00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,840 was a union preordained by God. 799 00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:08,840 Yet, she also knew that Henry got what Henry wanted. 800 00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:11,840 But even with his cunning plan, 801 00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,360 his cherry-picked biblical arguments, 802 00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:16,600 it will be harder to end his marriage 803 00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:19,200 than Henry could ever have imagined. 804 00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,120 The Pope may have been head of the Church, 805 00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,280 but he wasn't the most powerful man in Europe. 806 00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:32,120 That man was the leader of the Holy Roman Empire, 807 00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,760 Charles V, who was busy conquering Europe. 808 00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:41,000 In 1527, Charles invaded Rome. 809 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:45,160 The Pope was holed up here in the Castel Sant'Angelo. 810 00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,760 Now, obviously, this was highly inconvenient for the Pope, 811 00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:52,080 but it was a diplomatic nightmare for Henry. 812 00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:55,040 Because Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, 813 00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:57,240 who now had the Pope in his power, 814 00:49:57,240 --> 00:49:59,680 was Catherine of Aragon's nephew. 815 00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,280 This was the perfect opportunity 816 00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:06,120 for Catherine to use her family connections 817 00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,760 and to build a few alliances of her own. 818 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,720 First off, she wrote to her nephew, Emperor Charles V, 819 00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:20,880 asking for his support. 820 00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:22,240 And she got it. 821 00:50:22,240 --> 00:50:24,840 Then, she challenged Henry's argument 822 00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:28,880 that their marriage had been invalid under Church law. 823 00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:32,400 That's the whole "don't marry your dead brother's wife" thing. 824 00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:36,000 Catherine said that when she'd married Prince Arthur, 825 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:37,440 they'd never had sex. 826 00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:41,160 The marriage was unconsummated, therefore, invalid - 827 00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,840 therefore, Henry's case was invalid. 828 00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,600 And what about the Pope? What did he say? 829 00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,880 Well, he just kept stalling. 830 00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,960 He didn't say one thing or the other. 831 00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:54,840 It looked like Catherine had won the battle. 832 00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:59,000 But Henry hadn't given up hope of winning the war. 833 00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:09,520 For three years, Catherine had successfully blocked 834 00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,560 Henry's attempts to end their marriage. 835 00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:17,200 In May 1528, Henry tries a different tactic. 836 00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:20,400 Provocatively, Anne's been moved 837 00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:23,800 into her own apartments inside the Palace of Greenwich. 838 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:28,040 It's becoming clear that there are three people in this marriage. 839 00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:30,520 It's getting pretty crowded. 840 00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:35,240 It's as if there are two queens under one roof. 841 00:51:35,240 --> 00:51:38,720 There's Anne who has Henry's heart and his hopes, 842 00:51:38,720 --> 00:51:41,080 and Catherine, his faithful wife, 843 00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:44,000 who thinks that she has the ultimate power, 844 00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,920 the power of the Church, on her side. 845 00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:58,600 Henry was still claiming that, in the eyes of God, 846 00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:02,400 Catherine was technically his sister, not his wife. 847 00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,920 On the 21st June, 1529, 848 00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:08,920 after two years of deadlock, 849 00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:13,320 he launched what he hoped would be a fatal blow to Catherine. 850 00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,960 He convened a special public court to hear his case 851 00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:20,520 and he invited senior clerics from England and Rome. 852 00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,760 It took place, here, in Blackfriars, London. 853 00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:28,600 Anne Boleyn had been sent off to the countryside 854 00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:32,000 to get her out of the way, because Henry needed to convince everybody 855 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,000 that his reason for wanting to end his marriage 856 00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,120 was nothing to do with her at all. 857 00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:39,240 Catherine knew otherwise, 858 00:52:39,240 --> 00:52:44,640 and the Queen insisted on giving evidence in person, in open court. 859 00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:55,400 Henry expects the clerics to grant him his annulment. 860 00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,520 But Catherine's about to take a huge gamble, 861 00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:03,560 and publicly put her case to the Pope's representative, 862 00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:05,520 and to the King himself. 863 00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:12,920 My lord... 864 00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:18,520 I appeal to your conscience 865 00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,480 to show me the compassion and justice I deserve 866 00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:23,120 as your one, true wife. 867 00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:27,960 To honour the years I have dedicated to you and you alone. 868 00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:30,480 The loyalty I have shown, 869 00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:32,400 and above all else, 870 00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:34,120 the love I have... 871 00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:37,840 ..which will never die. 872 00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,000 For the love of God, 873 00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,840 in your heart, you must know there is no other 874 00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:50,640 in whom you can pledge your trust with such confidence. 875 00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,760 Our long history has proved that to you, surely? 876 00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:58,080 I have been a true, 877 00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:00,480 humble and obedient wife. 878 00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,600 I came to you as a true maid. 879 00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:07,360 Untouched by man. 880 00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,280 And whether it is true or not, 881 00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,000 I put it to your conscience 882 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:17,440 that if there is any just cause by law that you can put against me 883 00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:19,040 of either dishonesty, 884 00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:20,880 or any other impediment, 885 00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,320 then I am content to depart to my shame and dishonour. 886 00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:27,600 But if there is none... 887 00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:31,240 ..then I beg of you, 888 00:54:31,240 --> 00:54:34,760 let me remain in this estate. 889 00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:44,480 I implore you...to consider your actions today. 890 00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:50,000 But also to know that, regardless of the decision you make, 891 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,960 I remain your devoted servant. 892 00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,520 And you remain 893 00:54:57,520 --> 00:55:00,480 my one, true husband. 894 00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:14,320 To God, I commit my cause. 895 00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:31,080 - COURTIER: - Catherine, Queen of England, return to this court! 896 00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:37,520 The Pope's emissary went back to Rome 897 00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:41,160 without granting an annulment to the marriage. 898 00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:45,160 People sometimes forget what a setback this was for Henry. 899 00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:47,400 He'd achieved absolutely nothing 900 00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:51,360 apart from being publicly humiliated by his wife. 901 00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:55,680 And I think that this was Catherine's defining moment. 902 00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:57,520 She used her passion, 903 00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:01,360 and her intelligence to defend her marriage. 904 00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:04,320 She'd won the fight to hold on to her crown. 905 00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:05,760 At least for now. 906 00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:09,440 Am I too late? 907 00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:11,720 Please tell me I am not too late? 908 00:56:11,720 --> 00:56:15,480 Catherine of Aragon will be cruelly punished for challenging the King, 909 00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:19,280 and sent into exile to die. 910 00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:23,200 Henry will defy the Church to marry Anne Boleyn. 911 00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:26,600 The entire kingdom harbours hatred towards me. 912 00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:31,800 But it won't be long before his eyes, again, begin to wander... 913 00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:35,240 Surely I deserve your respect, my lord? 914 00:56:35,240 --> 00:56:39,440 ..and Anne is not a woman to turn a blind eye. 915 00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:43,280 I'm going to show you a driven, highly intelligent queen, 916 00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:46,520 who thought that she could take on the King of England... 917 00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:48,800 What I mean to say is this, 918 00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:52,400 that if something were to happen to the King, you'd look to marry me. 919 00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:56,480 ..but who miscalculated with dreadful consequences. 920 00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:58,320 All this for so little a neck.