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(MAN SHOUTING)

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-(WHISPERING) Catherine! What is it?
-Nothing. Go to sleep!

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What can you see?

4
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Nothing.

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The moonlight woke me, and I thought
I heard someone calling from below.

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Calling my name.

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But it was only the watermen
out there on the river.

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Who would call your name in
the middle of the night?

9
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No one here in London.

10
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But last summer in Horsham,

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there was a young man who stood
under my window night after night.

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-Young man?
-A beautiful young man

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who swore he would die
if I would not love him.

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Don't you dare do that!

15
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-No, Catherine, don't strike me again! Not again.
-Be silent then!

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I tell you there was a young man loved me.

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And more.

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One night he climbed
the wall up to my room

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and stayed with me through the night,
all night.

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And we lay together.

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And he put his hands here, between my breasts,
and begged me to let him look upon them.

22
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And then?

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He watched me as I stood and
lifted my shift up over my head.

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-He knelt down before me. He wept.
-Why?

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He said he'd seen nothing
so beautiful as my body.

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And I let him kiss and fondle me.

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And all the time, he wept like
a little boy, a child.

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There were other nights
we did such things together!

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-But you would not understand.
-Who was he?

30
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I promise never to tell
and I shall never see him again.

31
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What if the Duchess had discovered you?

32
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She found us one morning near the
chapel holding each other by the hands.

33
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She boxed my lover's ears and sent
me to the chaplain for correction.

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And that very night we two had
lain naked in each other's arms,

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heart to heart, in a room above her head.

36
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While she snored and mumbled
we two clung to each other.

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Oh, to God I were back in Horsham.

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-Oh, I should be afraid.
-Oh, aye, so was I. But fear is part of love.

39
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Without fear there is no true passion.

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-How can you know that? You've loved but once.
-I know it in my bones.

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The first night when his
hands were on my wrists

42
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and I could feel his fingers gripping me
so tightly I thought my arms would break,

43
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I could see the veins in his neck
stand out hard and sharp.

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I was afraid. Afraid for myself,
afraid the Duchess might hear us.

45
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-Yet it was magnificent, too.
-You will go to hell for thoughts like that!

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Not I. I confessed to the chaplain.
Old Sir Edward gave me absolution.

47
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He took my chin in his shaking
hand and prayed for me.

48
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He dribbled!

49
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(BOTH LAUGHING)

50
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And could not look me in the eye.
Sometimes I think he was praying for himself.

51
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All men are brothers in the dark.

52
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Not asleep?

53
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Catherine! You'll surely breathe
some sickness there by the window.

54
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The river is foul and
brings plague and mischief.

55
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And here's your uncle, the Duke,
below with his mother,

56
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mother, come straight from the king.

57
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-They wish to talk with you.
-With me?

58
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Mmm. And no time to dress yourself.

59
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Here, cover yourself with this.

60
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And be swift, your Uncle Norfolk
is an impatient man.

61
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You Anne Carey!

62
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You've no business awake at this hour.
Go to sleep, child.

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Cover your head and say your prayers.

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Ask God for a rich husband and fine,
tall sons.

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Ask God to make you clear-skinned
and bright-eyed,

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as pretty as your cousin Catherine.
Come on.

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Catherine Howard, my lord Duke.

68
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You're Catherine?

69
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Your brother Edmund's daughter.
You surely remember her?

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She's grown.

71
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Summer in the country's changed her.
I'd not have recognised her.

72
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Come over here, child! Here by
the fire, where I can look at you.

73
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Lady Rochford, you may go to bed.

74
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Oh. Oh, believe me,
it's no hardship to stay.

75
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My mother ordered you to go.
Be off with you, then.

76
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-My lord...
-God's teeth, woman, are you deaf?

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You're ordered to leave us.
In God's name, go!

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-Foolish old crow.
-She has a kind heart.

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That's no great quality in times like these.

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What's needed is a strong heart.
A hard heart.

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A Howard heart. Are you a Howard child?
A true Howard?

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-She's stubborn enough.
-By God, I swear she's pretty enough.

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Fine boned.

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Skin's perfect. Pale,
but with a sheen to it.

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Look at me, child! There.
Now walk over to the stair.

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She's perfect, madam.
More than I expected or hoped.

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Right.

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Now you may wrap
yourself in your cloak.

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-I asked you if you were a true Howard, Catherine.
-Yes, my lord.

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-You know me, the first of the Howards?
-Yes.

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We're a remarkable family.

92
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And I say this not from
a desire to boast

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or to confound anyone with empty bombast,

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but because it's truth.
A remarkable family.

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Close knit, powerful and loyal.
Above all, loyal.

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When the father of our present
much-loved king

97
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cut down Richard Plantage
net at Bosworth Field,

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my father, your grandfather,
fought upon the wrong side.

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He was led before the victor and
told that he championed a tyrant.

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My father said,
"Richard was my crowned king,

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"and if the parliamentary authority of
England had set the crown upon a wooden stalk,

102
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"I would fight for that stalk.

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"And as I fought for Richard,
I'll fight for you,

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when you are established
by that same authority."

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And he lived and proved
his new loyalty,

106
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as I did in my turn,

107
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which the marks of old wounds here
on my arms and shoulders must witness.

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The scars of Morlaix and Brest.

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I've servedthe King for
many years with thoroughness,

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and what is more important,
with success.

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And he in his turn has been
generous in his gratitude.

112
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Now, Catherine.

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I would like to do
him yet another service.

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A service which,
if successfully concluded,

115
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must surely make His Majesty
more grateful than ever before.

116
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Which must make our family
the most powerful in the land,

117
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and which will finally rid
the King of certain evil men.

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Men like Cromwell, who at present
fill his ears with slanders,

119
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lies and wrong counsel.

120
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To prosper this wish of
mine to assist the King,

121
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I need your help.

122
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-My help? But there is nothing I can do.
-Be guided by me.

123
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I will do whatever you wish.

124
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Your reward, Catherine, will...
Will not be insignificant.

125
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I want no reward.

126
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What do you know of the Queen?

127
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They saythe King dislikes her.
That he is not pleased.

128
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The King wants no more to do with her.
Another divorce is in the air.

129
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Friend Cromwell looks pale.
He sweats and trembles.

130
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The Queen was to be
the key to his plan

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for a grand German alliance,
an anti-papal crusade.

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Now that plan is in the fire and
Cromwell fears that he will follow it.

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The crusade is abandoned.

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For the moment, and who knows
how long that moment will last,

135
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I and my few friends have
the ear of the King.

136
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We could wish for a more permanent,
a more reliable opportunity.

137
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The King's ears are
filled with many whisperers.

138
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We would have his ears,
his eyes, his heart

139
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and if possible his soul.

140
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We'd have him find another queen.

141
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Choose another wife, Catherine.

142
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To speak plain we'd have him choose you!

143
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Me! But he has never
paid me any attention.

144
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Not seen you since the spring. He has
not looked on you as I look on you now.

145
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Were he to see you now, I swear he could
not fail but be enchanted by you.

146
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Moreover you're a Howard. The Earl
Marshal of England's your uncle.

147
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Everything in life, Catherine,
depends upon the moment.

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One must know who, how and when.

149
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Your moment is now! A month ago
too soon, a month's time too late.

150
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For you the stars are perfect now!

151
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You bring no devious foreign
entanglement as part of your dowry.

152
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You seem strong and healthy.
Fit to bear a fine male heir.

153
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There is rumour the prince
will not live to succeed.

154
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But your son would
have my blood in him.

155
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He would be a Howard.

156
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Hmm. You say nothing.

157
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Does the thought of becoming
queen not please you?

158
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Or is there some young man
lurking in your mind?

159
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-Is there? The girl's not known?
-No one! There is no one.

160
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There were a couple of young
admirers last summer in Horsham.

161
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-They meant nothing to me!
-A scholar, Francis Dereham,

162
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and a teacher of music, one Mannox,
they pestered Catherine.

163
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I had to box Dereham's
ears and dismiss Mannox.

164
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They were nothing!

165
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-You swear to that.
-By all I hold dear and holy.

166
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You relish the thought
of becoming queen, then?

167
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It frightens me.

168
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-My cousin Anne Boleyn was queen.
-She was foolish and reckless.

169
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She ignored the advice of those who
could have helped, even saved her.

170
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She deserved to die.

171
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Think no more of her. Think instead
of the splendours, the powers,

172
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the rich clothes, fine jewels.

173
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Women to wait on you, noblemen to
kneel to youand a king to love you.

174
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-But will he love me?
-I know the King. He must love you.

175
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-Will you be ruled by me?
-Yes.

176
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Now and after?

177
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Yes.

178
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Then go now to your bed.

179
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I'll send for you tomorrow.

180
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Bless you, Catherine.

181
00:12:52,833 --> 00:12:55,700
Do you think she understood
one word of what I was saying?

182
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-She understood you want to make her queen.
-So I will.

183
00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:02,067
Does she understand what that means?

184
00:13:02,067 --> 00:13:05,567
How can she? She's so very young.

185
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Poor innocent.

186
00:13:22,233 --> 00:13:25,367
Was it really the Duke?
What did he want of you?

187
00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:29,533
-'Tis late. Go to sleep.
-I cannot sleep.

188
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I keep thinking of the young
man at Horsham. How he wept.

189
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How you let him into your bed.

190
00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:39,967
Never let me hear you say that again.
Do you hear? Never!

191
00:13:40,067 --> 00:13:45,267
If you do so much as whisper anything
to anybody, I swear I shall poison you.

192
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Swear to keep silence?

193
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-Swear?
-Mmm.

194
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(GROANING)

195
00:14:00,733 --> 00:14:04,833
This ulcer bites into my leg
like the teeth of a dog!

196
00:14:04,867 --> 00:14:07,167
No improvement, Your Majesty?

197
00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:12,633
The ointments do nothing.
They dry the sore but a day or two.

198
00:14:12,667 --> 00:14:16,467
And the poison's working
on me all the time.

199
00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:20,800
It's there as foul and
malicious as ever it was.

200
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I can stomach the pain, Norfolk, but
the need of sitting all day in a chair

201
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with my legs swaddled in
bandages is my real enemy.

202
00:14:28,967 --> 00:14:33,633
I'm bored, Norfolk.
Sick and worn at doing nothing.

203
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No sport, no hunting, nothing!

204
00:14:36,433 --> 00:14:40,367
Gloomy surgeons with
long faces and no remedies.

205
00:14:41,067 --> 00:14:43,600
Oh, I feel old, Norfolk.

206
00:14:43,633 --> 00:14:48,467
Oh, but Your Majesty will
surely enjoy many years yet.

207
00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:51,733
Save me that.
You sound like Cromwell.

208
00:14:51,767 --> 00:14:57,200
You're simply fretting because your wound
keeps you idle. You need some new interest.

209
00:14:57,233 --> 00:15:00,200
-But what?
-A new occupation.

210
00:15:00,233 --> 00:15:03,933
A new face. You've surrounded
yourself with surgeons far too long.

211
00:15:03,967 --> 00:15:07,900
And we others, your councillors and
courtiers, you've seen too much of us.

212
00:15:07,933 --> 00:15:12,167
Believe me, Your Majesty, I hate being sealed
up here in London almost as much as you.

213
00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,367
-I sometimes pray for a good war!
-Uh?

214
00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,367
A commission to go
and hang a few rebels

215
00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:19,800
or knock loyalty into some
arrogant and ambitious Scot!

216
00:15:19,833 --> 00:15:25,600
But failing a campaign, the best
remedy, nay the only remedy,

217
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is a woman!

218
00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:31,300
No. No, not again.

219
00:15:31,333 --> 00:15:34,500
Cromwell's last blunder
has cured me of women.

220
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-The very thought sets my leg throbbing.
-Hear my out, Your Majesty.

221
00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:42,667
My only comfort is that the divorce
will be swift and uncomplicated.

222
00:15:42,700 --> 00:15:47,067
Cromwell forced that German woman
on you for his own devious policy.

223
00:15:47,100 --> 00:15:53,067
You had no need of an anti-papal alliance.
All the world respects and fears us!

224
00:15:53,100 --> 00:15:57,533
For the first time in many years your people
are enjoying the rich blessings of peace.

225
00:15:57,567 --> 00:16:00,933
And under your guidance
they work and sleep secure,

226
00:16:00,967 --> 00:16:05,667
with no dreams of domestic rebellions
or foreign wars to disturb them.

227
00:16:05,700 --> 00:16:09,367
You have no need to make
a political marriage.

228
00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:14,500
At long last you're perfectly free to
marry for other motives. Personal motives.

229
00:16:14,533 --> 00:16:17,567
You truly need a woman,
someone to love and care for you.

230
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-Someone to nurse and comfort you.
-Mmm.

231
00:16:20,067 --> 00:16:22,667
Your grim-faced surgeons
will never heal you,

232
00:16:22,700 --> 00:16:28,267
but a tender and compassionate girl would
do more good than a hundred surgeons.

233
00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:32,267
-And where am I to find such a paragon?
-Well, look about you!

234
00:16:32,300 --> 00:16:34,533
You've your whole
kingdom to choose from.

235
00:16:34,567 --> 00:16:37,867
-Invite some fresh people to court. Young people.
-Mmm.

236
00:16:37,900 --> 00:16:43,633
Rid yourself of the old and the miserable.
Banish the ugly. Banish Somers there.

237
00:16:43,667 --> 00:16:44,933
Banish me!

238
00:16:44,967 --> 00:16:48,133
(ALL LAUGHING)

239
00:16:48,167 --> 00:16:51,267
Why, only last night I saw
such a girl here in London.

240
00:16:51,300 --> 00:16:55,067
A sweet child of...
Oh, I suppose barely 17.

241
00:16:55,067 --> 00:16:56,800
Fresh froma summer in the country.

242
00:16:56,833 --> 00:16:59,400
Just to look at her made me
feel 10 years younger.

243
00:16:59,433 --> 00:17:02,200
Your kingdom's ripe with such girls.

244
00:17:03,067 --> 00:17:06,067
And, uh, who was she?

245
00:17:06,067 --> 00:17:08,333
My brother Edmund's daughter.

246
00:17:08,367 --> 00:17:10,200
-Oh, yes?
-Catherine.

247
00:17:10,233 --> 00:17:12,433
She was at court last year.

248
00:17:12,467 --> 00:17:15,500
But in these past few months,
a miracle's happened.

249
00:17:15,533 --> 00:17:19,233
She's blossomed.
Changed from a pretty girl

250
00:17:19,267 --> 00:17:23,900
into an enchanting young woman.
A transfiguration, Your Majesty.

251
00:17:23,933 --> 00:17:27,233
Mind you, I'm only a soldier. The beauty
of women has meant little to me.

252
00:17:27,267 --> 00:17:30,200
I may be overpraising her.

253
00:17:30,233 --> 00:17:34,433
Well, let me be judge of that, eh?

254
00:17:35,367 --> 00:17:37,700
Let her come to court again.

255
00:17:37,733 --> 00:17:39,967
-Your Majesty.
-Soon.

256
00:17:40,067 --> 00:17:42,900
Your Majesty!

257
00:17:42,933 --> 00:17:45,400
The surgeons will do
well to ignore your leg.

258
00:17:45,433 --> 00:17:47,667
-Why?
-Then they could cut open your head

259
00:17:47,700 --> 00:17:49,267
and look into your brain.

260
00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:53,133
A fifth wife? It's your wits
that are rotten and not your leg.

261
00:17:53,167 --> 00:17:57,700
-I said nothing of marriage.
-Oh, the Duke certainly meant marriage.

262
00:17:57,733 --> 00:18:02,267
The girl's one of his tribe, a Howard.
And what's worse, she's young.

263
00:18:02,300 --> 00:18:04,567
-She'll have no time for me.
-No.

264
00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:08,167
No. The young don't need
fools to make them laugh.

265
00:18:09,700 --> 00:18:11,233
(LAUGHING)

266
00:18:18,267 --> 00:18:19,533
(NORFOLK CHUCKLING)

267
00:18:19,567 --> 00:18:23,200
Too solemn! When you meet
the King, remember to smile.

268
00:18:23,233 --> 00:18:26,967
And smile when you rise
from your genuflection.

269
00:18:27,067 --> 00:18:30,067
That's it.
Don't be afraid of him. Smile!

270
00:18:30,067 --> 00:18:34,433
You've every reason to be brave.
You already look like a queen.

271
00:18:34,467 --> 00:18:36,967
I would he'd seen you as I first did.

272
00:18:37,067 --> 00:18:41,067
The gown is magnificent, madam,
but it does makeher look older.

273
00:18:41,067 --> 00:18:44,267
More knowing, less vulnerable.
But no matter.

274
00:18:44,300 --> 00:18:46,700
Come now to Whitehall.

275
00:19:00,233 --> 00:19:03,333
I am certain it is less
noxious now, Your Majesty.

276
00:19:03,367 --> 00:19:05,500
Then your nose is as
useless as your skill.

277
00:19:05,533 --> 00:19:10,667
There, even Somers has more knowledge.
I say there's no change.

278
00:19:10,700 --> 00:19:13,733
The poison is as malevolent
as ever it was.

279
00:19:13,767 --> 00:19:16,900
I fear that to drain it again
would only anger the wound.

280
00:19:16,933 --> 00:19:18,733
And I say to leave it
as it is makes no sense!

281
00:19:18,767 --> 00:19:22,600
God's wounds, you'll not be satisfied
till my whole leg is poisoned!

282
00:19:22,633 --> 00:19:26,233
Then you'll rub your hands
eagerly enough, eh?

283
00:19:26,267 --> 00:19:28,767
I say cut now and drain the poison.

284
00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:33,100
Or do I have to be my own surgeon?
Here! Swiftly, man!

285
00:19:33,133 --> 00:19:35,267
Be quick about it.

286
00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:36,900
God!

287
00:19:36,933 --> 00:19:38,767
(GROANING)

288
00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:41,633
Cut is made, Your Majesty.

289
00:19:41,667 --> 00:19:44,200
The poison is draining free.

290
00:19:44,767 --> 00:19:47,433
The pain will ease now.

291
00:19:47,467 --> 00:19:49,600
Who is there by the door?
Oh, Norfolk.

292
00:19:49,633 --> 00:19:53,467
Yes, Your Majesty.
My niece, Catherine.

293
00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:58,800
Oh. Oh, come closer, girl.
Here, stand by me.

294
00:20:00,067 --> 00:20:03,333
Yes, I remember you.

295
00:20:03,367 --> 00:20:08,100
Your uncle tells the truth,
you have changed and grown up.

296
00:20:08,133 --> 00:20:12,567
It's generous of you, Catherine,
to visit an old, sick man.

297
00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,300
Old? But you are surely
younger than my uncle here,

298
00:20:16,333 --> 00:20:18,633
and he is not old, Your Majesty.

299
00:20:18,667 --> 00:20:23,633
Hmm? Well, the Earl Marshal has
lived a healthy Spartan life.

300
00:20:23,667 --> 00:20:28,967
Long campaigns, months at sea, he's
not had to carry my burden of care.

301
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,433
Politics makes a man into a shadow.

302
00:20:31,467 --> 00:20:34,933
You seem broad and strong enough
to me, Your Majesty.

303
00:20:34,967 --> 00:20:39,100
Perhaps it is only your wound
that depresses you at the moment.

304
00:20:39,133 --> 00:20:43,533
Oh, if you'd seen me as a young man,

305
00:20:43,567 --> 00:20:48,933
there was not my equal in all England
for strength or for skill at arms

306
00:20:48,967 --> 00:20:51,600
and other talents.

307
00:20:51,633 --> 00:20:55,533
Look at me now, tied to a chair
like a useless old woman.

308
00:20:55,567 --> 00:20:58,033
Oh, the devil take your clumsy fingers!

309
00:20:58,067 --> 00:21:01,567
I'll have your hands lopped off at the
elbows if they can't learn tenderness.

310
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,233
The surgeon would surely
make an excellent executioner.

311
00:21:04,267 --> 00:21:08,133
To sever a head with a knife would
take longer than a headman's axe.

312
00:21:08,167 --> 00:21:11,700
And you hold your tongue or I'll have
these butchers cut it out of your head.

313
00:21:11,733 --> 00:21:16,367
Let me finish this work. I think
these gentlemen are afraid of you.

314
00:21:18,067 --> 00:21:22,333
-And you are not?
-No, why should I be?

315
00:21:22,367 --> 00:21:27,133
You must tell me where the core of the
wound is, or is the whole leg inflamed?

316
00:21:27,167 --> 00:21:30,067
It's there where the linen is stained.

317
00:21:31,733 --> 00:21:34,633
It should be washed and
soothed with oils of herbs.

318
00:21:34,667 --> 00:21:39,200
-Ah.
-If I could send to the gardens at Horsham...

319
00:21:39,233 --> 00:21:43,467
-I'm not binding the linen too tightly?
-No, no, no.

320
00:21:43,500 --> 00:21:46,400
But there's no need to trouble the
Duchess of Norfolk's gardener,

321
00:21:46,433 --> 00:21:50,067
you can have whatever you need
from my gardens at Hampton.

322
00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:51,967
With respect, I doubt very much...

323
00:21:52,067 --> 00:21:54,533
Oh, these fools prescribed
richer ointments.

324
00:21:54,567 --> 00:21:57,667
This morning they suggested
the paste of ground pearls.

325
00:21:57,700 --> 00:22:01,300
-No! Marjoram and lady's mantle.
-Yes.

326
00:22:01,333 --> 00:22:06,367
They will help in the healing. And then
marigold. That is to ease the scab.

327
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,400
If you press the leaves, you'll
find a soft, sweet-smelling oil.

328
00:22:09,433 --> 00:22:11,900
Lady Rochford says that to
look at the oil is enough,

329
00:22:11,933 --> 00:22:14,367
it drives away all evil humours.

330
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,833
She cured a stable boy once
who cut his thigh on a scythe.

331
00:22:17,867 --> 00:22:20,267
His wound was healed in a week.

332
00:22:21,567 --> 00:22:22,700
There.

333
00:22:24,567 --> 00:22:28,067
The gardens are most
wonderful at Hampton.

334
00:22:28,067 --> 00:22:30,167
I saw them last spring.

335
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,733
Would you like to visit them again?

336
00:22:32,767 --> 00:22:36,167
I could perhaps talk to the
gardeners and find those herbs

337
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,200
which might help Your Majesty's leg.

338
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,133
And so you shall.

339
00:22:42,167 --> 00:22:46,133
And what is more,
we shall come with you.

340
00:22:46,167 --> 00:22:47,933
-We will go tomorrow.
-But Your Majesty's leg.

341
00:22:47,967 --> 00:22:53,067
Oh, to the devil with my leg.
I swear to heaven, it feels stronger already.

342
00:22:53,100 --> 00:22:56,867
I will walk through my gardens
with you, Catherine,

343
00:22:56,900 --> 00:23:01,733
or turn monk and eat stewed fish and
sing psalms for the rest of my days.

344
00:23:01,767 --> 00:23:03,467
(BOTH LAUGHING)

345
00:23:04,633 --> 00:23:09,067
-Your Majesty, we consider it most...
-I will walk!

346
00:23:15,167 --> 00:23:16,667
(GRUNTING)

347
00:23:19,967 --> 00:23:23,500
Catherine, give me your hand.

348
00:23:26,100 --> 00:23:28,100
(GRUNTING)

349
00:23:47,467 --> 00:23:49,300
(MUSIC PLAYING)

350
00:23:54,067 --> 00:23:55,767
So many lights.

351
00:23:56,867 --> 00:23:59,167
The river is like fire.

352
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:04,867
They say the King has commanded music
and dancing every night this past week.

353
00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:09,167
Old Thomas Mortimer fell dead
of apoplexy last night.

354
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:14,267
Fell under the banqueting table and
was only discovered this morning.

355
00:24:14,300 --> 00:24:17,500
Oh, I shall be happy to
leave this gloomy house.

356
00:24:17,533 --> 00:24:21,500
-Why must you go?
-Oh, cousin Catherine has sent for me,

357
00:24:21,533 --> 00:24:24,967
and her request is a command these days.

358
00:24:25,067 --> 00:24:28,100
Tomorrow she will be
the Queen of England.

359
00:24:29,233 --> 00:24:32,067
Oh, I promise I will talk to her.

360
00:24:32,067 --> 00:24:36,767
A few more months and I'm sure she'll send
for you to come to court and wait on her.

361
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:40,533
And will I have fine gowns and
jewels too, like Catherine?

362
00:24:40,567 --> 00:24:45,367
Indeed, you will.
The King is young again and giddy.

363
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,067
I saw the jewels he's given Catherine.

364
00:24:48,067 --> 00:24:50,967
And one brooch has 30 diamonds

365
00:24:51,067 --> 00:24:55,667
and more than 50 rubies set in it,
all edged with pearl.

366
00:24:55,700 --> 00:25:00,267
And tomorrow for the wedding, she's to
receive a truly magnificent gift.

367
00:25:00,300 --> 00:25:02,467
-More jewels?
-No, much, much better.

368
00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:06,167
-What, then?
-The head of Cromwell.

369
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,767
At the very hour of
the marriage ceremony,

370
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:14,600
-Cromwell is to be taken from the Tower to Tyburn.
-Tyburn? Why to Tyburn?

371
00:25:14,633 --> 00:25:20,400
Cromwell is of common origin.
He is to die amongst his own kind.

372
00:25:20,433 --> 00:25:25,633
Poor man. I wonder if he can hear
the music up there in the Tower.

373
00:25:25,667 --> 00:25:28,333
He will never hear music again.

374
00:25:28,367 --> 00:25:32,733
"To me you have been most bountiful,
more like a father than a master.

375
00:25:32,767 --> 00:25:36,533
"I ask mercywhere I have offended,
but I have done my best.

376
00:25:36,567 --> 00:25:41,067
"No one can justly accuse me
of having done wrong wilfully.

377
00:25:41,100 --> 00:25:43,367
"I acknowledge myself amiserable sinner

378
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,900
toward God and Your Majesty,
but never wilfully.

379
00:25:45,933 --> 00:25:51,200
"Written at the Tower this 27th day of
July with a heavy heart and trembling hand

380
00:25:51,233 --> 00:25:55,800
"of Your Highness's most heavy and most
miserable prisoner and poor slave,

381
00:25:55,833 --> 00:25:57,433
"Thomas Cromwell.

382
00:25:57,467 --> 00:26:03,067
"Most gracious prince,
I cry for mercy, mercy, mercy."

383
00:26:03,067 --> 00:26:06,667
You think I look like a bridegroom,
hmm? Eh?

384
00:26:06,700 --> 00:26:08,600
Magnificent, Your Majesty.

385
00:26:08,633 --> 00:26:11,300
That villain of a barber cut
my cheek this morning.

386
00:26:11,333 --> 00:26:13,600
Look, as peck of blood here on the silk.

387
00:26:13,633 --> 00:26:14,800
I see nothing.

388
00:26:14,833 --> 00:26:18,367
Perhaps I should teach
my Catherine to shave me?

389
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,067
Her hands are so gentle,
her touch so tender,

390
00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:25,467
she could surely put all the barbers
and surgeons in England out of office.

391
00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:28,467
A perfect girl.
My rose without a thorn.

392
00:26:28,500 --> 00:26:33,067
There's not a man wholoves you who
doesn'tenvy you, Your Majesty.

393
00:26:33,067 --> 00:26:38,067
-Many a young man will get drunk tonight, eh?
-They will be happy for you.

394
00:26:38,067 --> 00:26:40,067
And not a little jealous.

395
00:26:40,100 --> 00:26:44,467
God knows, Norfolk, I tell you,
I am as nervous as a green boy.

396
00:26:44,500 --> 00:26:49,500
My hands are trembling at the thought
of my Catherine's sweet, young body.

397
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,633
There'll be no long feasting tonight,
I promise you.

398
00:26:53,667 --> 00:26:59,467
I want that girl more than
anything in my whole life.

399
00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:02,967
She must havethe lordships
and manors I gave to Jane.

400
00:27:03,067 --> 00:27:05,667
Your generosity to my niece is
most bountiful, Your Majesty.

401
00:27:05,700 --> 00:27:08,667
Yes. For your own services, I've decided to
name you Lord Treasurer,

402
00:27:08,700 --> 00:27:11,067
-also LordLieutenant of the North.
-Majesty.

403
00:27:11,067 --> 00:27:16,300
And to replace Cromwell, your cousin
Sussex shall be Great Chamberlain.

404
00:27:16,333 --> 00:27:18,100
And for Lord Privy Seal...

405
00:27:18,133 --> 00:27:23,433
Might I suggest the Earl of Southampton,
Majesty? A firm ally, to both of us.

406
00:27:23,467 --> 00:27:26,267
Mmm, excellent choice.
What time is it now?

407
00:27:26,300 --> 00:27:29,567
Patience, Your Majesty.
Another hour.

408
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,167
And we shall both be satisfied,
no doubt.

409
00:27:36,533 --> 00:27:39,667
There's no need to brood longer on this.

410
00:27:40,933 --> 00:27:43,567
Both lands and properties
shall be given to Catherine.

411
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,267
Most generous.

412
00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:50,600
Hoping for them yourself, were you?
Hmm?

413
00:27:50,633 --> 00:27:54,633
Be satisfied with his head.
You've worked for it long enough.

414
00:27:57,567 --> 00:27:59,733
Well, I'm not certain about
these silver slashings.

415
00:27:59,767 --> 00:28:03,133
I think I prefer the white
and crimson satin.

416
00:28:03,167 --> 00:28:07,200
Somers, fetch my servants.
I still have time to change.

417
00:28:08,833 --> 00:28:11,700
Oh, would to God it were night.

418
00:28:12,767 --> 00:28:15,100
Lift your head, child,

419
00:28:15,133 --> 00:28:18,733
the clasp is difficult to secure.

420
00:28:18,767 --> 00:28:21,267
Your hands are shaking.

421
00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:26,467
I'm thinking that the...
The next personto touch this chain

422
00:28:26,500 --> 00:28:31,300
and finger your pretty throat
will be the King himself.

423
00:28:32,300 --> 00:28:36,067
But how cold you are.
Your skin is like ice.

424
00:28:36,067 --> 00:28:40,200
I took no wine today and
I could not bring myself to eat.

425
00:28:41,833 --> 00:28:45,267
The King will warm you soon enough.

426
00:28:46,367 --> 00:28:49,533
He's a very Turk with women.

427
00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:54,733
You'll find little
rest tonight, my angel.

428
00:28:56,067 --> 00:28:58,233
I envy you.

429
00:28:58,267 --> 00:29:02,800
My husband now, God rest his soul,

430
00:29:02,833 --> 00:29:06,100
was a poor preacher with
little blood in him.

431
00:29:06,133 --> 00:29:11,433
On our wedding night, he was on his
knees, praying to the Lord for a son.

432
00:29:11,467 --> 00:29:15,167
I told him the way to ensure the son
was not to pray to the Lord,

433
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,100
but to save his breath for his wife.

434
00:29:18,133 --> 00:29:21,533
But he went on, crossing
himself and protesting.

435
00:29:21,567 --> 00:29:26,533
And the Lord rewarded him with ague
pains in the chest and the legs.

436
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:34,200
Ah, your husband will not waste
time praying,I promise you.

437
00:29:34,233 --> 00:29:36,733
I watched him during the ceremony.

438
00:29:36,767 --> 00:29:41,200
He could hardly bear to keep himself
from caressing you there and then

439
00:29:41,233 --> 00:29:46,200
in front of the clergy, the court
and even the Archbishop.

440
00:29:46,233 --> 00:29:48,400
Do you think he really loves me?

441
00:29:48,433 --> 00:29:51,600
Oh, His Majesty is besotted.

442
00:29:51,633 --> 00:29:56,400
You could ask him anything at
this moment and he'd not refuse you.

443
00:29:56,433 --> 00:29:59,633
And I pray he'll be of the
same mind tomorrow morning.

444
00:29:59,667 --> 00:30:01,667
Amen to that.

445
00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:05,033
Let him do as he wants, child.

446
00:30:07,333 --> 00:30:09,700
The King has left his room.
He has dismissed his guard.

447
00:30:09,733 --> 00:30:11,733
Close the door.
When His Majesty knocks,

448
00:30:11,767 --> 00:30:13,967
wait till I tell you
before you open to admit him.

449
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,733
Hurry, now!

450
00:30:15,767 --> 00:30:17,533
(RAUCOUS LAUGHTER OUTSIDE)

451
00:30:19,167 --> 00:30:20,700
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

452
00:30:20,733 --> 00:30:23,100
Wait till I tell you!

453
00:30:23,133 --> 00:30:24,767
HENRY: Catherine!

454
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:26,300
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

455
00:30:26,333 --> 00:30:30,233
Very well.
Now you may open the door.

456
00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:46,200
CATHERINE: I thank you.

457
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,400
We will not need you more, Thomas.

458
00:30:51,433 --> 00:30:55,067
-Nor any of you. You may leave us.
-Good night, Your Majesties.

459
00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:56,933
God save the King.

460
00:30:56,967 --> 00:31:01,400
I am sure Your Majesty has no further
need of any aid, human or divine.

461
00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:24,367
I thought you beautiful that morning
your uncle brought you to me.

462
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:29,800
And when you and I first walked
through the gardens at Hampton Court,

463
00:31:29,833 --> 00:31:33,967
and again today when we stood
together before the Archbishop,

464
00:31:34,067 --> 00:31:36,067
you were magnificent.

465
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,433
But now,

466
00:31:41,133 --> 00:31:43,167
when I see you like this,

467
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,100
with your hair
loose about your throat,

468
00:31:48,767 --> 00:31:51,600
the sight of you hurts my heart.

469
00:31:51,633 --> 00:31:56,800
You are the most perfect possession
I have ever owned.

470
00:31:56,833 --> 00:32:02,433
Perfect in yourself alone, you
need no jewels to compliment you.

471
00:32:04,167 --> 00:32:06,233
You are perfection.

472
00:32:10,667 --> 00:32:14,267
Let me see you.

473
00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:23,100
Let me...

474
00:32:25,133 --> 00:32:27,767
look on you.

475
00:32:31,567 --> 00:32:35,100
You shall have all the diamonds, pearls,

476
00:32:35,133 --> 00:32:38,133
rubies and gold that you wish.

477
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,367
But for the moment,

478
00:32:42,233 --> 00:32:45,467
let me look on you as you are

479
00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:50,333
without even your shift to hide you.

480
00:32:52,067 --> 00:32:53,800
(CATHERINE GIGGLING)

481
00:33:08,367 --> 00:33:09,633
(GROANING)

482
00:33:09,667 --> 00:33:12,533
You should go to your bed
and sleep, Master Culpeper.

483
00:33:12,567 --> 00:33:14,333
Too late and too drunk.

484
00:33:14,367 --> 00:33:17,467
I'm sure there'll be no need for
any gentleman of the King's household

485
00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:19,900
to present himself at duty before noon.

486
00:33:19,933 --> 00:33:22,200
She cannot be more than 18.

487
00:33:23,367 --> 00:33:26,533
-You arereferring to the Queen?
-Yes.

488
00:33:26,567 --> 00:33:30,200
Were she 25, she would still be
too young for the King.

489
00:33:30,233 --> 00:33:34,267
I excuse you, Master Culpeper,
because you're plainly drunk,

490
00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:35,767
but watch your tongue.

491
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,100
Statements like that have
the reek of treason about them.

492
00:33:39,133 --> 00:33:43,100
Oh, no, not treason. Forgive me,
my lord, we are all jealous.

493
00:33:43,133 --> 00:33:45,233
-We?
-We who attend on the King,

494
00:33:45,267 --> 00:33:49,267
we who see the Queen and are envious.

495
00:33:49,300 --> 00:33:53,533
I never understand you young
gentleman of the court. Never did.

496
00:33:53,567 --> 00:33:58,733
But then when I was your age, I was
serving with my father against the Scots.

497
00:33:58,767 --> 00:34:03,333
I'd no time to lurk in palace
corridors and sigh for young women.

498
00:34:03,367 --> 00:34:06,667
Too occupied keeping alive.

499
00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:12,100
What you need, Master Culpeper, is a
long, hard campaign in a cold climate.

500
00:34:12,133 --> 00:34:16,233
I would to God there was a war. Believe me,
my lord, I'd raise a company tomorrow

501
00:34:16,267 --> 00:34:18,900
for France or Ireland
or even against the Turk.

502
00:34:18,933 --> 00:34:24,067
But in these miserable days of peace,
what else can a young man do

503
00:34:24,067 --> 00:34:27,667
but mope after women and drink too much?

504
00:34:27,700 --> 00:34:30,233
Oh, for a crusade!

505
00:34:34,667 --> 00:34:36,267
(CLEARS THROAT)

506
00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:42,233
(SNIFFING)

507
00:34:44,533 --> 00:34:48,800
There's a glimmer of dawn beyond
the Tower and a smell of rain.

508
00:34:48,833 --> 00:34:52,667
There's one among us who'll not
notice the sun rise or heed the rain.

509
00:34:52,700 --> 00:34:56,267
-The King?
-No, I was thinking of Cromwell.

510
00:34:56,300 --> 00:34:59,300
They've spiked hishead over London Bridge.

511
00:34:59,333 --> 00:35:01,600
The officers were ordered
to set his face to the east,

512
00:35:01,633 --> 00:35:03,700
towards the sun and away from the palace,

513
00:35:03,733 --> 00:35:07,200
so that he should not spy
on the King's wedding night.

514
00:35:07,233 --> 00:35:13,667
Not that he'll see for very long.
The crows will soon be at work on his eyes.

515
00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:41,700
-Catherine.
-For a moment I was afraid.

516
00:35:42,900 --> 00:35:47,100
-I could not see your face.
-You were deep in sleep.

517
00:35:48,167 --> 00:35:51,567
-Dreaming?
-I thought I wasback in Horsham.

518
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:55,367
-Ah. No nightmares, then.
-No.

519
00:35:58,467 --> 00:36:02,067
I was watching you for an hour or more.

520
00:36:02,067 --> 00:36:06,467
-Once, I thought you were about to cry out. You...
-I said nothing?

521
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,167
As I was watching you, I...

522
00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:21,367
-I was composing a speech.
-Speech? Something serious?

523
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,400
-Something of state?
-A speech for you.

524
00:36:25,767 --> 00:36:27,567
An explanation...

525
00:36:28,867 --> 00:36:32,367
Almost an apology.

526
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,533
And that is difficult for me.
Kings seldom need to apologise.

527
00:36:38,967 --> 00:36:40,667
Catherine, I...

528
00:36:42,533 --> 00:36:46,067
I fear I disappointed you last night.

529
00:36:49,133 --> 00:36:55,700
You would understand, I think, that
that is a hard admission for me to make.

530
00:36:55,733 --> 00:37:01,500
Henry, the King, famous throughout Europe
for his bull strength and goat capacity,

531
00:37:01,533 --> 00:37:04,367
husband to four wives.

532
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:08,067
And now, when othermen are at their prime,

533
00:37:10,367 --> 00:37:13,600
suddenly humbledby a girl of 17.

534
00:37:15,533 --> 00:37:20,067
Humbled, unmanned, and with no reason.

535
00:37:21,067 --> 00:37:24,200
For you were as gentle,
as tender,

536
00:37:25,433 --> 00:37:29,267
vulnerable as any man could desire,
and as loving.

537
00:37:30,067 --> 00:37:31,933
But I could do nothing.

538
00:37:31,967 --> 00:37:38,567
I was as useless as... King David
with the Shunammite woman.

539
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:43,367
-Yet he was an old man!
-She comforted and nursed him.

540
00:37:44,933 --> 00:37:47,500
But he knew her not.

541
00:37:47,533 --> 00:37:51,567
My Lord, I have little
experience of the world.

542
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:56,600
I love and honour you. To see
you content is my dearest wish.

543
00:37:56,633 --> 00:38:01,500
I know nothing of what happens
between man and wife.

544
00:38:01,533 --> 00:38:05,800
Oh, come now. You're young,
but you must surely know

545
00:38:05,833 --> 00:38:10,533
that a fresh husband is expected to
do more than just look at his bride.

546
00:38:10,567 --> 00:38:13,700
Lady Rochford's husband
spent the night in prayer.

547
00:38:13,733 --> 00:38:16,733
Had I been Lady Rochford's husband,
I would have done the same.

548
00:38:16,767 --> 00:38:19,433
(CATHERINE LAUGHING)

549
00:38:19,467 --> 00:38:22,300
-You're spoiling my text.
-Because I think you're making

550
00:38:22,333 --> 00:38:25,167
-a great to do about nothing.
-Indeed?

551
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:29,200
-And who are you to criticise the King?
-His wife.

552
00:38:30,533 --> 00:38:34,433
To me, everything is perfectly simple.

553
00:38:34,467 --> 00:38:38,067
You have been ill, my lord, dangerously ill.

554
00:38:38,067 --> 00:38:41,100
Until your leg was properly nursed,
you had been months in your chair.

555
00:38:41,133 --> 00:38:46,300
And now these last weeks you have been
as boisterous and as busy as a schoolboy,

556
00:38:46,333 --> 00:38:49,100
dancing, wrestling, hunting.

557
00:38:49,133 --> 00:38:52,767
Lord, I swear it has been a cruel time
for your courtiers and servants

558
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:54,900
just to keep pace with you.

559
00:38:54,933 --> 00:38:56,967
-You think that's...
-I know it.

560
00:38:57,067 --> 00:39:02,700
I see them yawning behind their hands when
you have only just begun to rouse yourself.

561
00:39:02,733 --> 00:39:06,333
Had I seen them,
I would have beaten them awake.

562
00:39:07,233 --> 00:39:09,800
Now you're spoiling my text.

563
00:39:13,133 --> 00:39:14,700
Forgive me.

564
00:39:17,333 --> 00:39:22,367
You have only recently recovered
your full health and strength.

565
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,800
You did not love me last night,

566
00:39:25,833 --> 00:39:31,367
but in a day or two all will be well,
and what matter if it takes longer?

567
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:37,067
I am content. I am happier than
I have ever been. I trust you.

568
00:39:37,833 --> 00:39:41,067
I only want to please you.

569
00:39:41,067 --> 00:39:46,067
'Tis not for you to apologise to me,
it is for me to be grateful to you.

570
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,833
I honour you above all men,

571
00:39:50,867 --> 00:39:53,100
now and forever.

572
00:39:59,067 --> 00:40:02,467
And I am suddenly hungry.

573
00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:07,733
-Now I am Queen, I suppose I can do as I like.
-Anything.

574
00:40:07,767 --> 00:40:12,933
Then I shall command Lady Rochford to
bring me a great dish of cold fowl,

575
00:40:12,967 --> 00:40:17,300
fresh bread and a whole
basket of strawberries.

576
00:40:17,333 --> 00:40:22,233
-Do you think she'll be angry? It's only just dawn.
-Oh, and if she is angry,

577
00:40:22,267 --> 00:40:25,867
one black look and I'll
send her to the Tower.

578
00:40:25,900 --> 00:40:29,767
God's wounds, I swear that
I too am hungry, very hungry.

579
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,200
We'll wake Lady Rochford,
we'll wake my gentlemen,

580
00:40:32,233 --> 00:40:35,500
my stewards, my cooks.
We'll wake the whole palace.

581
00:40:35,533 --> 00:40:37,300
Well, hello there!

582
00:40:39,533 --> 00:40:41,567
Officers of the guard!

583
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:46,567
Eh, Culpeper! Rouse yourself, boy.

584
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,733
Be sharp and swift.
A matter of great importance.

585
00:40:50,767 --> 00:40:52,867
(HENRY LAUGHING)

586
00:40:52,900 --> 00:40:54,633
But you'll not be
needing your sword, boy,

587
00:40:54,667 --> 00:40:59,200
it isn't sharp enough to
jointa chicken or chip bread.

588
00:41:01,100 --> 00:41:04,733
The Queen is hungry.

589
00:41:08,067 --> 00:41:13,133
Here, my angel.
Everything His Majesty commanded.

590
00:41:13,167 --> 00:41:18,600
Cold fowl, strawberries.
Mmm, fresh-baked bread.

591
00:41:19,567 --> 00:41:21,233
Take it away.

592
00:41:22,067 --> 00:41:24,467
Take it all away!

593
00:41:24,500 --> 00:41:26,433
(CRYING)

594
00:41:29,767 --> 00:41:33,833
Angel, what is it now?

595
00:41:33,867 --> 00:41:36,600
Oh, what has distressed you so?

596
00:41:36,633 --> 00:41:40,667
Oh, come. Come here.

597
00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:43,533
Come here, let me comfort you.

598
00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:47,067
There, now,

599
00:41:47,067 --> 00:41:50,733
tell me what it is,
my poor darling little girl.

600
00:41:51,867 --> 00:41:54,933
There, there.

601
00:41:54,967 --> 00:42:00,500
Your heart will break, my angel.
What is it, now? Tell me, tell me.

602
00:42:00,533 --> 00:42:05,733
-I cannot. Last night...
-But dearest, you must.

603
00:42:05,767 --> 00:42:08,567
Who else can you tell?

604
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:13,133
I've cared for you for three years now.
Cared for you and loved you.

605
00:42:13,167 --> 00:42:17,567
You are the dearest soul in the world
to me. No one could love you as I do.

606
00:42:20,167 --> 00:42:24,567
-He called me his Shunammite.
-Lord have mercy.

607
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,367
He tried to tell me about
King David and Abishag.

608
00:42:29,267 --> 00:42:32,300
What are you saying, child?

609
00:42:32,333 --> 00:42:37,800
I did as you told me.
I let him do as he wanted.

610
00:42:37,833 --> 00:42:43,833
I laid down on the bed, lifted my arms
to him, invited him to lie down beside me.

611
00:42:43,867 --> 00:42:48,500
And he threw off his clothes
and held me for a moment,

612
00:42:48,533 --> 00:42:52,400
then stroked and caressed
me with his hands.

613
00:42:52,433 --> 00:42:56,700
-He... He was gentle.
-Yes.

614
00:42:56,733 --> 00:43:01,100
But he seemed to be continually
at a distance,

615
00:43:01,133 --> 00:43:03,967
as if he were afraid to hold me in
his arms for very long, as if my

616
00:43:04,067 --> 00:43:07,567
skin were made of fire.

617
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:13,467
And it was only then that I dared
look at him. I was appalled.

618
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:19,267
I had notrealised how old he was.

619
00:43:19,300 --> 00:43:22,100
Oh, I'd bathed and bandaged
his ulcered leg,

620
00:43:22,133 --> 00:43:26,633
I'd seen him tired and evil-tempered
at the end of a long day,

621
00:43:26,667 --> 00:43:30,200
but to see him there

622
00:43:30,233 --> 00:43:34,133
without his satins and golds...

623
00:43:34,167 --> 00:43:38,833
His very skin is old, yellowing,
scarred, loosened, coarse.

624
00:43:38,867 --> 00:43:41,567
He is ugly!

625
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:46,300
His breath is stale.
He has no grace any more.

626
00:43:47,567 --> 00:43:50,633
I had seen him dressed like a king,

627
00:43:50,667 --> 00:43:54,367
standing proudly and magnificently
before his court.

628
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:59,200
And I could believe that here was
a man who was truly a king,

629
00:43:59,233 --> 00:44:03,833
who could ride and
hunt and fight all day.

630
00:44:03,867 --> 00:44:09,433
I had imagined there was still the body
of a Hercules beneath the satins and golds.

631
00:44:11,667 --> 00:44:13,400
But it's not true.

632
00:44:14,500 --> 00:44:19,367
There's only the hulk of an old,
fat man.

633
00:44:21,567 --> 00:44:25,900
-You must have patience,child.
-How can I?

634
00:44:25,933 --> 00:44:31,067
I have given myself to a sick, old, impotent
man. I am condemned to a mock marriage.

635
00:44:31,067 --> 00:44:35,467
I might as well take vows as a nun
or become the bride of a ghost!

636
00:44:36,700 --> 00:44:38,200
Your Majesty.

637
00:44:38,233 --> 00:44:40,800
-What is it?
-Your Majesty.

638
00:44:42,833 --> 00:44:44,233
I...

639
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,767
I am commanded by His Majesty to ask
if you would graciously be present

640
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:59,733
at the audience to the ambassadors of the
Knights of St John at Malta at noon.

641
00:45:01,567 --> 00:45:04,700
Tell His Majesty I shall be honoured
to salute the representatives

642
00:45:04,733 --> 00:45:07,367
of so holy and gallant an order

643
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,100
at noon.

644
00:45:11,067 --> 00:45:13,200
Thank you, Master Culpeper.

645
00:45:22,300 --> 00:45:26,733
He has a fine swagger about him,
as if he hadn't a care in the world.

646
00:45:26,767 --> 00:45:31,067
He is a handsome boy.He'll break
many a heart before he's much older.

647
00:45:31,067 --> 00:45:35,300
He reminds me of...
Oh, well. No matter.

648
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,900
We would ask you to convey
to your Grand Prior

649
00:45:40,933 --> 00:45:44,633
our earnest promise of goodwill

650
00:45:44,667 --> 00:45:49,300
and our hopes that he and
his gallant brothers in God

651
00:45:49,333 --> 00:45:53,067
will long continue to
defy the Ottoman powers.

652
00:45:56,267 --> 00:46:00,067
Here, come sit by me.

653
00:46:02,133 --> 00:46:07,167
I shall need your beauty to charm
these good envoys of the Grand Prior,

654
00:46:08,067 --> 00:46:10,800
or they will bleed me dry.

655
00:46:10,833 --> 00:46:14,633
We ask only for restoration
of that which is rightly ours,

656
00:46:14,667 --> 00:46:17,833
or compensation.
Money and men.

657
00:46:17,867 --> 00:46:22,733
The situation of our garrison at Malta is
critical. Our galleys bring certain reports

658
00:46:22,767 --> 00:46:26,233
that the Turkish power is assembling
in every port in the east.

659
00:46:26,267 --> 00:46:28,800
Its destination must surely be Malta,

660
00:46:28,833 --> 00:46:34,067
and its purpose can only be the
destruction of the Knights of St John.

661
00:46:34,100 --> 00:46:36,067
Our need is for money.

662
00:46:36,067 --> 00:46:39,900
Money for arms, for labour and
materials for fortification,

663
00:46:39,933 --> 00:46:42,533
for artillery, for galleys.

664
00:46:42,567 --> 00:46:46,500
And we need men, men to use those
arms, guard the fortification

665
00:46:46,533 --> 00:46:48,133
and fight the galleys.

666
00:46:50,667 --> 00:46:51,733
Huh?

667
00:47:03,300 --> 00:47:05,700
-Francis Dereham.
-Majesty.

668
00:47:06,533 --> 00:47:08,067
Leave us alone.

669
00:47:15,700 --> 00:47:17,167
Look at me.

670
00:47:19,900 --> 00:47:22,567
You've grown fat.

671
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:26,167
Last summer...
Was it really last summer?

672
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,567
Then you had the look of a saint.

673
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,500
The skin was stretched over
the bones of your face like

674
00:47:31,533 --> 00:47:34,367
the carving of the
dying Saint Sebastian.

675
00:47:36,667 --> 00:47:39,267
Last year I was Saint Sebastian,

676
00:47:39,300 --> 00:47:43,100
shot through with arrows and
near to diefor love of a girl.

677
00:47:43,133 --> 00:47:44,733
Now the agony has vanished?

678
00:47:44,767 --> 00:47:47,933
I had to banishthe whole
thought of herout of my mind.

679
00:47:47,967 --> 00:47:51,267
That was wise,Master Dereham, politic.

680
00:47:51,300 --> 00:47:55,800
Be sure she continues to stay out
of your mind. That girl is no more.

681
00:47:55,833 --> 00:48:00,900
-As lost as Saint Sebastian?
-We understand each other.

682
00:48:00,933 --> 00:48:05,200
-Yet I shall find silence difficult.
-What do you mean?

683
00:48:05,233 --> 00:48:10,267
I cannot rid my mind of you. Not a single
night passes when I'm not dreaming of you,

684
00:48:10,300 --> 00:48:13,300
hardly a moment of the day
when I'm not thinking of you.

685
00:48:13,333 --> 00:48:16,367
-You in my arms.
-You corrupted me.

686
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:18,667
Oh, you willing and eager
to be corrupted,

687
00:48:18,700 --> 00:48:21,633
but it's not a word
I would have chosen myself.

688
00:48:21,667 --> 00:48:25,500
The summer was magic for me,
too innocent to be sinful.

689
00:48:25,533 --> 00:48:29,800
-But treasonable.
-Only because you are now the Queen.

690
00:48:29,833 --> 00:48:33,467
You must swear to be discreet.
No one must ever know.

691
00:48:34,467 --> 00:48:39,867
My absolute discretion
and continued silence

692
00:48:39,900 --> 00:48:43,667
-could be made certain.
-Surely.

693
00:48:43,700 --> 00:48:48,567
I could have you poisoned
or order your throat cut.

694
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:53,067
-But then people would ask why.
-What, then, do you want?

695
00:48:53,067 --> 00:48:54,867
I would be honoured to serve you.

696
00:48:54,900 --> 00:48:56,933
How? My household is complete.

697
00:48:56,967 --> 00:49:00,367
It is reported that you have not
yet appointed a private secretary.

698
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,867
-You?
-Oh, I am skilled in Latin and French.

699
00:49:03,900 --> 00:49:08,833
I am trustworthy.
I'd make a very good secretary.

700
00:49:08,867 --> 00:49:12,100
Alas, Francis, I fear you would.

701
00:49:13,733 --> 00:49:16,500
Attend the court tomorrow,
I will give you my decision then.

702
00:49:16,533 --> 00:49:20,200
I'm grateful, Your Majesty.
Truly grateful.

703
00:49:22,900 --> 00:49:24,767
Oh, Lady Rochford.

704
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,633
Lord, Lord, to think
that once upon a time,

705
00:49:28,667 --> 00:49:32,333
I would have faced hellfire
for a touch of his little finger

706
00:49:32,367 --> 00:49:36,300
for that Saint Sebastian.

707
00:49:36,333 --> 00:49:39,267
Now a plump clerk skilled in Latin.

708
00:49:39,300 --> 00:49:43,400
-You'll not appoint him secretary?
-You were listening?

709
00:49:43,433 --> 00:49:46,433
Only heard the word "secretary".
Anyway, I can

710
00:49:46,467 --> 00:49:48,900
hold my tongue to keep my head.

711
00:49:48,933 --> 00:49:51,067
And so must he.

712
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,500
Gently, Thomas!

713
00:49:55,500 --> 00:49:57,700
Take me to the bed.

714
00:49:57,733 --> 00:50:00,133
(GROANING)

715
00:50:01,833 --> 00:50:06,700
One would think the villainous brute
had kicked me rather than fallen on me!

716
00:50:06,733 --> 00:50:09,600
-Shall I send for your surgeons, Your Majesty?
-No, no, where's the Queen?

717
00:50:09,633 --> 00:50:13,300
-Oh, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you're hurt.
-His Majesty fell.

718
00:50:13,333 --> 00:50:15,333
Well, His Majesty's horse
slipped in the mud and fell.

719
00:50:15,367 --> 00:50:18,433
-Yes, fell on me.
-Not your leg!

720
00:50:18,467 --> 00:50:23,333
-No, Catherine, it's my shoulder.
-Let me see it.

721
00:50:24,533 --> 00:50:27,267
Your hunting sword, Master Culpeper.

722
00:50:27,300 --> 00:50:33,067
Oh, I'll have the brute slaughtered
and fed to the dogs!

723
00:50:41,667 --> 00:50:43,267
(GROANING)

724
00:50:45,233 --> 00:50:48,100
-No bones broken.
-Are you certain of that?

725
00:50:48,133 --> 00:50:53,567
Certain, but you'll not be riding for a
week or more. You must lie back on the bed.

726
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:57,067
Master Culpeper,
help me, if you please.

727
00:50:57,100 --> 00:51:00,167
-Send this man away.
-Who, Somers?

728
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,200
Send him away, I do not want him near me.

729
00:51:02,233 --> 00:51:04,300
But he's my buffoon.
He's supposed to make me laugh.

730
00:51:04,333 --> 00:51:09,233
He never makes me laugh, he disturbs me.
In truth, I would have him whipped and banished.

731
00:51:11,533 --> 00:51:13,500
Leave us.

732
00:51:13,533 --> 00:51:17,867
I hate him! I never want
to see his sly face again.

733
00:51:17,900 --> 00:51:22,133
As you wish. I'm in pain,
I won't argue with you.

734
00:51:22,167 --> 00:51:26,167
Lady Rochford, I shall need a basin of
hot water, sufficient linen for a poultice

735
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:31,100
-and some hypericum to draw the bruise.
-HENRY: And bring some wine!

736
00:51:31,133 --> 00:51:33,800
-Hypericum?
-St John's wort,

737
00:51:33,833 --> 00:51:37,667
a wildflower with a slender stem
and bright yellow flowers.

738
00:51:37,700 --> 00:51:41,800
We make a tincture from it, which is the
surest remedy for an outward bruise.

739
00:51:41,833 --> 00:51:45,367
There, Thomas, and you wanted me
to send for my surgeons.

740
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,433
They would haveshaken their heads
and prescribed leeches.

741
00:51:48,467 --> 00:51:51,267
St John's wort sounds
far pleasanter, Majesty.

742
00:51:51,300 --> 00:51:53,967
And what about the nurse, eh?

743
00:51:54,067 --> 00:51:57,333
I would I had fallen if I had been
certain of such a nurse to attend me.

744
00:51:57,367 --> 00:52:00,067
You will go now, Master Culpeper.

745
00:52:00,767 --> 00:52:02,967
Your Majesty.

746
00:52:03,067 --> 00:52:07,700
You were harsh with Somers, Catherine,
and cruel to that young man.

747
00:52:07,733 --> 00:52:11,633
Because he is foolish. I do
not care for empty compliments.

748
00:52:12,667 --> 00:52:16,700
-Lie still now.
-Where's the wine?

749
00:52:27,667 --> 00:52:29,067
(SCREAMING)

750
00:52:29,067 --> 00:52:33,867
Take care, woman!
Do you want to burn a hole in me?

751
00:52:33,900 --> 00:52:36,067
Lie back now.

752
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:48,300
-You will stay with me?
-For a little, until you are asleep.

753
00:52:48,333 --> 00:52:50,067
-You need complete rest.
-Yes.

754
00:52:50,100 --> 00:52:55,633
You'll be sooner recovered if you
are undisturbed. Lie back now.

755
00:53:06,833 --> 00:53:10,200
-Master Culpeper?
-Well?

756
00:53:10,233 --> 00:53:13,967
I'm ordered by the Queen
to return this to you.

757
00:53:14,067 --> 00:53:16,633
-Nothing else?
-What else should there be?

758
00:53:16,667 --> 00:53:18,333
No message of thanks?

759
00:53:18,367 --> 00:53:22,067
Not that I can remember, I was
simply instructed to return the sword.

760
00:53:22,700 --> 00:53:25,567
Oh, there was no real need.

761
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:29,267
I suspect we shall have little enough
hunting for the present, if ever again.

762
00:53:29,300 --> 00:53:31,867
-The King is recovering.
-I was riding withhim when he fell.

763
00:53:31,900 --> 00:53:35,200
He blamed his horse. The true
blame lay with the rider.

764
00:53:35,233 --> 00:53:37,800
He's not able to sit
a saddle all day any more.

765
00:53:37,833 --> 00:53:41,300
Yesterday, he bruised his shoulder.
Next time, he could well break his back.

766
00:53:41,333 --> 00:53:43,633
If the Queen does not
break it for him first.

767
00:53:43,667 --> 00:53:47,867
Tread softly, Master Secretary.
The Queen is divinity to me.

768
00:53:47,900 --> 00:53:51,067
Then you're a poor, foolish mortal.
Divinity!

769
00:53:51,067 --> 00:53:53,233
I shall not caution you again!

770
00:53:53,267 --> 00:53:58,100
Oh, come, man, open your eyes. The Queen
is a woman just as you're a man.

771
00:53:58,133 --> 00:54:02,433
She feels, suffers, laughs,
eats, drinks, functions,

772
00:54:02,467 --> 00:54:06,333
dislikes and desires
just as any other woman.

773
00:54:06,367 --> 00:54:08,867
You speak as though you
shared some secret with her.

774
00:54:08,900 --> 00:54:12,067
-I do.
-You, a secretary?

775
00:54:12,067 --> 00:54:14,633
I knew her before she came to court.

776
00:54:14,667 --> 00:54:16,900
Last year in Horsham,
I was in her company daily,

777
00:54:16,933 --> 00:54:21,533
and I swear to you, Master Culpeper,
I know her well.

778
00:54:21,567 --> 00:54:24,200
Your brain is rotted with
too much scholarship.

779
00:54:24,233 --> 00:54:26,233
Sneer if you wish, but I speak the truth.

780
00:54:26,267 --> 00:54:30,267
-Well, I say you lie!
-Tush, man, why shouldn't I speak the truth?

781
00:54:30,300 --> 00:54:34,767
The summer nights were long. I was
bold and nimble enough to climb a wall,

782
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:41,067
and the girl was hot, eager and
curious. I merely politely obliged.

783
00:54:41,067 --> 00:54:42,867
What are you thinking?

784
00:54:42,900 --> 00:54:48,100
I'm thinking I shall cut off your lips
before you speak any more blasphemy.

785
00:54:48,133 --> 00:54:51,167
Be sensible, Master Culpeper.

786
00:55:01,433 --> 00:55:04,267
Shall I inform the Queen
of your humble gratitude

787
00:55:04,300 --> 00:55:07,200
in her graciously returning
you your hunting sword?

788
00:55:07,233 --> 00:55:11,100
-Say what you will.
-Then I shall tell Her Majesty

789
00:55:11,133 --> 00:55:13,767
that I found you disturbingly pale.

790
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:17,100
That in my opinion,
Master Culpeper is sick in love,

791
00:55:17,133 --> 00:55:20,633
but that I can suggest
no possible remedy for it.

792
00:55:20,667 --> 00:55:25,967
For there is no remedy. You will
have to burn, Master Culpeper.

793
00:55:26,067 --> 00:55:28,733
Burn! Just as I do!

794
00:55:34,500 --> 00:55:37,267
Do you think the secretary
was speaking the truth?

795
00:55:37,300 --> 00:55:40,667
I thought he was boasting of an imaginary
relationship to try and impress me,

796
00:55:40,700 --> 00:55:44,933
or perhaps to rouse me to jealousy, but
when he left me, his last words were spoken

797
00:55:44,967 --> 00:55:48,967
with such bitterness, such real agony,
that I came near to believing him.

798
00:55:49,067 --> 00:55:54,233
Whether imagination or reality,
it was equally foolish and dangerous.

799
00:55:54,267 --> 00:55:56,600
But that's why I came to you,
my lord, and not to the King.

800
00:55:56,633 --> 00:55:58,633
Above all,
I want nothing to harm the Queen.

801
00:55:58,667 --> 00:56:01,133
And since you are her kinsman,
and the King's first councillor...

802
00:56:01,167 --> 00:56:04,567
Yes, you acted wisely.

803
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,833
I am inclined to think that your
first opinion of this secretary

804
00:56:07,867 --> 00:56:10,600
is probably the more accurate.

805
00:56:10,633 --> 00:56:15,100
I have my mother's word, and the
word of that of the Queen herself

806
00:56:15,133 --> 00:56:19,100
that there was no history
of any previous entanglement.

807
00:56:19,133 --> 00:56:22,133
I take their word rather
than that of Dereham's.

808
00:56:22,167 --> 00:56:23,867
But what if he should repeat the slander?

809
00:56:23,900 --> 00:56:25,500
Oh, there will be no repetition.

810
00:56:25,533 --> 00:56:27,867
I shall speak to the Queen tomorrow.

811
00:56:27,900 --> 00:56:31,800
I deny every detail of
my secretary's foul story.

812
00:56:31,833 --> 00:56:36,267
I shall have him repeat it before the
King and see his head on London Bridge

813
00:56:36,300 --> 00:56:39,967
-before he's a day older.
-Why trouble the King?

814
00:56:40,067 --> 00:56:43,167
Take my advice and send
your secretary away for a while.

815
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:45,633
Let him visit your many
estates and take inventories,

816
00:56:45,667 --> 00:56:47,900
or whatever it is secretaries
are supposed to do.

817
00:56:47,933 --> 00:56:51,667
Keep him occupied and away from
court for half a year or so.

818
00:56:51,700 --> 00:56:55,733
-I would prefer him silenced forever.
-Then people would ask why.

819
00:56:55,767 --> 00:56:59,200
-I've heard that argument before.
-Oh? Who from?

820
00:57:01,333 --> 00:57:05,533
-And what if Dereham repeats his lies to others?
-I do not think he will.

821
00:57:05,567 --> 00:57:09,433
I understand this whole dangerous but
foolish business was only occasioned

822
00:57:09,467 --> 00:57:12,067
because of some youthful quarrel
or rivalry.

823
00:57:12,100 --> 00:57:15,967
I'll make sure the secretary's cautioned
before he leaves the court.

824
00:57:16,067 --> 00:57:21,200
Is it not possible for some accident
to overtake him on his journey?

825
00:57:21,233 --> 00:57:24,233
But you told me this story was imagined.

826
00:57:25,167 --> 00:57:27,533
Why, then, are you so afraid?

827
00:57:29,300 --> 00:57:33,733
Or is this story a lie?
Answer me.

828
00:57:36,767 --> 00:57:40,333
-You have no right to question me this way.
-I have every right.

829
00:57:40,367 --> 00:57:42,233
Had it not been for my ambition for you,

830
00:57:42,267 --> 00:57:44,833
you'd still be an unknown girl
in my mother's household.

831
00:57:44,867 --> 00:57:50,067
I made you Queen, Catherine, and
I can unmake you just as easily.

832
00:57:50,067 --> 00:57:55,167
Remember your cousin Anne. Her neck was
just as pretty and just as slender as yours.

833
00:57:55,200 --> 00:58:00,167
She ignored the advice of her
family and she died on the block.

834
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:03,533
Now then, tell me the truth.

835
00:58:03,567 --> 00:58:07,567
My mother listed two names,
Dereham and Mannox.

836
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:11,933
She dismissed the friendships as
innocent. Were they innocent?

837
00:58:11,967 --> 00:58:16,200
In spirit, yes.
I never dreamed of marrying the King!

838
00:58:16,233 --> 00:58:19,100
You swore to me
that you were innocent!

839
00:58:19,133 --> 00:58:21,833
The King believed you to be untouched!

840
00:58:21,867 --> 00:58:25,067
Now I must understand that
Dereham was not lying.

841
00:58:25,067 --> 00:58:27,233
-That you were lovers.
-Yes.

842
00:58:27,267 --> 00:58:29,533
-What of Mannox?
-We were never lovers.

843
00:58:29,567 --> 00:58:34,267
-What then?
-He once or twice kissed and caressed me.

844
00:58:42,433 --> 00:58:45,400
How many people knew of your
relation with these two young men?

845
00:58:45,433 --> 00:58:47,667
Nobody knew, some may have guessed.

846
00:58:47,700 --> 00:58:50,900
I should imagine every servant girl
and stable boy in the house.

847
00:58:50,933 --> 00:58:55,533
I can silence one man, I can't
silence a wholehouse full of servants.

848
00:58:56,967 --> 00:58:59,067
Then what am I to do?

849
00:58:59,067 --> 00:59:02,500
Confess everything to the King before
he learns anything from somebody else?

850
00:59:02,533 --> 00:59:06,133
-Beg him on my knees to forgive me?
-Oh, come now.

851
00:59:06,167 --> 00:59:10,733
You have been close to him long enough
to know that above all things he is vain.

852
00:59:10,767 --> 00:59:13,233
He must never know.

853
00:59:13,267 --> 00:59:17,300
Or if he is to know,you must be
in suchan impregnable position

854
00:59:17,333 --> 00:59:21,367
-that no former scandal can harm you.
-How?

855
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:24,767
-Give him a son.
-Impossible.

856
00:59:26,067 --> 00:59:30,233
-But why impossible?
-He is incapable.

857
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:36,067
-I cannot believe it.
-Nor will he.

858
00:59:36,067 --> 00:59:39,967
He sleeps with me, lies with
me as a husband does with a wife,

859
00:59:40,067 --> 00:59:45,433
but I am certain he can be no more
to me than King David was to Abishag.

860
00:59:45,467 --> 00:59:50,100
He can never give me a child. I can
never have the protection of a son.

861
00:59:52,100 --> 00:59:56,133
No, not his son.

862
00:59:56,733 --> 00:59:58,733
What do you mean?

863
01:00:01,267 --> 01:00:05,167
When you lied to me,
and through me to the King,

864
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:07,200
you committed yourself, Catherine.

865
01:00:07,233 --> 01:00:12,167
You committed yourself rather as a
soldier who commits himself to battle.

866
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:16,600
There are only two conclusions,
victory or death.

867
01:00:18,300 --> 01:00:23,633
My advice to you, the advice of a
seasoned and successful soldier,

868
01:00:23,667 --> 01:00:29,233
is to place yourself
in a defensive position

869
01:00:29,267 --> 01:00:32,833
-with a son upon your knee.
-But the danger...

870
01:00:32,867 --> 01:00:35,733
As you now stand, one danger
looks much like another.

871
01:00:35,767 --> 01:00:37,867
But who?

872
01:00:37,900 --> 01:00:40,900
That, I should have thought,
would be the least of your problems.

873
01:00:40,933 --> 01:00:44,033
Two young men and the King of England,
all within the space of a year,

874
01:00:44,067 --> 01:00:49,200
would seem to me to indicate a
remarkable talent. Make use of it.

875
01:00:49,233 --> 01:00:51,967
By my part, I cannot help you.

876
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:56,833
I, alas, am a simple soldier.
No skill in bedroom intrigue.

877
01:00:56,867 --> 01:01:00,467
You must fight this battle yourself.

878
01:01:00,500 --> 01:01:05,933
But be sure you win. Nowadays,
war is a dedicated affair.

879
01:01:05,967 --> 01:01:09,233
No ransom. No general pardon.

880
01:01:09,267 --> 01:01:14,100
To the victor, the glory.
To the loser, the axe.

881
01:01:40,300 --> 01:01:44,733
And now, my angel. So silent?

882
01:01:44,767 --> 01:01:49,067
When you are old,
do you often think on death?

883
01:01:49,067 --> 01:01:51,633
More than when I was young.

884
01:01:51,667 --> 01:01:55,200
Then I never bothered with
thoughts of the life to come.

885
01:01:55,233 --> 01:01:56,900
But now you think of it.

886
01:01:56,933 --> 01:02:02,167
At night, when the Lord in his
wisdom reminds me of mortality.

887
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:07,600
Another grey hair or the pain in
my bones when the East wind blows.

888
01:02:07,633 --> 01:02:10,100
Is it so terrible to die?

889
01:02:10,867 --> 01:02:13,733
To die young would be sad.

890
01:02:13,767 --> 01:02:18,633
How pitiful to go into the next
world knowing nothing of this one.

891
01:02:18,667 --> 01:02:24,500
-Such ignorance, such waste.
-Is this world worth knowing?

892
01:02:24,533 --> 01:02:29,800
I believe so, my angel,
especially for someone like you.

893
01:02:29,833 --> 01:02:34,633
A queen, beautiful, adored.

894
01:02:34,667 --> 01:02:40,867
If I were to die adored and beautiful,
men would write epitaphs to me.

895
01:02:40,900 --> 01:02:46,300
In Latin, Greek, French and English,
but you wouldn't read them.

896
01:02:46,333 --> 01:02:50,433
So, let me hear no more
of epitaphs and deaths.

897
01:02:50,467 --> 01:02:54,933
Smile. Think on the
pleasant things in life.

898
01:02:54,967 --> 01:02:57,067
-Your Majesty.
-Well?

899
01:02:57,067 --> 01:02:59,167
Master Culpeper is in the anteroom.

900
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:02,567
-He wishes to speak with you.
-At this hour?

901
01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:05,100
-Let him come in.
-Here, to the bedroom?

902
01:03:05,133 --> 01:03:07,067
Do as I say.

903
01:03:13,100 --> 01:03:17,767
-'Tis very late, Master Culpeper.
-I have been with the King.

904
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:22,900
-I left the King atsupper three hours ago.
-He is still at supper.

905
01:03:22,933 --> 01:03:24,933
The hall was hot and the wine strong.

906
01:03:24,967 --> 01:03:27,333
He has fallen asleep at the table?

907
01:03:28,233 --> 01:03:31,633
-Yes.
-Then why come to me?

908
01:03:31,667 --> 01:03:35,900
It is the third time in as many days.
Surely you know what to do by now.

909
01:03:35,933 --> 01:03:39,233
His face was very flushed and his
breathing seemed to be difficult.

910
01:03:39,267 --> 01:03:41,667
Then leave him in his chair.

911
01:03:41,700 --> 01:03:43,267
Lady Rochford,

912
01:03:43,300 --> 01:03:46,067
go down to the hall, let some of his
guard lash their pikes under his chair,

913
01:03:46,100 --> 01:03:48,367
and let them carry him
to his own apartments.

914
01:03:49,100 --> 01:03:51,400
-Not here.
-No.

915
01:03:51,433 --> 01:03:54,300
You understand me, Lady Rochford.

916
01:03:54,333 --> 01:03:58,233
-Yes, Majesty.
-Then do as I say. Go.

917
01:04:03,867 --> 01:04:06,567
Master Culpeper, stay.

918
01:04:08,300 --> 01:04:13,433
-I wish you to do me a service.
-Whatever you will.

919
01:04:13,467 --> 01:04:16,867
-The King trusts you.
-I am happy to think so.

920
01:04:16,900 --> 01:04:18,433
I am certain he does.

921
01:04:18,467 --> 01:04:22,633
He has spoken of your devotion many
times, and always with feeling.

922
01:04:22,667 --> 01:04:27,533
He is pleased to have the affection
and company of a younger man.

923
01:04:27,567 --> 01:04:29,467
I try to be of use.

924
01:04:29,500 --> 01:04:33,667
You are with the King more frequently
than any other gentleman of the household.

925
01:04:33,700 --> 01:04:38,067
Why, I suspect you see more
of him than even I do.

926
01:04:38,067 --> 01:04:41,067
Therefore, I would be obliged to you,
Master Culpeper,

927
01:04:41,067 --> 01:04:47,733
if you could see your way to being more
conscious of the King's age and health.

928
01:04:47,767 --> 01:04:52,067
Your prowess in the field and at the
table are a constant reminder to him

929
01:04:52,067 --> 01:04:55,167
of his own powers when he was your age.

930
01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:59,067
He is determined to keep pace with you,

931
01:04:59,067 --> 01:05:02,867
and in so doing, he is
near to killing himself.

932
01:05:02,900 --> 01:05:07,967
-I would not have that happen for the world.
-Nor I, Majesty.

933
01:05:08,067 --> 01:05:13,167
Then for my sake, remember his
age and try to curb yourself.

934
01:05:18,567 --> 01:05:21,533
Lord, you must forgive me, Master Culpeper.

935
01:05:21,567 --> 01:05:23,700
I am lecturing you like
an old schoolmaster,

936
01:05:23,733 --> 01:05:27,100
and here I am, only a year out
of the school room.

937
01:05:27,133 --> 01:05:31,433
Yet in that year, I have learnt more
than is in all the libraries of Europe.

938
01:05:31,467 --> 01:05:35,100
I feel as old and as wise
as a desert hermit.

939
01:05:35,567 --> 01:05:37,433
And as alone.

940
01:05:37,467 --> 01:05:40,533
-London is no desert.
-It is to me.

941
01:05:41,133 --> 01:05:42,933
I don't understand.

942
01:05:42,967 --> 01:05:48,233
You're surrounded by friends, by servants,
by every luxury,the King worships you.

943
01:05:48,267 --> 01:05:53,233
But everything is so remote.
Nothing really touches me.

944
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:59,433
My friends must not be too
familiar for I am the Queen.

945
01:05:59,467 --> 01:06:03,633
The King worships me,
but I want more than that.

946
01:06:04,500 --> 01:06:09,967
God, I am at a distance from life.

947
01:06:10,067 --> 01:06:14,967
I do not want to be stared at as
if I were a cold, marble statue.

948
01:06:15,067 --> 01:06:19,400
I do not want to be adored as if
I were the image of a dead saint.

949
01:06:21,733 --> 01:06:23,467
Give me your hand.

950
01:06:26,433 --> 01:06:30,133
Is my shoulder cold like marble,

951
01:06:30,167 --> 01:06:33,333
dead like a wooden image?

952
01:06:34,967 --> 01:06:39,733
No, it is warm and alive like your hand.

953
01:06:58,167 --> 01:06:59,733
(DOOR OPENING)

954
01:07:02,500 --> 01:07:05,700
Have my orders been obeyed,
Lady Rochford?

955
01:07:05,733 --> 01:07:10,400
It took eight officers of the guard
to carry His Majesty in the chair.

956
01:07:11,233 --> 01:07:13,200
You may be needed.

957
01:07:15,367 --> 01:07:17,200
And remember your promise to me,

958
01:07:17,233 --> 01:07:21,567
not to encourage His Majesty in
his attempts to keep pace with you.

959
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:25,467
His well being is as dear to
my heart as it is to yours.

960
01:07:25,500 --> 01:07:29,300
God give you good night,
Master Culpeper.

961
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:32,433
Good night, Majesty.

962
01:07:35,533 --> 01:07:40,400
Master Culpeper managed to take
your mind offdeaths and epitaphs?

963
01:07:40,433 --> 01:07:43,467
He cheered me wonderfully.

964
01:07:43,500 --> 01:07:45,533
He's a handsome, gallant gentleman.

965
01:07:45,567 --> 01:07:49,300
Afraid of nothing, I would think.

966
01:07:49,333 --> 01:07:52,800
You'll be alone in
your bed tonight, angel.

967
01:07:52,833 --> 01:07:55,633
Your husband will sleep sound.

968
01:07:55,667 --> 01:07:58,867
Unless he wakes to vomit
a gallon or so of wine.

969
01:07:58,900 --> 01:08:01,500
He reeks like an innkeeper.

970
01:08:01,533 --> 01:08:05,800
He reminds me of the knight in
the tale of the death of Arthur,

971
01:08:05,833 --> 01:08:08,367
-he who loved the Queen.
-Not the...

972
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:12,933
-No, Thomas Culpeper.
-Oh.

973
01:08:12,967 --> 01:08:14,733
You'll leave tomorrow,

974
01:08:14,767 --> 01:08:19,333
and be in Lincoln in time to meet the
King on his return from a visit to York.

975
01:08:19,367 --> 01:08:21,967
You'll take charge of certain
documents and reports

976
01:08:22,067 --> 01:08:25,067
which you'll personally
deliver to His Majesty.

977
01:08:25,067 --> 01:08:29,433
You'll then return here to London
with the King's replies and orders.

978
01:08:29,467 --> 01:08:31,567
The Queen travels to Hatfield tomorrow.

979
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:34,133
Yes, she's to meet the King there.

980
01:08:34,167 --> 01:08:38,933
I had hoped to have the honour of
escorting Her Majesty to Hatfield.

981
01:08:38,967 --> 01:08:44,533
Well, perhaps the King will ask
you to return by way of Hatfield.

982
01:08:44,567 --> 01:08:47,867
There's been an extraordinary stream
of messages and presents for her

983
01:08:47,900 --> 01:08:50,500
ever since the King set out
on his northern progress.

984
01:08:50,533 --> 01:08:56,500
One of the letters that you'll be carrying is
from the Grand Prior of the Order of St John.

985
01:08:56,533 --> 01:09:00,167
-Another request for money and men.
-Above all for men.

986
01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:05,467
I remember the conversation that we had.
You were rather drunk at the time.

987
01:09:05,500 --> 01:09:10,333
We were examining possible
outlets for a young man's energy.

988
01:09:10,367 --> 01:09:13,067
You were looking for a crusade.

989
01:09:13,100 --> 01:09:16,567
Well, what better causethan that
of the gallant Knights of St John?

990
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:20,367
Defenders of Christianity
against the heathen Ottomite.

991
01:09:21,633 --> 01:09:25,167
Or have you now decided to
stay safe and secure at home?

992
01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:29,267
I have decided to stay
here at court, my lord.

993
01:09:29,300 --> 01:09:33,300
-Safe and secure.
-I suppose it must appear so.

994
01:09:38,133 --> 01:09:42,100
Very well, Master Culpeper, the correspondence
for the King will be delivered to you

995
01:09:42,133 --> 01:09:47,067
shortly after dawn tomorrow morning.
My officer will bring them to you.

996
01:09:47,067 --> 01:09:51,333
-I shall be ready.
-Excellent. That will be all for the moment.

997
01:10:00,433 --> 01:10:03,800
-Stanton.
-My lord?

998
01:10:03,833 --> 01:10:08,733
Watch Culpeper. Go after him now.
See where he goes, what he does.

999
01:10:08,767 --> 01:10:11,700
I want a full account of every minute
between now and when he leaves

1000
01:10:11,733 --> 01:10:15,033
-for Lincoln tomorrow morning.
-I understand.

1001
01:10:25,233 --> 01:10:27,133
(TAPPING ON DOOR)

1002
01:10:34,700 --> 01:10:37,167
All is well, my angels.

1003
01:10:37,200 --> 01:10:40,567
I shall return an hour before dawn.

1004
01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:43,733
Till then, God bless and
preserve you both.

1005
01:11:01,967 --> 01:11:05,767
(CATHERINE AND CULPEPER LAUGHING)

1006
01:11:42,833 --> 01:11:46,067
It's three months since the
King returned to London.

1007
01:11:46,067 --> 01:11:49,467
My information is that the Queen
shows no signs of pregnancy,

1008
01:11:49,500 --> 01:11:52,167
but that her liaison with Culpeper
is daily becoming more

1009
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:54,233
reckless and increasingly obvious.

1010
01:11:54,267 --> 01:11:56,633
Have you warned her, or
spoken to the young man?

1011
01:11:56,667 --> 01:11:59,433
-I am not supposed to know.
-You encouraged it.

1012
01:11:59,467 --> 01:12:03,300
I advised her.She was through
her own fault in grave danger.

1013
01:12:03,333 --> 01:12:05,300
I suggested a possible remedy.

1014
01:12:05,333 --> 01:12:10,133
-Every bit as dangerous.
-I agree, but there was no alternative.

1015
01:12:10,167 --> 01:12:14,100
If she could have gone to the King
and announced she was carrying a child,

1016
01:12:14,133 --> 01:12:16,667
then no rumour
could have affected her.

1017
01:12:16,700 --> 01:12:18,767
But now,
not only are the stories

1018
01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:22,100
of her escapades at Horsham
known to half the court,

1019
01:12:22,133 --> 01:12:25,333
but people are beginning
to talk about Culpeper.

1020
01:12:25,367 --> 01:12:27,200
And the King?

1021
01:12:27,233 --> 01:12:30,967
Oh, he's as blind and as much
in love with her as ever.

1022
01:12:31,067 --> 01:12:35,833
He's even thinking of possible promotion
for the man who's cuckolding him.

1023
01:12:35,867 --> 01:12:38,100
How and when do they manage to meet?

1024
01:12:38,133 --> 01:12:40,733
Lady Rochford is a natural pander.

1025
01:12:40,767 --> 01:12:43,600
If Argus himself were to
guard the Queen's apartments,

1026
01:12:43,633 --> 01:12:48,067
she'd still find a wayto smuggle
the young man to the Queen's bed.

1027
01:12:52,233 --> 01:12:54,200
What's to be done?

1028
01:12:56,100 --> 01:13:00,767
If the Queen is to fall
through her own rash behaviour,

1029
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:03,367
she must not bring us down with her.

1030
01:13:03,400 --> 01:13:07,100
Our collective security
is my first consideration.

1031
01:13:07,133 --> 01:13:10,200
The safety of the Howards
is my primary duty.

1032
01:13:10,233 --> 01:13:12,100
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

1033
01:13:14,067 --> 01:13:17,233
-What is it, Stanton?
-My Lord Duke, my lady.

1034
01:13:17,733 --> 01:13:19,133
Well?

1035
01:13:21,400 --> 01:13:23,200
-What news from Horsham?
-Horsham?

1036
01:13:23,233 --> 01:13:26,100
I ordered my officer, Master Stanton
here, to make certain inquiries.

1037
01:13:26,133 --> 01:13:29,667
-I fear I was too late for any inquiries, my lord.
-What do you mean?

1038
01:13:29,700 --> 01:13:31,900
Others had been there before me
on much the same errand.

1039
01:13:31,933 --> 01:13:35,533
A priest and two gentlemen,
servants of the Archbishop.

1040
01:13:35,567 --> 01:13:38,233
-What did they discover?
-They questioned Anne Carey.

1041
01:13:38,267 --> 01:13:40,300
-Also one John Lascelles.
-Who?

1042
01:13:40,333 --> 01:13:42,533
Lascelles' sister-in-law is
a woman called Mary Hall.

1043
01:13:42,567 --> 01:13:47,133
A servant of mine at Horsham. One of
her duties was to attend on Catherine.

1044
01:13:47,167 --> 01:13:50,167
They took sworn depositions from
Anne Carey, Lascelles and Hall.

1045
01:13:50,200 --> 01:13:53,600
The priest returned to Canterbury and
the gentlemen set out to Winchester.

1046
01:13:53,633 --> 01:13:58,167
I believe they're looking for the
Queen's secretary, Francis Dereham.

1047
01:13:59,867 --> 01:14:03,433
-I shall speak to the King tonight.
-And Catherine?

1048
01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:07,400
I can do nothing.

1049
01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:14,733
If I shirk from telling the King, he
will surely learn it from the Archbishop.

1050
01:14:14,767 --> 01:14:16,433
I must be first.

1051
01:14:38,633 --> 01:14:42,533
It breaks my heart to have to tell
you of her infamy, Your Majesty.

1052
01:14:42,567 --> 01:14:47,367
I feel a heavy burden of guilt. But for
me, you might never have seen her.

1053
01:14:49,467 --> 01:14:53,433
-Would to God I had not.
-I believed her chaste.

1054
01:14:53,467 --> 01:14:56,567
So she surely
seemed to all the world.

1055
01:14:58,433 --> 01:15:02,800
So young, so beautiful, yet so corrupt.

1056
01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:09,367
You must not blame yourself,
Norfolk, we were all blind.

1057
01:15:09,400 --> 01:15:12,533
This news has broken me, Your Majesty.

1058
01:15:12,567 --> 01:15:16,133
No, no, I shall need all
your strength to help me.

1059
01:15:18,133 --> 01:15:20,200
I should be angry.

1060
01:15:20,233 --> 01:15:25,067
I should be terrible in my revenge,
but strangely, I am only perplexed.

1061
01:15:26,633 --> 01:15:31,267
I called her my rose without a thorn.
She was my young and gentle girl.

1062
01:15:32,333 --> 01:15:36,567
Her hands soothed and healed me.

1063
01:15:38,933 --> 01:15:41,933
What must I do with her?

1064
01:15:41,967 --> 01:15:46,500
She lived mostsensually and corruptly
before she married you,

1065
01:15:46,533 --> 01:15:50,100
yet she presented herself
to you as an innocent.

1066
01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:53,400
She must go to the block.

1067
01:15:54,600 --> 01:15:58,367
-So young!
-Her offences are treasonable.

1068
01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:01,367
She has maliciously caused you harm.

1069
01:16:01,400 --> 01:16:04,067
Death isthe only proper verdict.

1070
01:16:04,933 --> 01:16:06,900
Then so be it.

1071
01:16:06,933 --> 01:16:08,700
I beg you now to be responsible

1072
01:16:08,733 --> 01:16:12,633
for the necessary interrogations
and eventual...punishment.

1073
01:16:12,667 --> 01:16:17,433
Orders have already been given for
the arrest of Dereham and Mannox.

1074
01:16:17,467 --> 01:16:19,133
And Culpeper?

1075
01:16:19,167 --> 01:16:23,067
My officers conveyed him to
the Tower earlier tonight.

1076
01:16:23,867 --> 01:16:26,567
Oh, Catherine!

1077
01:16:26,600 --> 01:16:30,600
I did not wish to act until
you knew of her guilt.

1078
01:16:36,333 --> 01:16:39,767
-I shall not speak with her!
-She will beg to see you.

1079
01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:42,533
No, I cannot...Cannot face her.

1080
01:16:42,567 --> 01:16:46,967
Do whatever you think fit, Norfolk,
I must leave everything to you.

1081
01:16:47,067 --> 01:16:49,167
Were she to throw herself on my mercy,

1082
01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:52,900
kneel and weep at my feet,
I do not know what I should do.

1083
01:16:52,933 --> 01:16:56,267
Strangle her with my own hands

1084
01:16:57,333 --> 01:17:01,567
or weep with her. Weep and forgive her.

1085
01:17:05,133 --> 01:17:09,633
Go, now. Do what must be done.

1086
01:17:43,300 --> 01:17:48,200
Will, a stick.
Give me a stick.

1087
01:17:54,233 --> 01:17:55,667
(TAPPING ON DOOR)

1088
01:17:55,700 --> 01:17:57,600
Oh, Thomas.

1089
01:18:00,467 --> 01:18:03,067
-He was not there.
-Did you wait long enough?

1090
01:18:03,067 --> 01:18:05,333
-For nearly an hour.
-Then where is he?

1091
01:18:05,367 --> 01:18:08,267
-He's not been seen tonight.
-He was to attend the King.

1092
01:18:08,300 --> 01:18:11,500
The King is with your uncle. They've been
alone together for more than two hours.

1093
01:18:11,533 --> 01:18:14,767
-Some business of state?
-Who knows?

1094
01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:17,900
Oh, come on, my angel, be cheerful.

1095
01:18:17,933 --> 01:18:21,433
Perhaps the King has sent
Master Culpeper on some urgent errand.

1096
01:18:21,467 --> 01:18:25,067
Perhaps he had not time or thought
it dangerous to send you word.

1097
01:18:25,100 --> 01:18:28,200
-Pray heaven it is so.
-Amen to that.

1098
01:18:28,233 --> 01:18:29,500
(TAPPING ON DOOR)

1099
01:18:29,533 --> 01:18:32,100
-Thomas!
-There, my angel, all is well.

1100
01:18:32,133 --> 01:18:34,100
I would die!

1101
01:18:42,067 --> 01:18:46,533
Your Majesty, I am ordered by the King
to arrest you, together with Lady Rochford,

1102
01:18:46,567 --> 01:18:49,067
and to convey you both
to Syon House at once.

1103
01:18:49,100 --> 01:18:51,800
-Arrest.
-On a charge of high treason.

1104
01:18:55,500 --> 01:18:59,067
-I wish to speak to the King.
-He will not see you.

1105
01:19:18,100 --> 01:19:22,367
Have mercy. God have mercy.
God have mercy. God have mercy.

1106
01:19:22,400 --> 01:19:24,600
-God have mercy.
-Too late for any mercy.

1107
01:19:24,633 --> 01:19:28,733
Be grateful that the King
remembered you at the end,

1108
01:19:30,100 --> 01:19:33,100
that you are to die as a gentleman.

1109
01:19:33,133 --> 01:19:35,633
But for me,

1110
01:19:35,667 --> 01:19:39,633
because I was only a secretary,

1111
01:19:39,667 --> 01:19:42,067
I shall face the rope,

1112
01:19:42,067 --> 01:19:46,533
the disembo welling
knife and then the axe.

1113
01:19:47,667 --> 01:19:52,733
I shall know pain, Master Culpeper.

1114
01:19:52,767 --> 01:19:57,867
You suffered on the rack,
think how I shall suffer tomorrow.

1115
01:19:57,900 --> 01:20:00,600
No!

1116
01:20:00,633 --> 01:20:05,967
God, man, if anyone should
curse heaven, it should be me.

1117
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:13,367
I fell in love with a girl
who by mere chance married a king.

1118
01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:18,700
But you, you knowingly committed
adultery with a queen.

1119
01:20:18,733 --> 01:20:20,933
She tempted me.
She is a witch.

1120
01:20:20,967 --> 01:20:24,300
You were willing and eager to be tempted.

1121
01:20:24,333 --> 01:20:28,633
-She is evil.
-No, never evil.

1122
01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:35,000
Vain, stupid, hollow, shallow,

1123
01:20:35,500 --> 01:20:37,733
but never evil.

1124
01:20:39,167 --> 01:20:41,433
Do you forgive her, then?

1125
01:20:42,633 --> 01:20:45,667
I have no feelings left.

1126
01:20:48,100 --> 01:20:53,300
I find it strangely impossible
to realise

1127
01:20:53,333 --> 01:20:58,767
that I am to die tomorrow
for something so ordinary

1128
01:20:58,800 --> 01:21:03,367
that happens all
the time and everywhere.

1129
01:21:04,567 --> 01:21:10,133
I climbed the wall and I loved her.

1130
01:21:10,167 --> 01:21:16,067
Now I am condemned to death
for such a little sin.

1131
01:21:17,833 --> 01:21:23,067
When you heard she was to marry the
King, you should have left England.

1132
01:21:23,067 --> 01:21:26,733
Yes, that would have been sensible.

1133
01:21:26,767 --> 01:21:29,067
Sensible?

1134
01:21:29,100 --> 01:21:31,967
I swear you will be
a clown to the very end.

1135
01:21:32,067 --> 01:21:37,533
Come, admit it was impossible to rid your
brain of the memory of those few nights.

1136
01:21:37,567 --> 01:21:41,200
She dazzled you then,
and she still does now.

1137
01:21:41,233 --> 01:21:44,967
And you will remember her even
as they cut out your bowels.

1138
01:21:45,067 --> 01:21:49,367
-Yes!
-Just as I will remember her and curse her.

1139
01:21:49,400 --> 01:21:52,400
Oh, God have mercy.
God have mercy. God have mercy.

1140
01:21:52,433 --> 01:21:55,367
-God have mercy. God have mercy.
-Oh, Catherine. Catherine.

1141
01:21:59,333 --> 01:22:03,567
You will be taken
down river to the Tower.

1142
01:22:03,600 --> 01:22:06,967
The curious will no doubt
be there to stare at you.

1143
01:22:07,067 --> 01:22:09,867
It is, after all, a public occasion,

1144
01:22:09,900 --> 01:22:12,433
and they always feel cheated
because they're not permitted

1145
01:22:12,467 --> 01:22:16,133
to witness the concluding ceremonial.

1146
01:22:16,167 --> 01:22:20,067
I suggest, therefore,
that you dress discreetly,

1147
01:22:20,067 --> 01:22:23,233
and conduct yourself with
the dignity befitting your rank.

1148
01:22:23,267 --> 01:22:26,533
-And family.
-Yes, and family.

1149
01:22:26,567 --> 01:22:31,167
-I shall wear this.
-Admirable.

1150
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:37,467
I should warn you that one stage of your
journey may prove emotionally trying.

1151
01:22:37,500 --> 01:22:40,800
The barges will, of course,
pass under London Bridge.

1152
01:22:40,833 --> 01:22:43,233
Well?

1153
01:22:43,267 --> 01:22:48,233
The remains of Dereham and the head of
Culpeper are impaled upon the bridge.

1154
01:22:50,333 --> 01:22:53,700
-How long shall I be in the Tower?
-Three or four days, no more.

1155
01:22:53,733 --> 01:22:58,233
-When will I know the day and time?
-The preceding night.

1156
01:22:58,267 --> 01:23:02,500
You understand that there will
only be a few onlookers permitted,

1157
01:23:02,533 --> 01:23:06,633
-the Council, certain foreign ambassadors...
-You will be there?

1158
01:23:06,667 --> 01:23:09,533
Yes, it is my duty.

1159
01:23:09,567 --> 01:23:14,300
-You will be allowed to speak.
-I have already prepared a short speech.

1160
01:23:14,967 --> 01:23:16,400
And never fear, Uncle,

1161
01:23:16,433 --> 01:23:19,567
I intend to ask my hearers
to implore His Majesty

1162
01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:23,667
not to impute my crime to
my own kindred and family.

1163
01:23:23,700 --> 01:23:27,300
-Excellent.
-I have also written to His Majesty,

1164
01:23:27,333 --> 01:23:30,800
as you suggested,
a statement of my guilt.

1165
01:23:32,133 --> 01:23:34,733
That, I think, is what you desired.

1166
01:23:35,667 --> 01:23:38,400
Lady Rochford isto die with you.

1167
01:23:40,133 --> 01:23:43,533
My mother is confined to Lambeth.

1168
01:23:43,567 --> 01:23:47,933
At the moment the King has taken no action
against other members of our family,

1169
01:23:47,967 --> 01:23:52,133
-but who knows which way he'll turn when...
-When I am dead?

1170
01:23:54,233 --> 01:23:57,067
What will you do?

1171
01:23:57,067 --> 01:24:02,400
I shall give up certain of
my powers and responsibilities,

1172
01:24:02,433 --> 01:24:08,767
and I shall leave London for a while, visit
my estates and properties in the country.

1173
01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:14,067
I shall wait and see if two or three months
will change the King's present mood.

1174
01:24:14,800 --> 01:24:17,533
At the moment he's stunned,

1175
01:24:17,567 --> 01:24:21,433
unable to blame anyone,
unable to do anything.

1176
01:24:22,700 --> 01:24:26,367
But that mood may well
change to one of anger.

1177
01:24:27,900 --> 01:24:30,067
I shall wait and see.

1178
01:24:32,633 --> 01:24:36,400
This is as much my tragedy as yours,
Catherine.

1179
01:24:38,067 --> 01:24:41,433
I had hoped to live and
see you produce a son.

1180
01:24:42,433 --> 01:24:45,067
A Howard King of England.

1181
01:24:47,067 --> 01:24:49,133
But it was not to be.

1182
01:24:51,333 --> 01:24:54,833
-Now there's only one ambition left me.
-What is that?

1183
01:24:54,867 --> 01:24:56,767
Die in my bed.

1184
01:24:58,667 --> 01:25:00,867
I must report to the King.

1185
01:25:00,900 --> 01:25:03,267
-A favour, Uncle.
-Well?

1186
01:25:03,300 --> 01:25:07,333
Would your men provide me
with a block here in my room?

1187
01:25:07,367 --> 01:25:10,233
I am told Thomas and
Francis both died well.

1188
01:25:10,267 --> 01:25:11,833
Bravely, I can vouch for that.

1189
01:25:11,867 --> 01:25:14,100
I am very much afraid.

1190
01:25:14,133 --> 01:25:18,333
I would like to try the block,
kneel before it, rest my head on it.

1191
01:25:18,367 --> 01:25:22,200
Then on the morning, perhaps
it will not seem so terrible.

1192
01:25:23,567 --> 01:25:26,233
My officer will bring one to you.

1193
01:25:41,833 --> 01:25:43,633
My lords,

1194
01:25:43,667 --> 01:25:48,633
I openly confess and acknowledge the
great crime of which I have committed

1195
01:25:48,667 --> 01:25:53,233
against the most high God
and a kind prince.

1196
01:25:53,900 --> 01:25:57,067
I am a Howard,

1197
01:25:57,100 --> 01:26:00,433
yet beg you all to implore His Majesty

1198
01:26:00,467 --> 01:26:05,267
not to impute my crime to
my whole kindred and family.

1199
01:26:06,100 --> 01:26:08,567
I desire all Christian people

1200
01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:12,300
to take regard of my worthy
and just punishment,

1201
01:26:12,333 --> 01:26:16,333
for I have sinned against God
in breaking his commandments,

1202
01:26:16,367 --> 01:26:21,600
and against the King's most
royal Majesty very dangerously.

1203
01:26:23,367 --> 01:26:26,533
Pray for me.

1204
01:26:45,733 --> 01:26:47,400
Poor innocent.

1205
01:26:47,433 --> 01:26:50,167
-She was corrupt.
-No.

1206
01:26:50,200 --> 01:26:55,400
Those around her corrupted her.
I truly believe that.

1207
01:26:55,433 --> 01:27:00,367
She could have been perfect,
a paragon without blemish.

1208
01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:05,700
I should never have married her.
I should have been content to admire her.

1209
01:27:08,067 --> 01:27:12,733
-When is she to die?
-On the 13th, Majesty,at 9:00 in the morning.

1210
01:27:14,200 --> 01:27:16,533
You will leave London after the execution?

1211
01:27:16,567 --> 01:27:20,867
With your permission. I understand
you wish to go to Hampton Court.

1212
01:27:20,900 --> 01:27:24,100
I thought I would travel
to my estates in the north.

1213
01:27:24,133 --> 01:27:27,100
You have our permission
to leave immediately.

1214
01:27:27,133 --> 01:27:29,067
It is my duty to attend the Tower.

1215
01:27:29,067 --> 01:27:31,967
Immediately, I say! Now, tonight!

1216
01:27:32,067 --> 01:27:34,700
-Your Majesty.
-And, Norfolk?

1217
01:27:34,733 --> 01:27:36,267
Majesty?

1218
01:27:38,633 --> 01:27:42,067
For your own special safety,

1219
01:27:42,100 --> 01:27:46,267
you would do well to stay in
the north, or the south, or west,

1220
01:27:46,300 --> 01:27:48,867
or wherever you will,
for the rest of your days.

1221
01:27:48,900 --> 01:27:53,500
You are the source of corruption,
Norfolk. You are the disease.

1222
01:27:53,533 --> 01:27:56,733
I never want to speak with you
or look on you again.

1223
01:27:56,767 --> 01:28:01,167
If I do speak, it will be to condemn you.
If I do see you,

1224
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:04,400
I will look only on your head!

1225
01:28:12,733 --> 01:28:17,200
Very well. Unwind your bandages.

1226
01:28:18,867 --> 01:28:21,100
Prepare your knives.

1227
01:28:22,867 --> 01:28:25,467
Cut as deep as you wish.

1228
01:28:30,600 --> 01:28:33,733
I shall feel nothing.