1 00:00:50,067 --> 00:00:51,467 Yes, yes. 2 00:00:57,900 --> 00:00:59,300 (MOANING) 3 00:01:13,133 --> 00:01:14,667 (LAUGHING) 4 00:01:16,733 --> 00:01:20,733 Good, fool, am I now supposed to entertain you? 5 00:01:20,767 --> 00:01:26,067 Aye, Your Majesty. For fools we both are. Though which is the greater, God knows. 6 00:01:26,067 --> 00:01:29,733 -No riddles, Will. -A problem of theology, sire. 7 00:01:29,767 --> 00:01:35,833 Who will fail to pass St Peter's muster? The King's fool or a foolish king? 8 00:01:35,867 --> 00:01:40,967 -Am I being foolish, Will? -The question is, Cousin Hal, will you be foolish? 9 00:01:41,067 --> 00:01:46,167 Oh! Hold your tongue, fellow. You're losing your wit with age. 10 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,300 I have wit enough to keep my head 11 00:01:48,333 --> 00:01:52,233 and fool enough to hope for Your Majesty's continuing love. 12 00:01:54,633 --> 00:01:56,633 Be not afraid of her, Will. 13 00:01:56,667 --> 00:02:01,267 This one shan't drive you from my side. No, no, no. Get up. 14 00:02:01,300 --> 00:02:04,400 It makes my knees ache to see you there. 15 00:02:04,433 --> 00:02:07,767 -Get up and see who's outside. -Aye, Your Majesty. 16 00:02:43,167 --> 00:02:44,667 HENRY: Will! 17 00:02:49,733 --> 00:02:51,167 Who's there, Will? 18 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:56,200 Two black crows, a peacock or two, sundry sparrows and a dove. 19 00:02:57,967 --> 00:03:00,667 -Bring in the dove. -Aye, Your Majesty. 20 00:03:12,933 --> 00:03:14,367 (SIGHING) 21 00:03:31,300 --> 00:03:34,567 Hal, here is the dove. 22 00:03:38,367 --> 00:03:42,467 -What say you? -My Lady Latimer, Your Majesty. 23 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:46,433 Madam. 24 00:03:54,433 --> 00:04:00,567 By St Mary, madam. Must I talk to the top of your head? 25 00:04:06,133 --> 00:04:11,900 Oh, I'd forgotten. I'd forgotten you're beautiful. 26 00:04:11,933 --> 00:04:15,533 If I am, Your Majesty, I cannot believe you would forget. 27 00:04:15,567 --> 00:04:18,767 If you have forgotten, it's because I'm not, nor ever was beautiful. 28 00:04:20,067 --> 00:04:24,867 Nay, madam. Any maid can be called beautiful. 29 00:04:24,900 --> 00:04:30,233 You have a proper beauty. A maturity of form and feature. 30 00:04:31,500 --> 00:04:33,300 How old are you? 31 00:04:33,333 --> 00:04:37,133 Old enough, Your Majesty, to know that I must accept maturity as a compliment, 32 00:04:37,167 --> 00:04:40,333 and be grateful to those that acknowledge it. 33 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:42,533 You... 34 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,267 You have no children? 35 00:04:46,300 --> 00:04:48,700 -None, sire. -Oh. 36 00:04:48,733 --> 00:04:53,700 -Two husbands and yet no children. -No, sire. 37 00:04:53,733 --> 00:04:58,333 -They were old men, is it? They were old men. -Oh, they were good men, sire. 38 00:04:58,367 --> 00:05:00,067 -But old. -Yes, sire. 39 00:05:00,067 --> 00:05:04,433 I... I knew your father, didn't I? Sir... 40 00:05:04,467 --> 00:05:08,800 -Sir Thomas Parr of... -Of Kendal, sire. 41 00:05:08,833 --> 00:05:12,167 He was master of the wards in Your Majesty's youth. 42 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:16,933 Yes, I remember. A stiff-necked Pope Catholic. 43 00:05:16,967 --> 00:05:19,067 And what think you of Rome, madam? 44 00:05:19,067 --> 00:05:21,133 It is the headspring of all pride, Your Majesty. 45 00:05:21,167 --> 00:05:25,867 -The seat of vainglory, hypocrisy and ambition. -Oh, they've taught you well. 46 00:05:25,900 --> 00:05:28,067 Was it Cranmer or those damned Seymours? 47 00:05:28,100 --> 00:05:31,667 I hope the spirit of God has led me to a proper knowledge of the truth, sire. 48 00:05:31,700 --> 00:05:34,900 Don't be pert with me, madam. 49 00:05:34,933 --> 00:05:38,400 Such a body should not house a sanctimonious cleric. 50 00:05:38,433 --> 00:05:41,200 As Your Majesty pleases, I answered honestly. 51 00:05:41,233 --> 00:05:44,467 -And I'll hear no ill said of the Pope. -No, sire. 52 00:05:44,500 --> 00:05:48,367 As he will tolerate no slander on me. 53 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:49,667 (LAUGHING) 54 00:05:50,567 --> 00:05:51,767 (COUGHS) 55 00:05:57,667 --> 00:06:01,700 No, madam. I jested. Doesn't it amuse you? 56 00:06:01,733 --> 00:06:05,367 That the Pope does in fact slander Your Majesty, no. 57 00:06:06,433 --> 00:06:08,133 Get out! 58 00:06:23,533 --> 00:06:26,833 -THOMAS: Good morrow, fool. -Good morrow, Sir Thomas Seymour. 59 00:06:26,867 --> 00:06:28,567 What would you do for a crown? 60 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:33,367 I'd put it on my master's head or in my purse. Which are you offering, sir? 61 00:06:35,833 --> 00:06:41,067 If your tongue wags to my humour, I'll fill your purse with crowns. 62 00:06:41,067 --> 00:06:43,600 Oh, well said. I can sing a song, tell a story... 63 00:06:43,633 --> 00:06:46,767 What says the King to my Lady Latimer? 64 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,100 I'd give you a crown if I had it, sir. You're the better hand at jesting. 65 00:06:50,133 --> 00:06:53,867 -Master Somers,do you hear my question? -I abdicate. 66 00:06:53,900 --> 00:06:56,333 Only the greatest fool in Christendom would think of cutting the 67 00:06:56,367 --> 00:06:58,233 throat of the King's fool. 68 00:06:58,267 --> 00:07:02,400 -Are you mad, Thomas? -Enough to let a little sawdust out of this rogue. 69 00:07:02,433 --> 00:07:06,700 My Lord Hertford, will you ask your brother to take his toothpick from my throat? 70 00:07:06,733 --> 00:07:08,100 Thomas! 71 00:07:09,567 --> 00:07:12,367 Master Somers, say nothing of this. 72 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,100 For you, my lord. And remembering your sister. 73 00:07:15,133 --> 00:07:17,300 -Don't speak of her, you rogue. -Why not, sir? 74 00:07:17,333 --> 00:07:21,900 Her late Majesty, the Lady Jane, was gentle with such fools as the King and I, 75 00:07:21,933 --> 00:07:25,567 and we loved her. May I go, my lord? 76 00:07:26,167 --> 00:07:28,067 Thank you, Will. 77 00:07:28,067 --> 00:07:32,700 Must you always be play-acting? Gardiner and Rochester were watching. 78 00:07:32,733 --> 00:07:36,300 -Let them watch a man. -You may not have her. 79 00:07:36,333 --> 00:07:38,433 Not now. Don't you know that? 80 00:07:38,467 --> 00:07:42,067 Do you think I'm some country swain full of jealous spite? 81 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:45,333 Of course I may not. She must marry him. 82 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:48,933 Why did you marry them? 83 00:07:48,967 --> 00:07:50,333 It was my father's wish, sire. 84 00:07:50,367 --> 00:07:53,700 Oh, and to his exchequer's credit, no doubt. 85 00:07:55,333 --> 00:07:58,467 Was it only duty, madam? Well, did you love them? 86 00:07:58,500 --> 00:08:03,567 -They were kind to me. -Kindness warms no bed at night. 87 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,233 -Did you pity them? -Oh no, sire. 88 00:08:11,533 --> 00:08:17,400 -Do you pity me? Am I as old as they were? -No, sire. 89 00:08:17,433 --> 00:08:22,100 Yet I am old, madam. Look at my legs. Look at them. 90 00:08:22,133 --> 00:08:27,100 They're gross, madam. Look at them. They're monuments of filth. 91 00:08:27,133 --> 00:08:29,733 In summer, they stink like a byre. 92 00:08:29,767 --> 00:08:31,833 -Do you pity me? -No, sire. 93 00:08:31,867 --> 00:08:35,067 -What colour is my hair? My beard? -Sire. 94 00:08:35,100 --> 00:08:38,200 It was red like copper. 95 00:08:39,467 --> 00:08:41,333 -Am I old? -No, sire. 96 00:08:41,367 --> 00:08:43,167 -Am I fat? -No, sire. 97 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:46,233 Madam, have you no stomach for the truth? 98 00:08:48,067 --> 00:08:52,333 Get up, madam. Get up. Nay, madam. 99 00:08:53,533 --> 00:08:54,667 Cate. 100 00:08:58,133 --> 00:09:02,267 Sweet Cate, do not weep. 101 00:09:02,300 --> 00:09:04,067 No, no, we must stay down here. 102 00:09:04,100 --> 00:09:06,700 Once I get down, it takes half my guard to set me on my feet again. 103 00:09:06,733 --> 00:09:12,767 -As Your Majesty pleases. -Don't dress in these weeds, Cate. 104 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:19,133 Dress in brave colours. Gold and scarlet. And green and silver when we hunt. 105 00:09:22,667 --> 00:09:24,767 Two old dotards, and now... 106 00:09:26,433 --> 00:09:30,900 Has your body never ached for some young stripling? 107 00:09:30,933 --> 00:09:37,167 Or has one gone before me? His name, madam? By heaven, I'll know his name. 108 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:41,067 -I'll not be betrayed again. -No, sire. I betrayed no one. 109 00:09:43,433 --> 00:09:48,567 Cate, I could woo a woman once with words like syrup 110 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,833 and be more in love with them than I was with her. 111 00:09:52,867 --> 00:09:57,167 -Cate, I'm lonely. -No, sire. 112 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,200 Do not "No, sire" me. 113 00:09:59,233 --> 00:10:02,067 You're twice widowedand you don't know what it is to be lonely? 114 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:03,533 Yes, I know, my lord. 115 00:10:03,567 --> 00:10:06,967 Fourteen months I've been alone. I've no time to waste. 116 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,433 An hour is a second, a week a day. Madam, my knees ache. 117 00:10:10,467 --> 00:10:14,100 You must help me get this mountain to its feet again. 118 00:10:25,500 --> 00:10:26,667 Strong! 119 00:10:28,067 --> 00:10:29,633 My chair, madam. 120 00:10:33,833 --> 00:10:35,767 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 121 00:10:43,567 --> 00:10:45,400 A cup of wine, madam? 122 00:10:48,267 --> 00:10:51,133 There are matters... 123 00:10:51,167 --> 00:10:55,667 touching my person, madam. I must ask you again. 124 00:10:55,700 --> 00:10:58,767 -Are you a Pope Catholic? -No, sire. 125 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:02,167 And yet I've heard otherwise. In your youth, you were. 126 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:04,667 I loved darkness better than light, Your Majesty. 127 00:11:04,700 --> 00:11:08,433 I called superstition godliness and true holiness, error. 128 00:11:14,633 --> 00:11:18,367 I would have the Bishop of Rome my friend again. 129 00:11:19,067 --> 00:11:21,333 -You know that? -Yes, sire. 130 00:11:21,367 --> 00:11:23,167 Yes, Cate. 131 00:11:24,267 --> 00:11:26,567 His friend, not his subject. 132 00:11:28,967 --> 00:11:31,533 What are the duties of a wife, madam? 133 00:11:31,567 --> 00:11:34,733 To learn from St Paul that she must beobedient to her husband, 134 00:11:34,767 --> 00:11:38,967 to keep silent in public and learn fromher husband at home. 135 00:11:39,067 --> 00:11:40,767 And the husband, what are his duties? 136 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,767 He must love his wife, sire, as he does his own body, 137 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:47,600 as Christ lovedthe congregation and gave himself for it. 138 00:11:47,633 --> 00:11:49,967 And if the husband is a king? 139 00:11:50,067 --> 00:11:54,800 The king is God's anointed, sire. These virtues must be pre-eminent in him. 140 00:11:55,867 --> 00:11:58,533 -Do you mock me, madam? -No, sire. 141 00:11:58,567 --> 00:12:03,200 Then you make dry dust of marriage. What of the flesh? 142 00:12:03,233 --> 00:12:07,433 We shouldn't be so carnal that we run head long after desire, Your Majesty, 143 00:12:07,467 --> 00:12:13,967 -like colts without snaffle or bridle. -They must have been old men. 144 00:12:14,067 --> 00:12:17,633 Well, it's certain you're no Pope Catholic. You talk like Cranmer. 145 00:12:17,667 --> 00:12:18,967 And His Grace is a saintly man. 146 00:12:19,067 --> 00:12:20,867 Aye, and a brave one. He'll need to be both. 147 00:12:20,900 --> 00:12:24,867 Bishop Winchester and the others will burn him if they can, 148 00:12:24,900 --> 00:12:27,333 as he'd be pleased to burn them. 149 00:12:29,633 --> 00:12:34,067 I burn in the fires which lesser men light to warm their ambition. 150 00:12:36,933 --> 00:12:39,467 Fight wars to make them rich. 151 00:12:39,500 --> 00:12:42,700 Hertford whips the Scots and empties my purse. 152 00:12:42,733 --> 00:12:45,333 I can fill it again by fighting the French for the Pope, 153 00:12:45,367 --> 00:12:51,800 and if I win, he may call himself a liar and graciously admit that I am no adulterer. 154 00:12:53,300 --> 00:12:55,333 Am I an adulterer, madam? 155 00:12:55,367 --> 00:12:57,967 -No, sire. -But? What is your "but"? 156 00:12:58,067 --> 00:12:59,833 Oh, my lord... 157 00:12:59,867 --> 00:13:04,400 Well, come on, speak out. You were full enough of pious dogma just now. 158 00:13:04,433 --> 00:13:08,100 -My lord, I do not see your children in court. -My children? 159 00:13:08,133 --> 00:13:11,167 They say you have put aside the Lady Mary and the Lady Elizabeth 160 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,067 because the sight of them troubles you. 161 00:13:13,100 --> 00:13:16,100 -They say? Who says? -It is said, my lord. 162 00:13:16,967 --> 00:13:19,467 I love my daughters. 163 00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:25,967 I'll bring them back, Cate, if you will mother them. 164 00:13:26,067 --> 00:13:27,533 Sire. 165 00:13:27,567 --> 00:13:33,067 Oh, by our lady, madam, are we playing tennis? Will you marry me? 166 00:13:34,467 --> 00:13:36,733 -Well, madam, you knew that I would ask you. -Yes, sire. 167 00:13:36,767 --> 00:13:40,100 I told Cranmer to prepare you and the Bishop Winchester. 168 00:13:40,133 --> 00:13:43,300 -They prayed with me, sire. -Oh, God, did it need praying over? 169 00:13:43,333 --> 00:13:47,600 -We must be led bythe spirit of God, sire. -Aye, so you've said. 170 00:13:47,633 --> 00:13:51,333 And to what conclusion did the spirit of God lead you? 171 00:13:52,900 --> 00:13:55,733 Well, madam? 172 00:13:55,767 --> 00:14:01,267 That rather than marry you, I would submit to being your mistress. 173 00:14:10,567 --> 00:14:14,100 She amuses him. I hadn't taken her for a wit. 174 00:14:14,133 --> 00:14:16,133 A comic wit that may laugh us into the Tower. 175 00:14:16,167 --> 00:14:18,733 No, no, no, Wriothesley. She means no harm. 176 00:14:18,767 --> 00:14:21,600 She's their creature. Cranmer and the Seymours. 177 00:14:21,633 --> 00:14:24,467 She'll warm the King's bed nonetheless for that. 178 00:14:24,500 --> 00:14:27,867 If the sap rises, we may get him into armour in the field. 179 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:31,467 The Emperor wouldn't cavil at the source of such vigour, would he, Chapuys? 180 00:14:31,500 --> 00:14:38,100 My Lord Bishop of Winchester, I told you, the compact is what matters. 181 00:14:38,133 --> 00:14:41,933 If your king invades France with my master, 182 00:14:41,967 --> 00:14:49,800 then His Imperial Majesty will persuade His Holiness to accept the divorce of Aragon. 183 00:14:49,833 --> 00:14:51,833 And you may yet be a cardinal. 184 00:14:51,867 --> 00:14:53,967 I labour not inmy own vineyard. 185 00:14:54,067 --> 00:14:57,700 -I don't trust her. -My Lord Chancellor, she's a good woman. 186 00:14:57,733 --> 00:15:01,067 A good woman? Then why does Thomas Seymour desire her? 187 00:15:01,067 --> 00:15:07,067 -Oh, is it a secret? -From the King, yes. And must be kept so. 188 00:15:07,067 --> 00:15:09,267 You labour deviously in that vineyard. 189 00:15:09,300 --> 00:15:11,900 Gardiner, we are fools to encourage the King in this. 190 00:15:11,933 --> 00:15:16,667 -Tell him about Seymour and scotch them all. -And so we would be fools. 191 00:15:16,700 --> 00:15:19,900 She's pious and blameless and answers her own conscience. 192 00:15:19,933 --> 00:15:23,600 And she's more valuable to us as the King's wife than some you'd have thrust before him. 193 00:15:23,633 --> 00:15:26,167 Yes, sir, she is. Can you not see that? 194 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,067 I can see Hertford's ambition behind her piety, 195 00:15:29,067 --> 00:15:34,067 -and Cranmer's heresy. -As in your honest custom, sir, you see all, 196 00:15:34,067 --> 00:15:36,267 and understand nothing. 197 00:15:36,300 --> 00:15:39,167 She cannot be brought down like those wantons, Boleyn and Howard, 198 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:45,267 who destroyed only themselves, nor set aside like Aragon and the Flemish mare. 199 00:15:45,300 --> 00:15:51,633 If the heretic aspires to see her queen, so be it. For the king knows that well enough. 200 00:15:51,667 --> 00:15:57,833 Yet what does not prick him now can easily be rubbed into a sore later. 201 00:15:57,867 --> 00:16:01,067 Thus we shall destroy all in one. 202 00:16:01,067 --> 00:16:05,100 My lord, you'll be wasted if you don't get a cardinal's hat. 203 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:12,600 The croaking raven's talking about us. God give me joy to open his crop. 204 00:16:12,633 --> 00:16:15,733 Control your temper, Thomas. You have too great a conceit of yourself. 205 00:16:15,767 --> 00:16:18,567 And there are enough canting prelates in this kingdom to give me cause. 206 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:23,733 Thomas, be still. Cranmer gives you good advice. 207 00:16:23,767 --> 00:16:30,333 -Will she agree to wed him? -The King may ask, yet it will be an order. 208 00:16:30,367 --> 00:16:34,667 She will obey willingly. She understands her duty to God and the Church. 209 00:16:34,700 --> 00:16:38,267 She spent as much time on her knees with Gardiner as she did with you. 210 00:16:38,300 --> 00:16:41,900 She is proof against papistical doctrines, Thomas. 211 00:16:41,933 --> 00:16:46,500 And the Bishop of Winchester also directed her prayers toward marriage with the King. 212 00:16:46,533 --> 00:16:49,800 -To what end? -That we might betray our faith through her. 213 00:16:49,833 --> 00:16:53,067 And so we will, Thomas, if we are rash and foolish. 214 00:16:53,067 --> 00:16:54,600 She's coming. 215 00:16:58,433 --> 00:17:01,633 -She walks like a queen already. -HENRY: Gardiner! 216 00:17:01,667 --> 00:17:04,967 -Pray for me,my Lord Archbishop. -Madam, we both prayed. 217 00:17:05,067 --> 00:17:06,800 No, my lord, for me. 218 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:09,600 I will, my child. 219 00:17:10,900 --> 00:17:12,367 What did the King say? 220 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,200 -That he's lonely. -Cate! 221 00:17:14,233 --> 00:17:17,067 Madam, did you say what you were taught? 222 00:17:17,100 --> 00:17:21,967 My lord, I would have answered as you instructed me but, no, my lord, I could not. 223 00:17:22,067 --> 00:17:23,600 Madam, you're a fool. 224 00:17:23,633 --> 00:17:27,067 Aye, sir, for when the King said he would wed me, 225 00:17:27,067 --> 00:17:29,667 I said I would sooner be his mistress. 226 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:38,633 25,000 horse and foot? 227 00:17:38,667 --> 00:17:42,933 Emperor Charlesasks much of my kingdom, Chapuys. 228 00:17:42,967 --> 00:17:46,267 He promises no less himself, Your Majesty. 229 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:50,100 -And he hasacknowledged your... -Does your leg pain you? 230 00:17:51,700 --> 00:17:54,767 -Would you sit inyour Emperor's presence? -No, Your Majesty. 231 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:56,600 Would you sit in mine? 232 00:17:56,633 --> 00:18:00,433 -If your Majesty wishes... -We must endure our infirmities, Chapuys. 233 00:18:00,467 --> 00:18:04,200 I hope I may do so with Your Majesty's fortitude. 234 00:18:04,233 --> 00:18:07,500 What does your Emperor acknowledge? 235 00:18:07,533 --> 00:18:12,267 Your Majesty's claim to Boulogne, Montreuil and Therouanne. 236 00:18:12,300 --> 00:18:17,467 -If I take themfrom the French. -When Your Majesty does. 237 00:18:18,633 --> 00:18:20,967 And the Bishop of Rome? 238 00:18:21,067 --> 00:18:25,833 Will he acknowledge me sovereign head of the English Church? No less. 239 00:18:25,867 --> 00:18:30,167 My master is in Rome. He will inform His Holiness. 240 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,500 If I wed again, I don't want any snivelling priest, 241 00:18:33,533 --> 00:18:36,767 here or in Rome, crying adulterer at me. 242 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:42,633 25,000 men under the banner of the Church should be your guarantee, sire. 243 00:18:42,667 --> 00:18:46,933 Enough for Rome to accept my divorce from Aragon? 244 00:18:46,967 --> 00:18:50,200 Your Majesty, the Six Articles passed by Your Majesty's Parliament 245 00:18:50,233 --> 00:18:53,733 are cogent proof of your desire to follow the teaching of Holy Church. 246 00:18:53,767 --> 00:18:58,900 -But are they enough, Chapuys? -With respect, Your Majesty, 247 00:18:58,933 --> 00:19:03,967 these Six Articles were approved by you four years ago. 248 00:19:04,067 --> 00:19:06,600 They have yet to be enforced. 249 00:19:06,633 --> 00:19:11,100 The Church in England does not accept the sacrament in its fullest sense. 250 00:19:11,133 --> 00:19:16,967 It does not regard confession as compulsory. It does not permit private masses, 251 00:19:17,067 --> 00:19:20,533 nor impose celibacy upon its clergy. 252 00:19:20,567 --> 00:19:25,333 Cranmer's wife and children. They irk your flesh, don't they, Gardiner? 253 00:19:25,367 --> 00:19:26,333 Sire. 254 00:19:26,367 --> 00:19:28,867 Then I must enforce the Articles. 255 00:19:28,900 --> 00:19:31,667 But Your Majesty spoke of marrying again. 256 00:19:31,700 --> 00:19:34,100 A good and wholesome widow. 257 00:19:34,133 --> 00:19:37,467 I'm sure Your Majesty never had a wife more agreeable to your heart 258 00:19:37,500 --> 00:19:39,600 than Lady Latimer will prove to be. 259 00:19:39,633 --> 00:19:42,267 She's no Pope Catholic, Chapuys. 260 00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:45,600 Your Majesty's consort, as much as your people, 261 00:19:45,633 --> 00:19:50,467 will surely observe those articles you have enforced. 262 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:53,900 God send you both long life and much joy in each other. 263 00:19:53,933 --> 00:19:56,167 A long life you may indeed expect from God, 264 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,500 the joy in each other will be of our own making. 265 00:20:01,367 --> 00:20:06,000 But what if she has refused me? Hmm? 266 00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:44,167 Cate. 267 00:20:51,667 --> 00:20:55,600 I thought your brother would pursue me himself and talk of duty. 268 00:20:55,633 --> 00:20:59,233 -Are you his messenger? -I came on my own prompting. 269 00:20:59,267 --> 00:21:01,867 Thomas, why can you never be honest? 270 00:21:01,900 --> 00:21:06,200 I would have you wed the king. What could be more honest than that? 271 00:21:06,233 --> 00:21:08,367 A rose you sent me once. 272 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,067 When my Lord Latimer died, you sent me a rose. 273 00:21:13,067 --> 00:21:16,633 And you walked beside me at court, touching your sword, and you sang to me. 274 00:21:16,667 --> 00:21:19,500 You played the lute. 275 00:21:19,533 --> 00:21:21,633 If you want me to say I love you, I will, Cate. 276 00:21:21,667 --> 00:21:25,467 But if you love me, you must wed the king. 277 00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:27,333 I'd rather your brother had come, or Cranmer. 278 00:21:27,367 --> 00:21:28,867 They'd only have talked of the love of God. 279 00:21:28,900 --> 00:21:31,600 And if the sight of the King offends you, close your eyes. 280 00:21:31,633 --> 00:21:35,700 They'll be more offence in the fires which Gardiner will light at Smithfield. 281 00:21:35,733 --> 00:21:39,900 -What's an old man'sbody to that blasphemy? -Are you afraid? 282 00:21:39,933 --> 00:21:41,833 Madam. 283 00:21:41,867 --> 00:21:45,100 Or are you bold enough to think I'd turn my marriage ring into a coronet for you? 284 00:21:45,133 --> 00:21:48,733 Thomas, the sight of the King doesn't offend me. He's old and lonely. 285 00:21:48,767 --> 00:21:50,833 Than marry him in pity, madam. 286 00:21:50,867 --> 00:21:55,900 And if I won't marry him, would you marry me, Thomas? 287 00:21:55,933 --> 00:22:01,067 I love you. I've always loved you. But before God, Cate, I tell you this. 288 00:22:01,067 --> 00:22:06,067 If I marry you now you've refused him, I shall in time hate you. 289 00:22:06,067 --> 00:22:08,200 I had not expected more. 290 00:22:09,533 --> 00:22:13,067 Be easy, Thomas. I told the King I would wed him. 291 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,167 (LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING) 292 00:23:35,867 --> 00:23:40,700 Madam, do you think I wed a nurse this morning? 293 00:23:40,733 --> 00:23:45,667 -Drink the wine, my lord. It will be cold tonight. -My dove. 294 00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:48,733 -My lord, I would ask a favour. -Hmm? 295 00:23:48,767 --> 00:23:51,433 -Is it jewels? -No, my lord. I want no jewels. 296 00:23:51,467 --> 00:23:53,667 The ladies of my privy chamber. 297 00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:55,867 -You have none. -No, my lord. 298 00:23:55,900 --> 00:23:57,567 -Have you finished the wine? -No. 299 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,300 -Is it too hot, perhaps... -Oh, don't cosset me, madam. 300 00:24:00,333 --> 00:24:03,500 -What of your ladies? -I would choose them myself. 301 00:24:03,533 --> 00:24:05,833 Some withered lemons, no doubt. 302 00:24:05,867 --> 00:24:09,200 By your favour, my lord, I would have my sister, the Lady Herbert. 303 00:24:09,233 --> 00:24:13,233 -Aye, I know. -And my cousin,the Lady Lane... 304 00:24:13,267 --> 00:24:15,333 Oh, a sweet wench, I remember. 305 00:24:15,367 --> 00:24:18,067 ...who loves young Knevet, a lieutenant at the Tower. 306 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:23,600 Hmm. And, Cate, talking of loving... 307 00:24:23,633 --> 00:24:25,767 And lastly, the Lady Tyrwhitt. 308 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,833 -Oh, a dragon. -A good heart, sire. May they serve me? 309 00:24:28,867 --> 00:24:30,267 (SIGHING) 310 00:24:35,700 --> 00:24:39,233 Cate, speaking of serving... 311 00:24:39,267 --> 00:24:44,233 -What are you doing now? -Reading, my lord. 312 00:24:44,267 --> 00:24:47,367 Aye. By St Mary, you try my patience. 313 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:51,900 They are some pieties of my own composition. I've calledthem Lamentations of a Sinner. 314 00:24:51,933 --> 00:24:56,767 And what in the name of God, sweet Cate, do you know of sin? 315 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:58,633 Shall I read to you, my lord? 316 00:24:58,667 --> 00:25:02,200 Aye, read to me. I've forgotten what else I had in mind. 317 00:25:02,233 --> 00:25:05,467 "Mine evils and miseries are so many and so great 318 00:25:05,500 --> 00:25:08,233 "that they can accuse me even to my face. 319 00:25:08,267 --> 00:25:10,933 "Oh, how miserably and wretchedly am I confounded 320 00:25:10,967 --> 00:25:13,067 when for the multitude and greatness 321 00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:16,200 of my sins I am compelled to accuse myself." 322 00:25:16,233 --> 00:25:19,833 "Was it nota marvellous unkindness when God did speak to me 323 00:25:19,867 --> 00:25:21,667 "that I would not answer Him..." 324 00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:24,700 Cate! Cate, my wife. 325 00:25:25,433 --> 00:25:26,933 My lord? 326 00:25:26,967 --> 00:25:31,233 Is it not also a marvellous unkindness when the King, your husband, 327 00:25:31,267 --> 00:25:33,933 did speak to you and you would not answer? 328 00:25:33,967 --> 00:25:35,867 Have I displeased you, my lord? 329 00:25:35,900 --> 00:25:39,233 Oh, sweet Cate, how could I be displeased with the journey when I have yet to set out? 330 00:25:39,267 --> 00:25:41,067 Will you have some more wine? 331 00:25:41,067 --> 00:25:45,433 Madam, I would remind you of a vow you made to me this morning. 332 00:25:45,467 --> 00:25:51,200 It was, if you recall, to be "bonair and buxom in bed." 333 00:25:51,633 --> 00:25:52,733 Sire. 334 00:25:54,067 --> 00:25:55,800 I disgust you, Cate. 335 00:25:56,767 --> 00:26:00,533 I'm gross. I'm old. I disgust you. 336 00:26:00,567 --> 00:26:02,367 No, my lord. 337 00:26:04,067 --> 00:26:10,900 Then be not afraid of me. There's nothing to fear in love, Cate. 338 00:26:10,933 --> 00:26:15,533 I'm an old campaigner. I couch a lance like a gentleman. 339 00:26:31,167 --> 00:26:32,733 (DOOR OPENING) 340 00:26:34,267 --> 00:26:37,100 -Master Somers. -My lady? 341 00:26:37,133 --> 00:26:40,200 -Master Somers, the King is fatigued. -Cate. 342 00:26:41,433 --> 00:26:42,633 My lord? 343 00:26:44,067 --> 00:26:46,667 -Bring His Majesty some wine. -Aye, my lady. 344 00:26:46,700 --> 00:26:48,733 Cate, Cate. 345 00:27:01,667 --> 00:27:03,567 (HENRY SHOUTING) 346 00:27:25,067 --> 00:27:26,767 HENRY: She stoops. 347 00:27:46,867 --> 00:27:48,400 A word, Cate. 348 00:27:51,633 --> 00:27:55,167 -Are you happy? -I am content, Thomas. 349 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,633 You've put life into the King, I'll swear to that. 350 00:27:57,667 --> 00:28:00,767 That's the first time he's been in the saddle for a year or more. 351 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:02,600 He doesn't abuse you? 352 00:28:02,633 --> 00:28:07,167 -No, he's gentle. -Gentle! That mountain of lard and stinking sores. 353 00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:12,700 For God, I believe he'sput life into you, too. 354 00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:18,333 -Did you think I'd come to abduct you, Cate? -What do you want? 355 00:28:18,367 --> 00:28:21,067 To remind you you're no bumpkin's wife. 356 00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:24,967 -You should remind yourself of that. -We made you a queen, Cate. 357 00:28:25,067 --> 00:28:27,233 Have you forgotten you stand between us and the Pope Catholic? 358 00:28:27,267 --> 00:28:28,767 I'll not plot for you. 359 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,067 Henry goes to war to win himself the Pope's pardon. 360 00:28:31,067 --> 00:28:32,333 Will you see us burn and do nothing? 361 00:28:32,367 --> 00:28:34,100 You burn already with ambition. 362 00:28:34,133 --> 00:28:36,733 -If he dies in Flanders... -Oh, no... 363 00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:42,500 He means that much. So much the better. 364 00:28:42,533 --> 00:28:44,467 But if he dies, Cate, before you've done your work... 365 00:28:44,500 --> 00:28:45,400 I'll do no work. 366 00:28:45,433 --> 00:28:47,067 Gardiner will have young Edward set aside 367 00:28:47,067 --> 00:28:48,900 and the crown placedon Mary's cunning head. 368 00:28:48,933 --> 00:28:53,733 -She would not accept. -She would. And fill this kingdom with priests. 369 00:28:55,933 --> 00:28:58,500 They'd send you to the stake, my lady, with the rest of us. 370 00:28:58,533 --> 00:29:01,867 -He won't die. -Not yet, please God. 371 00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:05,800 Not before you've persuaded him to name my brother protector of Edward 372 00:29:05,833 --> 00:29:07,667 and myself as master of horse. 373 00:29:07,700 --> 00:29:10,633 Oh, Cate, are you out of love with those who cherish you? 374 00:29:10,667 --> 00:29:12,400 Gracious my God! 375 00:29:18,733 --> 00:29:22,367 What dalliance is this? 376 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,633 -Your Majesty. -Yes, My Majesty. 377 00:29:27,433 --> 00:29:31,400 What assignation have you with My Majesty's wife, sire? 378 00:29:31,433 --> 00:29:33,067 -My lord. -Be quiet. 379 00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:34,967 -Nay, sire, I will not. -Madam... 380 00:29:35,067 --> 00:29:38,500 -I will speak before you do your conscience hurt. -You talk of my conscience? 381 00:29:38,533 --> 00:29:41,533 I do. For it's assacred to me as my own. 382 00:29:42,467 --> 00:29:44,167 -Well? -This gentleman... 383 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,167 -This gentleman... -By God... 384 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,867 Don't browbeat me with your braggart oaths. 385 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:56,300 Haven't I made you rich enough? Have I filled your purse with monks' gold 386 00:29:56,333 --> 00:29:59,400 -that you may now covet my wife? -Henry! 387 00:29:59,433 --> 00:30:03,333 -Madam, that name is for our closet only. -My lord. 388 00:30:03,367 --> 00:30:07,700 This gentleman came to me that I might plead with you on his behalf. 389 00:30:07,733 --> 00:30:09,467 -Hmm. -It's true. 390 00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:14,667 He wishes to serve you and begged me to secure him some post abroad in your cause. 391 00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:19,700 Hmm? Abroad, you say? 392 00:30:19,733 --> 00:30:24,400 -I tire of England, Your Majesty. -Hmm. 393 00:30:25,567 --> 00:30:28,867 Yes. Or of a woman, eh? 394 00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:32,767 I... I wish to serve Your Majesty. 395 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:36,067 Sweet Cate. Such things need not concern you. 396 00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:38,033 -My lord. -No, no. Come away. 397 00:30:38,067 --> 00:30:41,533 My lord, I beseech you, send this eager gentleman where he desires. 398 00:30:41,567 --> 00:30:43,700 -Has he offended you? -No, my lord. 399 00:30:43,733 --> 00:30:47,267 But we shall surely offend him if we reject his honest loyalty. 400 00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:51,600 Oh, so be it. Will you leave this week? 401 00:30:51,633 --> 00:30:56,600 You may go with Paget to the Emperor and secure quarters for my army. 402 00:31:12,533 --> 00:31:14,100 (DRUM ROLL) 403 00:31:14,133 --> 00:31:15,767 (FANFARE) 404 00:31:37,167 --> 00:31:38,933 You were right, Bishop. 405 00:31:38,967 --> 00:31:43,367 It's taken a year or more, but she's made a warrior of him. 406 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,400 In faith, king and horse are a mighty host in themselves. 407 00:31:47,433 --> 00:31:50,900 -She's the devil's agent. -Not yours, my lord? 408 00:31:50,933 --> 00:31:55,800 No, sir. The devil's. And for the glory of God, I would not have it otherwise. 409 00:31:55,833 --> 00:31:58,967 She's ordered a translation of Erasmus' paraphrases of the Testament 410 00:31:59,067 --> 00:32:03,833 and persuaded the King it should be placed in every parish church. 411 00:32:03,867 --> 00:32:05,833 Cranmer grows bold in her shadow. 412 00:32:05,867 --> 00:32:08,467 You've not beenidle yourself, my lord. 413 00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:14,100 I saw the ashes at Smithfield on my way here. Who were they? 414 00:32:14,133 --> 00:32:17,267 They were guilty of keeping heretical books. 415 00:32:18,733 --> 00:32:22,300 Take counsel with Cranmer while I'm in Flanders. 416 00:32:22,333 --> 00:32:26,733 Wriothesley's a dullard, but if used wisely, he's a diligent chancellor. 417 00:32:26,767 --> 00:32:31,667 -And Bishop Gardiner? -He's God's servant and mine. 418 00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:36,400 -Who burns men for keeping books. -Cate, Cate. 419 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:41,133 Be it known and ordered by me 420 00:32:41,167 --> 00:32:46,367 that in my absence this kingdom shall be ruled as regent 421 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,200 by my sovereign lady, the Queen. 422 00:32:50,233 --> 00:32:56,067 Into her hands I entrustthe safety of my people, 423 00:32:56,100 --> 00:33:01,067 the honour of my name and the good-keeping and education of my children. 424 00:33:03,767 --> 00:33:05,467 (FANFARE) 425 00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:11,500 The education of his children. 426 00:33:11,533 --> 00:33:15,733 Perhaps you should tell the King to study his wife's library. 427 00:33:15,767 --> 00:33:18,067 She will betray herself. 428 00:33:18,067 --> 00:33:23,100 -And would you burn her, my lord? -To save the Church? Yes. 429 00:33:24,300 --> 00:33:26,467 And I would weep for her. 430 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,400 Your compassion humbles me, my lord. 431 00:33:49,467 --> 00:33:52,667 Your pardon, Master Butler, we'll continue. 432 00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:56,700 It is now many months since Your Majesty... 433 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,100 Oh, no, no. Strike that out. 434 00:34:01,833 --> 00:34:06,600 This distance of time and days is so long 435 00:34:07,667 --> 00:34:10,167 and so many, 436 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,567 yet the want of Your Majesty's presence is such 437 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,533 that I can take no pleasure in anything. 438 00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:23,633 Thus, sweet my lord, 439 00:34:24,867 --> 00:34:29,733 love and affection compel me to desire your presence. 440 00:34:36,167 --> 00:34:38,167 God rest you, Edward. 441 00:34:51,067 --> 00:34:53,133 God rest you, Elizabeth. 442 00:34:57,633 --> 00:34:59,333 Oh! 443 00:34:59,367 --> 00:35:02,733 Again your pardon, Master Secretary, I'll persevere. 444 00:35:02,767 --> 00:35:07,233 God, the knower of secrets, can judge these words 445 00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:10,467 to be written not only 446 00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:13,700 with ink, but most truly 447 00:35:14,700 --> 00:35:16,567 impressed on my heart. 448 00:35:30,333 --> 00:35:33,067 -Madam, Sir... -Your Majesty. 449 00:35:33,067 --> 00:35:34,367 Sir Thomas, what does this mean? 450 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,600 Your Majesty's pardon for this intrusion. 451 00:35:36,633 --> 00:35:38,767 I come from the King. 452 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,733 And more by word of mouth for your ear alone, madam. 453 00:35:42,767 --> 00:35:44,533 Sir, if you please. 454 00:35:48,367 --> 00:35:51,200 For your ear alone, madam. 455 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:53,500 Mary. 456 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,367 God rest you, Mary. 457 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:12,933 -Two years. -Get up. 458 00:36:12,967 --> 00:36:17,133 -What message have you from the King? -None, but that love note. 459 00:36:17,167 --> 00:36:19,367 I'd see you alone, that's all. 460 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:24,567 I've ridden from Dover since morning. I'm in no mood to wait on you like a servant. 461 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,067 -Cate, you've become a beauty. -How's the King? 462 00:36:29,667 --> 00:36:34,700 In a sick humour. He serves his Popishmasters like a paladin. 463 00:36:34,733 --> 00:36:36,833 He captures a town or two 464 00:36:36,867 --> 00:36:39,567 and is given the plates to lick afterwards. A faithful dog. 465 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,600 And if your master is a dog, what are you? 466 00:36:41,633 --> 00:36:45,500 I'm an Englishman and one with no taste for a sick king's fancies. 467 00:36:45,533 --> 00:36:47,333 Is he ill? 468 00:36:47,367 --> 00:36:50,100 Ill, no. 469 00:36:50,133 --> 00:36:54,600 Camp fever and aching bones, but not ill. Just older than he thinks. 470 00:36:54,633 --> 00:36:56,067 Poor Henry. 471 00:36:56,067 --> 00:36:58,500 Poor England. Cate, have you no notion of what's happening? 472 00:36:58,533 --> 00:37:03,700 -He's ill. -By God's most precious soul, madam. 473 00:37:03,733 --> 00:37:07,067 He's in debt to the Emperor and the Pope Catholics. 474 00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:11,100 They demand an end towhat they call his soft treatment of our Church. 475 00:37:11,133 --> 00:37:15,700 They want more of Gardiner's fires. And there's talk. 476 00:37:17,467 --> 00:37:20,367 There's talk of him taking a new queen. 477 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:26,067 A new queen? He would set me aside? 478 00:37:28,333 --> 00:37:30,733 There's no danger of it, yet. 479 00:37:30,767 --> 00:37:32,067 (LAUGHING) 480 00:37:32,100 --> 00:37:34,833 He all but throttled the fool who spoke of it openly. 481 00:37:34,867 --> 00:37:37,800 -But, Cate, when he comes, you must... -Is he coming? 482 00:37:37,833 --> 00:37:40,133 By tomorrow's tide from Boulogne, he'll be here the day after. 483 00:37:40,167 --> 00:37:43,433 Thomas, blessed be God, my lord is coming home. 484 00:37:44,867 --> 00:37:46,367 HENRY: Cate! 485 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:49,700 Cate! 486 00:37:57,633 --> 00:37:59,233 Cate! 487 00:38:01,067 --> 00:38:02,633 (WHEEZING) 488 00:38:10,233 --> 00:38:12,100 Cate! 489 00:38:18,633 --> 00:38:21,100 -Cate! -Oh, my lord. 490 00:38:23,067 --> 00:38:26,467 -Oh, my sweet Cate. -Oh, my lord, bienvenu. 491 00:38:27,933 --> 00:38:29,167 Oh. 492 00:38:30,533 --> 00:38:35,500 -Oh, my lord. So you are ill? -No, tired. That's all. 493 00:38:37,300 --> 00:38:42,067 -I would sleep a little. -Yes, my lord. 494 00:38:43,867 --> 00:38:45,333 And then... 495 00:38:52,467 --> 00:38:53,700 (SNORING) 496 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,433 Did they... 497 00:39:02,467 --> 00:39:05,467 -Did they tell you how I took Boulogne? -Yes, my lord. 498 00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:10,667 By land and sea while the Emperor's men were looting farmyards. 499 00:39:12,067 --> 00:39:15,067 Two days I was in armour, Cate. 500 00:39:15,067 --> 00:39:17,333 Are you proud of this old body of mine? 501 00:39:17,367 --> 00:39:19,667 Oh, yes, Henry. I'm proud of you. 502 00:39:19,700 --> 00:39:22,933 -But, my lord, it's made you ill. -Oh. 503 00:39:22,967 --> 00:39:26,667 I could have had Boulogne 20 years ago, but for Wolsey. 504 00:39:27,967 --> 00:39:30,400 -Is Cranmer here yet? -No, my lord. 505 00:39:30,433 --> 00:39:32,200 -Or Gardiner? -No, my lord. 506 00:39:32,233 --> 00:39:35,700 I sent word from Dover to get them out of their beds. 507 00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:43,600 -I've been cheated, Cate. -My lord? 508 00:39:43,633 --> 00:39:48,500 Four days after I took Boulogne, the Emperor signed a treaty with France. 509 00:39:48,533 --> 00:39:51,967 -He said he would. I dared him to. -Why, my lord? 510 00:39:52,067 --> 00:39:54,467 He would have France as his ally now, 511 00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:58,333 to crush the Lutherans in his own provinces. 512 00:39:58,367 --> 00:40:03,800 I kept my bond and they cheated me. What has Gardiner been doing? 513 00:40:03,833 --> 00:40:06,767 My lord, the Bishop of Winchester has been burning heretics. 514 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:11,333 So he lights fires under a shopkeeper or two, 515 00:40:11,367 --> 00:40:15,367 puts a scholar to the rack, but he's my minister of state. 516 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,033 He strikes at Cranmer through them and at me. 517 00:40:18,067 --> 00:40:20,500 -You? -At me, my lord. 518 00:40:20,533 --> 00:40:24,000 -For what reason? -None, my lord. 519 00:40:24,033 --> 00:40:26,600 -Must I ask him? -As Your Majesty pleases. 520 00:40:26,633 --> 00:40:31,833 I am not pleased. But, madam, and it please you for what reason? 521 00:40:31,867 --> 00:40:35,200 He has brought several of my ladies before yourCouncil for examination. 522 00:40:35,233 --> 00:40:38,600 -So? -He accuses them of keeping forbidden books. 523 00:40:38,633 --> 00:40:40,533 He asked them what I read, 524 00:40:40,567 --> 00:40:43,400 what I said andwhat I am teaching Your Majesty's children. 525 00:40:43,433 --> 00:40:44,967 And what do you teach them, madam? 526 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,633 To love the charity and goodness of God, 527 00:40:47,667 --> 00:40:53,367 to follow His doctrine, and to love you, and obey you as I do. 528 00:41:00,933 --> 00:41:04,567 I had as lief be a country gentleman with a good wife, 529 00:41:06,567 --> 00:41:12,167 a hundred acres, and a hand's span of stout sons to hunt with me. 530 00:41:14,433 --> 00:41:19,500 -Would you like that, Cate? -No, my lord. I would have you king. 531 00:41:19,533 --> 00:41:24,267 -And thus be queen. -And thus love my husband and my country 532 00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:29,500 -in one gentle soul. -Trust no one, Cate. 533 00:41:29,533 --> 00:41:32,433 -No one. -But I must trust you, my lord. 534 00:41:33,533 --> 00:41:35,267 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 535 00:41:37,867 --> 00:41:40,400 Your Majesty, the Bishop of Winchester. 536 00:41:40,433 --> 00:41:43,600 I rejoice to see Your Majesty in such health. 537 00:41:43,633 --> 00:41:48,700 -Oh? Where's Cranmer? -His Grace is recovering from a fever, sire. 538 00:41:48,733 --> 00:41:55,267 Oh, if he won't come, then truly he must be ill. He's not afraid of you, Gardiner. 539 00:41:55,300 --> 00:42:00,367 All men must fear God's displeasure, sire. And their king's. 540 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,833 Am I displeased with him? 541 00:42:02,867 --> 00:42:05,633 -The Queen stays. -Your Majesty. 542 00:42:07,067 --> 00:42:09,100 The Emperor's made peace with France. 543 00:42:09,133 --> 00:42:11,133 And he will move with them against the Lutherans. 544 00:42:11,167 --> 00:42:13,067 And what of his bond to me? 545 00:42:13,067 --> 00:42:17,133 Sire, what honour is there in their world now all men are turned against us? 546 00:42:17,167 --> 00:42:19,333 We are still at war with France and Scotland. 547 00:42:19,367 --> 00:42:23,867 Oh, Scotland, yes! Hertford teaches them a lesson. 548 00:42:23,900 --> 00:42:29,733 Seven towns, seven monasteries destroyed. Ten score villages and 13 mills. 549 00:42:29,767 --> 00:42:33,633 Your Majesty, the Pope has been displeased with Hertford's work in Scotland. 550 00:42:33,667 --> 00:42:36,067 -The Pope. -The Emperor's no longer your friend and ally. 551 00:42:36,100 --> 00:42:38,167 I know all this. 552 00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:42,100 It is my duty to tell Your Majesty that in the opinion of your Council, 553 00:42:42,133 --> 00:42:44,533 any weakness towards heresy in England 554 00:42:44,567 --> 00:42:47,667 may encourage France and the Emperor to move against you. 555 00:42:47,700 --> 00:42:52,533 -There's a French fleet off the Isle of Wight. -The opinion of my Council? 556 00:42:52,567 --> 00:42:56,067 Of those who are Your Majesty's true and loyal servants. 557 00:42:56,067 --> 00:42:58,300 But not Cranmer, of course. 558 00:42:58,333 --> 00:43:01,967 Cranmer should be brought before the rest of the Council to answer charges against him. 559 00:43:02,067 --> 00:43:03,733 What charges? 560 00:43:03,767 --> 00:43:07,067 His tenderness towards the heretics, his opposition to the Six Articles. 561 00:43:07,067 --> 00:43:09,100 Your witnesses? 562 00:43:09,133 --> 00:43:12,067 Sire, no one dares give evidence against a member of your Council 563 00:43:12,067 --> 00:43:13,667 whilst he is still free to proceed against them. 564 00:43:13,700 --> 00:43:18,533 -My Lord... -HENRY: (GROANS) Be still, woman. 565 00:43:18,567 --> 00:43:21,633 You would put an archbishop in the Tower? 566 00:43:21,667 --> 00:43:24,367 Your Majesty, I'd consider it my duty to deliver my brother 567 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,600 to the stake if he offended God, 568 00:43:26,633 --> 00:43:28,667 and there by be assured of his salvation. 569 00:43:28,700 --> 00:43:31,167 My lord, I beseech you, speak with Cranmer first. 570 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,533 GARDINER: My lady's gentle concern for His Grace is well known and... 571 00:43:34,567 --> 00:43:36,667 HENRY: Sirrah! 572 00:43:36,700 --> 00:43:39,400 Your Majesty, I did but recall your own words. 573 00:43:39,433 --> 00:43:44,667 That affairs of State and Church should best concern the minds of men, 574 00:43:44,700 --> 00:43:47,067 and not the hearts of women. 575 00:43:49,500 --> 00:43:51,800 Very well. 576 00:43:51,833 --> 00:43:56,933 He may be examined, but be sure you're right, Sir Bishop. 577 00:43:56,967 --> 00:44:01,067 Now you may leave us, but wait on me. We shall talk later. 578 00:44:05,533 --> 00:44:09,467 And now, madam, will you dispute with me? 579 00:44:10,567 --> 00:44:11,933 No, my lord. 580 00:44:11,967 --> 00:44:13,633 Your face is as long as a barber's bow 581 00:44:13,667 --> 00:44:16,100 and your expression's as sour as vinegar. 582 00:44:16,133 --> 00:44:19,867 -I'm afraid of him. -Why? Because he examined your foolish lady? 583 00:44:19,900 --> 00:44:24,767 More, my lord. He arrested a priest from my chapel and several choristers. 584 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:28,267 His officers have examined my chambers for books. 585 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:34,167 My lord. Will you abandon Cranmer? 586 00:44:37,300 --> 00:44:42,533 If I'm to have every Popish prince at my throat, 587 00:44:42,567 --> 00:44:46,767 I'm going toneed the friendship of the German Lutherans 588 00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,133 and they would trust Cranmer. 589 00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,833 -Send this to him. -My lord? 590 00:44:52,867 --> 00:44:55,800 When the Council call him, let him show them that 591 00:44:55,833 --> 00:44:59,433 as a token that they may not proceed without my presence. 592 00:44:59,467 --> 00:45:04,067 -And when will that be, my lord? -Why, madam, when I choose. 593 00:45:04,933 --> 00:45:07,500 That's kingly craft, Cate. 594 00:45:07,533 --> 00:45:10,600 I give Gardiner his way, keep an arm about Cranmer, 595 00:45:10,633 --> 00:45:16,267 thus have two servants still, two legs upon which, like Colossus, 596 00:45:16,300 --> 00:45:19,500 I may straddle this contentious kingdom. 597 00:45:21,067 --> 00:45:24,367 -My lord. -But hark ye, Cate. 598 00:45:25,867 --> 00:45:28,167 Remember St Paul. 599 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:33,233 Do not dispute with me in matters that are not your concern. 600 00:45:53,667 --> 00:45:56,900 -My lords. -They took a boat on the Thames alone, 601 00:45:56,933 --> 00:46:00,067 -except for the waterman. -Did you examine the fellow? 602 00:46:00,067 --> 00:46:02,200 He said the king jested with Cranmer, 603 00:46:02,233 --> 00:46:05,233 saying he knew now who was the greatest heretic in Kent. 604 00:46:05,267 --> 00:46:07,900 And then he pulled the depositions we prepared from his sleeve 605 00:46:07,933 --> 00:46:09,633 and showed them to Cranmer. 606 00:46:09,667 --> 00:46:11,400 And then? 607 00:46:11,433 --> 00:46:14,433 And then the King told Cranmer to fear nothing while the whole cause was in his hands. 608 00:46:14,467 --> 00:46:18,733 -My lords, she's recovered her senses. -We're coming, Master Knevet. 609 00:46:20,067 --> 00:46:21,867 It's the Queen's work. 610 00:46:21,900 --> 00:46:24,267 -Then we're lost. -No. 611 00:46:24,300 --> 00:46:26,467 She's begun her own betrayal, that's all, 612 00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:30,067 and needs but a little help from us to complete it. 613 00:46:45,167 --> 00:46:48,333 Mistress Askew, will you now confess? 614 00:46:49,167 --> 00:46:51,667 I will confess my sins to God 615 00:46:51,700 --> 00:46:55,367 and He will hear me with favour, for I am unjustly persecuted. 616 00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:59,733 -Will you die so perversely? -Nay, in innocence. 617 00:46:59,767 --> 00:47:02,633 O ye of little faith, how can you know the truth? 618 00:47:02,667 --> 00:47:04,333 Madam, who taught you these responses? 619 00:47:04,367 --> 00:47:06,467 The voice of God whose hand protects me... 620 00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:10,733 -The witch blasphemes! -Mistress Askew, how old are you? 621 00:47:10,767 --> 00:47:12,233 (SCREAMING) 622 00:47:23,100 --> 00:47:26,633 Mistress Askew, how old are you? 623 00:47:26,667 --> 00:47:29,067 She's 25, my lord. 624 00:47:29,100 --> 00:47:34,633 -And of gentle birth? -I am born of God's family. 625 00:47:34,667 --> 00:47:37,900 As are we all in His sight. 626 00:47:37,933 --> 00:47:40,667 Do you know your husband's abandoned you because of your heresy? 627 00:47:40,700 --> 00:47:42,067 I forgive him. 628 00:47:42,067 --> 00:47:46,400 -That heresy has been proved by witnesses. -I forgive them. 629 00:47:46,433 --> 00:47:50,567 Oh, Mistress Askew, I have been your friend. 630 00:47:51,533 --> 00:47:53,200 Thus said Judas. 631 00:47:59,633 --> 00:48:03,400 Your sins are great, mistress, and you've been condemned. 632 00:48:04,700 --> 00:48:08,133 My child, I can yet secure you the King's pardon. 633 00:48:08,167 --> 00:48:10,667 I shall not deny the Lord to save myself. 634 00:48:10,700 --> 00:48:13,300 You sent books to the Queen's ladies. 635 00:48:13,333 --> 00:48:15,367 I wish to die! Let me die! 636 00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,133 My child, it's in the confession you made in your first examination. 637 00:48:18,167 --> 00:48:20,067 -No! -It's recorded. 638 00:48:20,067 --> 00:48:22,667 Oh, good Christ, succour me. 639 00:48:29,333 --> 00:48:30,500 (GASPS) 640 00:48:47,067 --> 00:48:49,733 And did you not send books to the Queen also? 641 00:48:49,767 --> 00:48:53,233 And did she not smile upon you and call you a friend, 642 00:48:53,267 --> 00:48:55,200 and ask you todebate with her? 643 00:48:55,233 --> 00:48:59,333 -I will tell you... -Yes, my child. 644 00:49:00,467 --> 00:49:01,667 ...nothing. 645 00:49:10,567 --> 00:49:12,900 -She was beautiful? -Aye, my lord. 646 00:49:12,933 --> 00:49:15,867 She was beautiful. 647 00:49:15,900 --> 00:49:20,633 -Let this officer be relieved of his duty here. -Thank you, my lord. 648 00:49:20,667 --> 00:49:23,400 -And the woman? -Oh, she'll admit nothing. 649 00:49:23,433 --> 00:49:25,367 -I'll turn the wheel again. -No, no, no. 650 00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:30,667 She's in ecstasy of sin. Would you encourage her? She's condemned and she'll burn. 651 00:49:32,633 --> 00:49:38,333 There is truth in pain, Master Knevet, and salvation in fire for the sinner. 652 00:49:38,367 --> 00:49:41,367 -Don't reproach yourself. -No, my lord. 653 00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,867 There is some dalliance between you and one of the Queen's ladies? 654 00:49:44,900 --> 00:49:47,133 Yes, my lord. The Lady Lane. 655 00:49:47,167 --> 00:49:49,867 -Then tell her what has occurred here. -No, my lord. I couldn't... 656 00:49:49,900 --> 00:49:51,700 You're troubled, my son. 657 00:49:51,733 --> 00:49:56,400 Then why not find heart's ease by talking about it with your love? 658 00:49:56,433 --> 00:49:57,800 Yes, my lord. 659 00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:20,867 -And Master Knevet saw this? -Yes, my lady. 660 00:50:20,900 --> 00:50:25,300 -He is an honest man? -Oh, indeed, my lady, and much troubled. 661 00:50:40,833 --> 00:50:46,733 She confessed nothing of plots against me? Or of Norfolk's complicity? 662 00:50:46,767 --> 00:50:51,567 No, Your Majesty, but she revealed much of her own heresy and that of others. 663 00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:55,600 Where there is heresy, we find the camp followers of treason. 664 00:50:55,633 --> 00:50:57,467 Oh, sit by me, madam. 665 00:51:00,167 --> 00:51:04,567 -She was put to the rack? -Twice, Your Majesty, and thrice examined. 666 00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:06,567 And she will be burned? 667 00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,967 As also William Morrice, lately Your Majesty's usher, 668 00:51:10,067 --> 00:51:12,433 and Sir George Blagge of the Privy Chamber. 669 00:51:12,467 --> 00:51:15,400 Morris? But he was agood and simple fellow. 670 00:51:15,433 --> 00:51:18,167 Who denounced the mass, Your Majesty, 671 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,167 as did the woman Askew. 672 00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:23,667 Is it true that SirThomas Wriothesley turned the rack himself 673 00:51:23,700 --> 00:51:27,767 and would have Mistress Askew perjure herself by accusing my ladies? 674 00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,200 -Sire. -Be silent, madam. 675 00:51:30,233 --> 00:51:32,367 Nay, good sir, for that wouldn't silence my doubts, 676 00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:34,333 unless His Lordship can do it for me. 677 00:51:34,367 --> 00:51:36,200 -Doubts, madam? -Aye, my lord. 678 00:51:36,233 --> 00:51:39,267 That God wishes us to abuse each other so foully. 679 00:51:39,300 --> 00:51:44,067 That his truth can truly be found in the lies which a poor woman tells in agony. 680 00:51:44,067 --> 00:51:45,567 Your Majesty knew this wretched woman? 681 00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:49,300 No. But I've heard her gently spoken of. 682 00:51:49,333 --> 00:51:52,467 -By whom? -Why, by you, my lord. 683 00:51:52,500 --> 00:51:55,067 You said she might be more foolish than vicious. 684 00:51:55,067 --> 00:51:57,767 -By St Mary, I did not. -But you did, my... 685 00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,733 My lady, perhaps the thought was your own. 686 00:52:02,767 --> 00:52:06,067 Perhaps compassion has betrayed you into error. 687 00:52:06,100 --> 00:52:08,333 God knows my sins and faults, Lord Bishop. 688 00:52:08,367 --> 00:52:10,833 I doubt He would agree with you and include compassion amongst them. 689 00:52:10,867 --> 00:52:16,067 Madam, if the wicked woman was racked, it was God's will and in God's name. 690 00:52:16,100 --> 00:52:17,733 I know nothing of her wickedness, sire, 691 00:52:17,767 --> 00:52:20,067 but surely it is wicked to argue that Christ's love 692 00:52:20,067 --> 00:52:22,600 can be made manifest by the rack and the fire. 693 00:52:22,633 --> 00:52:26,533 Your Grace would not agree that in preaching her heresy openly, 694 00:52:26,567 --> 00:52:28,867 the woman was endangering the safety of this kingdom? 695 00:52:28,900 --> 00:52:31,433 She preached the scriptures, sir. There's nothing perilous in that. 696 00:52:31,467 --> 00:52:35,400 You heard her preach, madam? Or read her writings? 697 00:52:35,433 --> 00:52:37,267 I have read something of what she's written. 698 00:52:37,300 --> 00:52:39,133 By heaven, I knew nothing of this. 699 00:52:39,167 --> 00:52:41,700 My lord, there never was a greater need than now for a good doctrine 700 00:52:41,733 --> 00:52:43,467 to benefit all men. 701 00:52:43,500 --> 00:52:46,233 Must we burn those that honestly search for it? 702 00:52:46,267 --> 00:52:51,067 Yes. If they also seek to corrupt the kingdom and destroy the throne. 703 00:52:51,100 --> 00:52:56,200 But you are our Moses that delivered us from the bondage of the Pharaoh of Rome. 704 00:52:56,233 --> 00:52:58,933 If there is ignorance and blindness in us still, 705 00:52:58,967 --> 00:53:02,067 why the truth of God's word alone should you instruct us 706 00:53:02,067 --> 00:53:03,900 and set us on the path of righteousness. 707 00:53:03,933 --> 00:53:06,933 Madam, are you teaching me my duty? 708 00:53:06,967 --> 00:53:09,533 The devil is the sower of sedition, the woman Askew loved God, 709 00:53:09,567 --> 00:53:10,867 how can that be treason? 710 00:53:10,900 --> 00:53:12,200 Madam! 711 00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,733 Do not dispute this with me! 712 00:53:18,467 --> 00:53:22,500 Madam, the woman was examined, tested and tried by Church and law, 713 00:53:22,533 --> 00:53:25,567 by high officers of God and the King, your husband. 714 00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:27,367 Is it not therefore impertinent for a woman 715 00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,067 to question so supreme a judgement? 716 00:53:29,067 --> 00:53:31,433 The Pharisees also waxed haughty and proud, 717 00:53:31,467 --> 00:53:34,200 taking themselves to be men of greater virtuebecause of their rank. 718 00:53:34,233 --> 00:53:36,133 Am I a Pharisee, madam? 719 00:53:36,167 --> 00:53:40,833 If this be so, what must be the King, whose appointed minister I am? 720 00:53:40,867 --> 00:53:43,200 Oh, my lord, I... I meant no offence to you. 721 00:53:43,233 --> 00:53:46,900 Hold your tongue, woman. You do offend me. 722 00:53:46,933 --> 00:53:53,700 Your pious face offends me. I am offended by your prattling, insolent tongue. 723 00:53:53,733 --> 00:53:58,467 Well, madam, must I call my guards to remove you from my sight? 724 00:53:58,500 --> 00:54:00,067 A fine season, this, 725 00:54:00,067 --> 00:54:04,133 when women would turn clerks and I am taught my duty by my wife! 726 00:54:04,167 --> 00:54:06,067 (COUGHING) 727 00:54:08,433 --> 00:54:12,633 And you, sir, will you now be silent? 728 00:54:12,667 --> 00:54:16,867 Oh, sire, if I cannot speak... Oh, it is of no consequence. 729 00:54:16,900 --> 00:54:21,400 -Go on! -Sire, if I cannot speak, it is from astonishment. 730 00:54:21,433 --> 00:54:23,067 What? 731 00:54:23,067 --> 00:54:25,867 That the Queen should so far forget herself as to stand in argument with you. 732 00:54:25,900 --> 00:54:28,500 And since your Assertio on the heresies of Luther, 733 00:54:28,533 --> 00:54:31,967 you've been above all princes in learned judgement in matters of religion. 734 00:54:32,067 --> 00:54:35,700 Well, my lady wife thinks not. 735 00:54:37,833 --> 00:54:44,067 There's a comfort for my old age, Gardiner. To be taught theology by a woman. 736 00:54:44,067 --> 00:54:45,700 (LAUGHING) 737 00:54:49,233 --> 00:54:51,167 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 738 00:54:53,467 --> 00:54:54,567 Sire. 739 00:54:55,733 --> 00:54:57,500 What now? 740 00:54:57,533 --> 00:55:02,100 Sire, the love you bear me encourages me to speak frankly. 741 00:55:02,133 --> 00:55:06,800 Any prince who encourages malapert insolence in his subjects, 742 00:55:06,833 --> 00:55:10,833 whatever their station, imperils not only his throne, 743 00:55:10,867 --> 00:55:13,133 but his salvation in Christ. 744 00:55:13,167 --> 00:55:20,233 And how honest are you being with me, Sir Bishop. Did the woman Askew name the Queen? 745 00:55:20,267 --> 00:55:24,633 Sire, she would not deny that she had spoken with Her Majesty, 746 00:55:24,667 --> 00:55:28,833 but we know the Queen's goodness and charity. 747 00:55:28,867 --> 00:55:32,467 If these virtues have led her into a betrayal of Your Majesty's trust... 748 00:55:32,500 --> 00:55:35,967 Well, you...You examined her ladies. 749 00:55:36,067 --> 00:55:39,667 I did, Your Majesty, and among their papers I found much that was 750 00:55:39,700 --> 00:55:41,133 controversial and heretical. 751 00:55:41,167 --> 00:55:45,167 But you found nothing against the Queen in those papers? 752 00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:51,100 Sire, there were matters both equivocal and unequivocal that require her explanation. 753 00:55:51,133 --> 00:55:53,467 Touching upon what? 754 00:55:53,500 --> 00:55:58,633 Touching upon religion and upon government, Your Majesty. 755 00:55:58,667 --> 00:56:03,067 Those doctrines, which we heard Her Majesty so stiffly maintain, do, 756 00:56:03,067 --> 00:56:09,900 in their extremes and among malcontents, disallow government by princes, 757 00:56:09,933 --> 00:56:13,500 and argue that all things should be held in common. 758 00:56:14,567 --> 00:56:18,067 This is ultimate heresy, Your Majesty. 759 00:56:18,100 --> 00:56:22,467 -The Queen has said that? -By implication. 760 00:56:22,500 --> 00:56:26,533 And not in full knowledge of the heresy. 761 00:56:26,567 --> 00:56:30,367 But upon her examination by Your Majesty's Council, 762 00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:37,067 she will recognise her innocent errors, and satisfy Your Majesty's painful doubts. 763 00:56:37,100 --> 00:56:39,933 I've not yet said she may be examined. 764 00:56:39,967 --> 00:56:46,133 No, Your Majesty, but how else, for her own salvation, 765 00:56:46,167 --> 00:56:50,200 can we find the root of her obstinate and perverse opposition? 766 00:56:50,233 --> 00:56:52,433 It is obstinate and perverse. 767 00:56:52,467 --> 00:56:57,833 But in the Tower,Your Majesty's Council will discreetly lead her 768 00:56:57,867 --> 00:57:01,367 to recognise her innocent foolishness. 769 00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:06,500 -The Tower? -For her own safety, Your Majesty. 770 00:57:06,533 --> 00:57:09,600 That she may have solitude to reflect, 771 00:57:09,633 --> 00:57:13,400 and be free of those who would influence her against you. 772 00:57:13,433 --> 00:57:17,600 -It is necessary? -Alas, my lord. 773 00:57:20,333 --> 00:57:23,367 Am I ever to be betrayed by those I love? 774 00:57:28,133 --> 00:57:29,567 Very well. 775 00:57:30,967 --> 00:57:32,767 Let her be examined. 776 00:57:41,533 --> 00:57:42,800 I like it not. 777 00:57:42,833 --> 00:57:45,533 Your liking it or not liking it is of no consequence. 778 00:57:45,567 --> 00:57:47,900 -You go too far. -Too far? 779 00:57:47,933 --> 00:57:50,333 I tread God's path that others may follow 780 00:57:50,367 --> 00:57:52,667 and those who would hinder me must be struck down in His name. 781 00:57:52,700 --> 00:57:55,500 -But the Queen! -You were hot for her removal once. 782 00:57:55,533 --> 00:57:58,500 -And those behind her. -The King's sick to die. 783 00:57:58,533 --> 00:58:00,933 That he's still alive each morning is a miracle. 784 00:58:00,967 --> 00:58:05,067 If he dies before this is done, Cranmer and the Seymours will have our heads! 785 00:58:05,067 --> 00:58:08,600 Well, my head as a gentleman. You will burn. 786 00:58:08,633 --> 00:58:12,067 I hope I shall die in the knowledge that I have served God faithfully. 787 00:58:12,100 --> 00:58:13,967 Find another to serve the warrant. 788 00:58:14,067 --> 00:58:16,133 The hunt is up, my Lord Chancellor. 789 00:58:16,167 --> 00:58:18,867 -And you are the King's huntsman. -Find another. 790 00:58:18,900 --> 00:58:21,833 If I can secure the King's warrant for his wife, 791 00:58:21,867 --> 00:58:24,533 I can also secure one for his chancellor. 792 00:58:36,500 --> 00:58:38,367 When shall I take her to the Tower? 793 00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:41,733 The day after tomorrow. There is much to prepare. 794 00:58:43,433 --> 00:58:44,567 Well? 795 00:58:46,533 --> 00:58:48,300 She is the Queen. 796 00:58:48,333 --> 00:58:51,867 There's been a great harvesting of queens inour time, Wriothesley. 797 00:58:51,900 --> 00:58:54,900 Were you this faint-hearted to garner Catherine Howard? 798 00:58:54,933 --> 00:58:56,733 -The King... -The King? 799 00:58:56,767 --> 00:59:00,967 The King approaches Almighty judgement. He's afraid of death 800 00:59:01,067 --> 00:59:04,933 and would transfer his sins to others before he departs. 801 00:59:04,967 --> 00:59:07,267 He will not change his mind. 802 00:59:12,633 --> 00:59:18,267 -I like it not. -So you have said, and so I shall remember. 803 00:59:35,167 --> 00:59:38,067 -Madam. -Sir? 804 00:59:46,633 --> 00:59:48,400 (WHISPERING) Madam. 805 00:59:49,500 --> 00:59:51,567 (WHISPERING) Sir? 806 00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:54,133 -The Queen, your mistress. -Aye, sir? 807 00:59:54,167 --> 00:59:56,667 (LATCH TURNING) 808 00:59:56,700 --> 01:00:00,367 I must do my duty, I cannot escape it, but tell her... 809 01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:05,033 -Well, what shall I tell her, sir? -Madam, her life is in danger. 810 01:00:22,667 --> 01:00:24,333 No. 811 01:00:27,567 --> 01:00:30,767 Madam, he showed me the warrant. 812 01:00:35,067 --> 01:00:36,567 Not my lord. 813 01:00:37,867 --> 01:00:42,367 Alas, madam, it was signed. By the King's hand. 814 01:01:01,233 --> 01:01:04,133 -She is here? -There, my lord. 815 01:01:10,367 --> 01:01:11,500 Madam? 816 01:01:17,100 --> 01:01:19,667 -How long? -Since yesterday evening. 817 01:01:20,300 --> 01:01:21,933 So long. 818 01:01:21,967 --> 01:01:26,667 At times she weeps. Then she cries out that she is dead. 819 01:01:26,700 --> 01:01:31,900 She'll have no candles lit, saying that no one will find her in the dark. 820 01:01:31,933 --> 01:01:34,600 -Leave me with her. -My lord, if the King should discover... 821 01:01:34,633 --> 01:01:39,067 He does not return from Windsor until tomorrow. Leave me with her. 822 01:01:48,933 --> 01:01:50,233 Madam? 823 01:01:51,500 --> 01:01:54,567 -Will you pray with me, my child? -No light! 824 01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:58,433 Nay, child, it's only a candle and nothing to fear. 825 01:01:58,933 --> 01:02:00,300 You see? 826 01:02:02,733 --> 01:02:04,433 Now pray with me. 827 01:02:06,367 --> 01:02:11,067 Most benign Lord Jesus, grant me Thy grace, 828 01:02:11,100 --> 01:02:17,233 that it may always work in me and persevere with me unto the end. 829 01:02:19,867 --> 01:02:25,267 It's your own prayer, Catherine. Do you remember writing it? 830 01:02:28,733 --> 01:02:30,367 Thy creature... 831 01:02:33,633 --> 01:02:36,067 Thy creature am I 832 01:02:36,900 --> 01:02:38,600 and in Thy hands. 833 01:02:39,700 --> 01:02:41,667 Turn me where Thou wilt. 834 01:02:43,500 --> 01:02:46,533 Lord, give me grace, 835 01:02:46,567 --> 01:02:50,633 gladly to suffer whatsoever Thou wilt shall fall upon me, 836 01:02:52,100 --> 01:02:55,300 and patiently to take at Thy hands 837 01:02:55,333 --> 01:02:59,667 the good and the bad, bitter and sweet, 838 01:02:59,700 --> 01:03:02,300 joy and sorrow, 839 01:03:02,333 --> 01:03:08,233 and for all things that shall be fall unto me, heartily to thank Thee. 840 01:03:11,700 --> 01:03:13,133 (CRYING) 841 01:03:13,167 --> 01:03:15,567 Oh, sweet madam. 842 01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:17,667 I beseech you, believe. 843 01:03:17,700 --> 01:03:22,267 God is strong enough to take the burden of this trouble from you. 844 01:03:24,433 --> 01:03:28,533 -He has deserted me. -He sent you this trial to test you. 845 01:03:28,567 --> 01:03:32,500 -Will you desert Him? -The King has abandoned me. 846 01:03:33,867 --> 01:03:36,667 Yet the Lord is by your side. 847 01:03:38,633 --> 01:03:40,200 Oh, God. 848 01:03:41,067 --> 01:03:43,200 Indeed we are all afraid. 849 01:03:44,300 --> 01:03:48,367 Do you hear, my lady? We are all afraid. 850 01:03:50,267 --> 01:03:53,600 I feel the rack. I smell the fire. 851 01:03:54,833 --> 01:03:59,167 Madam, I too am afraid. 852 01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:05,067 Now you are the rock upon which we founder, or may cling and be saved. 853 01:04:06,667 --> 01:04:09,600 Will you abandon us? 854 01:04:09,633 --> 01:04:13,500 God forgive you if you do, for you are thereby damned. 855 01:04:15,233 --> 01:04:18,500 -Save me. -You must save yourself. 856 01:04:21,767 --> 01:04:25,067 Catherine, I'll pray for you. 857 01:04:25,067 --> 01:04:29,067 -When I burn. -Most surely then. 858 01:04:29,100 --> 01:04:33,833 -For I shall be beside you in the flames. -Oh, blessed God, help me. 859 01:04:33,867 --> 01:04:37,433 Do your duty to Him, and He will. 860 01:04:38,733 --> 01:04:40,400 Save His Church. 861 01:04:42,133 --> 01:04:45,467 I'm a woman, not a churchman. 862 01:04:45,500 --> 01:04:48,167 Then be a woman, madam. 863 01:04:50,100 --> 01:04:52,200 Be a woman 864 01:04:52,233 --> 01:04:57,700 as God's scriptures and your own nature so instruct you. 865 01:05:30,733 --> 01:05:37,067 Be still, fool. Here is no rival for your wit.But you may rise, madam. 866 01:05:37,967 --> 01:05:40,267 You do me too much honour, madam. 867 01:05:40,300 --> 01:05:45,733 Don't you take more pleasure in the company of your heretical ladies? 868 01:05:45,767 --> 01:05:47,633 Oh no, my lord. Never. 869 01:05:48,700 --> 01:05:51,933 -You know I am ill. -Indeed, my lord. 870 01:05:51,967 --> 01:05:56,333 -Yet you cared nothing. -I'd give my own life that you might be well. 871 01:05:56,367 --> 01:05:58,900 I'm sick at heart, too. You know that? 872 01:05:58,933 --> 01:06:01,900 -My lord, if I have done... -Done? 873 01:06:01,933 --> 01:06:05,067 What haven't you done, by St Mary? I'll tell you what you've done. 874 01:06:05,100 --> 01:06:07,467 You've turned clerk, madam, to instruct me. 875 01:06:07,500 --> 01:06:11,933 -No, my lord. -Not to be directed by me, but to instruct me. 876 01:06:11,967 --> 01:06:15,300 -What say you to that? -By your leave, my lord. You are wrong. 877 01:06:15,333 --> 01:06:18,433 -You see? Instruct me. -No, my lord. 878 01:06:18,467 --> 01:06:21,733 I remind myself of your own instructions to me. 879 01:06:21,767 --> 01:06:25,100 That it is preposterous for a woman to takeup the attitude of 880 01:06:25,133 --> 01:06:27,133 teacher to her husband. 881 01:06:27,167 --> 01:06:30,367 You argued with me, madam. 882 01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:33,067 -You dispute my judgements. -No, by your leave, my lord... 883 01:06:33,067 --> 01:06:36,433 Aye, you're a clerk, madam! A clerk! 884 01:06:36,467 --> 01:06:40,333 To instruct me! Me, by God! Me! 885 01:06:41,667 --> 01:06:44,967 Would you teach me theology or astrology perhaps? 886 01:06:45,067 --> 01:06:49,567 Or music? By heaven...What is it, madam? Are you ill? Will. Will! 887 01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:53,067 A stool, you dolt. Get the Queen a stool. 888 01:07:20,933 --> 01:07:22,533 Your Majesty... 889 01:07:23,233 --> 01:07:27,333 Oh, what makes you ill, Cate? 890 01:07:27,367 --> 01:07:29,933 -Is it perhaps... -No, my lord. 891 01:07:29,967 --> 01:07:33,733 Though not for want of Your Majesty's energy and assault. 892 01:07:35,233 --> 01:07:38,700 Yes, but you... You did lecture me perversely, madam. 893 01:07:38,733 --> 01:07:41,500 You did most obstinately instruct me. 894 01:07:41,533 --> 01:07:45,867 Indeed I did, sire, and was in grievous default thereby. 895 01:07:45,900 --> 01:07:51,400 For God made man in His own shape and likeness, to instruct and improve women, 896 01:07:51,433 --> 01:07:55,167 who have such great imperfections in their creation. 897 01:07:55,200 --> 01:07:59,133 -Just so, madam. My very words. -Yes, Your Grace. 898 01:07:59,167 --> 01:08:02,133 And you hurt me, Cate. 899 01:08:02,167 --> 01:08:07,467 -I was angry. By God, I was angry. -Then punish me, my lord. 900 01:08:07,500 --> 01:08:10,533 For woman is made of man, so must she be governed by him. 901 01:08:10,567 --> 01:08:14,467 But who is to be the governor when I must take instruction? 902 01:08:14,500 --> 01:08:20,267 -My lord, I meant only to question you. -Ah, to question. 903 01:08:20,300 --> 01:08:23,500 And from your learned answers to be myself, 904 01:08:23,533 --> 01:08:27,333 instructed by you, my beloved governor. 905 01:08:27,367 --> 01:08:33,900 -Is it so, Cate? You meant no more than that? -No more than that, my lord. 906 01:08:33,933 --> 01:08:38,067 Then by heaven, we may be friends again. 907 01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:42,433 You bring me joy, sweetheart. 908 01:08:42,467 --> 01:08:47,067 More joy than a hundred thousand crowns falling in my lap. 909 01:09:06,867 --> 01:09:08,400 Your Majesty. 910 01:09:16,733 --> 01:09:20,533 Fool! Knave! 911 01:09:20,567 --> 01:09:24,533 -Rogue! You... You beast! -My lord! 912 01:09:26,467 --> 01:09:28,900 You rogue! 913 01:09:28,933 --> 01:09:30,633 You coward! 914 01:09:30,667 --> 01:09:33,467 (WHEEZING) 915 01:09:34,833 --> 01:09:37,167 (CHOKING) 916 01:09:39,433 --> 01:09:41,267 (GROANING) 917 01:09:44,667 --> 01:09:48,400 (CHURCH BELLS TOLLING) 918 01:10:19,700 --> 01:10:22,567 -I came upon your message. Is the King dead? -No. 919 01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:25,000 -But the bell? -I've sent word to have it stopped. 920 01:10:25,033 --> 01:10:29,200 It was his notion that heaven perhaps might have good warning of his eminent coming. 921 01:10:29,233 --> 01:10:32,233 Nay, hell, more like. 922 01:10:32,267 --> 01:10:34,400 Three weeks! How can he still live? 923 01:10:34,433 --> 01:10:37,167 He could unleash his soul any hour now. 924 01:10:38,033 --> 01:10:39,467 What news? 925 01:10:40,967 --> 01:10:43,567 Good news. London is ours. 926 01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:47,333 -And here at Hampton Court? -No one can leave without our pass. 927 01:10:47,367 --> 01:10:49,433 -Is Cranmer here? -And Gardiner. 928 01:10:49,467 --> 01:10:54,733 Both would have copy hold on the King's spirit before his body's cold. 929 01:10:54,767 --> 01:10:57,700 -There's none to stop us, brother. -None, 930 01:10:57,733 --> 01:11:01,533 now that the King has condemned Norfolk to the Tower. 931 01:11:01,567 --> 01:11:06,067 -Yet he is no Papist. He'd be an ally. -Or a rival, Thomas. 932 01:11:07,967 --> 01:11:09,800 -Mary? -Here. 933 01:11:09,833 --> 01:11:14,333 Now Gardiner will make her queen if he can, but the king has named Edward his heir. 934 01:11:14,367 --> 01:11:16,533 Give me 24 hours, Thomas, after he dies, 935 01:11:16,567 --> 01:11:20,567 with no word of this tothe rest of the kingdom until we're ready, 936 01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:24,367 -and I'll crown the boy. -Has the Kingnamed you regent? 937 01:11:26,233 --> 01:11:30,367 -Or is it Catherine? -No, he's forgotten her. 938 01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:33,967 And, brother, here's the jest of it. By his own word, 939 01:11:34,067 --> 01:11:40,700 he is to be buried inthe chapel at Windsornext to our sister Jane. 940 01:11:40,733 --> 01:11:46,067 How can the man still live? How can life bear to linger in that hill of rotting flesh? 941 01:11:46,500 --> 01:11:47,767 (SHUSHING) 942 01:11:50,833 --> 01:11:52,600 (BREATHING NOISILY) 943 01:12:05,900 --> 01:12:07,300 (MOANING) 944 01:12:09,900 --> 01:12:12,100 (WHISPERING) Your Majesty. 945 01:12:14,367 --> 01:12:18,600 -Who's there? -Stephen Gardiner, Your Majesty. 946 01:12:19,833 --> 01:12:23,367 My legs. They burn. 947 01:12:24,067 --> 01:12:28,100 With ice. They burn with ice. 948 01:12:28,133 --> 01:12:30,500 (GASPING) 949 01:12:32,367 --> 01:12:33,800 (SIGHING) 950 01:12:34,700 --> 01:12:36,233 Your Majesty. 951 01:12:37,567 --> 01:12:42,100 -Gardiner, you say? -Your Majesty's loving servant. 952 01:12:44,100 --> 01:12:47,300 You should have taken a wife 953 01:12:48,900 --> 01:12:51,533 like Cranmer. 954 01:12:51,567 --> 01:12:53,567 (LAUGHING HOARSELY) 955 01:12:55,367 --> 01:12:56,567 Like me. 956 01:12:59,300 --> 01:13:04,067 -My lord, she plots against you. -Plots? 957 01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:07,367 -Who? -The Queen, my lord. 958 01:13:10,433 --> 01:13:14,567 The Queen is dead. Sweet Jane. 959 01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:19,067 No, the Lady Catherine, my lord. There is proof. 960 01:13:19,100 --> 01:13:24,067 Your Majesty, the Council must examine her, lest you die in sin. 961 01:13:24,067 --> 01:13:26,633 Sin? I've been shriven? 962 01:13:27,267 --> 01:13:30,700 Be gone, Sir Priest. 963 01:13:36,067 --> 01:13:38,133 They'll burn you. 964 01:13:42,833 --> 01:13:46,533 Your Majesty, will you name the Lady Mary your successor? 965 01:13:46,567 --> 01:13:47,667 Mary? 966 01:13:49,267 --> 01:13:53,533 Rogues, all of you. You keep my daughter from me. 967 01:13:54,833 --> 01:13:56,400 Where is Mary? 968 01:14:04,900 --> 01:14:07,067 Send for the Lady Mary. 969 01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:38,600 Be of good heart, my child. He's asked to see you alone. 970 01:14:38,633 --> 01:14:43,167 -And so, my lord? -Madam, you are his sole heir, 971 01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:46,133 in law and in the sight of God. 972 01:14:50,167 --> 01:14:53,767 I'll wager a good horse he told her she should be queen. 973 01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:55,467 And so she believes. 974 01:14:55,500 --> 01:14:59,800 But while grief has a hold on her, she'll do as the King says. 975 01:15:04,333 --> 01:15:08,067 HENRY: Mary, are you alone? 976 01:15:08,700 --> 01:15:11,367 But for your fool. 977 01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:15,133 Will... Are you still there, Will? 978 01:15:15,167 --> 01:15:18,333 Aye, Cousin Hal. Always. 979 01:15:21,733 --> 01:15:23,200 Not always. 980 01:15:26,567 --> 01:15:29,067 I pray you, daughter, 981 01:15:29,067 --> 01:15:34,433 your brother Edward is small and young still. 982 01:15:34,467 --> 01:15:37,900 -Try to be a mother to him. -Oh, I shall, my lord. 983 01:15:37,933 --> 01:15:41,567 And honour him as king. 984 01:15:42,233 --> 01:15:43,833 (EXCLAIMING SOFTLY) 985 01:15:43,867 --> 01:15:49,167 -Do not weep. -O my lord, live many days yet. 986 01:15:49,200 --> 01:15:51,167 Don't leave me alone among my enemies. 987 01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:53,400 -Dear Will Somers... -WILL: Aye, Your Majesty. 988 01:15:53,433 --> 01:15:58,133 Take her away. I can bear no weeping. 989 01:15:59,900 --> 01:16:02,400 (MARY SOBBING) 990 01:16:04,700 --> 01:16:06,633 (BREATHING LABORIOUSLY) 991 01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:13,300 (HOARSELY) My God, release me. 992 01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:45,067 (COUGHING SOFTLY) 993 01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:48,600 My lord. 994 01:16:50,700 --> 01:16:52,467 Is it Gardiner? 995 01:16:53,833 --> 01:16:56,167 Thomas Cranmer, Your Majesty. 996 01:16:57,967 --> 01:17:00,467 You're all one to me now. 997 01:17:02,067 --> 01:17:03,767 Sire. 998 01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:07,467 You asked for the Queen. She is here. 999 01:17:09,067 --> 01:17:11,733 The Queen is dead. 1000 01:17:14,233 --> 01:17:15,367 Madam. 1001 01:17:22,067 --> 01:17:26,200 -Who's there? -Your wife, my lord. 1002 01:17:28,167 --> 01:17:31,067 Sweet Jane is dead. 1003 01:17:32,667 --> 01:17:34,433 It's Cate, my lord. 1004 01:17:39,133 --> 01:17:42,400 -Cate. -Aye, my lord. 1005 01:17:47,067 --> 01:17:51,233 My son. Protect my children, Cate. 1006 01:17:52,300 --> 01:17:56,333 -As if they weremy own, my lord. -Your own? 1007 01:17:57,967 --> 01:18:00,133 -Your jewels. -My lord? 1008 01:18:00,167 --> 01:18:04,300 Don't let them take your jewels. They're thieves, all of them. 1009 01:18:05,967 --> 01:18:08,100 -Gentlemen. -My lord. 1010 01:18:08,133 --> 01:18:12,667 -My lord. -Honour this sweet lady. Honour her. 1011 01:18:14,367 --> 01:18:17,567 And look after her as if I still lived. 1012 01:18:18,067 --> 01:18:19,633 (GASPING) 1013 01:18:24,900 --> 01:18:26,700 Kiss me, my lady. 1014 01:18:34,567 --> 01:18:37,800 It's God's will we should part, Cate. 1015 01:19:16,100 --> 01:19:18,533 It's a fine day for hawking. 1016 01:19:18,567 --> 01:19:22,133 -Thomas, you lack respect. -My Lord Archbishop, I am honest. 1017 01:19:22,167 --> 01:19:24,667 Why not be so yourself? Don't you feel a lightness of heart? 1018 01:19:24,700 --> 01:19:27,267 Thomas, be quiet! You're not a boy. 1019 01:19:27,300 --> 01:19:30,400 We're all boys and soon to be released from school. 1020 01:19:30,433 --> 01:19:33,500 It's a fine day for hawking. The bird stoops. 1021 01:19:33,533 --> 01:19:36,500 (WHISPERING) And Gardiner is the quarry. 1022 01:19:38,867 --> 01:19:41,733 The King is about to die, and must be told. 1023 01:19:41,767 --> 01:19:43,867 Nay, sir, let me tell him the glad some news. 1024 01:19:43,900 --> 01:19:45,733 I'll cut out that foolish tongue one day. 1025 01:19:45,767 --> 01:19:48,933 You'll have need of it yet, brother. Take your hand from me! 1026 01:19:48,967 --> 01:19:54,333 I'll tell the King. You bring our nephew Edward here. 1027 01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:10,767 Your Majesty. 1028 01:20:12,733 --> 01:20:17,667 Your Majesty, it is the judgement of your physician that you are about to die. 1029 01:20:18,533 --> 01:20:21,533 Is there one you would open your mind to? 1030 01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:26,467 Cranmer. 1031 01:20:30,067 --> 01:20:34,533 My lord, I beseech God to give you the grace 1032 01:20:34,567 --> 01:20:38,167 to say something at this, your departure, 1033 01:20:38,200 --> 01:20:42,367 whereby he may be glorified and your memory blessed. 1034 01:20:46,367 --> 01:20:51,100 Do you die in the true faith of Christ? 1035 01:20:54,500 --> 01:20:59,200 Sire, do you die in the true faith of Christ? 1036 01:21:06,767 --> 01:21:08,500 Monks. 1037 01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:13,467 Monks! 1038 01:21:37,633 --> 01:21:40,633 He pressed my hand. 1039 01:21:40,667 --> 01:21:46,567 He died in the true faith of Christ and will enter eternal life. 1040 01:21:55,433 --> 01:21:58,567 My lords, the King is dead. 1041 01:21:59,500 --> 01:22:02,600 Vive le noble roi Edward! 1042 01:22:56,500 --> 01:22:58,067 (DOOR OPENING) 1043 01:22:58,467 --> 01:22:59,567 Cate. 1044 01:23:01,533 --> 01:23:03,400 He's dead, Cate. 1045 01:23:07,600 --> 01:23:11,300 -Madam, the King is dead. -Five hours ago. 1046 01:23:11,333 --> 01:23:14,767 Did you think no one would come and tell me, Thomas? 1047 01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:17,467 Am I to be regent? 1048 01:23:17,500 --> 01:23:20,700 You? That's a cap for a man to wear. 1049 01:23:20,733 --> 01:23:24,067 -Or a crown for your brother. -The Council declares him protector tomorrow. 1050 01:23:24,100 --> 01:23:27,700 -That wasn't my lord's wish. -Your lord's dead. 1051 01:23:27,733 --> 01:23:33,267 -And his son needs us. -Edward is afraid of you and so are his sisters. 1052 01:23:33,300 --> 01:23:37,267 -Are you afraid of us, Cate? -I fear none of you now. 1053 01:23:52,067 --> 01:23:54,433 I found it in a corner of the garden. 1054 01:23:54,467 --> 01:23:57,733 The warmth of the kitchens saved it from the frost. 1055 01:23:57,767 --> 01:24:02,067 -And your lute? Have you brought that? -I will wed you, Cate. 1056 01:24:02,067 --> 01:24:04,267 May we not bury theKing, my husband, first? 1057 01:24:04,300 --> 01:24:06,600 When we marry may wait upon discretion. 1058 01:24:06,633 --> 01:24:09,900 -But I may say yes or no now. -You must say yes. 1059 01:24:09,933 --> 01:24:13,600 -Why? -For the safety of... 1060 01:24:13,633 --> 01:24:18,067 -That I may protect you, madam. -No word of love, Thomas? 1061 01:24:18,100 --> 01:24:19,767 I can speak of love if you wish, 1062 01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:23,067 but what I offer in the moment I choose to offer it speaks more strongly. 1063 01:24:23,067 --> 01:24:26,267 I've had three husbands. I'm old. I'm nothing. 1064 01:24:29,100 --> 01:24:32,767 -You're everything at this moment, Cate. -To you? 1065 01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:34,167 To me, yes, but that's nothing. 1066 01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:35,767 Are you being self-denying again, Thomas? 1067 01:24:35,800 --> 01:24:37,433 -Our love is nothing... -Our love! 1068 01:24:37,467 --> 01:24:42,200 ...against your duty to Edward, to the Church, and to this kingdom. 1069 01:24:42,233 --> 01:24:45,633 And by good fortune, this time I may satisfy both. 1070 01:24:46,633 --> 01:24:51,433 Oh, Thomas, I've been crucified on duty, 1071 01:24:52,800 --> 01:24:58,667 to my father, to the husbands his debts chose for me, 1072 01:24:58,700 --> 01:25:03,800 to the Church which I love, and to the King which I came to love, 1073 01:25:03,833 --> 01:25:10,067 and Cranmer, whose fear and goodness made me deny my conscience before the King. 1074 01:25:11,733 --> 01:25:14,900 Thomas, may I not now find some duty to myself. 1075 01:25:14,933 --> 01:25:18,100 Madam, I would if I could take a warmer companion to my bed, 1076 01:25:18,133 --> 01:25:20,933 but by God's most precious soul, it must be you. 1077 01:25:20,967 --> 01:25:23,633 -No. -At this moment, Edward is in his chamber 1078 01:25:23,667 --> 01:25:25,733 puking in fear of my brother. 1079 01:25:25,767 --> 01:25:29,733 Mary and Elizabeth stand over him like she-cats daring either of us to enter. 1080 01:25:29,767 --> 01:25:32,800 -No, I will not. -You will! 1081 01:25:32,833 --> 01:25:39,500 For it's you they love, and by your guidance will be ready to obey those in your favour. 1082 01:25:41,800 --> 01:25:45,733 There's more, madam, if your new-found wit wants the truth plain. 1083 01:25:45,767 --> 01:25:50,900 Without you, Mary will turn against us and have this kingdom in civil war. 1084 01:25:50,933 --> 01:25:54,267 Edward is sick enough to die for want of nursing. 1085 01:25:54,300 --> 01:25:56,900 And my brother would be ready to choke Elizabeth himself 1086 01:25:56,933 --> 01:26:00,300 if he thought a party might gather about her. 1087 01:26:00,333 --> 01:26:02,633 Now, madam, what of your duty? 1088 01:26:05,800 --> 01:26:09,967 Thomas, I would have loved you once before all others. 1089 01:26:10,067 --> 01:26:14,500 -Faith, if that's all, I can light the spark. -You, after my lord. 1090 01:26:16,367 --> 01:26:19,367 Who died crying for my sister Jane. 1091 01:26:21,767 --> 01:26:23,267 Well, madam? 1092 01:26:25,333 --> 01:26:27,433 I will marry you, Thomas.