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Once, a long time ago, I had a brother.
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He was going to be king.
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But he was never crowned.
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One night, they came for us.
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We disappeared.
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And though our bodies were never
found, the people believe we are dead.
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So little is known of the
fate of those two souls.
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But this much we do know.
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For only 77 days, England was
ruled by a 12-year-old Prince of York.
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Edward and his brother Richard
were imprisoned in the Tower of London.
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They were seen playing outside
together on a summer's day in 1483.
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And then they were never seen again.
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Unless you believe the story of a
man who appeared eight years later.
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My name is Richard, Duke of York.
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I am back to claim my throne.
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Le Roi est vive.
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He was royally received all over Europe.
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Ireland gave him men.
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Scotland gave him their
king's cousin as his bride.
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He landed on the shores of
England with an army of 8,000.
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His supporters proclaimed
him King Richard IV.
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He was ready to face his foe.
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The House of Lancaster now ruled England.
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Henry Tudor had beaten the
Yorkists in battle to take the crown.
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Now he would finish
them off once and for all.
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He sent his army west to crush
the uprising and hang its leaders.
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But Richard, he wanted taken alive.
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He was dragged back to the very
place where the princes had been held.
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The new Tudor king, Henry
VII, was a superstitious man.
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Known to consult in astrology
before making any kind of decision.
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Stop in God's name!
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The young man had too many friends
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among the ambassadors of
Europe to simply disappear.
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The identity of this man
imprisoned in the tower
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remains one of the most tantalising
mysteries in the story of England's past.
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Could there be any chance that he was one
of those little boys delivered from death?
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One thing was now certain.
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To silence the pretender forever,
Henry would need to extract a confession.
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Richard had lost on the battlefield.
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But was this the real contest?
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Please be seated.
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One slip, and it will all be over.
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This is the Bishop of Cambrai,
ambassador for the Duchess of Burgundy.
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Whatever is said and done in this room
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will be properly recorded.
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I don't believe your claim to be a prince.
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It's quite clear the princes were murdered
by their uncle Richard here in the tower.
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I don't believe you've ever
been in the tower in your life.
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But we live in a country
which respects the law.
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The law, you say?
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Things must have changed then.
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What is your name?
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Richard.
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Richard?
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Yes.
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You're sure about that?
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Think carefully before you answer.
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Well, to speak more truthfully-- and
we must speak the truth, for there are
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witnesses and a scribe present-- I would
have to call myself Richard Plantagenet,
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the fourth of England, Duke of
York, Earl Marshal of England,
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Duke of Norfolk,
Earl of Varenna and of
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Nottingham, Lord of
Seagrave, Mowbray, and Gower.
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Do you need me to repeat any of that?
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Since when have you been
referring to yourself by those titles?
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Since my first marriage to Anne,
Duchess of Mowbray, alas, now dead.
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When did she die?
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Can't remember.
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You can't remember when your wife died?
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About 1482, I think.
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I didn't pay much attention.
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I was only nine at the time.
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Are these your clothes?
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Yes.
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They say they cost a king's ransom.
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Well, the clothes make the man.
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Only a king has the right
to wear a cloth of gold.
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I know.
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But wearing cloth of gold
does not bestow kingship.
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I should hope not.
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They say they see in my
face the image of the last
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rightful king of England,
my father, Edward IV.
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A person might use a portrait as a model.
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He might.
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And then again, he might not.
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I grant you, a person might cut his hair
this way or that to suggest a resemblance.
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But the features of the
face, they are God-given.
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Quelle Philosophe... J'ai
lu la Philosopie, c'est pas así
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Is French your native tongue?
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No...
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Your accent is perfect.
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Thank you.
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As if it were your native tongue...
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Anyone who travels and who has a good ear
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can become a skilled
as I am with little trouble.
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This is all show and no fuss, sir.
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It is time to eat.
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Of all the forces that guided the
king, the most powerful was his mother.
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It was because of her Lancastrian blood that
he was born sixth in line to the throne.
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Lady Margaret Beaufort, pious and pitiless.
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Why is Cambrai here now?
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A courtesy visit.
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Or so he says.
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The Spanish ambassador
arrives this afternoon.
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Ambassadors always arrive
at the worst possible time.
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It's part of their skill.
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Well, Spain surely won't
give us Catherine of Aragón
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for our grandson if they get any
suspicion we're not secure on the throne.
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Will you send for the king?
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No.
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If Henry comes, it will
give Europe the message
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that he thinks the
pretender is a serious threat.
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I'll come myself.
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A Tudor marriage with Spain had for years
been Lady Margaret's passionate desire.
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Once consummated, it would place her family
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on Europe's high table, keeping
company with the world's elite.
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But the pretender had built
his own European alliances,
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which threatened the
fulfilment of her dream.
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Lady Margaret knew
she needed to bring the
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interrogation to an end
swiftly and decisively.
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This task she had entrusted
to a man thought by many
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to possess the most
cunning mind in England.
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You're not Richard.
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You're not a Duke.
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You're not of the House of York.
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You're not even English.
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You're a puppet and a pawn.
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And you will pay the price
for what you have done.
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Do you think I'm afraid of you?
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Ask me your questions.
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Trick me if you can.
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But remember this.
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I'm Richard, Duke of York, the
last rightful heir of Edward IV.
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And I'm your king.
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And I say before these
witnesses that when this is over,
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you will kneel to Richard
IV and beg for mercy.
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1483, King Edward dies.
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What happens to Richard?
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Answer the question.
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On April the 9th, I went with my mother
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to take sanctuary at Westminster Abbey.
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And your brother went with you?
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No, my uncle had taken him to the
tower to prepare for his coronation.
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When did you join him?
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For a few weeks, I stayed
quietly with my mother and sisters.
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We weren't allowed out.
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Then one day, my uncle Richard came for me.
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He embraced me, gave me warm
words, and said he'd keep me safe.
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Then I was taken by boat to the tower.
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So your life in the tower.
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We had a few familiar attendants,
men we'd known at our father's court.
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We played in the grounds.
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You were able to play
out of doors for a time?
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So here you are having a little
holiday, not feeling very frightened or--
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One day when we weren't looking,
they took our attendants away.
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We were playing.
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One minute they were there watching
over us, next minute they'd gone.
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And then?
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They moved us.
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They put us somewhere
further inside the tower.
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We weren't allowed outside anymore,
and we were kept locked up at all times.
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Your brother was inclined to
be melancholy, was he not?
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He was in severe pain.
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He had a disease in his jaw.
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From the moment they took our attendants
away, he was convinced we were going to die.
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Did anyone come to see you?
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There was a doctor.
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He'd been in our father's court.
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He came to see Edward.
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What was his name?
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Something to do with silver.
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He was an astrologer, an alchemist
too, one of my father's closest advisers.
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What was he like?
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He was a kind man.
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He seemed-- he seemed
the last bit of safety,
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the last link with the
world we'd known.
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When he stopped coming, even I got scared.
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So tell us about your escape.
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Tell us by what miracle
Prince Richard honours us with
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his presence, when most of those who
knew him thought him dead these 16 years.
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We went to bed.
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We slept.
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I- I remember half waking up and seeing
two men standing beside my brother's bed.
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But I was used to seeing guards in
the room, so I didn't pay any attention.
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Guards in the room at night?
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Yes, they'd check on us
several times most nights.
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Anyway, I often had vivid dreams,
especially since I'd been in the tower.
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I thought I must be dreaming.
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When I woke up, I was in a boat.
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In a boat?
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Yes.
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Did you ask what had
happened to your brother?
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Of course I did.
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They told me that he was
dead, that I must forget who I was.
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So you slept through the
murder of your own brother.
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Yes, it seems I did.
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When had the doctor stopped coming?
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I don't remember exactly.
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A week, two weeks.
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Argentine.
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I remember his name now.
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John Argentine.
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Your father's close adviser?
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Yes.
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And the man who made you feel
safe when you were most in danger?
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Yes.
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How strange that you don't recognise me.
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You.
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Yes.
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I don't believe it.
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You didn't know me.
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You didn't know me either.
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That's because you're an impostor.
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You didn't recognise
me because you've never
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set eyes on me in your
entire miserable life.
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No.
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It's because when you left us,
we thought that you were dead.
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What else were we supposed to think?
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You were our magician.
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We thought you were capable of anything.
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How dare you?
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I loved those children
as if they were my own.
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Then how is it you are here?
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Not dead at all, but living a life of
privilege in the court of a usurper.
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Did you abandon us for that?
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Dr. Argentine knew that
the prisoner had won the
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advantage by creating just
sufficient reasonable doubt.
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Lady Margaret was in no mood for doubt.
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She called another
witness, not just someone
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who knew the princes,
someone closer in blood
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to the princes than anyone
left alive, the Queen of England.
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The Spanish ambassador had arrived.
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And it was true indeed that his
timing could not have been worse.
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He was at court to
negotiate a royal marriage.
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But there was now a very real
danger that he would be distracted.
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The ambassador for Burgundy
would surely have told him
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that the interrogation had
not gone well for the Tudors.
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These two highly influential
diplomats were the jury.
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And their verdict could decide
the fate of the Tudor dynasty.
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There was no one better qualified
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to test the prisoner's claim
than this crucial witness.
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Elizabeth of York was
clearly unhappy to come
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into the presence of a man who violated
the memory of her own long lost brother.
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Her Majesty the Queen and sister
to the prince-- I know who she is.
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Her Majesty will know when you are
telling the truth and when you are not.
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So begin.
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What is your earliest
memory of your sister?
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Allow me to introduce myself.
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Dr. Rodrigo Gonzalez de Puebla.
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I feel sure that my colleague,
the Bishop of Cambrai,
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will continue to inform
me of events to date.
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However, I do wish to
stress that this imposture
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is not the matter that
I'm here to discuss.
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So the sooner that it is
concluded, the better for all of us.
254
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What do you remember of normal family life?
255
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Normal?
256
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There was no normal.
257
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Up in our schoolroom, our
mother is telling us stories
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of how she's descended from
Melusine, the serpent woman.
259
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Of course, we had to pretend we
didn't think she was completely mad.
260
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Meanwhile, across the corridor in his
bedroom, the king is throwing a private party.
261
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It might be one or more of
his three regular mistresses
262
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and any number of
passing fancies of either sex.
263
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He'd try anything at least once.
264
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He had an adventurous
palate and a huge appetite.
265
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If it was alive, he'd fuck it.
266
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And if it was dead, he'd eat it.
267
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How can you claim to be who
you say you are, yet show such
268
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disrespect to the queen by
speaking so insultingly of our family?
269
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I show no disrespect, and I mean none.
270
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I'm simply telling the truth.
271
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By telling the truth, I prove who I am.
272
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He kept a feather by his bedside
and on the table at all times.
273
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He'd stuff himself until he could eat no
more, and then use it to make himself sick.
274
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Then he'd stuff himself again.
275
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Make him sound like a
monster, grotesque, repellent.
276
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No, he wasn't.
277
00:21:55,001 --> 00:21:57,260
At least, whatever he was, it
didn't seem to put anyone off.
278
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Everyone loved him.
279
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In fact, he'd have just walking
into a room, you'd see it.
280
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He could seduce anyone,
and they all came back for more.
281
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Do you remember that last family Christmas?
282
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You in your French
clothes, our father in
283
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the best of moods
because you were beautiful.
284
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Half of the alliance he'd
worked for for so long.
285
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The queen of France in waiting.
286
00:22:35,801 --> 00:22:41,601
It was the nearest we'd got to a happy
family Christmas, in my lifetime anyway.
287
00:22:42,001 --> 00:22:47,500
But then a messenger came from
Louis to say that the marriage was off.
288
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I could see how much you were hurt.
289
00:22:51,001 --> 00:22:55,500
Everyone else was running around,
worrying about the effect on the king.
290
00:22:56,001 --> 00:22:59,600
You must have felt it
was somehow your fault.
291
00:23:00,050 --> 00:23:04,000
My little brother crossed
the room and took my hand.
292
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He was the only one.
293
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For everyone else, it was
though I suddenly did not exist.
294
00:23:21,450 --> 00:23:25,450
The queen behaved as though she
was angry with me, but wouldn't say.
295
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The king couldn't even look at me.
296
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Richard was the only one.
297
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Your Majesty?
298
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I will return.
299
00:24:28,401 --> 00:24:31,400
The pretender was right about the Yorkists.
300
00:24:32,301 --> 00:24:35,100
It reminded me of how glad
we were to see the back of them.
301
00:24:35,401 --> 00:24:37,700
Edward was a feral cat.
302
00:24:39,001 --> 00:24:44,400
And his brother Richard was
duplicitous and frankly, incompetent.
303
00:24:45,025 --> 00:24:50,600
When the Princes disappeared,
he never issued a denial.
304
00:24:51,350 --> 00:24:53,400
No bodies were found.
305
00:24:53,901 --> 00:24:56,000
There was never an
attempt made at a cover up.
306
00:24:56,501 --> 00:24:57,800
Nothing!
307
00:24:59,750 --> 00:25:03,650
Just the slaughter of the
innocents left hanging over this...
308
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miserable, uncivilised,
sodden flannel of a country.
309
00:25:10,001 --> 00:25:12,000
Spain would not want to do
business with that kind again.
310
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I'm sorry.
311
00:25:13,601 --> 00:25:15,100
Why would I be offended?
312
00:25:15,101 --> 00:25:16,000
Oh, come on, Cambrai.
313
00:25:16,001 --> 00:25:17,900
Don't be so colourless.
314
00:25:18,001 --> 00:25:20,600
Everybody knows you're
in the pay of the duchess.
315
00:25:21,001 --> 00:25:24,000
The last of the Yorkists.
316
00:25:24,001 --> 00:25:27,200
The pretender's great mentor.
317
00:25:27,501 --> 00:25:31,000
You overstate my partisanship.
318
00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:36,200
I really think you need to be very
careful about who you do business with.
319
00:25:36,601 --> 00:25:41,200
Legitimacy is far more important
than personal preference.
320
00:25:41,601 --> 00:25:45,700
Just suppose you made an
arrangement with the Tudors
321
00:25:45,701 --> 00:25:50,400
and discovered that the
pretender was not a pretender.
322
00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:04,000
He may have claimed to have
been a disinterested observer,
323
00:26:04,100 --> 00:26:09,000
but the Bishop of Cambrai was as partisan
as anyone in the interrogation room.
324
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,900
His patron, the Duchess of Burgundy,
325
00:26:12,025 --> 00:26:15,200
was none other than the
aunt of the princes in the tower.
326
00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:21,300
And she had openly and steadfastly
claimed Richard as her true nephew.
327
00:26:23,350 --> 00:26:28,300
And now, clearly the queen herself had
been much affected by this young man.
328
00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:38,799
All her life, Elizabeth,
daughter, sister, niece, and wife
329
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:43,700
of kings of England, had
been used as a political pawn.
330
00:26:44,701 --> 00:26:48,000
Her marriage to Henry Tudor
had been arranged by his mother
331
00:26:48,050 --> 00:26:51,000
to unite the two houses
of York and Lancaster
332
00:26:51,001 --> 00:26:54,000
and end the bloodshed
of the Wars of the Roses.
333
00:26:54,401 --> 00:26:57,800
But it seemed that
the arrival of this lost brother
334
00:26:57,901 --> 00:27:01,100
grown into such
a man, had reawakened
335
00:27:01,101 --> 00:27:05,700
her own sense of Yorkist
identity and independence.
336
00:27:05,901 --> 00:27:08,300
What is the wound on the prisoner's neck?
337
00:27:10,550 --> 00:27:14,800
What is the wound on the prisoner's neck?
338
00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:20,200
I believe it may have happened on the night
that he was brought here, Your Majesty.
339
00:27:20,701 --> 00:27:22,700
Have some hot water brought here.
340
00:27:22,801 --> 00:27:24,300
Must be tended.
341
00:27:42,650 --> 00:27:46,950
I have never been told how my brother spent
342
00:27:47,001 --> 00:27:50,000
their last days after
they stopped being seen.
343
00:27:51,601 --> 00:27:54,600
No one knew.
344
00:27:55,401 --> 00:28:01,801
And all these years, I have
had to imagine...
345
00:28:03,301 --> 00:28:07,868
to wonder whether they knew
anything that was happening at all.
346
00:28:10,550 --> 00:28:13,000
I've already said much
of what I can remember.
347
00:28:13,125 --> 00:28:18,000
Perhaps you can remember
something more specific.
348
00:28:18,001 --> 00:28:20,500
Yes, I'm sure I can.
349
00:28:24,201 --> 00:28:27,501
Edward was king, though uncrowned.
350
00:28:27,801 --> 00:28:29,000
Since being in the tower, he'd already
351
00:28:29,001 --> 00:28:33,000
been working as the king,
signing charters and letters.
352
00:28:33,001 --> 00:28:35,000
The date had been set for the coronation.
353
00:28:35,050 --> 00:28:37,000
Edward had been measured for his robes.
354
00:28:37,001 --> 00:28:38,800
I had my own special robes for the day.
355
00:28:38,801 --> 00:28:41,800
So did I. We all did.
356
00:28:42,201 --> 00:28:44,800
Everything had been prepared.
357
00:28:44,901 --> 00:28:47,100
We did wonder at the
time why no one from the
358
00:28:47,101 --> 00:28:50,100
family except Uncle
Richard had come to see us.
359
00:28:50,301 --> 00:28:52,600
I tried.
He wouldn't allow it.
360
00:28:53,100 --> 00:28:57,000
Whenever I asked, he
just kept saying, soon.
361
00:28:57,001 --> 00:28:58,543
That's what he said whenever I asked.
362
00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:02,900
But there were the robes.
363
00:29:03,101 --> 00:29:04,900
That meant we would see you all again.
364
00:29:04,901 --> 00:29:07,151
Edward would be crowned,
and we would leave the tower.
365
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,800
The day of the coronation dawned.
366
00:29:14,401 --> 00:29:15,800
We got dressed.
367
00:29:16,001 --> 00:29:17,800
We waited.
368
00:29:18,101 --> 00:29:19,900
And no one came.
369
00:29:22,001 --> 00:29:26,400
I remember the sun moving around the room.
370
00:29:26,501 --> 00:29:31,500
Edward sitting there, all dressed
up, ready to be crowned king.
371
00:29:32,001 --> 00:29:35,800
And he never said a word.
372
00:29:36,075 --> 00:29:37,400
Didn't have to.
373
00:29:37,501 --> 00:29:39,900
We both knew what it meant.
374
00:29:40,501 --> 00:29:46,900
No one came, which
meant that one day someone
375
00:29:47,001 --> 00:29:51,000
would come for us, but not
to take us to a coronation.
376
00:29:51,001 --> 00:29:54,000
You don't need to have been
there to be able to tell us this.
377
00:29:54,250 --> 00:29:56,800
Anyone with a vivid imagination--
378
00:29:56,825 --> 00:30:02,600
My Richard had a birthmark on his back.
379
00:30:44,001 --> 00:30:45,001
Oh.
380
00:30:51,350 --> 00:30:53,000
You used to sing me to sleep.
381
00:30:53,101 --> 00:30:54,601
Do you remember?
382
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,900
"La-lay, la-lay, my little child.
383
00:31:02,450 --> 00:31:05,100
Sleep, and now be still."
384
00:31:06,501 --> 00:31:14,501
"If thou be a little child,
yet may thou have thy will."
385
00:31:58,500 --> 00:32:00,200
She is my sister.
386
00:32:00,401 --> 00:32:02,700
She has known me since the day I was born.
387
00:32:03,301 --> 00:32:05,800
She bathed me, sang to me.
388
00:32:06,401 --> 00:32:08,951
If she remembers a Mark
on my body, it's because
389
00:32:08,952 --> 00:32:11,600
she saw that Mark when
I was 10 years old or less.
390
00:32:12,001 --> 00:32:18,000
And if that does not content
you, then I ask you, how
391
00:32:18,001 --> 00:32:21,700
would any one of you prove
you are who you say you are?
392
00:32:30,701 --> 00:32:35,000
The Queen of England herself, far
from discrediting the prisoner's claim
393
00:32:35,001 --> 00:32:39,100
to the throne of England,
had recognised him publicly
394
00:32:39,201 --> 00:32:44,900
as her brother, and therefore,
one of the princes in the tower.
395
00:32:44,901 --> 00:32:49,600
Lady Margaret's plan
was spiralling out of control.
396
00:32:51,501 --> 00:32:53,700
I have sent for the King.
397
00:33:19,110 --> 00:33:23,510
He certainly knows everyone's
weak spot, this pretender.
398
00:33:24,001 --> 00:33:25,000
You've trained him well.
399
00:33:25,001 --> 00:33:28,000
I haven't trained him at all.
400
00:33:28,050 --> 00:33:31,000
But he spent a long time with
you and the duchess, didn't he?
401
00:33:31,250 --> 00:33:34,600
He did, yes.
402
00:33:34,601 --> 00:33:36,600
Well, who do you think he is?
403
00:33:37,401 --> 00:33:41,800
The nature of identity is
not at all a simple matter.
404
00:33:42,250 --> 00:33:45,500
Who do you think he is?
405
00:33:46,001 --> 00:33:49,000
Perhaps Master Thomas More knows.
406
00:33:49,350 --> 00:33:50,900
Who's Master Thomas More?
407
00:33:50,901 --> 00:33:55,900
Him, El Mudo, El Ratón al rincón.
408
00:33:55,901 --> 00:33:57,500
The little mouse in the corner, huh?
409
00:33:57,501 --> 00:33:58,501
Yes.
410
00:33:58,801 --> 00:34:00,800
One of Henry's spies, don't you think?
411
00:34:01,001 --> 00:34:03,500
Yes, Henry is the most
suspicious monarch in Europe.
412
00:34:03,501 --> 00:34:05,000
He has spies everywhere.
413
00:34:05,125 --> 00:34:09,100
But I'd rather think his spies
are perhaps a little less obvious.
414
00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:12,899
What is the pretender's age?
415
00:34:13,101 --> 00:34:16,100
26 or thereabouts.
416
00:34:17,050 --> 00:34:20,600
The prospect of a match
between this man of 26
417
00:34:20,901 --> 00:34:25,400
and our 11-year-old virgin
Princess grows more desirable.
418
00:34:26,601 --> 00:34:28,600
It grows more interesting early.
419
00:34:28,801 --> 00:34:31,100
And such an age difference is not
420
00:34:31,150 --> 00:34:34,000
uncommon even here in England.
421
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,900
I've heard that Henry is on his way.
422
00:34:53,401 --> 00:34:57,300
So he must think he's in trouble.
423
00:34:58,501 --> 00:35:02,500
Europe was leaning towards the pretender.
424
00:35:03,901 --> 00:35:05,400
But the bishop was right.
425
00:35:05,501 --> 00:35:09,000
My Lord King Henry didn't
need me to be his spy.
426
00:35:09,001 --> 00:35:13,900
It was my duty simply to make
a record according to his will.
427
00:35:19,801 --> 00:35:25,801
By 1499, his majesty had been plagued
for over eight years by the pretender.
428
00:35:28,301 --> 00:35:32,800
During that long time, he'd
not been idle in his own defense.
429
00:35:32,901 --> 00:35:35,600
He'd been gathering
information from a web of
430
00:35:35,601 --> 00:35:38,600
sources across Europe,
always looking for anything
431
00:35:38,601 --> 00:35:43,400
that might help him to
discredit this Yorkist claim.
432
00:35:44,901 --> 00:35:50,400
And he knew that the situation
had now reached a crisis.
433
00:36:37,225 --> 00:36:39,700
Elizabeth!
434
00:36:39,701 --> 00:36:40,900
It's all right.
435
00:36:41,101 --> 00:36:42,700
It's just water.
436
00:36:52,650 --> 00:36:57,650
Must have been such a lonely
life, a homeless, wandering
437
00:36:57,700 --> 00:36:59,700
from country to country.
438
00:37:01,001 --> 00:37:04,000
I think you must be the
loneliest man in the world,
439
00:37:04,425 --> 00:37:07,200
whoever you might be.
440
00:37:07,301 --> 00:37:08,801
No, I'm not lonely.
441
00:37:14,250 --> 00:37:22,250
I have the love of a
beautiful woman, my wife.
442
00:37:23,001 --> 00:37:24,801
I have a wife.
443
00:37:26,900 --> 00:37:30,000
And I have a husband.
444
00:37:36,001 --> 00:37:37,001
What?
445
00:37:39,450 --> 00:37:41,800
If it's alive, he'll fuck it.
446
00:37:41,825 --> 00:37:44,800
If it's dead, he'll eat it.
447
00:37:46,101 --> 00:37:48,900
No one's allowed to talk like that anymore.
448
00:37:49,601 --> 00:37:54,500
I swear, sometimes it's as
though my family never existed.
449
00:37:54,501 --> 00:37:56,000
What do you mean?
450
00:37:56,900 --> 00:37:59,200
Henry doesn't like me to talk about them.
451
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,900
He says we were licentious.
452
00:38:02,901 --> 00:38:05,000
Makes me feel as though
I ought to be ashamed.
453
00:38:05,050 --> 00:38:08,200
Well, I'd hate to make you feel ashamed.
454
00:38:09,901 --> 00:38:10,901
No!
455
00:38:12,001 --> 00:38:15,300
I'm only ashamed that
he let me forget who I am.
456
00:38:18,801 --> 00:38:20,100
What?
457
00:38:20,750 --> 00:38:23,800
It's what seeing you gives me.
458
00:38:24,450 --> 00:38:26,300
I can remember myself.
459
00:38:29,150 --> 00:38:32,300
Richard, they've sent for Henry.
460
00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:33,900
You've got to get out.
461
00:38:33,950 --> 00:38:36,900
No, he won't let you live.
462
00:38:38,601 --> 00:38:41,400
Where do you expect me to go?
463
00:38:50,001 --> 00:38:53,900
For the king, too, there
was no going back now.
464
00:38:57,001 --> 00:39:01,200
He was haunted by a dark
prophecy from Dr. Argento.
465
00:39:02,401 --> 00:39:06,300
My lord, the alignment of
the planets is not favourable.
466
00:39:06,701 --> 00:39:10,300
Your life is in great danger all year.
467
00:39:10,401 --> 00:39:16,100
The deep divisions within the
kingdom have not yet healed.
468
00:39:23,710 --> 00:39:29,810
York and Tudor were about to
clash once more in mortal combat.
469
00:39:34,201 --> 00:39:35,700
Your Majesty.
470
00:39:35,801 --> 00:39:37,300
What is it, Dr. Argento?
471
00:39:37,401 --> 00:39:41,600
If Your Majesty will permit,
I think a stool sample.
472
00:39:44,300 --> 00:39:47,000
Of course.
Come along!
473
00:39:58,110 --> 00:40:00,210
So it hasn't been going well.
474
00:40:00,300 --> 00:40:03,000
I hesitate to say, Your Majesty.
475
00:40:03,201 --> 00:40:04,400
Say you must.
476
00:40:04,501 --> 00:40:06,200
It isn't straightforward.
477
00:40:06,375 --> 00:40:09,400
There were unexpected developments.
478
00:40:10,001 --> 00:40:12,200
We have to deal with
him once and for all, John.
479
00:40:12,501 --> 00:40:13,700
I know.
480
00:40:16,701 --> 00:40:19,900
I have some new information.
481
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,000
The new information
was a trail of gunpowder.
482
00:40:36,601 --> 00:40:40,800
Henry had every hope it would
blow the pretender's claim wide open.
483
00:40:41,001 --> 00:40:45,000
But the king was intent
on keeping the powder dry
484
00:40:45,301 --> 00:40:49,300
until the portents
were exactly right.
485
00:40:56,900 --> 00:40:58,800
Cambrai.
486
00:41:16,610 --> 00:41:18,910
Your Excellency.
487
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,600
Mierda.
488
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:27,600
Cambrai.
489
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,000
It seems that His Majesty's stools dictate
490
00:41:31,001 --> 00:41:34,000
that the most auspicious
time to begin his interview
491
00:41:34,225 --> 00:41:36,000
is just before midnight.
492
00:41:36,175 --> 00:41:40,500
Meantime, I must find
some balm for my flea bites.
493
00:41:52,450 --> 00:41:55,200
The royal princes, Arthur and Henry,
494
00:41:55,450 --> 00:41:58,500
were nursed and guarded day and night.
495
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,600
They were the future of the dynasty
496
00:42:04,701 --> 00:42:10,100
and as threatened by the
pretender as the king himself.
497
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,600
I hear you had a restless night last night.
498
00:42:34,101 --> 00:42:35,200
No.
499
00:42:35,300 --> 00:42:38,799
I would say it had been many
years since I slept as soundly.
500
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,400
I am surprised at you, Elizabeth.
501
00:42:44,700 --> 00:42:46,900
I thought I could count on your loyalty.
502
00:42:46,901 --> 00:42:49,600
I thought your son could
count on his mother.
503
00:42:50,001 --> 00:42:52,000
I surprised myself.
504
00:42:52,701 --> 00:42:55,200
Not for what I said or did yesterday,
505
00:42:56,150 --> 00:42:58,000
but for how long it has taken me.
506
00:42:58,001 --> 00:42:59,701
Elizabeth!
507
00:43:01,900 --> 00:43:03,400
You are the Queen of England.
508
00:43:03,501 --> 00:43:05,000
Yes, Henry.
509
00:43:05,201 --> 00:43:06,801
I am queen.
510
00:43:12,700 --> 00:43:16,300
How has this ridiculous
pretender so affected you?
511
00:43:16,501 --> 00:43:18,700
I married a pretender.
512
00:43:19,301 --> 00:43:23,000
Our alliance is based on pretence.
513
00:43:23,501 --> 00:43:27,500
How can you wonder that another
pretender should hold some interest for me?
514
00:43:27,801 --> 00:43:28,801
Oh.
515
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,900
So you have some interest.
516
00:43:35,701 --> 00:43:37,700
He reminds me of my father.
517
00:43:39,801 --> 00:43:41,800
Your Majesty.
518
00:43:42,301 --> 00:43:44,000
Time to go, Henry.
519
00:43:51,700 --> 00:43:55,400
It's an extraordinary and
affecting story that you tell.
520
00:43:55,501 --> 00:43:58,800
The miracle of survival for
one of those innocent children.
521
00:43:59,201 --> 00:44:03,900
What news that would be for every
man, woman and child in this country.
522
00:44:04,401 --> 00:44:11,400
Tormented for 16 long years by the memory
of what befell the princes in the Tower.
523
00:44:11,550 --> 00:44:15,200
And you've told this
story very convincingly.
524
00:44:15,401 --> 00:44:17,800
Most of the crowned heads
of Europe seem to believe you.
525
00:44:19,001 --> 00:44:20,800
I congratulate you.
526
00:44:21,901 --> 00:44:25,600
I would like to tell a different story.
527
00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:30,100
You must forgive me if I
lack your skill at embroidery.
528
00:44:31,350 --> 00:44:35,300
Picture the moment when little Prince
Richard was taken from his mother.
529
00:44:35,601 --> 00:44:38,800
A man came, took him by
the hand and led him away.
530
00:44:39,701 --> 00:44:42,100
Now imagine another scene.
531
00:44:42,501 --> 00:44:46,500
A family home in the
town of Tournai in Flanders.
532
00:44:46,501 --> 00:44:51,500
And who's in de stadt
van Doornik in Vlaanderen?
533
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:56,800
A little boy with his mother.
534
00:44:56,801 --> 00:45:01,800
A man comes, talks to the mother, takes
the boy by the hand and leads him away.
535
00:45:02,550 --> 00:45:08,500
The little boy from Tournai
was called Perkin Warbeck.
536
00:45:10,001 --> 00:45:15,900
We have a portrait of his mother.
537
00:45:17,401 --> 00:45:19,000
She's a pretty woman.
538
00:45:19,001 --> 00:45:22,400
I'm sure every mother would
wish her son to say that of her.
539
00:45:22,501 --> 00:45:25,500
Especially when she hasn't
seen him for many years.
540
00:45:25,701 --> 00:45:29,300
And when he only writes
to ask her for money.
541
00:45:30,501 --> 00:45:35,400
We have here a letter intercepted
on its way from England to Flanders.
542
00:45:35,601 --> 00:45:39,500
Mother, as humbly as I can,
I commend myself to you.
543
00:45:39,601 --> 00:45:45,600
And may it please you to know that
by fortune, as part of their scheming,
544
00:45:46,150 --> 00:45:51,000
certain Englishmen made
me take it upon myself
545
00:45:51,050 --> 00:45:55,400
that I was the son of
King Edward of England.
546
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,000
I now find myself in such trouble
547
00:45:59,350 --> 00:46:07,350
that if you are not at this hour a good
mother to me, I shall be in great danger.
548
00:46:08,401 --> 00:46:11,100
And so on and so on.
549
00:46:11,450 --> 00:46:14,000
I don't know who wrote
that, but it wasn't me.
550
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,500
We wanted to bring your mother over here.
551
00:46:16,501 --> 00:46:21,900
Indeed, she was on her way, eager no doubt
to see her son so long away from home.
552
00:46:22,001 --> 00:46:25,000
But alas, she died on the way.
553
00:46:25,950 --> 00:46:28,000
That is unfortunate.
554
00:46:29,675 --> 00:46:34,200
Certain citizens of Tournai,
who knew the boy well,
555
00:46:34,350 --> 00:46:38,500
swear that Perkin had
a birthmark on his back.
556
00:46:38,601 --> 00:46:42,400
The Mark that has convinced your
supporters that you are Richard of York.
557
00:46:42,500 --> 00:46:44,100
You have no real proof of anything.
558
00:46:44,750 --> 00:46:50,100
No, since conveniently for you,
Perkin's mother died on her way over here.
559
00:46:50,201 --> 00:46:51,400
I'm sorry for her family.
560
00:46:51,401 --> 00:46:58,140
Oh, I'm sure you are. Especially for her
husband, the boatman, Johann Warbeck.
561
00:46:58,650 --> 00:47:04,000
He told us about the birthmark
and how his son disappeared.
562
00:47:04,375 --> 00:47:07,700
Just when you began your famous travels.
563
00:47:07,801 --> 00:47:09,300
Doesn't mean he's my father.
564
00:47:10,075 --> 00:47:13,200
No, not your real father.
565
00:47:14,450 --> 00:47:19,660
I heard that the Duchess
of Burgundy embraced you
566
00:47:19,923 --> 00:47:23,600
not only as her nephew, but as her son.
567
00:47:23,901 --> 00:47:25,800
She adopted me as her son, yes.
568
00:47:26,101 --> 00:47:31,200
Oh yes, but I heard also
that you are indeed her son.
569
00:47:31,350 --> 00:47:34,500
Not by adoption, but by birth.
570
00:47:35,450 --> 00:47:38,900
And I find myself wondering
who the father might be.
571
00:47:39,250 --> 00:47:43,400
Some people say that the Bishop
and the Duchess have a secret.
572
00:47:43,401 --> 00:47:47,400
Some people say the
secret they share is a child,
573
00:47:47,801 --> 00:47:50,800
who for the sake of discretion
was called Perkin Warbeck.
574
00:47:50,901 --> 00:47:53,000
This is ridiculous!
Is it?
575
00:47:54,250 --> 00:48:00,100
This story gave way to the
legend of the risen prince.
576
00:48:00,201 --> 00:48:08,201
Only later, when the Duchess decided to
use her son in her sad and hopeless game.
577
00:48:08,801 --> 00:48:11,400
This is outrageous! It's calumny!
578
00:48:11,401 --> 00:48:13,300
I can hardly believe what I'm hearing.
579
00:48:13,301 --> 00:48:14,700
Oh, I can believe it.
580
00:48:15,450 --> 00:48:17,638
I wouldn't expect anything
more from a man who
581
00:48:17,702 --> 00:48:20,301
is paid to pander to the
neurosis of a usurper.
582
00:48:23,950 --> 00:48:26,000
You called me a usurper?
583
00:48:26,001 --> 00:48:29,499
You, a boatman's son,
or the bastard child of a Bishop?
584
00:48:29,500 --> 00:48:31,400
Yes, and what are you, exactly?
585
00:48:34,950 --> 00:48:39,000
You're descended from the illegitimate
offspring of the third son of Edward III.
586
00:48:39,401 --> 00:48:43,400
A bastard descendant of a bastard.
587
00:48:43,701 --> 00:48:47,700
How many were betrayed to clear your path?
588
00:48:48,701 --> 00:48:50,300
How can you look at your own children
589
00:48:50,301 --> 00:48:54,100
when you think of those two innocents
who were murdered or so you thought?
590
00:48:54,101 --> 00:48:57,700
And whose deaths were never avenged?
591
00:48:57,901 --> 00:49:00,900
That is why your reign is cursed.
592
00:49:01,001 --> 00:49:04,100
And that is why I call you a usurper.
593
00:49:04,101 --> 00:49:06,100
That is enough.
594
00:49:17,801 --> 00:49:19,500
What was Henry thinking of?
595
00:49:19,501 --> 00:49:21,561
He was thinking the pretender
is looking rather too convincing.
596
00:49:21,601 --> 00:49:23,600
Perhaps he was creating a diversion.
597
00:49:23,601 --> 00:49:24,900
I'm glad I have your support.
598
00:49:24,901 --> 00:49:25,900
You do. Of course you do.
599
00:49:25,901 --> 00:49:27,900
Your predecessor had
35 illegitimate children.
600
00:49:27,901 --> 00:49:30,700
I wouldn't expect you or
your Duchess to live up to that.
601
00:49:30,701 --> 00:49:32,200
I shall pretend I didn't hear.
602
00:49:32,201 --> 00:49:34,400
We're not in public now.
603
00:49:36,001 --> 00:49:40,231
All I ask is an affirmation
or a denial between friends.
604
00:49:40,275 --> 00:49:44,400
My dear friend, I have done
nothing to be ashamed of.
605
00:49:46,100 --> 00:49:50,100
The astonishing suggestion
that the Duchess of Burgundy
606
00:49:50,201 --> 00:49:54,400
and her corpulent confessor were the
real parents of the pretender
607
00:49:54,501 --> 00:49:56,500
was never substantiated.
608
00:49:56,901 --> 00:49:59,900
But one thing now seemed clear.
609
00:50:00,050 --> 00:50:02,200
If this was a conspiracy,
610
00:50:02,701 --> 00:50:07,700
the Duchess was the one pulling
the strings of her puppet prince.
611
00:50:08,001 --> 00:50:15,000
And the man who'd been so sure of
his story no longer looked so convincing.
612
00:50:30,410 --> 00:50:36,810
So the man who would be king of all England
was just the son of a common boatman,
613
00:50:37,401 --> 00:50:40,400
if the king's spies were to be believed.
614
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:48,400
But boatman's son or not, telling
Henry his reign was justly cursed.
615
00:50:49,201 --> 00:50:52,300
Now that showed he knew
his enemy's weakness.
616
00:50:59,001 --> 00:51:03,401
Don't tell me that you too
believe he is the lost prince.
617
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,900
I don't know.
618
00:51:10,300 --> 00:51:12,900
But the truth is, he's right.
619
00:51:13,101 --> 00:51:16,500
The death of the princes
was the murder of innocence.
620
00:51:16,701 --> 00:51:19,700
My reign is cursed by it.
621
00:51:20,201 --> 00:51:24,200
You didn't wish for
the death of the princes.
622
00:51:27,401 --> 00:51:31,400
This is the heart of the night
we have lived through for so long.
623
00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:36,600
This is when the crucible blackens
and all seems dark, all seems lost.
624
00:51:37,201 --> 00:51:40,200
The light is only light because
the darkness has passed
625
00:51:40,201 --> 00:51:44,200
and it will not pass
unless you go through it.
626
00:51:45,201 --> 00:51:51,300
Without that, nothing happens,
nothing real, nothing endearing.
627
00:51:51,601 --> 00:51:53,900
This is your test.
628
00:51:54,701 --> 00:51:57,700
He is your test.
629
00:52:32,300 --> 00:52:36,300
Let's just suppose that
he is indeed your brother.
630
00:52:37,250 --> 00:52:40,000
What would you have me do?
631
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:44,000
I'd have you do what is right.
632
00:52:45,075 --> 00:52:48,000
And what in your view is right?
633
00:52:52,100 --> 00:52:54,700
Find the truth, Henry.
634
00:52:55,001 --> 00:52:58,000
And live or die by it.
635
00:53:16,500 --> 00:53:18,300
Where are the children?
636
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:21,300
Asleep, of course.
637
00:53:23,650 --> 00:53:25,600
What happened to your brothers?
638
00:53:25,601 --> 00:53:29,300
It's not going to happen to them.
He would never harm my children.
639
00:53:29,701 --> 00:53:31,400
Our children.
640
00:53:37,250 --> 00:53:42,150
Even if you are prepared to
sacrifice their right to the throne,
641
00:53:42,875 --> 00:53:46,200
you must know that to be a good king,
642
00:53:46,701 --> 00:53:49,700
and to keep the peace that
I have worked so hard for,
643
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:56,000
he would have to destroy any threat to
his security, regardless of who they were.