1 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,280 - Why does she keep looking up at the tower? 2 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:39,520 - Because she thinks there's still hope. 3 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,040 Christ have mercy. 4 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:20,640 Jesu, receive my soul. 5 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:16,840 - Done? 6 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:19,480 - Done. 7 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:22,760 - Did it have to be this way? 8 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:24,240 So bloody. 9 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,040 - When negotiation and compromise fail, 10 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,840 then your only course is to destroy your enemy. 11 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:38,960 Before they wake in the morning, Rafe... 12 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:40,920 ..have the axe in your hand. 13 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,560 - Any message for the King? 14 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,000 - No message. 15 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,200 Back to your new master. 16 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,840 The King's married again. 17 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:28,680 - Good. 18 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,360 Marriages work better than wars. 19 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,880 If you want a kingdom, write a poem. 20 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:39,880 Pick some flowers. 21 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:41,800 Put your bonnet on and go wooing. 22 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:45,280 - You're not wearing this, are you? 23 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:47,960 - I'm not going to go before the bridegroom in mourning. 24 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:52,640 - When I was alive, my people wore orange tawny. 25 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,280 The King might not want to be reminded. 26 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:58,720 - Well, if he doesn't like it, he can tell me to take it off. 27 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,000 - You keep that man, Wriothesley, close? 28 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,280 - I know where I am with Call-Me. 29 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:11,680 He got started with your friend, Stephen Gardiner, my old enemy. 30 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,160 Now he can't decide where to put his money. 31 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,520 You can calculate the actions of a man like that. 32 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,760 - A letter for you, sir. Just arrived. 33 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:34,680 It's from her, isn't it? 34 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:36,640 The Princess Mary. 35 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:38,320 The...the Lady Mary. 36 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,560 The Princess, as was. 37 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:44,120 I recognise the hand. 38 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:48,920 What does she want? 39 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,520 - This letter...it never came. 40 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,640 You never saw it. 41 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:56,320 You understand? 42 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,360 - Sir Geoffrey Pole wants to meet you, sir. 43 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,040 Shall I say yes? 44 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:34,880 I think you ought. 45 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:37,520 - I don't come when I'm whistled for, Call-Me. 46 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,680 - I'm trying to tell from his expression 47 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:43,480 how the wedding night went. 48 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:50,280 I only mean they...they say the King needs a lot of encouragement. 49 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,640 And Jane Seymour always looks so...serious. 50 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,080 - The Queen. 51 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:56,600 The Queen. - The Queen. 52 00:07:57,800 --> 00:07:59,840 I wouldn't be surprised if she spent the night 53 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:01,520 lying under the bed, praying. 54 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,960 - Right, I'll go and see if he managed the deed. Shall I? 55 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:32,960 - Such freshness. 56 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:36,280 Such delicacy. 57 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,120 Such maidenly pudeur. 58 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:42,080 - I'm happy for Your Majesty. 59 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,360 - I have come out of Hell into Heaven, 60 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,720 and all in one night. 61 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:55,080 This whole matter has been difficult and delicate. 62 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:59,240 And you have shown, Thomas, both expedition...and firmness. 63 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,560 I've hesitated to promote you because your grip is wanted 64 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:05,480 in the House of Commons. 65 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:09,160 But the House of Lords is equally unruly... 66 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:11,120 ..and requires a master. 67 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,800 So, to the Lords you shall go. 68 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:18,880 - Majesty. 69 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:27,360 - Thomas Boleyn, father of the Queen that was... 70 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:29,840 ..his office as Lord Privy Seal. 71 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,240 You can do that now. 72 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:34,680 - Majesty. 73 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,080 - My daughter has sent me a letter. 74 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,360 I don't recall giving her permission to write to me. Did you? 75 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:48,480 - I would not presume, Majesty. 76 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:51,640 - She has not written to you? 77 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:53,080 - No, sire. 78 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:00,800 - She seems to entertain expectations about her future as my heir, 79 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,680 as if she believes Jane will fail in giving me a son. 80 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:05,960 - The Queen will not fail you, sire. 81 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,600 - Your son, Gregory, does he defy you? 82 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:14,440 - No, sire. - Nor should any dutiful child. 83 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:18,600 Yet my daughter, Mary, refuses to take the oath 84 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,560 and acknowledge me as head of the Church. 85 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:24,960 I shall not tolerate this defiance, 86 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,560 not from a child to whom I gave life. 87 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:30,360 - She loves you, Majesty. She loves you. 88 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:34,440 I will convince her to take the oath. 89 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:42,800 - Do you sleep at nights, Crumb? 90 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,520 - You bear a burden of work no other man has carried. 91 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,640 - I sometimes wonder where you come from. 92 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,080 - Putney, Majesty. 93 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:22,520 Your Grace. 94 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:25,840 - Master Secretary. 95 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,680 Would you, uh...? 96 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:37,720 Would you like to kiss my hand? 97 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:40,600 Or, uh, anything? 98 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,680 I've asked Call-Me to go to Hunsdon to talk the Lady Mary into sense. 99 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:51,080 Can you go with him, if the King will spare you? 100 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:53,320 - Should you not go yourself, sir? 101 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,000 - Not yet. 102 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,560 You must go first. 103 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,000 Don't let Call-Me try to frighten her. It won't work. 104 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,840 She's brave, like her mother. 105 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,760 And remember everything she says, Rafe, everything. 106 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,160 In fact, as soon as you leave the room, write it down. 107 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:11,560 Yes? 108 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:16,840 Pole. Geoffrey Pole is coming. 109 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:25,640 - We should meet. 110 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:27,760 - Well, that would honour me, Sir Geoffrey. 111 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:29,160 - Come out to my house at Lordington. 112 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:30,800 - Come to me. I'm busy. 113 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:33,880 - My friends expect... 114 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:35,800 - Oh, you can bring your friends. 115 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:39,760 - We made a bargain with you, Cromwell. 116 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,360 We expect Mary to be restored to the succession. - Mm. 117 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:25,840 - Still? Even now? 118 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:27,840 - Especially now. 119 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,040 - But at court, I can't imagine a circumstance in which 120 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,120 you would use it. 121 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,000 - It's because I can't imagine a circumstance that I need it. 122 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,200 Go and find Chapuys. 123 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,160 My compliments to him. 124 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,200 May I give him supper? 125 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:45,160 Tell him I have a ravenous appetite for diplomacy. 126 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,000 - Very interesting. 127 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,040 I thought your new queen looked well enough... - Mm-hm. 128 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:55,200 ..for a plain woman. 129 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,960 While the King is in this merry mood, 130 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,360 press him to name the Princess Mary as his heir. 131 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,360 Pending, of course, a son by his new wife. 132 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:09,040 And it is Lady Mary. 133 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:12,240 She's no longer to be termed Princess, as you know, Ambassador. 134 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,680 In this merry mood? Ha. 135 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,040 There's a papal bull of excommunication 136 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:19,400 hanging over my master. 137 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,920 No king can live like that, threatened in his own realm. 138 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,280 Ask the Emperor to speak to the Pope. 139 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:28,320 - All Europe is keen to heal the breach. 140 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:32,160 Let the King approach Rome in a spirit of penitence, 141 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:34,920 and undo the legislation that has separated your country 142 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,320 from the universal church. 143 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,440 As soon as that is done, His Holiness will be pleased 144 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,800 to welcome back his lost sheep. 145 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,800 Along with the revenues due, I imagine, with interest paid 146 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:47,800 for the missing years. 147 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,160 I suppose the normal banking rules will apply. - I see. 148 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:52,960 So... 149 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,600 ..prepare the Lady Mary for rule, forswear the Gospels, 150 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,040 embrace the Pope. 151 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:58,720 - Bow the knee to idols, 152 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:02,840 and undo all that we've done of these last four years. 153 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,400 What shall I do in these brave new days? 154 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,200 I mean, me personally. 155 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:10,760 Perhaps back to the smithy? 156 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,360 - I think I've lost the blacksmith's art. 157 00:17:13,360 --> 00:17:15,960 But I can still swing a hammer. 158 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:18,960 Now listen to what I have to say. 159 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:22,360 Mary believes Boleyn's execution means her father will 160 00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:24,200 welcome her back to the court. 161 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,360 Disillusion her, or I will. 162 00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:30,440 She must take the oath of obedience. 163 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,400 - Let me be exact about what you ask of her. 164 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,520 She must recognise that her mother's marriage was of no effect, 165 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,600 and she must swear to uphold the child of a woman... 166 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:45,120 - Old Bishop Fisher refused to take the oath, and Henry executed him. 167 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:49,040 Thomas More refused it, and he too is sure to buy a head. 168 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:52,000 - Henry will not kill his own daughter. - Oh, really? 169 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,720 Who knows what Henry will do? 170 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,240 - I do not understand you, Cromwell. 171 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,640 Why are you not afraid? 172 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,080 You should be afraid. 173 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:13,560 You are quite alone in this world. 174 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:15,840 You have Henry's favour, it's true. 175 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:17,880 But if he withdraws it... 176 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,520 You know the Cardinal's fate. 177 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:24,840 And you have no affinity, no great family at your back. 178 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,960 For when all is said... 179 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:30,800 ..you are a blacksmith's son. 180 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:34,640 Your whole life depends on the next beat of Henry's heart, 181 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:36,960 on his smile or frown. 182 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:42,960 He wanted to be free of La Anna - but to grant him his wish, 183 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:46,040 what a picture you put in the minds of all Christian men. 184 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:49,200 The Queen of England on her back with her skirts hauled up. 185 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,000 Come one, come all. 186 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,640 Ha. 187 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,920 Perhaps he will not forgive you, mon cher, 188 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,400 for exposing him to this ridicule. 189 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,800 - Never enter a contest of wills with the King. 190 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:15,960 Don't try to flatter him. 191 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,960 Instead, well, give him something for which he can take credit. 192 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:24,520 The King hates ingratitude. 193 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:26,120 He hates disloyalty. 194 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,880 He will give half his kingdom, rather than be baulked. 195 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:35,320 He refuses to be cheated out of any part of his will. 196 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,120 He doesn't want people who say, "No, but..." 197 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:40,400 He wants people who say, "Yes..." 198 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,800 What are you writing? 199 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,160 - It's a record of what I've learned. 200 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:47,960 How to read the king, how to anticipate him. 201 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,760 A book called Henry. 202 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,040 A dangerous thing to leave lying around. 203 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,000 - I won't leave it lying around. 204 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,520 - Never let Henry know he needs you. 205 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:06,640 He doesn't like to think he's incurred a debt to a subject. 206 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:08,840 And don't turn your back on him. 207 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,480 That's not just a matter of protocol. 208 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,400 So, how did our Lady Mary look? 209 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:29,880 - Ill. 210 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,680 - Never send me there again. 211 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:36,760 Sir, the house, it was full of the Poles. 212 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,360 They boasted that you were nought. 213 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:41,960 That Mary was returning to court. 214 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:45,000 That the Pope would be restored, and the world put to rights again. 215 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:49,360 When we went in, we greeted her as the Lady Mary, but... 216 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:51,080 She was enraged. 217 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,880 She demanded the title of Princess and that we should kneel to her. 218 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,360 She says she will never take the oath. 219 00:20:57,360 --> 00:21:01,520 She cannot accept her father as the head of the Church. 220 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:09,360 - I do not think she's as strong in her resolve as her people think. 221 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:11,200 - No? 222 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,720 - She did ask, "Why does the Lord Privy Seal not come himself?" 223 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,440 It is as if she is waiting for you, sir. 224 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,280 So she can tell all of Europe you enforced her. 225 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,320 She can take the oath, and it'd be no blame to her. 226 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,360 - Something else? 227 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:40,280 - The King has received a letter from Rome, from Reginald Pole. 228 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,440 He just stared at it... 229 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,160 ..as if it came hot from the pit and signed by the Devil. 230 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,440 I do not know its contents. 231 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:52,880 - I do. 232 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:04,840 - Pole. His book has come, out of Italy. 233 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,320 My cousin, my trusted kin. 234 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:13,840 I paid for his studies, I funded him to travel. 235 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,600 How can he sleep at night? 236 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:22,280 The one thing I cannot endure is ingratitude, disloyalty. 237 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,920 He claims that for the whole of my reign, 238 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,920 I have plundered my subjects and dishonoured the nobility, 239 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,040 and that if I will not turn England back to Rome 240 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,440 and bow before the Pope, he exhorts the Emperor to invade 241 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,960 and my own subjects to rise up and murder me. 242 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,520 - It must strike Your Majesty that such a rising 243 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,280 cannot only be against somebody... 244 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,280 ..but must also be for somebody. 245 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,920 - Of course. 246 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,760 But do you not see how this all works together? 247 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,160 He exhorts Europe to take arms against me, and at the very 248 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,760 same hour my own daughter defies me. 249 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,280 The Pole family schemes to wed him to Mary 250 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,360 and put him on the throne. 251 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,160 - Lady Mary regards Your Majesty's favour more than any bridegroom. 252 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,120 She will comply. - So you say. 253 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:16,160 But, then, you always defend her. 254 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,320 - She's young, Your Majesty. 255 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,200 She's a young woman. 256 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,520 These people who call themselves her supporters, 257 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,080 they take advantage of her. 258 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,320 I don't believe she can fully comprehend their schemes. 259 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,840 - Well, I lived with her mother for 20 years, 260 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:35,160 and I can tell you, she could comprehend any scheme. 261 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,240 - What shall I do for you, sir? 262 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:46,200 - There is an exchange of letters between Mary and Pole. 263 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,000 I know it. 264 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,240 Find them. 265 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:55,600 And find out if Margaret Pole knew about her wretched son's book. 266 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,760 I want him back here from Italy. 267 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,440 Promise what you like. 268 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,840 Assure him what you like. 269 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,520 I want to look him in the eye. 270 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,520 - You had a warning of it, Pole's book. 271 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,640 - I've been watching Reginald Pole for a year. 272 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,120 I still have friends in Italy. 273 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:25,480 - My God. 274 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:27,840 No wonder you dealt so boldly with the Poles. 275 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:29,960 With this card in your hand, you could bring them down, 276 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,360 the whole family. 277 00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:33,360 - I could have brought them down over two years ago. 278 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:36,480 Go back to Hunsdon, arrive without warning. Search the house. 279 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:40,120 If you find copies of letters between Lady Mary and Reginald Pole, 280 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:44,880 any of the Poles, bring them to me, and me only, Call-Me. 281 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,920 No copies to our friend in France, Stephen Gardiner. 282 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:30,200 - Sir. 283 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:43,680 - Mary. 284 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:49,560 Mary! 285 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,960 - So, shall I tell the King that you repudiate him? Reginald. 286 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,360 - Repudiate? 287 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:16,160 That is strong. 288 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,320 - Deprecate. 289 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,680 You may say we deprecate his writings and are dismayed. 290 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,960 - I would suggest, astonished. 291 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:28,800 Struck by sorrow. 292 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,040 Frozen with horror to find he belies his Prince. 293 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:35,080 Slanders him, threatens him with invasion. 294 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,040 Tells him he's damned. 295 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,040 - We helped you pull down the Boleyns when they were threatening 296 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,160 your life. You owe us a debt. 297 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,160 - I owe you nothing, madam. 298 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,520 The obligation is entirely on the other side. 299 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,880 And now I look to your aid to keep Mary in the land of the living, 300 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,160 where I think she'll do most good. 301 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,880 Even before this... 302 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,640 ..this book arrived, she was in jeopardy 303 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,680 due to her own foolish pride. 304 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,720 But now, because the King suspects she is complicit with this, 305 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,120 her position is graver still. 306 00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:17,040 And it is your family - your family, madam - 307 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,280 that has put her in this danger. 308 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,680 - I do not see, sir, what your interest is in this. 309 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:28,160 If you save Mary, you cannot imagine she will favour you thereafter. 310 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,320 - Should she become Queen, then she will at once... 311 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,200 - My lady Mother. 312 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,200 The Treason Act. 313 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,560 I see its tripwire. 314 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,040 It is a crime now to envisage a future beyond the life 315 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,480 of our present king. 316 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,080 - In past months, you've spoken with the Emperor's man, Chapuys, 317 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,280 and assured him that England's ready to rise against its king. 318 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,080 - Well, it's quite... - Don't interrupt me. 319 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,680 The common law has ways to protect the realm from traitors, madam. 320 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,760 I mean an act of attainder, by which all property and lands 321 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,560 are seized without need of trial. 322 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,000 Why don't you write a letter to Lady Mary? 323 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,280 - Saying what? - Saying what? 324 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,560 Saying the King is to be obeyed. 325 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:18,760 - You will carry it? 326 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,040 - Give it to your friend, Ambassador Chapuys. 327 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,120 That way the Lady cannot say it's forged. 328 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,000 - You are a snake, Cromwell. 329 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,400 - Oh, no. 330 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,120 A dog, madam. 331 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,760 And on your scent. 332 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,080 - Today there is only one matter, 333 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,320 the matter of my daughter. 334 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,720 To be defied by her. 335 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,960 To know that my own kin and cousins urge her on. 336 00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:05,240 To be reviled in my own house by that monster of ingratitude, Pole. 337 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:13,320 So, I warn you, if I hear so much as one voice raised 338 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,760 in support of that errant creature, my daughter, 339 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,960 I shall know I am hearing treason. 340 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,680 I am taking advice. 341 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,160 I have called in the judges to consider which is the best way 342 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,920 to bring her to trial. 343 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:28,600 - Jesus save us. 344 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,360 Your flesh and blood? 345 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,600 I implore you... 346 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,440 ..think before you do this. 347 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,120 You will make yourself a monster in the sight of all. 348 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,440 - Pardon your old friend's plain speaking, Majesty. 349 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:50,880 We are all overwrought. 350 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:52,480 - Fitzwilliam! 351 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,480 Take yourself out of the Council Chamber before I have you taken out! 352 00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:01,040 My patience is not infinite, neither with you, nor my daughter! 353 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,560 - Some of us are trying to save you from yourself, Harry. 354 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,880 You are flailing and injuring all about you 355 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,840 because Pole has insulted you. 356 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:27,520 You reckon with your enemies, not your friends. 357 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,200 That you should consider... 358 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,280 ..bringing your own daughter before a court. 359 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,320 Because what then? 360 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,160 I'll tell you now, she is guilty. What needs a judge? 361 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:40,840 She will not swear the oath. 362 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,280 She will say she is not a bastard, but a princess of England, 363 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,680 and that you are no more head of the Church than I am! 364 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,080 And then what will you do? 365 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,040 Cut off her head? 366 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,320 Hands off, Cromwell! 367 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,400 - Now, get out. 368 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,880 While YOU still have your head, you dolt! 369 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,320 - Oh, no. 370 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,560 That won't do. 371 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,640 Getting up a fight for my benefit, 372 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,080 when I know that you agree with him. 373 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,280 Mary knows what declaration I require of her. 374 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,920 She has known it since the oath was first framed. 375 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:54,400 If she has entertained some notion that I will creep back to Rome, 376 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,560 then she is a greater fool than I thought her. 377 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:04,280 So, good Privy Seal, as you love me and love my service, 378 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,960 you will bring this matter to a conclusion. 379 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,240 We will not come here to debate it again. 380 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:25,760 - Conclusion? 381 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,400 What does that mean? 382 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:31,680 - Christ, Cromwell... 383 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,560 I think he wants you to kill her. 384 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,040 - I'm a dead man, Eustace. 385 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,240 I'm in this matter so deep, there's no going back. 386 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,000 I assured the King that Mary would comply. 387 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,360 - The Emperor will not suffer Mary to be mistreated. 388 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:58,800 He will send ships. 389 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,360 - No, no. You know, and I know as well. Come on. 390 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,240 The Emperor in arms has no power to save Mary. 391 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,240 The case is urgent. 392 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,520 - You eat these raw? - We do. 393 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,600 - We bake them in tarts. 394 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:23,320 Mary expected to be embraced without question once Anne Boleyn came down. 395 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,720 - She doesn't know her father. 396 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,080 - How could she? 397 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,600 She has been in prison for five years. - Prison? 398 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,480 She's been kept in great comfort. 399 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,520 - For God's sake, don't tell her that. 400 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,280 Tell her she has suffered grievously, 401 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,080 in case she feels she has not done enough. 402 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,840 She boasts to me she's not afraid of the axe. 403 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,640 - She doesn't want to live? 404 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,520 - Not at any price, sir. 405 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,000 It is her mother. 406 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,840 I believe she vowed to Catherine she would never give way. 407 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,280 Vows to the living may be set aside, with their permission, 408 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,000 but the dead do not negotiate. 409 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,640 - Only a fool stands in a tower during a lightning storm. 410 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,480 What's this? 411 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,480 Ah, it's Mary's hand. Ha. 412 00:34:24,240 --> 00:34:25,960 Dear God... 413 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,280 She called you her chief friend in the world? 414 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,840 Why? 415 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,520 - Why does she call you her friend? 416 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,160 Something her mother told her. It can only be that. 417 00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,600 Well... 418 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:03,680 It seems to me that if she trusts you, so must I. 419 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,440 Which is an unfortunate situation to be in. 420 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:11,360 - Why? All I ask is you advise that she be ruled by her father. 421 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,520 The Pope will forgive her... 422 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,960 ..if she submits to save her life. 423 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,280 Tell her that you've asked for absolution for her. 424 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,560 Of course, when Anne Boleyn was alive, there was no chance 425 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:29,080 that the King would restore her to the succession. 426 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:30,800 But now... 427 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,840 ..if she obeys her father in every particular... 428 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,240 - You are making her this offer? 429 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,440 - Tell her... 430 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,000 ..if she is ever to compromise her conscience, 431 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,280 now's the time. 432 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,720 When she can do herself the most good. 433 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,440 - It seems to me you are saying to her, 434 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,920 "You can live, but only as Cromwell permits. 435 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,840 "You can reign, even, but only through Cromwell's grace." 436 00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,600 - Explain it as you like. 437 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,880 You brought me up here because you knew the storm 438 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,360 was coming, didn't you? 439 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,280 - No, I like watching the sky. 440 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,960 And tell her she need not sign the usual oath. 441 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,680 I will compose a letter as if from her to her father. 442 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,080 I'll have it written out, I'll bring it to her myself. 443 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,280 All she need do is sign it. 444 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,560 - If this is discovered, you... 445 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,440 You risk your life for her? 446 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,640 - But tell her... 447 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,160 ..if she does not give way now, 448 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,360 if she will not sign the letter, then she's dead to me. 449 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:33,760 I shall never... 450 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,240 ..never see her or speak to her again. 451 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,760 - Harry knows he did wrong. 452 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,160 First, he married his brother's wife, 453 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,120 and then he had the misfortune to marry a witch. 454 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,680 He knows very well what witches do - they shrivel your member. 455 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,080 Then you die. 456 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,760 I've told him, "Majesty, don't brood on it. 457 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,000 "Fetch in the Archbishop. 458 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,280 "Discharge your conscience. 459 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,280 "And start again." 460 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:14,120 You tell him. 461 00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:17,240 He'll take it from you. 462 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:19,120 Whereas, me, he... 463 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,000 He thinks I'm a fool. 464 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,280 - Come, my lord. 465 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,040 The Howards are twitching. 466 00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,240 They want to know what we're talking about. 467 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,040 You're right. 468 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,880 Norfolk doesn't trust you. 469 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,000 He doesn't want you left alone with Mary. 470 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,600 - My Lords of Norfolk and Suffolk. 471 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,560 And Thomas Cromwell, at last. 472 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,800 May we hope Your Lordship will refrain from abusing 473 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,560 the furnishings. The tapestry you rent was worth £100. 474 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,600 - Was it so? 475 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,840 I wouldn't use it to wipe my arse. 476 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,520 Where's your husband? 477 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,280 Never mind. I'll find him myself. 478 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,160 John! 479 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,240 John Shelton! 480 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,880 John! Where are you? 481 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,160 - He attacked the tapestry? 482 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,000 - See for yourself. 483 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,320 He tried to tear it down, in his fury. 484 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,360 He threatened Lady Mary with a beating if she would not comply. 485 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,360 - Well, you know what he is, Anne. 486 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,440 He speaks to a woman as if she were a town wall, 487 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,600 and he has to breach her. 488 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:43,840 - But I think it was a charade. 489 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,000 - A charade? Really? 490 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,520 Norfolk? 491 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:51,280 - I do not think he wants Mary to acquiesce, not really. 492 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:52,800 - Why not? 493 00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:01,800 - When Anne was alive, he could boast that a Howard sat on the throne. 494 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,440 That's not a boast he liked to give up. - Hmm. 495 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,720 - While Mary holds fast... 496 00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:11,680 ..he might still find another way to the throne. 497 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:16,560 If Mary capitulates and Henry makes her heir, that hope is lost. 498 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,960 - Thomas Howard. 499 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,000 I wonder, you dare? 500 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,880 My Lord Suffolk, you have given no offence. 501 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,400 In that case... 502 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,160 - But you... 503 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,720 You must think a woman a very feeble creature, if you expect 504 00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:50,720 her memory doesn't reach back a two week. 505 00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:52,480 - My sweet lady... 506 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,360 Well... 507 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,400 Here's Cromwell. 508 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,080 All will be right now. 509 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,880 - It will be right when my Lord Norfolk makes it right. 510 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,480 Would you use me as you do your wife? 511 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,360 - What? 512 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,520 - I mean, would you beat me? 513 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:12,920 - Who told you I beat my wife? 514 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,600 Cromwell, was it you? 515 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,920 - You have no respect for any woman, though she be set above you by God. 516 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:19,760 Go out of here. 517 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,240 I wish to speak with Lord Cromwell alone. 518 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,640 - Hold hard, Howard. Here I am. 519 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,640 - Unhand me! 520 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:29,960 It's cramp! 521 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,240 - I hear you are Lord Privy Seal. 522 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,720 You are grown very grand, Lord Cromwell. 523 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,360 I suspect you were always very grand. 524 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,280 Only we did not see it. 525 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,360 Who knows God's plan? 526 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,120 - I understand Monsieur Chapuys has spoken to you. 527 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,040 - Yes. 528 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,760 He's thus offered me certain advice. 529 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,640 - Which disappointed you? 530 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,120 - Which surprised me. 531 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:33,560 - I hope he brought home to you the peril in which you stand? 532 00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:39,640 - He said Cromwell has used all the grace that is in him. 533 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,000 Risked all. 534 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,080 He said you feel the axe's edge. 535 00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,040 No other lord has spoken for me. 536 00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:58,320 Not Norfolk, he would not. Not Suffolk, he DURST not. 537 00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,960 Not even the Poles or the Courtenays. 538 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:08,080 I thought they would all say plain what I know they believe... 539 00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,080 ..and would aid me to be restored in my father's favour. 540 00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,000 But they.... - But they have left you to bear the risk. 541 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:20,120 They have practice at scuttling into cover. 542 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,600 - I have felt... 543 00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:27,280 ..so alone. 544 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,920 - It was John Shelton's, he had it of the Venetians. 545 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:53,720 - You have put all your strength into saying no. 546 00:42:53,720 --> 00:42:55,640 Now you must say yes. 547 00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,880 Do you think only weak people obey the law? 548 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,360 Because it terrifies them? 549 00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:10,320 Do you imagine only weak people do their duty, 550 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,560 because they dare not do other? 551 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,840 The truth is far different, Mary. 552 00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:23,040 In obedience, there is strength and tranquillity. 553 00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,000 And you will feel them. 554 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,320 It will be like the sun after a long winter. 555 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,560 Choose to live, and you will thrive. 556 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:56,840 Don't read it. 557 00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,800 Then you can repudiate it later... 558 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,560 ..if you have to. 559 00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:16,000 - I often think, why did I not die in the cradle or the womb, 560 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,640 like my brothers and sisters? 561 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,120 It must be that God has a design for me. 562 00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:32,760 Soon I, too, may be elevated beyond what seems possible now. 563 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:42,640 - Well, the will of our...Heavenly Father is often obscure. 564 00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,680 But the will of your earthly father is plain. 565 00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,520 Your resistance has... 566 00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:52,120 ..has injured him, it's made him ill. 567 00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,000 - I believe it. 568 00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,040 It has made me ill, too. 569 00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:20,960 - My skull aches. 570 00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,320 I would give anything to ride again. 571 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,560 They do not let me have a saddle horse. 572 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:35,320 John Shelton is afraid that if the country people see me, 573 00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,080 they will kneel to me and acclaim me as Princess. 574 00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:40,600 - I have a sweet dapple grey in my stable. 575 00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:42,840 She can be with you tomorrow. 576 00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,440 Her name is Douceur. 577 00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,920 But you can change it, if you like. 578 00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:49,760 - No, it is a good name. 579 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:56,600 - When you come back to court, you can have everything your heart desires. 580 00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,360 The King has spoken to me about what he will give you. 581 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,840 Lady Mary... 582 00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:44,600 - Mary! 583 00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:46,240 Stop that noise. 584 00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:50,960 - Let go of the Lord Privy Seal. 585 00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,320 And put your cap on. 586 00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:03,240 Look, I'll take you to Lady Bryan to put you to rights. 587 00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:06,880 Blow your nose. 588 00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:23,360 - Cromwell. 589 00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:32,640 Did she sign? 590 00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:36,320 Show me. 591 00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:38,960 Show me! 592 00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:49,880 - Well done, Crumb. 593 00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:56,600 - No, no... 594 00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,320 This isn't right. It's not the official oath. 595 00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,640 - She recognises the King as Supreme Head under Christ 596 00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:06,360 of the Church of England. 597 00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,800 She acknowledges her mother's marriage to be incestuous, 598 00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,400 under God's law and man's. 599 00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:14,880 What more do you want her to say? 600 00:49:20,240 --> 00:49:22,600 - What did you have to promise her? 601 00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:26,160 - Nothing. 602 00:49:28,240 --> 00:49:29,920 Her father's love. 603 00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:32,760 Nothing more. 604 00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:46,920 - Another glass. 605 00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:49,480 - Yes, sire. 606 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:52,320 Another glass. 607 00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:06,040 She's ready, sire. 608 00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,600 - This day has been long in coming. 609 00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,840 You may conduct her to us, Lord Cromwell. 610 00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,680 - We have done our best with her. 611 00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,760 In my opinion, a gentler hue would have flattered her complexion, 612 00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,800 but she wished to be as regal as possible. 613 00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:39,160 - I'm more concerned she doesn't trip over her feet and land 614 00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,920 before her father in a heap. 615 00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:43,360 - My Lord Cromwell. 616 00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:48,600 - My Lady. 617 00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:52,000 - I forgot to thank you for the dapple grey. 618 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,480 She is a gentle creature, as you promised. 619 00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:56,400 - Madam, King is waiting. 620 00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,720 - Lord Cromwell sent me a pretty mount from his own stable. 621 00:50:59,720 --> 00:51:02,480 Her name was Douceur. 622 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:06,560 It is a good name, but I have renamed her. 623 00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,840 I've called her Pomegranate. 624 00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,120 It was my mother's emblem. 625 00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:32,240 I am bound to you now, Lord Cromwell. 626 00:51:32,240 --> 00:51:35,400 I'm bound to pray for you during my life. 627 00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:41,760 - Here. 628 00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:44,640 Wear this. 629 00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,320 - It's too big. - It can be reset. 630 00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,240 You're too generous, my sweetheart. 631 00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:04,360 - You are gracious, madam. 632 00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:10,920 I wish you nothing but what is for your comfort. 633 00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,600 I hope you will have a child soon. 634 00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:15,560 I shall pray for it daily. 635 00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:22,400 I take you now as my own lady mother. 636 00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:25,000 As if God had ordained the same. 637 00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:39,000 - The Queen says it would be difficult even for God to ordain, 638 00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,120 as she is but seven years your senior. 639 00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:48,920 - Tell her it is an expression of my regard. 640 00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:52,200 It is an established form of well-wishing. Her Grace... 641 00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:56,120 - You understand, don't you, sweetheart? 642 00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,400 Shall we go in? 643 00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,080 - I will not go before you. 644 00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:09,800 - Madam, you are Queen. You must. 645 00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:17,040 - Then let us go as sisters. 646 00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,360 Neither one before the other. 647 00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:21,600 - Come, angels... 648 00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,880 Is she not a jewel unto herself? 649 00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:33,320 Is she not, Cromwell? 650 00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:50,840 Lord Cromwell has behaved to my lady daughter with such tenderness 651 00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:55,720 and care that he could not have done more if he were my own kinsman. 652 00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:59,880 Which, of course, he could not be. 653 00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,120 - But I mean to reward him, 654 00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:06,400 and his whole house. 655 00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:24,680 - Lord Cromwell could not be more to me than if he were my own kin. 656 00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,240 - And then he remembered who my parents were. 657 00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:33,080 - To your success, sir, though you ran it to the danger point. 658 00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,480 - He delays to show his power. 659 00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:38,360 - Nothing amiss there, since he has it. 660 00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:41,480 - Yes. Well, let us hope you have no reason to regret your goodness 661 00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:43,240 towards her. 662 00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:50,120 I promised her mother I'd look after her. 663 00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:51,640 - What? 664 00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:53,400 When? 665 00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,240 - When I went up to Kimbolton, when she was ill. 666 00:55:56,240 --> 00:55:57,800 Just before she died. 667 00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:01,280 Catherine asked me to promise that no harm would come 668 00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,200 to her daughter. 669 00:56:04,240 --> 00:56:06,240 - Why did you agree to it? 670 00:56:06,240 --> 00:56:08,800 - You could not know, sir, what Catherine was asking. 671 00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:10,800 - That's the point of a promise, isn't it? 672 00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,440 It wouldn't have any value if you could see what it might cost you 673 00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:15,520 when you make it. 674 00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:19,120 - Still, best if it goes no further. 675 00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:23,080 We shall consign it to the shadows. 676 00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:25,720 - Don't try and make it a dirty little secret, Riche. 677 00:56:25,720 --> 00:56:28,800 It was an act of kindness, no more. 678 00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:32,520 - Does Mary know about this promise? 679 00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:34,320 - No, no-one knows. 680 00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:37,480 I've never spoken about it till this moment. 681 00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:43,600 Back in the Cardinal's day, they used to call me the butcher's dog, 682 00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,960 and that's what I am. I'm a good dog. 683 00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:50,760 If you sent me to guard something, I'll do it. 684 00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:13,360 - I'd forgotten that. 685 00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:18,160 That Stephen Gardiner called you my butcher's dog. 686 00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,200 Meant unkindly, of course, because of my father's 687 00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,400 lowly profession, 688 00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:30,200 and not understanding the most important thing about a dog. 689 00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,440 That he is loyal and true. 690 00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:37,640 And you have been loyal, Thomas. 691 00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:41,440 You've wreaked a terrible vengeance on my enemies in these days, 692 00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:42,960 my friend. 693 00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:46,560 Thomas More and the Queen, her brother, 694 00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:48,320 Brereton... 695 00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:49,800 ..Norris. 696 00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:51,880 - If I wanted to revenge myself on all your enemies, 697 00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:54,800 I'd have to strike down half the nation. 698 00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:58,960 - No doubt, no doubt. 699 00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:05,040 Of course, some might ask who was the greatest 700 00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,640 of Wolsey's enemies? 701 00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:12,000 Some might ask when chance serves, 702 00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:16,560 what revenge will Cromwell take on his sovereign? 703 00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:23,880 Such thoughts... 704 00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:27,760 ..might reach the King. 705 00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,200 And there's an end of it. 706 00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:36,440 - There are no endings, only beginnings. 707 00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:38,680 Come on, master butcher, 708 00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:41,680 throw your dog a bone.