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§ My concern is like my shadow §

Quiet lying in the sun

§ Follow me at all times §

§ And fly when I pursue it §

§ I freeze and still I'm always burning §

§ Since I turn my back on myself

§ I love and yet I am forced to hate §

§ I look completely mute, I do not stop talking...

They have summoned the guard!

God, please help us!

God helps those who help themselves, Lettice.

The tide is rising; We must play for time.

Light the candles.

Too gaudy!

If I'm going to live tonight, I should not outshine her.

Too Red!

A gift from the queen herself.

What better choice?

That one.

Lettice!

Remember, child:

Curb your temper,

No matter what she says,

how much you try to provoke.

Stay close, Kat.

§ My concern is like my shadow §

Quiet lying in the sun

§ Follow me at all times §

§ and flies when I pursue it §

Go! Go!

The signal!

Rosary beads! The rosary!

§ A tender love relieves §

My heart and my mind

§ Because I am compassionate and made of icy love §

§ Be more cruel or kinder. §

... of cetero me non peccaturum

Peccandique next times fugiturum. Amen.

Is this how you enter a princess chamber?

You forget yourselves, gentlemen.

The queen will not receive you.

Her order's stand:

You are to be confined in the Tower,

Pending an investigation into the charges against you.

Fetch her things.

I am with her day and night.

She never met this man, Wyatt.

If there was a conspiracy, he did not take part in it!

Then she should have nothing to fear...

Madam.

Quickly.

We must catch the tide.

I will write to her, plead my case.

You will do well not to defy her, my lady.

And you, sir, will do well to remember,

for I too am a king's daughter.

Your Majesty, my dear sister Mary,

I humbly beseech you

to remember your the last promise to me,

That I will not be condemned without proof.

Now under your command, I am be taken to the Tower,

A place more fit for a traitor than to a loyal sister.

"I beg you, let me come to you

" so that you may hear my testimony.

"For I swear before God,

"I have never participated, counseled or consented

in any conspiracy against you. "

Enough!

She has made fools of you.

This is just more of his tricks.

She thinks that if she buys time, he can soften my resolve.

Now the tide is lost.

Mi lord?

There is another tide

at dawn, Majesty... We can....

Transport her in daylight.

So that its followers may abduct her,

Mounting another rebellion in his name?

Must I have to think of everything?

These lines signify what, my lord?

I believe she was afraid

an incriminating postscript might be added.

Dawn tide it must be.

My Lord Gardiner.

It is my wish that you take charge

of her interrogation in the Tower.

Do not fail me again.

Will God punish me as I am now punishing her?

He knows you do it His service, Your Grace,

As he knows all things.

It is not just for your own protection,

but also by that of your husband.

Only by proving his guilt in this Protestant plot

can justice be dispensed

and with it, the threat she poses to you both.

Your father found the strength

to deal with her whore of a mother.

Now you must do the same to deal with her bastard child.

And what if her guilt can not be proved?

To break your silence, you must first break your spirit.

Come on!

Amen.

Sir John Brydges.

He will be your guardian here, my lady.

Shall we?

I pray all...

I pray you to bear witness that I come here, not as a traitor,

But as a true and loyal subject of the queen,

And shall be until my death.

No!

A good pair of lungs on him, those of Mr. Wyatt.

Your castle in Donnington.

In January you proposed to visit there, did you not?

Donnington?

Which county is that?

Berkshire.

I have so many properties!

Thomas Wyatt wrote to you at that time, did he not?

stating his opposition to the queen's marriage,

and his intention to overthrow her government

to put you on the throne.... in her place.

Did he not name Donnington Castle

as the base for his rebellion?

That you meet him there with his supporters?

Had I received any such communication,

I would have alerted my sister... And the Privy Council.

He enlisted the help of France,

Assembled four contingents in as many counties,

number over 2,000 men to march on London.

Only a fool would undertake such a mission

without first gaining

your consent.

Since I am not personally acquainted with Mr. Wyatt,

I have no insight into how his mind works,

foolish or other wise.

Poison was the chosen method

disposing of the queen.

A letter to Wyatt from the French ambassador .

"Death is the only solution

to end the disastrous union with King Philip

and save England from Spanish rule."

Do you deny you share such sentiment?

Like most women, I have no head for politics, sir.

Every Protestant in the land condemned the marriage.

Why should you be the exception?

Wyatt's confession will put an end to it this assembly.

We're looking at days, if not hours.

Go no further than your commission here, Sir John.

In the future we may have to account for

our dealings with her.

John Seymour...

Duke of Northumberland...

scores of them.

Lady Jane Gray.

Anne Boleyn.

Her mother is a subject she does not care to speak of,

much less think of.

One of the queen's ladies sent to serve you.

Or spying on me.

Wyatt's letters, Kat?

Burnt with my own hands.

All of them?

Yes.

Then we are in the hands of God.

Do not...

What...

What I was...

Oh no...

Do not...

Someone...

I must... I must...

I must...

I must... I must...

Like the animals in a menagerie.

Hush.

I never wrote him a letter on that matter or any other.

How do you explain your reply, "I will do what I see cause"?

You're condoning their conspiracy.

Admit it!

Biding your time, waiting to see

if their insurgents were successful!

Since I received no letter on the subject,

it follows that I did not reply to it.

No, you're too artful to reply in writing.

I could neither condone nor condemn

a conspiracy of which I was completely ignorant, sir.

Though it seems that I will be condemned

For the ambition of others...

or their malevolency.

If she will not admit to her treason,

Wyatt must be made to do so.

He denies her collusion,

he denies having ever communicated with her.

Not the rack nor the bribe of a reprieve

can move him otherwise.

The Privy Council will never consent to the trial, Your Grace,

not without his testimony

or her own confession.

To do so, we risk the mob

Taking to the streets on her behalf.

No man will meet his Maker

with a lie on his lips, Majesty.

If the rack cannot persuade Wyatt,

Let the prospect of eternal damnation do it for him....

Prepare his execution warrant.

Now.

Today.

You were right, Sir John.

The fresh air is the most restorative.

And see the sky again...

That man.... Who is he?

Robert Dudley, my lady.

Robert is here?

Under what charge?

Treason,

as were his father and brother,

before the scaffold took them.

His time is overdue, I'm fear.

Were you acquainted with him?

We were companions as children...

close friends

Traitor!

Kill the heretic!

Kill the heretic!

Death to the traitor!

Listen to me.

He is a traitor!

Will you listen to me?

Kill the heretic!

Listen to me!

Silence!

They want me to accuse my Lady Elizabeth

for conspiring in the matter of which I am charged.

Free him!

Free him!

They believe that death will pull that lie from me!

But it is not like so... nor ever was!

God bless you, Thomas Wyatt!

She had no knowledge of my intentions,

Nor consented them to them by word or by deed!

As God is my witness...

With my dying breath...

I swear that this is true!

Long live Lady Elizabeth!

He's innocent.

Then we must deal with by other means.

Majesty.

It's time.

For Lady Elizabeth.

You're too late, sir.

She's no longer with us.

May God protect you, Lady Elizabeth.

May God be with you, Lady Elizabeth.

May God protect you, my lady.

God is with you, my lady.

You are a messenger from heaven, my lady.

God bless you, my lady.

Merciful Princess Elizabeth.

Elizabeth...

You have the king to thank

for bringing you here.

It was he who intervened with the queen in your behalf.

I seem I am in your debt, Your Highness.

Alas despite my endeavours,

I cannot guarantee your safety.

She persists in her conviction

you are a threat to her in

her mind is quite a set one.

It seems the love you inspire in the people,

inspires only envy in others.

Your affection is due to the memory of my father,

Majesty. Nothing else.

I would speak to my sister alone,

if that pleases you, husband.

I know that your Majesty is ill disposed towards me.

But I beg you,

Tell me what it is I've done to offend you so that I can...

Your pleas are as insecure as they are tiresome, sister.

and it is God that you offend

With your charade of purity.

I was not raised in Catholic doctrine as you,

But I am trying to learn their ways.

with your help,

with your good guidance...

Do you think I do not recognize hypocrisy?

when I see it?

But you can fool me as you do others?

It is not enough that my mother was left to die alone in exile

while your's stole her place in our father's favour ..

I was forced to wait under her like a maid servant!

Must I now endure the deceit of her daughter too?

It is I who now grant favors.

And I see fit, the punishment.

Punishment must fit the crime

and I have committed none.

If you claim otherwise, then in justice, you must prove it.

That's still the law of the land, is not it?

I hoped my marriage would bring me comfort,

companionship.

But thanks to you, it has imprisoned me.

We can not walk outside the palace

without fear for our lives.

My husband must sleep alone for his protection,

while I...

I must sleep...

with this beside me!

It's in your mind, is it not?

Seize your chance.

That ambition exists only in your head, sister, not in mine.

Must there always be this enmity between us?

Surely it's not beyond us

to put the past to rest, reconcile.

Council is preparing an act to Parliament

to return the country to the Church in Rome.

In time, the Protestant heresy of our father

will be a ghost in the people's memory.

Until then, your confinement will continue...

somewhere less public than the Tower...

out of their sight and out of mine.

Make way!

Child, where do they take you?

Where do you take her? The Tower again?

Kat, help me!

Kat!

Go!

Why don't we just cut the wretched girl from the succession....

... and be done with it?

No matter.

When the queen is with child,

the Lady Elizabeth will be as irrelevant as it is now inconvenient.

Forgive me, Your Majesty.

I, um...

That says little,

but sees too much.

What if there is no child

and I outlive the queen?

All our efforts here will be wasted.

Now, if the country is to remain Catholic,

the Lady Elizabeth must convert

she must be seen to publicly submit to the authority of Rome.

If, like his father, she refuses to submit?

As a wife, she must submit to the authority of her husband.

It was England I married, my lord.

One sister will do as well as other.

Oh Lord!

My Lord, he is a martyr!

Make yourself comfortable, my lord Ridley.

Behave like a man!

Because today we light the Protestant torch

Which should never be extinguished!

May the Lord protect us!

May God protect you!

Turn off the fire!

That altar is a sacrilege.

Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.

Jesus Christ.

Oh, oh, oh, Jesus.

My precaution against the release of the Lady Elizabeth

continues, Your Majesty,

But I must confess the duty of it is demanding.

Her...

Her ill temper towards her custody is relentless.

I am daily challenged by her tempestuous moods,

her incessant demands

to extract new concessions on me.

I need books, Sir Henry!

The Psalms of David!

The English Bible!

Cicero!

And I ask my tutor Roger Ascham to attend me

So that I can continue my studies.

How can I endure this purgatory

Without stimulation?

Without conversation?

Without the rigor of debate?

When will my ladies be returned to me?

Is it not sufficient for your guards to watch me day and night?

Must I suffer it from the queen's witches to?

If she forbids me to write to her,

I will raise my demands with the Privy Council.

Even the most wretched prisoners in the Tower

have that right, do they not?

Amen.

Much is suspected of me, nothing can be proved.

Much is suspected of me, nothing can be proved. Quote: Elizabeth the prisoner.

Forgive me, Sir William.

The Queen is scrupulous in matters of security.

Accounts for the Lady Elizabeth's attention, relating to her Hatfield property.

The expenses of your grooms, my lady, seems excessive.

Can you account for it?

It was the only excuse I could find

to come without arousing suspicion.

It began over a year ago.

She reinstated the burning of heretics Act.

nearly 300 Protestants burned at the stake in as many days.

The Council is divided,

The economy is decimated

because of this wretched war on France.

People are near to insurgence.

Every time your your name is shouted in the street,

her manners towards you becomes more fixed.

Even now she's devising new..new ways of disposing of you.

Your marriage to Don Carlos of Spain

Is her latest notion.

Don Carlos is 10 years old.

It achieves her end,

your exile from the country.

What if I refuse her?

A mother will go to any length to protect her child.

The more so, if it's heir to the throne.

She is with child?

A Queen, a mother and a wife, her own Holy Trinity.

The day her first child draws it's first breath,

Could prove to be your last.

You are a symbol to the people of hope,

Of a future without fear, without repression.

But that is as much a curse

as it is blessing.

Every Protestant who swears allegiance to you

Increase the danger in which you are.

If you are to survive, you must remain invisible

to your allies and for your enemies.

Let those reports speak not of your defiance

but of your compliance, of your new found devotion to Rome.

We owe our survival now.

I only have one life, Sir William.

Should I waste another year in this godforsaken place?

God has not forsaken us. He is testing us.

Robert Dudley, is there any word of him?

He struck a deal with the king.

He is fighting alongside him in France,

In exchange for a pardon.

Sir Robert knows the trick for survival if nothing else.

The king grows impatient for word when he should return.

The doctor said she was due a month past.

Looks like your wait is over.

No, not now, not yet.

You spoke too soon, my lord.

It's just another false alarm.

I came for her.

You are to come to London, to court, my lady.

How so, sir?

The Queen is no longer.

She died this morning.

And her child?

It seems there is no child, nor ever was.

Her symptoms were of a tumor.

Preparations are in hand

to transfer the realm to your name, Your Majesty.

A delegation of privy counselors are on the way

to pronounce you queen.

If she's dead, prove it to me, sir.

How does the weather, Sir Henry?

The wind harsh today, my lady... Your Majesty.

I have braved worse, I fancy.

I hope you know that I only ever acted out of duty.

Then your duty is done, sir.

"This is the work of the Lord...

and it's wonderful in our eyes."

Your Majesty.

Majesty!

The queen of our hearts!

We need you!

You were always in our thoughts!

Out with the old, Sir William,

and let us hope the new is worth the wait.

"We welcome you, oh, mighty queen

"Our love in you is sure

"For unto England sandy shores, you will the truth restore

#.... years of exile.... Because under the sandy shores of England.... #

No no no.

#Your years of exile... #

#.... because in our midst... #

See how the four degrees of Gemini are rising

with Mercury ruling the ascendant?

Mercury, as you well know, is the winged messenger of the gods.

Is also strengthened by being in the tenth house of the kings.

Now see in the twelfth house,

The Moon and Jupiter are together...

But the date, Dr. Dee, what day does it decree?

By my calculations and the lunar longitudes,

The fifteenth day of the month is the most auspicious

For your coronation.

Your cousin, the Duke of Norfolk, is waiting outside Your Grace.

He is most insistent upon an audience with you.

He must wait your turn, like the others.

See how the buzzards descend.

Be on, Mr. Dee.

Your Majesty, the Earl of Sussex.

Your Majesty.

Dear cousin.

Mi lord Norfolk.

I come to serve you.

You have but to name it.

I see your impatience has not lessened

Over the years, Thomas.

Nor your wit, cousin.

As ever we are all diminished by it,

as by your beauty.

I shall take your offer under advice, cousin.

If it is advice you seek, if the post of Secretary of State

Is not yet taken, then I....

As you know, I was tutored by the finest scholars in the land.

I am fluent in 5 languages and conversant in the principles

of economics and philosophy, both ancient and modern.

I am also an expert in literature, music and poetry,

and my horsemanship, they say, unparalleled.

But if I ever require... ...advice,

you will be the first to know it.

Majesty.

They were cleaning and uh....

there it was.

How many more?

They litter palace like mouse holes.

This is not the work of mice, Sir William,

but rats.

Seal them up, all of them.

He's here.

You sure, Lettice.

If anyone asks, I am at prayer.

Robbie?

Look to you...

And how do I look, pray?

Ah, do you want me to worship at the altar of your beauty,

like all the others that court your favour?

Is that a frown I see?

Oh, yes, the hands of a queen.

They look the same to me as they always do.

Been waiting for you to tell me that, Bess,

but could not wait any longer.

I trust your wife is well.

Your court is stuffed full of married men,

am I to be the exception?

Exiled and excluded without explanation,

without a reprieve.

My father was not a man to defy, Bess,

Neither in subject of marriage nor in any other.

Am I being punished for my obedience to him?

Since you ask, my wife has been sickly of late,

or I would have come to you sooner,

invited or not.

If she is unwell, your duty lies with her.

Do you think it is duty that brings me here?

Ride with me, Bess.

Ride with me, like you used to.

I'm needed in court.

The post of Secretary of State, Sir William.

I can think of no better man to serve me.

But there is a condition:

Whatever my personal will or preference,

You will always give me the council I need,

not what I want to hear.

No matter how much I rail against you.

I will hold you to that, Your Majesty.

I would first council caution if I may,

That you familiarize yourself with the functions of State,

your new responsibilities, before you embark...

I have endured the cautious life too long.

You of all people know that.

You saw how my people greeted me.

If I'm to keep their hearts, surely I have to act decisively

with confidence and some purpose.

Then we must start by addressing the issue of your marriage

before rumor and speculation undermined that fervor.

The King of Denmark's son has been mooted as King Henry of Sweden.

Give me a break, Sir William.

Let's just get my coronation ceremony out of the way

before you plan another for my nuptials.

People need to know the succession is secure.

The realm is safe.

You can not rule alone, can you?

Is that the list of counselors?

The first are those who served under your sister's orders.

The second are those that I recommend.

Pembroke is such an arrogant.

But he can make an army of knights at your command.

Norfolk?

You saw how puffed up he is.

And as my cousin, he has the claim to the throne,

So boasts.

All the more reason to keep him close

to the throne, where we can see him.

Robert Dudley?

The man's the son of a traitor.

A rank opportunist.

None of us are responsible

for the sins of our fathers, Sir William.

And opportunism is no sin when it's for survival.

Or in your case, advancement.

By that token, half the men in my court could be found wanting.

Will you be inviting his wife to court also?

A wife's place is at home.

Indulge me with this one thing, William.

I shall forever be amenable to your demands.

As you say, we must act decisively.

Mi lords, I bid welcome you.

I require of you nothing more than faithful hearts

in your preservation of me and this common roof.

That I, with my ruling, and you, with your service

make a good account to God

and leave on this earth some a legacy of comfort in our prosperity.

Here are my wishes and intentions.

I dislike waste and profligacy in all it's forms.

I intend to oversee the national budget

with the same rigor as that of my household and estates.

My foreign policy shall be directed by the same principles.

I will always defend England's shores,

but I will not decimate our resources

trying to expand them.

you shall find me resolute on this.

And as for religion...

henceforth all services will be conducted,

not in Latin, but in English, starting with my coronation.

How can my people understand the power of prayer

unless they first understand it's meaning?

If they are to accept the Protestant faith,

It must be through persuasion, not purges.

Let Catholics keep their crucifixes and robes,

if they wish.

There but one Jesus Christ.

The rest are trifles.

She thinks to make herself legitimate by

legitimizing her faith.

We should live so long.

She's her fathers daughter of his father, no matter what they say.

Her hair proves it.

Look closely, sir, her eyes are those of his mother.

Long live Elizabeth, our consecrated queen!

Long live Elizabeth, our blessed queen!

Long live Elizabeth, our blessed queen!

Long live Elizabeth, our blessed queen!