1 00:00:33,742 --> 00:00:37,062 Damn. When are we going to eat? Cromwell! 2 00:00:37,142 --> 00:00:38,142 I'm famished! 3 00:02:16,022 --> 00:02:20,302 {\an8}Which is your favourite, hmm? 4 00:02:30,302 --> 00:02:31,902 It's quite pretty, isn't it? 5 00:02:36,222 --> 00:02:38,822 {\an8}It's just come from the embroiderer, hmm? 6 00:02:39,662 --> 00:02:40,822 {\an8}Isn't it sweet? 7 00:02:41,742 --> 00:02:43,022 {\an8}For her little head. 8 00:03:11,222 --> 00:03:12,262 Cromwell. 9 00:03:22,102 --> 00:03:25,822 I'm told that when you thought the King was dead, 10 00:03:27,182 --> 00:03:29,302 your first action was to send for the bastard Mary. 11 00:03:32,262 --> 00:03:33,422 You did not think of me? 12 00:03:34,742 --> 00:03:36,142 Or my daughter? 13 00:03:37,022 --> 00:03:38,982 Or the child I was carrying then? 14 00:03:40,102 --> 00:03:41,622 I cannot hold the throne 15 00:03:42,982 --> 00:03:44,662 for an infant in the cradle. 16 00:03:46,822 --> 00:03:50,422 I cannot hold the throne for an unborn baby. 17 00:03:54,742 --> 00:03:56,262 I promoted you. 18 00:03:59,422 --> 00:04:01,702 I am responsible for your rise. 19 00:04:02,782 --> 00:04:04,862 And at the first opportunity, 20 00:04:04,942 --> 00:04:06,462 you've betrayed me. 21 00:04:10,782 --> 00:04:13,102 Madam, nothing here is personal. 22 00:04:16,102 --> 00:04:18,102 You think you've grown great. 23 00:04:19,302 --> 00:04:20,982 You think you no longer need me, 24 00:04:21,062 --> 00:04:23,302 but you've forgotten the most important thing, 25 00:04:24,622 --> 00:04:25,942 Cromwell. 26 00:04:27,502 --> 00:04:29,142 Those who've been made 27 00:04:29,982 --> 00:04:31,422 can be unmade. 28 00:04:34,622 --> 00:04:36,262 I entirely agree. 29 00:04:53,062 --> 00:04:55,742 We want the concubine ousted. 30 00:04:57,742 --> 00:04:59,342 We know you want it, too. 31 00:05:02,942 --> 00:05:03,942 We? 32 00:05:05,062 --> 00:05:07,982 My friends in this matter are very near the throne, 33 00:05:08,062 --> 00:05:11,102 those in the line of old King Edward, 34 00:05:11,182 --> 00:05:14,022 Lord Exeter, the Courtenay family, 35 00:05:15,102 --> 00:05:17,542 Lord Montague, his brother Geoffrey Pole, 36 00:05:17,622 --> 00:05:19,182 Lady Margaret Pole. 37 00:05:20,662 --> 00:05:23,942 These are the principal persons on whose behalf I speak, 38 00:05:25,342 --> 00:05:27,382 but as you will be aware, 39 00:05:27,462 --> 00:05:31,542 the most part of England would rejoice to see the King free of her. 40 00:05:31,622 --> 00:05:34,222 I don't think the most part of England knows or cares. 41 00:05:38,302 --> 00:05:40,022 What do you require of me? 42 00:05:41,382 --> 00:05:45,462 We require that you join us. 43 00:05:47,102 --> 00:05:49,702 We contend to have Seymour's girl crowned. 44 00:05:50,542 --> 00:05:52,622 She's known to favour true religion, 45 00:05:53,622 --> 00:05:56,462 and we believe she will bring Henry back to Rome. 46 00:05:58,342 --> 00:05:59,862 And this is our difficulty, Cromwell. 47 00:06:02,462 --> 00:06:04,022 We know you're a Lutheran. 48 00:06:04,982 --> 00:06:06,702 Me? No, sir. 49 00:06:06,782 --> 00:06:08,142 I'm... I'm a banker. 50 00:06:13,702 --> 00:06:16,582 What will happen to Anne Boleyn? 51 00:06:19,782 --> 00:06:21,142 Don't know. 52 00:06:21,702 --> 00:06:22,942 Convent? 53 00:06:53,302 --> 00:06:54,782 Look at this little doggy. 54 00:07:23,302 --> 00:07:24,862 Oh, why are you so sad, Mark? 55 00:07:26,462 --> 00:07:27,982 You have no business being sad. 56 00:07:28,742 --> 00:07:30,462 You're here to entertain us. 57 00:07:31,742 --> 00:07:33,822 For heaven's sake, stand on your feet. 58 00:07:37,462 --> 00:07:39,662 I do you a favour by noticing you at all. 59 00:07:41,222 --> 00:07:42,582 Well, what do you expect? 60 00:07:44,182 --> 00:07:47,142 Do you think I should talk to you as if you were a gentleman? 61 00:07:48,182 --> 00:07:49,342 But I can't do that, Mark, 62 00:07:49,422 --> 00:07:52,902 you see, because you are an inferior person. 63 00:07:55,022 --> 00:07:56,462 No, madam, 64 00:07:57,222 --> 00:07:58,662 I don't expect a word. 65 00:07:59,622 --> 00:08:00,862 A look suffices me. 66 00:08:03,902 --> 00:08:05,062 Well? 67 00:08:07,302 --> 00:08:09,382 Aren't you going to praise my eyes now? 68 00:08:16,622 --> 00:08:17,742 Why do you encourage that boy? 69 00:08:17,862 --> 00:08:20,102 All manner of puppy dogs are encouraged here. 70 00:08:20,182 --> 00:08:22,222 Some are coming in and out of season. 71 00:08:22,302 --> 00:08:23,662 Are you referring to me, Norris? 72 00:08:23,822 --> 00:08:26,742 I could happily give this puppy dog a kick in his ribs that he won't forget. 73 00:08:26,982 --> 00:08:28,902 No kicking in my chamber, if you please. 74 00:08:28,982 --> 00:08:31,302 He has himself agitated because he thinks I come here 75 00:08:31,382 --> 00:08:33,862 to cast my fancy at Lady Mary. 76 00:08:34,902 --> 00:08:37,022 We all know he hopes to marry her himself. 77 00:08:38,502 --> 00:08:41,262 But really, I come here for the sake of another. 78 00:08:42,502 --> 00:08:44,662 And do you know who that is? - No, tell me. 79 00:08:45,582 --> 00:08:46,702 I can't guess. 80 00:08:47,902 --> 00:08:49,462 Is it Lady Rochford here? 81 00:08:50,382 --> 00:08:52,182 Surely not one so old. 82 00:08:54,182 --> 00:08:57,262 No, it is yourself, madam. 83 00:08:59,062 --> 00:09:01,102 Perhaps you should kick him, gentle Norris, 84 00:09:02,382 --> 00:09:04,022 for the honour of the Queen of England. 85 00:09:05,462 --> 00:09:07,582 Ah, here's the man for me. 86 00:09:08,462 --> 00:09:11,022 Will Brereton's one who shoots his arrows straight. 87 00:09:16,942 --> 00:09:18,102 What's to do here? 88 00:09:18,902 --> 00:09:20,902 Everyone's been fighting, 89 00:09:20,982 --> 00:09:22,622 and all because of that boy Mark. 90 00:09:24,702 --> 00:09:27,942 I think you should be dropped from a great height, 91 00:09:29,342 --> 00:09:31,222 just like your dog Purkoy. 92 00:09:48,462 --> 00:09:50,822 Do that again and I will hit you back. 93 00:09:52,702 --> 00:09:54,702 You're no queen. 94 00:09:54,782 --> 00:09:56,262 You're just a knight's daughter. 95 00:09:57,662 --> 00:09:59,262 And your time has come. 96 00:10:01,982 --> 00:10:05,222 Harry, do me a good turn. 97 00:10:06,342 --> 00:10:08,702 Take away my brother's wife and drown her. 98 00:10:08,782 --> 00:10:09,942 Anne. - What? 99 00:10:11,622 --> 00:10:13,702 Didn't you swear you'd walk barefoot to China for me? 100 00:10:14,742 --> 00:10:17,182 I think it was barefoot to Walsingham I offered. 101 00:10:21,422 --> 00:10:23,342 Perhaps you can repent your sins there. 102 00:10:26,342 --> 00:10:28,382 Because if anything happened to the King, 103 00:10:28,462 --> 00:10:29,582 you'd look to have me. 104 00:10:34,262 --> 00:10:37,342 Oh, yes, you see now, Mary, why he hasn't married you yet. 105 00:10:38,102 --> 00:10:39,542 It's because he's in love with me. 106 00:10:40,102 --> 00:10:41,582 Or so he claims. 107 00:10:42,062 --> 00:10:43,222 And yet he won't prove it 108 00:10:43,302 --> 00:10:46,142 by putting Lady Rochford in a sack and dropping her in the river! 109 00:10:47,862 --> 00:10:50,022 Will you spill all your secrets, Anne, 110 00:10:50,102 --> 00:10:51,542 or only some? 111 00:10:56,382 --> 00:10:57,462 Oh... 112 00:10:57,662 --> 00:10:58,902 Get him back. 113 00:11:05,102 --> 00:11:06,982 It was idle talk. Get him back. 114 00:11:09,502 --> 00:11:10,662 Get him back and he'll swear on the Bible. 115 00:11:10,742 --> 00:11:12,142 He knows me to be a good wife. 116 00:11:14,222 --> 00:11:15,622 Get him back! Harry! 117 00:11:20,662 --> 00:11:22,862 Henry had heard about the fight with Norris. 118 00:11:23,822 --> 00:11:25,862 We could all see it from the courtyard. 119 00:11:27,862 --> 00:11:28,942 She had her hands... 120 00:11:30,862 --> 00:11:32,742 You know the King's great tapestry 121 00:11:33,622 --> 00:11:35,902 where the Queen clasps her hands together? 122 00:11:40,942 --> 00:11:42,382 He didn't look persuaded. 123 00:11:43,702 --> 00:11:45,702 Did you not go to her, to comfort her? 124 00:11:46,022 --> 00:11:47,582 She being your mistress? 125 00:11:47,822 --> 00:11:49,262 No, I came looking for you. 126 00:11:53,462 --> 00:11:55,142 Before they were married, 127 00:11:56,622 --> 00:11:58,742 Anne used to practise with Henry 128 00:12:00,422 --> 00:12:02,262 in the French fashion. 129 00:12:03,142 --> 00:12:04,142 You know what I mean. 130 00:12:04,582 --> 00:12:07,262 Lady Rochford, I have no idea what you mean. 131 00:12:07,582 --> 00:12:10,582 Oh, you think you can shame me out of saying what I must say? 132 00:12:12,302 --> 00:12:13,982 I'm no virgin girl. 133 00:12:17,542 --> 00:12:19,142 She induced him 134 00:12:20,262 --> 00:12:22,742 to put his seed otherwise than he should have. 135 00:12:25,542 --> 00:12:27,662 Now, Henry calls it a filthy proceeding. 136 00:12:27,742 --> 00:12:30,262 But God love him, he doesn't know where the filth begins. 137 00:12:35,502 --> 00:12:37,582 My husband George 138 00:12:39,222 --> 00:12:40,622 is always with Anne. 139 00:12:41,382 --> 00:12:43,542 He's her brother. It's natural. 140 00:12:44,102 --> 00:12:46,142 There's nothing natural in George. 141 00:12:47,622 --> 00:12:49,502 And nothing is forbidden. 142 00:12:51,222 --> 00:12:52,742 I've seen them kiss. 143 00:12:53,662 --> 00:12:54,822 Brothers may kiss their sis... 144 00:12:54,902 --> 00:12:57,222 His tongue in her mouth. Hers in his. 145 00:13:02,502 --> 00:13:04,222 You want me to record that? 146 00:13:04,462 --> 00:13:06,342 If you're worried you won't remember it. 147 00:13:09,302 --> 00:13:10,382 Why would she do such a thing? 148 00:13:10,502 --> 00:13:11,862 You know why. 149 00:13:12,662 --> 00:13:13,942 The better to rule. 150 00:13:15,542 --> 00:13:18,702 Suppose she gets a boy and it has Weston's long face? 151 00:13:19,422 --> 00:13:20,782 Or looks like Will Brereton? 152 00:13:22,902 --> 00:13:26,262 They can't call it a bastard if it looks like a Boleyn. 153 00:13:33,262 --> 00:13:34,822 Be advised by me. 154 00:13:36,222 --> 00:13:37,382 Speak to no one. 155 00:13:39,662 --> 00:13:40,782 Be advised by me. 156 00:13:42,662 --> 00:13:43,822 Speak to Mark Smeaton. 157 00:14:05,382 --> 00:14:06,862 We can leave that here, Mark. 158 00:14:07,982 --> 00:14:09,942 I thought there was to be a great company. 159 00:14:10,782 --> 00:14:12,662 I thought I was going to entertain you. 160 00:14:12,742 --> 00:14:14,462 Make no doubt of it. 161 00:14:17,982 --> 00:14:19,462 You see, Mark, 162 00:14:19,782 --> 00:14:21,342 my master the King 163 00:14:22,102 --> 00:14:23,822 and my mistress the Queen 164 00:14:24,982 --> 00:14:26,382 are at odds. 165 00:14:27,302 --> 00:14:28,582 Everyone knows. 166 00:14:29,902 --> 00:14:31,942 And my dearest wish is to reconcile them. 167 00:14:34,142 --> 00:14:35,222 Well, the word at court is 168 00:14:35,302 --> 00:14:36,822 you're keeping company with the Queen's enemies. 169 00:14:39,382 --> 00:14:41,582 How else am I to find out their practices? 170 00:14:42,342 --> 00:14:43,342 Ah. 171 00:14:44,062 --> 00:14:45,382 If only I could believe that. 172 00:14:48,382 --> 00:14:49,502 Well, I don't blame you, Mark. 173 00:14:49,662 --> 00:14:52,142 There's such ill-feeling at the court, no one trusts anyone. 174 00:14:53,902 --> 00:14:55,542 But I've come to you because, 175 00:14:55,622 --> 00:14:57,102 well, because you're close to the Queen, 176 00:14:57,182 --> 00:15:00,702 and I'd really love to know why she's so unhappy, 177 00:15:02,062 --> 00:15:04,782 and if there's anything I can do to remedy it. 178 00:15:06,182 --> 00:15:07,942 It's no wonder she's unhappy. 179 00:15:09,222 --> 00:15:10,342 She's in love. 180 00:15:13,142 --> 00:15:14,182 With whom? 181 00:15:16,622 --> 00:15:17,622 With me. 182 00:15:22,902 --> 00:15:23,902 You're amazed. 183 00:15:31,102 --> 00:15:32,822 I'm not as amazed as you might think. 184 00:15:32,902 --> 00:15:34,462 I've seen how she looks at you. 185 00:15:35,542 --> 00:15:38,462 And it's no surprise that any woman would be drawn to you. 186 00:15:38,542 --> 00:15:40,342 You're a very handsome young man. 187 00:15:41,462 --> 00:15:42,782 We thought you were a sodomite. 188 00:15:42,862 --> 00:15:44,142 Richard. 189 00:15:45,582 --> 00:15:47,302 I'm as good a man as any of them. 190 00:15:47,382 --> 00:15:49,302 Of course you are. And the Queen would give you a good report. 191 00:15:49,382 --> 00:15:52,102 She's tried you, found you to her liking. 192 00:15:52,662 --> 00:15:54,862 I can't discuss it. - No. No, you mustn't. 193 00:15:55,382 --> 00:15:58,502 But we can assume. She's not an inexperienced woman. 194 00:15:59,902 --> 00:16:03,342 I think she would not be interested in anything less 195 00:16:03,422 --> 00:16:04,862 than a masterly performance. 196 00:16:06,822 --> 00:16:08,222 Well, I will say this. 197 00:16:09,262 --> 00:16:11,542 We men born poor 198 00:16:11,622 --> 00:16:14,062 are in no ways inferior in that way. 199 00:16:17,382 --> 00:16:18,622 How true. 200 00:16:20,662 --> 00:16:23,782 Though the noble gentlemen like to keep that secret from the ladies. 201 00:16:24,102 --> 00:16:26,542 They wouldn't want the competition, would they? 202 00:16:26,622 --> 00:16:29,142 If you mean she has other lovers, I wouldn't know. 203 00:16:29,222 --> 00:16:30,662 Haven't asked her. 204 00:16:33,022 --> 00:16:34,982 But they're jealous of me... - Are they? 205 00:16:35,062 --> 00:16:36,982 Weston and Norris, those lords. 206 00:16:37,062 --> 00:16:38,062 Mmm. 207 00:16:38,142 --> 00:16:40,662 They call me boy, but they're jealous. 208 00:16:41,182 --> 00:16:42,262 Mmm. 209 00:16:42,342 --> 00:16:44,422 Well, perhaps she tried them and they were a disappointment. 210 00:16:46,502 --> 00:16:48,022 And you take the prize. 211 00:16:51,342 --> 00:16:52,622 How often? 212 00:17:02,142 --> 00:17:04,182 You have given us two names, Mark. 213 00:17:06,822 --> 00:17:08,462 Now name the others. 214 00:17:09,382 --> 00:17:10,702 And answer Master Richard. 215 00:17:12,222 --> 00:17:13,302 How often? 216 00:17:14,862 --> 00:17:16,862 Mmm-hmm, perhaps you're wise not to speak. 217 00:17:17,382 --> 00:17:18,942 Best to have it all written down. 218 00:17:19,022 --> 00:17:21,782 The council will hardly believe it otherwise. 219 00:17:21,862 --> 00:17:23,942 They'll be amazed at your success. 220 00:17:24,022 --> 00:17:25,462 Jealous. 221 00:17:25,542 --> 00:17:29,022 'Smeaton, what is your secret?' they'll demand. 222 00:17:29,102 --> 00:17:32,582 And you'll answer, 'Ah, I can't impart.' 223 00:17:34,182 --> 00:17:35,702 But you will impart, Mark. 224 00:17:36,702 --> 00:17:38,182 You'll do it freely, 225 00:17:38,542 --> 00:17:40,062 or you do it enforced. 226 00:17:42,582 --> 00:17:44,782 Seat yourself, pretty boy. 227 00:17:47,582 --> 00:17:50,302 I take it back. 228 00:17:51,022 --> 00:17:52,902 I... I can't give you any names. 229 00:17:53,902 --> 00:17:55,782 I don't know how I came to say what I did. 230 00:17:55,862 --> 00:17:58,262 No, nor do I. No one hurt you or coerced you. 231 00:17:58,342 --> 00:18:01,342 You spoke freely. These two gentlemen are my witnesses. 232 00:18:02,702 --> 00:18:04,262 I take it back. 233 00:18:04,342 --> 00:18:05,902 I don't think so. 234 00:18:06,662 --> 00:18:09,102 Tell us about your adultery with the Queen 235 00:18:10,262 --> 00:18:12,742 and what you know about her dealings with the other gentlemen, 236 00:18:12,822 --> 00:18:16,982 and if your confession is true and full, 237 00:18:17,062 --> 00:18:19,182 perhaps the King will show you mercy. 238 00:18:26,902 --> 00:18:29,862 Would you like to spend ten minutes alone with Master Richard here? 239 00:18:29,982 --> 00:18:31,422 Five would do it. 240 00:18:36,062 --> 00:18:38,422 We'll write down what you say, Mark, 241 00:18:39,142 --> 00:18:41,622 but we won't necessarily write down what we do. 242 00:18:41,862 --> 00:18:44,262 Oh, God. - Do you follow me? 243 00:18:45,222 --> 00:18:47,062 Mother Mary, help me. 244 00:18:47,742 --> 00:18:51,062 I can't tell you what I don't know. 245 00:18:53,462 --> 00:18:54,942 Can't you? - No. 246 00:18:56,142 --> 00:18:58,542 Well, then you'll have to be my guest for the night, Mark. 247 00:19:01,342 --> 00:19:02,382 Please. 248 00:19:05,222 --> 00:19:07,022 Well, there aren't many men alive 249 00:19:07,102 --> 00:19:09,022 who can say they took me by surprise. 250 00:19:10,022 --> 00:19:13,302 Years of being despised by lords has made a boaster of him. 251 00:19:15,222 --> 00:19:17,702 Sometimes I think I should have taken him in here. 252 00:19:20,582 --> 00:19:21,982 I don't want him hurt. 253 00:19:23,942 --> 00:19:27,302 If we have to torture sad creatures like that, what next? 254 00:19:29,062 --> 00:19:30,702 Stamping on dormice? 255 00:19:33,902 --> 00:19:35,582 Tell Wriothesley to come tomorrow. 256 00:19:51,422 --> 00:19:52,662 What is this? 257 00:19:53,662 --> 00:19:54,942 It's where the phantom lives. 258 00:19:56,622 --> 00:19:57,622 In you go. 259 00:20:41,302 --> 00:20:43,702 Let me out! 260 00:20:44,462 --> 00:20:46,022 Please let me out! 261 00:20:48,062 --> 00:20:49,622 Let me out! 262 00:20:51,342 --> 00:20:54,102 Henry Norris, 263 00:20:54,182 --> 00:20:57,022 Francis Weston and William Brereton... 264 00:20:57,662 --> 00:20:59,022 And Francis Bryan. 265 00:21:04,102 --> 00:21:07,582 Richard Long, Walter Walshe... - You had to do with the Queen. 266 00:21:09,662 --> 00:21:11,902 How many times? - A thousand. 267 00:21:13,382 --> 00:21:14,862 Three or four. 268 00:21:19,702 --> 00:21:20,862 Richard. 269 00:21:29,822 --> 00:21:31,342 Go to the King at Greenwich. 270 00:21:33,182 --> 00:21:34,542 He'll be expecting you. 271 00:21:36,462 --> 00:21:38,702 Trust your message to no one. 272 00:21:43,302 --> 00:21:45,302 Put the word in his ear yourself. 273 00:22:25,702 --> 00:22:26,862 Ed. 274 00:22:28,222 --> 00:22:30,342 Tell Henry Norris to return from the field. 275 00:22:58,742 --> 00:23:00,062 Ride with me, Harry. 276 00:23:01,342 --> 00:23:02,662 Where to, my lord? 277 00:23:03,942 --> 00:23:05,302 Let's talk, you and I. 278 00:23:20,742 --> 00:23:22,022 Cromwell. 279 00:23:24,582 --> 00:23:26,902 I hear the singer sang to your tune. 280 00:23:26,982 --> 00:23:28,582 What did you do to him? 281 00:23:29,182 --> 00:23:31,222 There's a pretty ballad for you. 282 00:23:32,342 --> 00:23:34,422 The King fingers his lute 283 00:23:34,502 --> 00:23:36,542 while his lutenist fingers his wife. 284 00:23:39,382 --> 00:23:41,462 You have the warrant, my lord? 285 00:23:42,262 --> 00:23:44,582 Perhaps this will teach Henry to listen to me. 286 00:24:48,662 --> 00:24:49,662 Uncle. 287 00:24:53,542 --> 00:24:54,862 Lord Chancellor. 288 00:24:57,942 --> 00:24:59,222 Master Treasurer. 289 00:25:04,022 --> 00:25:05,102 And Cromwell. 290 00:25:08,582 --> 00:25:09,982 The man I created. 291 00:25:10,782 --> 00:25:12,702 He created you, in turn, madam. 292 00:25:13,822 --> 00:25:15,662 And be sure he repents of it. 293 00:25:17,222 --> 00:25:18,902 Oh, but I was sorry first. 294 00:25:23,542 --> 00:25:25,062 And I am sorry more. 295 00:25:29,142 --> 00:25:30,262 Ready to go? 296 00:25:33,422 --> 00:25:35,022 I don't know how to be ready. 297 00:25:45,782 --> 00:25:46,822 Just come with us. 298 00:27:12,302 --> 00:27:13,982 I'm to blame. 299 00:27:14,542 --> 00:27:17,462 I suspected her, and did nothing. 300 00:27:18,342 --> 00:27:19,582 I... 301 00:27:20,102 --> 00:27:23,022 I never had a better opinion in a woman than I had in her. 302 00:27:25,302 --> 00:27:27,182 I can't believe she's guilty. 303 00:27:29,182 --> 00:27:33,022 Except, I know your highness would never go so far if she weren't. 304 00:27:33,742 --> 00:27:35,622 She deceived all of us. 305 00:27:36,982 --> 00:27:39,102 When I look back, it all falls into place. 306 00:27:40,222 --> 00:27:42,462 So many friends lost, 307 00:27:43,742 --> 00:27:45,142 alienated. 308 00:27:46,102 --> 00:27:47,462 Worse... 309 00:27:49,222 --> 00:27:50,942 When I think of Wolsey. 310 00:27:53,022 --> 00:27:54,942 The way she practised against him. 311 00:28:01,342 --> 00:28:03,062 She said she loved me, 312 00:28:05,342 --> 00:28:07,022 but she meant the opposite. 313 00:28:12,582 --> 00:28:14,382 I've written a play. 314 00:28:20,862 --> 00:28:21,982 A tragedy. 315 00:28:25,062 --> 00:28:26,222 My own story. 316 00:28:26,862 --> 00:28:29,902 You should keep it, sir, till we have more leisure to do it justice. 317 00:28:29,982 --> 00:28:31,902 But I want you to see her true nature. 318 00:28:32,702 --> 00:28:35,382 I believe she has committed adultery with a hundred men. 319 00:28:36,222 --> 00:28:37,622 But her brother... 320 00:28:39,382 --> 00:28:41,742 Is it likely? - Well, I doubt she could resist. 321 00:28:43,662 --> 00:28:44,942 Why spare? 322 00:28:45,622 --> 00:28:48,062 Why not drink the cup to its filthy dregs? 323 00:29:12,182 --> 00:29:15,262 Count Wolsey, we are fetching you to hell 324 00:29:15,342 --> 00:29:19,462 where our master Beelzebub is expecting you to suffer! 325 00:29:22,982 --> 00:29:25,902 Beelzebub will have you joint his venison. 326 00:29:25,982 --> 00:29:27,942 He's heard of your skill as a butcher! 327 00:30:28,342 --> 00:30:29,702 I know why I'm here. 328 00:30:30,982 --> 00:30:32,102 My wife. 329 00:30:33,742 --> 00:30:35,142 What has she said? 330 00:30:36,902 --> 00:30:40,022 Whatever it is, you can't hold me on the word of one woman. 331 00:30:40,102 --> 00:30:42,902 Well, there have been other women who've been recipients 332 00:30:42,982 --> 00:30:45,182 of your gallantry, George. 333 00:30:46,502 --> 00:30:48,742 You've always regarded women as disposable. 334 00:30:51,782 --> 00:30:53,422 What... 335 00:30:54,302 --> 00:30:56,462 You're going to put me on trial for gallantry? 336 00:30:57,702 --> 00:30:59,902 I didn't know it was a crime to spend time with a willing lover. 337 00:31:01,182 --> 00:31:03,182 It is when that lover is your sister. 338 00:31:07,262 --> 00:31:10,542 My family has served the King of England for generations. 339 00:31:10,622 --> 00:31:13,662 I have been at the side of Henry since I was a boy. 340 00:31:13,742 --> 00:31:16,062 I love him like a brother. I would never forget my honour. 341 00:31:16,142 --> 00:31:17,382 Never. 342 00:31:17,462 --> 00:31:19,782 Do you want me to write it on the wall for you, Norris? 343 00:31:21,822 --> 00:31:24,982 She can't give him a son. He wants another wife. 344 00:31:25,822 --> 00:31:27,542 She won't go quietly. 345 00:31:28,182 --> 00:31:30,822 Is that simple enough for your simple tastes? 346 00:31:31,502 --> 00:31:34,502 She has to be pushed. I have to push her. 347 00:31:37,182 --> 00:31:40,062 Well, you'll get no confession from me, 348 00:31:40,142 --> 00:31:41,982 or Brereton either. 349 00:31:45,142 --> 00:31:46,862 You'll not torture gentlemen. 350 00:31:47,342 --> 00:31:48,862 The King wouldn't permit it. 351 00:31:49,462 --> 00:31:50,742 Well... 352 00:31:52,622 --> 00:31:55,582 They don't have to be formal arrangements. 353 00:31:57,742 --> 00:32:00,182 I could put my thumbs in your eyes, 354 00:32:00,862 --> 00:32:04,342 and then you would sing Green Grows the Holly 355 00:32:04,822 --> 00:32:06,262 if I asked you to. 356 00:32:07,702 --> 00:32:09,022 Huh? 357 00:32:26,742 --> 00:32:27,942 Let's go back. 358 00:32:28,782 --> 00:32:30,462 I remember in the late cardinal's time 359 00:32:30,542 --> 00:32:33,382 one of your household killed a man in a bowls match. 360 00:32:34,222 --> 00:32:36,382 Well, the game can get very heated. 361 00:32:36,462 --> 00:32:38,502 The cardinal thought it was time for a reckoning, 362 00:32:38,582 --> 00:32:40,542 but your family impeded the investigation, 363 00:32:40,622 --> 00:32:43,422 and I ask myself, 'Has anything changed since then?' 364 00:32:43,502 --> 00:32:47,142 John ap Eyton had a quarrel with one your household only recently. 365 00:32:47,222 --> 00:32:49,102 So, that's why I'm here. - Not entirely, 366 00:32:49,182 --> 00:32:51,102 but let's leave aside your adultery with the Queen 367 00:32:51,182 --> 00:32:52,982 and let's concentrate on Eyton. 368 00:32:53,062 --> 00:32:55,262 Blows were exchanged, a man was killed. 369 00:32:55,342 --> 00:32:57,302 Eyton was tried and acquitted, 370 00:32:57,382 --> 00:32:59,662 but you, as you have no respect for the law... 371 00:32:59,742 --> 00:33:01,582 I have every respect... - Don't interrupt me! 372 00:33:01,662 --> 00:33:04,142 ...you have the man abducted and hanged. 373 00:33:04,222 --> 00:33:07,182 You think because it's only one man, it doesn't matter. 374 00:33:07,262 --> 00:33:10,262 You think no one will remember, but I remember. 375 00:33:10,622 --> 00:33:11,982 You think you can do anything 376 00:33:12,062 --> 00:33:14,982 because Norfolk favours you... - The King favours me. 377 00:33:15,062 --> 00:33:16,742 Does he? Does he? 378 00:33:17,182 --> 00:33:19,302 Well, you should complain about your lodgings then, 379 00:33:20,662 --> 00:33:22,182 shouldn't you? 380 00:33:28,462 --> 00:33:31,742 Francis Bryan has been explaining it to me. 381 00:33:33,262 --> 00:33:34,382 Bryan. 382 00:33:36,022 --> 00:33:39,222 Bryan is an enemy of mine. - And I begin to see it. 383 00:33:40,622 --> 00:33:42,782 How a man may hardly know his sister. 384 00:33:43,862 --> 00:33:47,342 She grows up in France. They meet as adults. 385 00:33:48,102 --> 00:33:51,022 She's like him, yet not. She's familiar. 386 00:33:51,862 --> 00:33:54,142 And yet she piques his interest. 387 00:33:55,662 --> 00:34:00,382 One day his brotherly embrace lasts a little longer than usual. 388 00:34:02,102 --> 00:34:03,902 The business proceeds from there. 389 00:34:04,902 --> 00:34:07,782 Perhaps neither of you felt you were doing anything wrong, 390 00:34:08,462 --> 00:34:11,382 until some frontier was crossed. 391 00:34:16,582 --> 00:34:18,142 I refuse to answer this. 392 00:34:20,262 --> 00:34:22,542 Did it begin before her marriage to the King 393 00:34:23,542 --> 00:34:24,942 or afterwards? 394 00:34:27,942 --> 00:34:31,262 Brother George, that must have been a surprise, 395 00:34:31,342 --> 00:34:33,422 rivalry from that quarter. 396 00:34:33,502 --> 00:34:37,182 Though the morality of you gentlemen astonishes me. 397 00:34:40,462 --> 00:34:43,382 I have no opinion on George. - No opinion of incest? 398 00:34:45,102 --> 00:34:48,302 You take it so quietly, I'm forced to think it must be true. 399 00:34:50,222 --> 00:34:52,062 If I said it was, 400 00:34:52,142 --> 00:34:55,142 you'd only accuse me of trying to divert attention away from myself. 401 00:34:59,062 --> 00:35:00,742 You know me too long, Harry. 402 00:35:01,782 --> 00:35:03,142 Oh, I've studied you. 403 00:35:04,582 --> 00:35:06,422 Studied Wolsey before you. 404 00:35:06,502 --> 00:35:09,742 That was politic of you. Such a great servant of the state. 405 00:35:10,742 --> 00:35:13,462 And such a great traitor at the end. 406 00:35:13,542 --> 00:35:17,182 I remember a certain entertainment at court. Do you remember? 407 00:35:18,942 --> 00:35:20,342 A play 408 00:35:20,422 --> 00:35:23,942 in which the late cardinal was set upon by demons 409 00:35:24,022 --> 00:35:25,582 and dragged down into hell. 410 00:35:32,822 --> 00:35:34,142 That's why? 411 00:35:35,542 --> 00:35:36,582 It... 412 00:35:39,302 --> 00:35:40,902 It was a play. 413 00:35:41,582 --> 00:35:43,342 It was a joke. You can't... 414 00:35:45,542 --> 00:35:48,182 You can't seriously... - Life pays you out. 415 00:35:49,182 --> 00:35:51,142 Don't you find? 416 00:35:55,422 --> 00:35:56,942 But Mark Smeaton... 417 00:35:59,662 --> 00:36:01,222 What has he done to you? 418 00:36:01,302 --> 00:36:05,022 Oh, I just don't like the way he looks at me. 419 00:36:08,862 --> 00:36:10,782 I need guilty men, Harry, 420 00:36:12,102 --> 00:36:14,942 so I found men who are guilty, 421 00:36:16,302 --> 00:36:18,742 though not necessarily as charged. 422 00:36:31,982 --> 00:36:33,342 Good morning. 423 00:36:40,942 --> 00:36:42,582 I'm not long married. 424 00:36:44,142 --> 00:36:46,262 I don't know if you know that. I have a son. 425 00:36:46,342 --> 00:36:47,582 Henry... - You have debts 426 00:36:47,662 --> 00:36:49,342 to the tune of a thousand pounds. 427 00:36:50,382 --> 00:36:51,662 Why the devil bring that up? 428 00:36:51,742 --> 00:36:55,102 No one expects a young gallant like yourself to be thrifty. 429 00:36:55,782 --> 00:36:58,742 These debts are more than you can reasonably pay. 430 00:36:58,822 --> 00:37:01,262 So your own extravagance gives people to think, 431 00:37:01,342 --> 00:37:04,262 'What expectations did young Weston have?' 432 00:37:05,982 --> 00:37:08,022 We know the Queen gave you money, 433 00:37:08,102 --> 00:37:10,262 and a thousand pounds is nothing to you 434 00:37:10,342 --> 00:37:14,022 if you hope to marry her after you'd contrived the King's death. 435 00:37:28,862 --> 00:37:32,342 I see how it'll weigh when it's given in evidence. 436 00:37:36,662 --> 00:37:37,822 I've undone myself. 437 00:37:40,422 --> 00:37:42,102 I don't blame you, Cromwell. 438 00:37:45,982 --> 00:37:47,022 It's just... 439 00:37:49,742 --> 00:37:52,222 I thought I had another 20 years. 440 00:37:54,982 --> 00:37:57,942 Well, we know not the hour, do we, Francis? 441 00:38:13,702 --> 00:38:16,582 There's no reason to live, I've lost everything anyway. 442 00:38:16,662 --> 00:38:18,622 I've lost my voice. 443 00:38:23,542 --> 00:38:25,022 Are you finished? 444 00:38:26,062 --> 00:38:27,782 Has he denounced the others? 445 00:38:30,382 --> 00:38:32,262 Do you want us to make him? 446 00:38:32,342 --> 00:38:35,262 What, do you think I'm too soft on young men? 447 00:38:38,902 --> 00:38:40,502 Do you want us to draw up charges? 448 00:38:41,102 --> 00:38:42,582 Yeah, the more the merrier. 449 00:38:44,342 --> 00:38:46,222 Forgive me, I have to piss. 450 00:38:51,822 --> 00:38:54,062 Traitor. - Traitor! 451 00:38:56,062 --> 00:38:57,062 Traitor. 452 00:39:02,262 --> 00:39:03,582 Traitors! 453 00:39:43,542 --> 00:39:45,182 My wife is with her 454 00:39:45,262 --> 00:39:47,822 and her aunt, Lady Shelton. - Hmm. 455 00:39:52,662 --> 00:39:53,822 How is she? 456 00:39:54,622 --> 00:39:56,862 Sometimes crying, sometimes laughing. 457 00:39:58,942 --> 00:40:00,502 There's something she said. 458 00:40:00,582 --> 00:40:04,182 I only mention it because you told me to report everything I heard. 459 00:40:07,462 --> 00:40:08,662 Go on. 460 00:40:09,942 --> 00:40:12,182 When I told her she would stay in the same room 461 00:40:12,262 --> 00:40:14,982 she had before her coronation, she said, 462 00:40:15,662 --> 00:40:17,062 'It's too good for me. 463 00:40:17,902 --> 00:40:19,382 'Jesus have mercy on me.' 464 00:40:22,542 --> 00:40:24,462 She's not worthy, it's because she's guilty. 465 00:40:26,902 --> 00:40:28,822 What is it she's done? 466 00:40:30,942 --> 00:40:33,142 Is it something we haven't even imagined yet? 467 00:41:00,062 --> 00:41:01,742 Would you like your furs brought in? 468 00:41:04,302 --> 00:41:05,342 The ermine. 469 00:41:06,142 --> 00:41:07,982 And I don't want these women. I want my own women. 470 00:41:09,142 --> 00:41:10,902 Lady Kingston is... - Your spy. 471 00:41:11,502 --> 00:41:12,622 Your hostess. 472 00:41:14,342 --> 00:41:15,422 Am I a guest then? 473 00:41:16,702 --> 00:41:18,342 Am I free to go? 474 00:41:18,422 --> 00:41:20,382 I didn't think you'd object to your own aunt. 475 00:41:22,182 --> 00:41:23,542 She has a grudge against me. 476 00:41:24,462 --> 00:41:25,942 All I hear is tutting. 477 00:41:26,022 --> 00:41:27,262 Do you expect applause? 478 00:41:27,342 --> 00:41:29,622 You won't speak to me that way after I'm released. 479 00:41:33,182 --> 00:41:34,942 I don't know why the King's holding me here. 480 00:41:36,822 --> 00:41:40,382 I suppose it's some sort of test, isn't it? 481 00:41:49,582 --> 00:41:51,462 I want to see my brother. 482 00:41:51,542 --> 00:41:53,342 That's a foolish demand in the circumstances. 483 00:41:56,742 --> 00:41:58,982 My father. - Oh, don't expect help there. 484 00:41:59,502 --> 00:42:02,262 Thomas Boleyn looks after himself first and last. 485 00:42:02,782 --> 00:42:03,782 I should know, he's my brother. 486 00:42:15,262 --> 00:42:16,342 Help the King. 487 00:42:18,382 --> 00:42:22,142 Unless he's merciful, there's nothing you can do for yourself. 488 00:42:23,222 --> 00:42:25,022 But you can do something for your daughter. 489 00:42:26,582 --> 00:42:27,702 For Elizabeth. 490 00:42:29,182 --> 00:42:32,382 The more penitent you show yourself through this whole process... 491 00:42:32,462 --> 00:42:33,862 The process. 492 00:42:35,502 --> 00:42:36,862 And what is this process to be? 493 00:42:38,862 --> 00:42:41,422 The confessions of the gentlemen are now being compiled. 494 00:42:41,502 --> 00:42:42,542 What? 495 00:42:42,782 --> 00:42:43,822 You heard him. 496 00:42:44,582 --> 00:42:45,782 They'll not lie for you. 497 00:42:47,102 --> 00:42:48,782 The gentlemen are to be tried together. 498 00:42:48,862 --> 00:42:52,502 You and your brother, being ennobled, are to be judged by your peers. 499 00:42:53,622 --> 00:42:54,862 You have no witnesses. 500 00:42:59,302 --> 00:43:01,702 When you were at liberty, madam, 501 00:43:01,782 --> 00:43:03,702 your ladies were intimidated by you, 502 00:43:04,302 --> 00:43:05,502 forced to lie for you. 503 00:43:06,462 --> 00:43:08,142 Now they are emboldened. 504 00:43:08,662 --> 00:43:10,742 I'm sure they are. 505 00:43:10,822 --> 00:43:12,742 The way Seymour is emboldened. 506 00:43:14,382 --> 00:43:17,182 Tell her for me, God sees her tricks. 507 00:43:30,822 --> 00:43:33,142 No.Just tell me. 508 00:43:34,462 --> 00:43:36,102 You don't believe these stories against me, do you? 509 00:43:39,182 --> 00:43:40,462 I know in your heart you don't. 510 00:43:43,342 --> 00:43:44,382 Do you, Cromwell? 511 00:44:03,942 --> 00:44:05,142 I only have a little neck. 512 00:44:08,422 --> 00:44:09,822 So it will be the work of a moment. 513 00:45:21,902 --> 00:45:23,342 You said when the King was dead, 514 00:45:23,422 --> 00:45:25,942 you would choose one of these men to be your husband. 515 00:45:26,942 --> 00:45:30,262 But you can't say which yet. Did you say that? 516 00:45:32,862 --> 00:45:34,222 You must answer aloud. 517 00:45:38,502 --> 00:45:39,542 No. 518 00:45:43,702 --> 00:45:44,942 Read me your charges. 519 00:45:46,382 --> 00:45:48,022 Put them to me, one by one. 520 00:45:49,542 --> 00:45:51,422 The places, the dates. 521 00:45:53,062 --> 00:45:54,302 I'll confound you. 522 00:45:56,902 --> 00:46:00,462 Did you not affirm that you could never love the King in your heart? 523 00:46:01,942 --> 00:46:03,302 No. 524 00:46:03,382 --> 00:46:07,462 Did you not at various times and places, by kissing, touchings 525 00:46:08,222 --> 00:46:10,342 and other infamous incitations, 526 00:46:10,422 --> 00:46:13,382 induce Francis Weston to be your concubine? 527 00:46:15,022 --> 00:46:16,422 No. 528 00:46:17,142 --> 00:46:20,022 Did you not make gifts of money to Francis Weston? 529 00:46:29,262 --> 00:46:30,302 Yes. 530 00:46:32,342 --> 00:46:33,342 Silence. 531 00:46:34,462 --> 00:46:35,622 Silence! 532 00:46:38,062 --> 00:46:41,102 On this page are words 533 00:46:41,182 --> 00:46:43,742 the Queen is said to have spoken to you, 534 00:46:43,822 --> 00:46:46,582 and which in turn you passed on. Do not read them aloud. 535 00:46:47,222 --> 00:46:50,102 Just tell the court, do you recognise them? 536 00:46:56,222 --> 00:46:59,262 'The King cannot copulate with a woman. 537 00:47:00,222 --> 00:47:01,902 'He has neither skill nor vigour.' 538 00:47:13,662 --> 00:47:16,502 I didn't say that. These are not my words. 539 00:47:18,422 --> 00:47:19,662 I don't own them! 540 00:47:20,542 --> 00:47:21,582 You do now. 541 00:47:32,502 --> 00:47:35,222 Having been found unanimously 542 00:47:36,382 --> 00:47:38,382 guilty... 543 00:47:40,822 --> 00:47:42,542 I'll do slaughter! 544 00:47:47,782 --> 00:47:50,302 ...thou shalt be burned here within the Tower, 545 00:47:52,182 --> 00:47:55,822 or else to have thy head smitten off 546 00:47:56,942 --> 00:47:58,302 as the King's pleasure... 547 00:48:03,102 --> 00:48:04,102 What are you talking about? 548 00:48:04,942 --> 00:48:07,062 These fellows say I've got it wrong. 549 00:48:07,462 --> 00:48:09,662 They say I have to say burn only. 550 00:48:10,102 --> 00:48:11,262 The phrasing is the King's 551 00:48:11,342 --> 00:48:13,022 and don't tell me what we can or can't do, 552 00:48:13,102 --> 00:48:14,662 we never tried a queen before. 553 00:48:15,702 --> 00:48:17,702 Finish what you say. - Sit down. 554 00:48:27,462 --> 00:48:28,862 Head smitten off, 555 00:48:30,102 --> 00:48:34,542 as the King's pleasure shall be further known of this matter. 556 00:50:04,342 --> 00:50:05,502 Thank you, Your Majesty. 557 00:50:06,062 --> 00:50:07,062 Your Majesty. 558 00:50:13,582 --> 00:50:14,582 Majesty. 559 00:50:15,982 --> 00:50:16,982 Majesty. 560 00:50:24,022 --> 00:50:25,822 Why does she keep looking up at the Tower? 561 00:50:29,782 --> 00:50:31,622 Because she thinks there's still hope. 562 00:51:20,022 --> 00:51:23,622 So she will not be able to tell me from the other officials. 563 00:51:25,422 --> 00:51:26,782 To save her alarm. 564 00:51:51,102 --> 00:51:52,982 Good Christian people, 565 00:51:55,702 --> 00:51:57,422 I am come hither to die. 566 00:52:00,382 --> 00:52:04,222 For according to the law, and by the law, I am judged to die. 567 00:52:04,742 --> 00:52:06,062 Yeah, I can't hear her. 568 00:52:06,542 --> 00:52:08,342 You think she'd speak up for her last words. 569 00:52:08,422 --> 00:52:09,542 Hmm. 570 00:52:10,742 --> 00:52:12,382 I am come hither to accuse no man, 571 00:52:14,342 --> 00:52:17,822 nor to speak anything of that whereof I am accused and condemned to die. 572 00:52:20,702 --> 00:52:23,222 But I pray God save the King, 573 00:52:24,582 --> 00:52:27,062 and sent him long to reign over you 574 00:52:27,822 --> 00:52:31,182 for a gentler nor more merciful prince was there never. 575 00:52:33,062 --> 00:52:34,542 And to me was he ever good, 576 00:52:35,502 --> 00:52:37,862 a gentle and a sovereign lord. 577 00:52:40,622 --> 00:52:42,782 And if any person will meddle of my cause, 578 00:52:44,142 --> 00:52:45,702 I require them to judge best. 579 00:52:50,142 --> 00:52:51,902 And thus I take my leave of the world 580 00:52:53,542 --> 00:52:54,622 and of you all, 581 00:52:57,022 --> 00:52:59,022 and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. 582 00:53:03,742 --> 00:53:05,142 O Lord have mercy on my soul. 583 00:53:06,782 --> 00:53:08,262 To God I commend my soul. 584 00:53:30,582 --> 00:53:32,382 How will you do it? 585 00:53:33,662 --> 00:53:34,782 She kneels. 586 00:53:35,822 --> 00:53:37,022 There is no block. 587 00:54:19,102 --> 00:54:20,782 O Christ, have mercy. 588 00:54:20,862 --> 00:54:22,582 Jesu receive my soul. 589 00:54:34,982 --> 00:54:39,222 If she is steady, it will be over in a moment. 590 00:54:39,302 --> 00:54:41,702 Between heartbeats, she knows nothing. 591 00:54:44,422 --> 00:54:46,702 If she is steady. 592 00:54:55,222 --> 00:54:56,702 Well, I can answer for her. 593 00:55:27,902 --> 00:55:29,102 Put your arm down. 594 00:55:30,142 --> 00:55:31,302 Put your arm down. 595 00:55:36,542 --> 00:55:37,662 Apportez l'epée. 596 00:55:48,022 --> 00:55:49,822 We do not want men to handle her. 597 00:55:53,422 --> 00:55:55,582 It's a little late for that. 598 00:55:57,662 --> 00:55:58,742 Right. 599 00:55:59,502 --> 00:56:01,622 I'm off to tell the Seymours it's done.