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[ woman breathing heavily,
I was starting to think

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your absence was
from sulking, Robbie.

3
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What, and miss
such a performance?

4
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A puppet is still a puppet,
French prince or not.

5
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Oh, hush now.

6
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Slay him!

7
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A Jesuit missionary
found spreading subversive propaganda.

8
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Whatever the crime,
a grisly fate for any man.

9
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But then a man's fate lies
in his own hands, does it not?

10
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Is this choice of venue to remind me

11
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where my loyalties lie?

12
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A lesser man
might be insulted.

13
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We're under no illusion,
Master Gifford.

14
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The ten years we've kept
the queen of Scots confined

15
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has made her a martyr
to her Catholic supporters.

16
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My Lord Burghley,

17
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the gentleman I spoke of,
Master Gifford.

18
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We also know... another attempt
to rescue her is being devised.

19
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It's details...
we're lacking.

20
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The Catholic League in Europe
is behind this one.

21
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Once her freedom
is secured,

22
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King Philip has pledged
Spain's support to...

23
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assassinate Queen Elizabeth
as a prelude to invasion.

24
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And your role
in this enterprise?

25
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To act as... an intermediary,

26
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to find a means of communication
with the Scottish queen,

27
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seek her approval.

28
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But... your zeal
over her security

29
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has put pay to her...
her contact with foreign powers.

30
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If we were
to be less zealous?

31
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Allow you access to her?

32
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There was a man... who worked as
her page when first she, um...

33
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she sought sanctuary in England.

34
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He has volunteered
to orchestrate her rescue.

35
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His name?

36
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Anthony Babington.

37
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As the noxious humor is released,

38
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the diseased area is purified.

39
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Your pain will ease.

40
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Which humor is out of balance?

41
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The fourth--

42
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his earth melancholy, my lord.

43
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See how dark his blood is?

44
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That signifies the
bile which will...

45
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Oh, yes, yes,
uh... carry on, do.

46
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As for trying to keep
his visit a secret

47
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by hiding him behind
that screen...

48
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They say every tavern in London
is laying bets

49
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on when her betrothal
will be announced.

50
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The Duke of Anjou is
a whey-faced brat half her age.

51
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Such a man can never
capture her hand,

52
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much less her heart.

53
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Oh, she seems
most taken with him.

54
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And later
last evening

55
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when you were, um... indisposed?

56
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It was transparent to everyone,
she was captivated by him.

57
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She talks of nothing
but his wit, his intellect.

58
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"My Frog Prince" she calls him,

59
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and his emissary, Simier,
she calls her monkey.

60
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Though I confess
I sometimes wonder

61
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which of the two she prefers.

62
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Precisely her purpose, Christopher--

63
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to keep us all wondering.

64
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The wonder is you
are so witless to fall for it.

65
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The wonder is she's not yet
guessed your own situation.

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Of all people,
you know

67
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how she feels
about such subterfuge

68
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and the depth of her rage
should she discover it.

69
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Let us hope
your noxious humor

70
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will soon
be cured, my lord,

71
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for all our sakes.

72
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Sir Francis Drake began his passage here.

73
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From Plymouth,
he sailed thus southwards.

74
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Here Sir Francis
faced his first challenge,

75
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the mutiny
of his crew.

76
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But instead of punishing them,
he offered them their release.

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Not a single man
left his side-- not one.

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More pity for Spain
and the treasures you stole

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from her colonies,
my lord.

80
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Sir Francis is known for
his entrepreneurial spirit.

81
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And at such a distance,
what could a poor queen do?

82
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A mouse!

83
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God's wounds!

84
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Don't just stand there!

85
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Dispatch it!

86
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For the queen, kill the beast!

87
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Kill him!

88
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Um... Babington's letter
to the, um, queen of Scots.

89
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Y-You can't say that
I don't deliver, sir.

90
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How long to decipher
the code?

91
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As long as it takes,
sir, as always.

92
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Do not fail me, Master Gifford.

93
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I cannot concentrate
while being watched, sir.

94
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Privacy, please.

95
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Good morning, sir.

96
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Go. Go!

97
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Do something, you jolt heads!

98
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Dispatch it!

99
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Kill it, I say!

100
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Marriage to Anjou is the only option.

101
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How else do we halt Spain's
supremacy in the region?

102
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They've already annexed
Portugal.

103
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Is England to be next?

104
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If you know
of a better protection

105
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than an alliance with France,
my lord, name it.

106
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A treaty.

107
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Treaties can be reneged upon.

108
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The match ensures our security

109
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and the succession
in one stroke.

110
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And if nothing else,
puts pay to the vile rumors

111
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that I am barren born.

112
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It has taken us years
of negotiation

113
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to get this far
with the duke, my lord.

114
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Do not undermine that now,
for God's sake.

115
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Marriage will make the Papal menace

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vanish in a puff of smoke.

117
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War with Spain will be averted
and the Catholics here appeased.

118
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The war
will come to us

119
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if people get wind
of such a union.

120
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They'd rather take on Spain
with their bare hands

121
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than be subsumed to France.

122
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Enough, my lords.

123
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Pick up the pace!

124
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Our dinner is escaping.

125
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If I could have a moment,
Your Majesty.

126
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The draft of my
Act of Association

127
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for your approval,
Your Majesty.

128
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Parliament are waiting
for your response to ratify it.

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"Any claimant
or their associates

130
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"conspiring to seize the throne

131
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shall forfeit
all right of succession."

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And their life.

133
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We all witnessed
your distress

134
00:12:29,783 --> 00:12:32,475
over the signing of
the Duke of Norfolk's death warrant.

135
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This act absolves you
of all such onerous responsibility.

136
00:12:35,789 --> 00:12:38,240
You will simply be
adhering to the law,

137
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discharging your
responsibility to the state and letting us...

138
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I am not so obtuse

139
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I cannot grasp the
implications, Sir Francis.

140
00:12:46,041 --> 00:12:47,663
And if the claimant is ignorant

141
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of any conspiracy
on their behalf?

142
00:12:49,838 --> 00:12:50,804
On that count,

143
00:12:50,839 --> 00:12:52,979
my sister could have sent me
to the scaffold.

144
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As your heir,
the queen of Scots,

145
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would do the same
given the opportunity.

146
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And the blood she would shed
would not be yours alone.

147
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Her ambition to make
England Catholic once more

148
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will engulf your people
in a civil war more catastrophic

149
00:13:05,508 --> 00:13:07,752
than anything your sister
ever inflicted on us.

150
00:13:12,550 --> 00:13:14,966
The physician awaits,
Your Majesty.

151
00:13:15,001 --> 00:13:16,623
Amend it.

152
00:13:16,657 --> 00:13:19,281
Claimant
must have knowledge

153
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of any conspiracy
on their behalf.

154
00:13:21,490 --> 00:13:24,631
Proven knowledge, Sir Francis.

155
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My signature
is contingent on that.

156
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As you know,
Your Grace,

157
00:14:00,425 --> 00:14:03,118
the purpose of
my examination is

158
00:14:03,152 --> 00:14:06,017
to ascertain
whether there is any physical impediment

159
00:14:06,052 --> 00:14:07,363
to your
bearing a child.

160
00:14:07,398 --> 00:14:10,884
I'm afraid it requires that I...

161
00:14:13,197 --> 00:14:14,370
Do what you must, sir.

162
00:14:14,405 --> 00:14:15,613
Get it over with!

163
00:15:33,725 --> 00:15:35,520
I can find nothing
to prevent Her Majesty

164
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from bearing a child.

165
00:16:08,484 --> 00:16:11,108
A sublimation code, see?

166
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Every letter of the alphabet
is substituted by another.

167
00:16:14,525 --> 00:16:16,561
These coded symbols?

168
00:16:16,596 --> 00:16:18,770
They denote
the key words.

169
00:16:18,805 --> 00:16:20,945
Some letters occur
with more frequency.

170
00:16:20,980 --> 00:16:21,946
The letter E, for example...

171
00:16:21,981 --> 00:16:24,638
But the content, sir!

172
00:16:24,673 --> 00:16:27,538
Does Babington lay out
the details of their conspiracy?

173
00:16:36,892 --> 00:16:38,307
Is it sufficient?

174
00:16:39,550 --> 00:16:43,657
"Proven knowledge" is
what Her Majesty demanded.

175
00:16:43,692 --> 00:16:46,591
For that we need
the queen of Scots' response.

176
00:16:48,455 --> 00:16:51,734
All shall come
to he who waits, Master Phelippes.

177
00:16:55,324 --> 00:16:56,912
Excusez-moi, monsieur.

178
00:16:56,946 --> 00:16:57,913
Viens, viens!

179
00:16:57,947 --> 00:16:58,948
Viens!

180
00:17:00,088 --> 00:17:01,675
The Earl of Leicester?

181
00:17:01,710 --> 00:17:03,194
They are close,
are they not?

182
00:17:03,229 --> 00:17:04,851
How close?

183
00:17:04,885 --> 00:17:05,921
Dis-moi.

184
00:17:05,955 --> 00:17:08,130
That is the queen's
private business, sir.

185
00:17:08,165 --> 00:17:09,890
We are not permitted
to discuss such things

186
00:17:09,925 --> 00:17:10,926
out of the bedchamber.

187
00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,825
Then let us find
the bedchamber, hein?

188
00:17:15,310 --> 00:17:17,105
I can tell you something...

189
00:17:17,139 --> 00:17:18,589
but I can't
tell you here.

190
00:17:18,623 --> 00:17:19,590
I see.

191
00:17:19,624 --> 00:17:20,763
Bien!

192
00:17:22,041 --> 00:17:23,801
The Earl of Leicester

193
00:17:23,835 --> 00:17:26,079
is my most trusted
and loyal friend, sir!

194
00:17:26,114 --> 00:17:27,667
It's a sorry day
that I listen

195
00:17:27,701 --> 00:17:29,324
to the flap-mouthed
venom of others!

196
00:17:29,358 --> 00:17:30,704
That you choose
to indulge in it

197
00:17:30,739 --> 00:17:31,981
does you no credit,
monsieur.

198
00:17:32,016 --> 00:17:33,776
Your Majesty,
he is not worth your loyalty.

199
00:17:33,811 --> 00:17:34,812
Il vous a trahi!

200
00:17:36,124 --> 00:17:37,815
He has betrayed you.

201
00:17:40,404 --> 00:17:42,854
May God strike me down
if I tell a lie!

202
00:17:48,757 --> 00:17:50,310
Who else knows?!

203
00:17:50,345 --> 00:17:52,968
Why was I not told?!

204
00:18:13,057 --> 00:18:14,852
Your audience
with the queen

205
00:18:14,886 --> 00:18:16,371
is delayed,
my lady.

206
00:18:21,548 --> 00:18:23,585
You double-faced toad
of a scullion!

207
00:18:23,619 --> 00:18:25,345
A lying, cheating knave!

208
00:18:25,380 --> 00:18:28,314
A maggot-hearted son
of a mongrel traitor!

209
00:18:28,348 --> 00:18:31,110
My folly was ever
to place my trust in you!

210
00:18:31,144 --> 00:18:34,147
And as if your slyness,
your treachery were not enough,

211
00:18:34,182 --> 00:18:36,701
you dare to deny me the chance
of my own marriage,

212
00:18:36,736 --> 00:18:38,910
while seizing it for yourself
with that she-wolf!

213
00:18:38,945 --> 00:18:40,153
That vixen!

214
00:18:40,188 --> 00:18:43,087
Did I not offer you the chance
of marriage a dozen times?

215
00:18:43,122 --> 00:18:44,640
And a dozen times
you refused me!

216
00:18:44,675 --> 00:18:46,297
And I thank God for my wit
that I did.

217
00:18:46,332 --> 00:18:47,919
For my merciful escape!

218
00:18:47,954 --> 00:18:50,232
You are loathsome to my eyes!

219
00:18:50,267 --> 00:18:53,028
I detest the very
sight of you!

220
00:18:54,167 --> 00:18:55,893
I have mortgaged my life

221
00:18:55,927 --> 00:18:58,551
in the hope that someday
we'd be together.

222
00:18:58,585 --> 00:19:00,000
I have stood by and watched

223
00:19:00,035 --> 00:19:03,038
while others fawn at your feet,
flattering your vanity...

224
00:19:03,072 --> 00:19:05,420
You did not
go empty-handed for your pains!

225
00:19:05,454 --> 00:19:07,905
Well, it was a poor exchange
for an empty bed!

226
00:19:09,113 --> 00:19:11,046
This wretched
vow of virginity

227
00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,429
was your choice, not mine.

228
00:19:15,361 --> 00:19:17,604
This marriage was when?

229
00:19:20,504 --> 00:19:22,506
A year since past.

230
00:19:22,540 --> 00:19:24,922
Was she still in my service

231
00:19:24,956 --> 00:19:26,095
when it began?

232
00:19:27,131 --> 00:19:28,995
After she left, when?

233
00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:32,343
In your service.

234
00:19:35,381 --> 00:19:39,592
It was for comfort, Bess.

235
00:19:39,626 --> 00:19:41,110
It was a diversion.

236
00:19:41,145 --> 00:19:43,596
And when she left my court
to marry Walter Devereux?

237
00:19:43,630 --> 00:19:46,461
Did you still partake
of her comfort?

238
00:19:47,841 --> 00:19:51,086
How fortuitous for you both
he died so suddenly.

239
00:19:54,572 --> 00:19:56,402
Her son, who bears
Devereux's name...

240
00:19:57,334 --> 00:20:00,199
he, too, is called
Robert, is he not?

241
00:20:00,233 --> 00:20:03,719
Does he have dark eyes,
like you?

242
00:20:09,932 --> 00:20:14,351
Such rank insinuation
is unworthy of you, Bess.

243
00:20:15,455 --> 00:20:18,838
The bond we shared
was like no other, Robbie.

244
00:20:20,253 --> 00:20:22,324
You have defiled it.

245
00:20:23,291 --> 00:20:24,292
So what's it to be?

246
00:20:24,326 --> 00:20:25,500
Banishment again, Bess?

247
00:20:25,534 --> 00:20:27,778
Another mission abroad?

248
00:20:29,055 --> 00:20:33,508
Henceforth, if I see you,
I shall not know you.

249
00:20:33,542 --> 00:20:35,786
You are dead to me.

250
00:20:50,456 --> 00:20:53,079
Look on her well,
Lettice.

251
00:20:53,113 --> 00:20:56,738
For there
true loyalty lies.

252
00:20:59,844 --> 00:21:00,983
'Tis a pity

253
00:21:01,018 --> 00:21:03,883
you did not learn
from Kat's example, is it not?

254
00:21:03,917 --> 00:21:05,264
I am heartbroke,

255
00:21:05,298 --> 00:21:10,579
Your Majesty, that we have
so incurred your displeasure.

256
00:21:10,614 --> 00:21:13,237
Alas, we cannot always choose
where love's arrow falls.

257
00:21:13,272 --> 00:21:17,206
Such sentimental claptrap
finds no favor with me, madam.

258
00:21:17,241 --> 00:21:18,380
Get up!

259
00:21:24,352 --> 00:21:25,732
Imported silk?

260
00:21:25,767 --> 00:21:27,803
It's from France.

261
00:21:27,838 --> 00:21:32,636
The color is too
vulgar for my taste.

262
00:21:32,670 --> 00:21:33,637
Gold?

263
00:21:35,535 --> 00:21:38,297
I am told you also run
a lavish household--

264
00:21:38,331 --> 00:21:42,887
a retinue of staff,
glittering soirees, hunting parties...

265
00:21:42,922 --> 00:21:45,580
for all the world,
a queen holding court.

266
00:21:46,719 --> 00:21:48,893
I must occupy myself somehow,

267
00:21:48,928 --> 00:21:52,172
whilst my husband attends you,

268
00:21:52,207 --> 00:21:53,346
Your Grace.

269
00:21:54,727 --> 00:21:57,350
Then I have some
cheerful news for you.

270
00:21:57,385 --> 00:22:00,836
His attendance on me
is no longer required.

271
00:22:00,871 --> 00:22:04,046
All gifts, gratuities
and monopolies

272
00:22:04,081 --> 00:22:05,807
shall cease forthwith.

273
00:22:05,841 --> 00:22:08,050
Along with his salary.

274
00:22:09,707 --> 00:22:12,779
You must learn to live
within your means, Lettice.

275
00:22:12,814 --> 00:22:14,505
Cut your cloth.

276
00:22:14,540 --> 00:22:16,990
Though I doubt
it will be imported now.

277
00:22:19,993 --> 00:22:21,719
Do you remember
those many years ago,

278
00:22:21,754 --> 00:22:23,928
when my sister held us
at the Tower?

279
00:22:23,963 --> 00:22:27,760
Those long nights,
hearing the lions roar?

280
00:22:27,794 --> 00:22:29,106
The screams
from the rack?

281
00:22:29,140 --> 00:22:32,074
Stench of death
in our nostrils?

282
00:22:33,282 --> 00:22:34,663
Come into my presence again

283
00:22:34,698 --> 00:22:37,321
and I shall
fetch you back there!

284
00:23:06,385 --> 00:23:07,627
Go!

285
00:23:08,594 --> 00:23:09,664
Go!

286
00:23:27,958 --> 00:23:29,304
Trounced again!

287
00:23:29,338 --> 00:23:31,202
How does she do it!

288
00:23:31,237 --> 00:23:34,758
They say chess is
the gymnasium of the mind, my lord.

289
00:23:34,792 --> 00:23:37,830
Such a mind.

290
00:23:37,864 --> 00:23:39,279
Such a body.

291
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,386
You are indeed
heaven sent.

292
00:23:51,568 --> 00:23:53,604
My lord Leicester
is taken ill, Your Grace.

293
00:23:53,639 --> 00:23:56,780
He hopes that you
might attend him.

294
00:23:56,814 --> 00:23:58,367
How many times has
he feigned illness

295
00:23:58,402 --> 00:23:59,472
to get my attention?

296
00:23:59,507 --> 00:24:01,198
How many times
have I run to him?

297
00:24:01,232 --> 00:24:03,131
I'm done with
his trickery.

298
00:24:03,165 --> 00:24:05,029
Tell him to pack
his bags-- begone!

299
00:24:24,117 --> 00:24:25,084
Bess.

300
00:24:25,118 --> 00:24:26,361
Thank God.

301
00:24:26,395 --> 00:24:28,397
What, no fever?

302
00:24:28,432 --> 00:24:30,883
Was that beyond
your contrivance?

303
00:24:30,917 --> 00:24:33,748
Your melodramatics
are always entertaining, my lord.

304
00:24:33,782 --> 00:24:35,370
They lighten even
the dullest day.

305
00:24:38,062 --> 00:24:42,481
I know that companionship
of the flesh...

306
00:24:42,515 --> 00:24:46,415
is a poor substitute for
what we both share, Bess.

307
00:24:47,451 --> 00:24:49,798
I am but a man, after all.

308
00:24:49,833 --> 00:24:53,595
That it had to be her
is what cuts.

309
00:24:53,630 --> 00:24:56,391
Be thankful
it was her.

310
00:24:56,425 --> 00:24:59,118
In exchange for privileges,

311
00:24:59,152 --> 00:25:01,810
she has settled
for a loveless marriage.

312
00:25:02,777 --> 00:25:05,952
My heart lies elsewhere,
and we both know it.

313
00:25:10,474 --> 00:25:11,820
Now tell me...

314
00:25:13,339 --> 00:25:15,065
is it truly
your will

315
00:25:15,099 --> 00:25:17,999
to wed your Frog prince, Bess?

316
00:25:18,033 --> 00:25:19,103
Hmm?

317
00:25:19,138 --> 00:25:20,898
You asked for your penance.

318
00:25:20,933 --> 00:25:22,624
That is it, Robbie.

319
00:25:22,659 --> 00:25:24,799
For marry him I shall now.

320
00:25:28,906 --> 00:25:31,668
And I do it for an heir.

321
00:25:31,702 --> 00:25:33,083
A child.

322
00:25:34,774 --> 00:25:37,881
I am of an age now
when the idea of that...

323
00:25:41,850 --> 00:25:44,128
You have malingered
long enough, my lord.

324
00:25:44,163 --> 00:25:46,510
You have duties at court.

325
00:25:46,545 --> 00:25:49,340
It was a poor show
this time, Robbie.

326
00:25:49,375 --> 00:25:51,964
Not up to your
usual performance.

327
00:26:48,676 --> 00:26:49,642
Yes!

328
00:27:07,833 --> 00:27:08,834
Your Majesty!

329
00:27:12,665 --> 00:27:17,014
"By one John Stubbs of Norfolk,
the Discovery of a Gaping Gulf

330
00:27:17,049 --> 00:27:20,535
"whereunto England is like to be
swallowed by a French marriage.

331
00:27:20,569 --> 00:27:23,193
"Let all true subjects know

332
00:27:23,227 --> 00:27:25,402
the queen is being led
as a lamb to the slaughter..."

333
00:27:25,436 --> 00:27:28,785
"...in this disastrous union with the Duke of Anjou.

334
00:27:28,819 --> 00:27:31,684
"How can Her Majesty surrender
her virginity to a foreigner,

335
00:27:31,719 --> 00:27:37,069
"and a Catholic--
be subject to his influence?

336
00:27:37,103 --> 00:27:39,450
"Has she forgotten the bloody
legacy of her sister

337
00:27:39,485 --> 00:27:41,590
"from such a match?

338
00:27:41,625 --> 00:27:43,006
"Proof of his deviousness

339
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:47,700
is in his desire to marry
a woman so many years older."

340
00:27:49,288 --> 00:27:51,428
We must double the sentries

341
00:27:51,462 --> 00:27:52,429
in your quarters.

342
00:27:52,463 --> 00:27:54,258
Outside the palace,

343
00:27:54,293 --> 00:27:56,536
an armed guard must accompany
you at all times.

344
00:27:56,571 --> 00:27:57,710
And let
my people think

345
00:27:57,745 --> 00:28:01,334
I have succumbed
to this malicious spleen?!

346
00:28:01,369 --> 00:28:05,304
All copies of this profanity
must be confiscated.

347
00:28:05,338 --> 00:28:09,101
I want this man Stubbs
apprehended, dealt with.

348
00:28:09,135 --> 00:28:10,930
Hostility to your
projected marriage

349
00:28:10,965 --> 00:28:13,381
is not limited to
a handful of miscreants,

350
00:28:13,415 --> 00:28:14,865
Your Grace.

351
00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:17,385
The view is widespread
among your subjects.

352
00:28:17,419 --> 00:28:18,938
And you, gentlemen--

353
00:28:18,973 --> 00:28:24,357
where is the focus of your
opinion now on this matter?

354
00:28:24,392 --> 00:28:26,877
This decision is too weighty
to take alone, my lords.

355
00:28:26,912 --> 00:28:29,397
I must have your counsel
on how I am to proceed.

356
00:28:29,431 --> 00:28:30,709
Advise me!

357
00:28:44,826 --> 00:28:47,070
I cannot wait for that day, Majesty!

358
00:28:47,104 --> 00:28:49,762
I shall live for it!

359
00:29:37,741 --> 00:29:39,985
Let the jewels on my dress

360
00:29:40,019 --> 00:29:41,503
be like a thousand eyes

361
00:29:41,538 --> 00:29:43,643
so that my subjects know,
however distant,

362
00:29:43,678 --> 00:29:45,680
I am always watching out
for them.

363
00:29:47,682 --> 00:29:50,409
And let there be no shadows
on my face and neck,

364
00:29:50,443 --> 00:29:51,962
for they accentuate age.

365
00:29:51,997 --> 00:29:57,347
Immortal is the look
we're after, sir, and virginal.

366
00:29:57,381 --> 00:30:00,557
Divinity if you can
so render it.

367
00:30:00,591 --> 00:30:02,731
My hair must be loose.

368
00:30:02,766 --> 00:30:05,734
Oh, and make much of my hands!

369
00:30:05,769 --> 00:30:07,150
Emphasize their slenderness,

370
00:30:07,184 --> 00:30:10,705
for I am told
they are my best feature.

371
00:30:10,739 --> 00:30:14,191
Henceforth, when my people think
of their queen,

372
00:30:14,226 --> 00:30:16,676
this is the image they must see.

373
00:30:19,472 --> 00:30:20,819
In her reply,

374
00:30:20,853 --> 00:30:23,476
the queen of Scots writes
mainly of her rescue.

375
00:30:23,511 --> 00:30:29,448
On the subject of assassination,
she is more circumspect.

376
00:30:29,482 --> 00:30:33,728
Your proven knowledge might
be hard to prove, sir.

377
00:30:34,763 --> 00:30:36,213
I heard tell,

378
00:30:36,248 --> 00:30:39,561
when Her Majesty was to be sent
to the Tower by her sister,

379
00:30:39,596 --> 00:30:41,632
she wrote begging her for mercy.

380
00:30:41,667 --> 00:30:45,464
In order that no
incriminating postscript

381
00:30:45,498 --> 00:30:49,571
could later be added,
she drew lines thus.

382
00:30:50,469 --> 00:30:54,783
Pity her cousin lacked
such forethought.

383
00:30:56,268 --> 00:30:58,408
Take this down.

384
00:30:58,442 --> 00:31:01,376
"I would be glad
to know..."

385
00:31:01,411 --> 00:31:05,415
Is this to be in...
in her coded letter?

386
00:31:05,449 --> 00:31:10,834
Both the coded letter
and the transcription, Master Phelippes.

387
00:31:12,387 --> 00:31:15,356
"I would be glad
to know the names

388
00:31:15,390 --> 00:31:17,703
"of the six gentlemen

389
00:31:17,737 --> 00:31:21,293
"who are to accomplish the
dispatch of the impostor queen.

390
00:31:21,327 --> 00:31:23,053
"With such knowledge,

391
00:31:23,088 --> 00:31:28,231
I may advise them on how best
to achieve their mission."

392
00:31:28,265 --> 00:31:30,647
As you see,
her postscript is

393
00:31:30,681 --> 00:31:33,684
in response
to Babington's letter.

394
00:31:33,719 --> 00:31:36,929
I took the precaution yesterday
of ordering a search

395
00:31:36,964 --> 00:31:37,999
of her quarters
in Derbyshire.

396
00:31:38,034 --> 00:31:40,760
Texts on cipher codes
were secreted there.

397
00:31:40,795 --> 00:31:45,317
Also drafts of letters
to her agents in Spain.

398
00:31:45,351 --> 00:31:47,802
There is no question
of her culpability.

399
00:31:47,836 --> 00:31:50,322
Mr. Babington and his associates
must be rounded up,

400
00:31:50,356 --> 00:31:51,530
brought to trial.

401
00:31:51,564 --> 00:31:53,359
And the queen of Scots?

402
00:31:54,774 --> 00:31:56,535
If my cousin confesses
her guilt,

403
00:31:56,569 --> 00:31:58,364
vows to put an end
to her wretched plotting,

404
00:31:58,399 --> 00:31:59,918
she will yet be pardoned.

405
00:31:59,952 --> 00:32:02,679
The new statute
of association dictates

406
00:32:02,713 --> 00:32:05,475
that, as claimant
and chief conspirator,

407
00:32:05,509 --> 00:32:07,649
she, too, must be
brought to trial.

408
00:32:07,684 --> 00:32:08,927
Your Majesty,
that is the law now.

409
00:32:08,961 --> 00:32:10,825
How prescient you were
in that legislation,

410
00:32:10,859 --> 00:32:11,860
Sir Francis.

411
00:32:11,895 --> 00:32:14,173
I see now
I underestimated you in that regard.

412
00:32:14,208 --> 00:32:15,726
I will not make
the same mistake again.

413
00:32:15,761 --> 00:32:19,696
My lords, you shall attend
the proceedings on my behalf.

414
00:32:19,730 --> 00:32:22,181
Remember the eyes
of the world behold

415
00:32:22,216 --> 00:32:26,427
the actions of us princes...
and judge us accordingly.

416
00:32:30,258 --> 00:32:33,572
Cousin, you have in various ways and means

417
00:32:33,606 --> 00:32:34,987
attempted to take my life

418
00:32:35,022 --> 00:32:37,990
and bring my kingdom
to destruction by bloodshed.

419
00:32:38,025 --> 00:32:40,924
These treasons have been
proved against Babington,

420
00:32:40,959 --> 00:32:42,477
and your fellow conspirators

421
00:32:42,512 --> 00:32:44,100
have been punished
for their actions.

422
00:32:44,134 --> 00:32:47,966
It is my command that you
answer the peers of my kingdom

423
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,864
as if I myself were present.

424
00:32:49,898 --> 00:32:54,041
Act honestly, cousin, and you might yet obtain my favor."

425
00:32:54,075 --> 00:32:58,355
Thirty noblemen commissioned as judges arranged thus.

426
00:32:58,390 --> 00:33:00,979
Move. Come on.

427
00:33:05,466 --> 00:33:06,812
Put that there

428
00:33:06,846 --> 00:33:09,332
to signify the presence
of the queen, though absent.

429
00:33:09,366 --> 00:33:11,092
And the queen of Scots?

430
00:33:11,127 --> 00:33:15,821
If... if we place her adjacent,
that makes her an equal.

431
00:33:15,855 --> 00:33:19,169
She goes there,
where we can read her face.

432
00:33:19,204 --> 00:33:22,000
No, could you...

433
00:33:22,034 --> 00:33:24,243
Get this damn dog
out of here!

434
00:33:24,278 --> 00:33:26,694
We need chairs
here and here.

435
00:33:36,117 --> 00:33:42,192
I repudiate the legality of these proceedings against me.

436
00:33:42,227 --> 00:33:44,677
Like you, as a queen,

437
00:33:44,712 --> 00:33:49,130
I am subject
only to God's jurisdiction.

438
00:33:49,165 --> 00:33:51,822
The evidence against me
is forgery.

439
00:33:51,857 --> 00:33:54,756
I know nothing
of this man Babington

440
00:33:54,791 --> 00:33:57,656
nor ever exchanged letters
with him.

441
00:33:57,690 --> 00:34:03,075
I declare I would rather
shipwreck my soul

442
00:34:03,110 --> 00:34:05,284
than seek your death.

443
00:34:11,187 --> 00:34:16,571
She is tireless in her wretched protestations of innocence.

444
00:34:16,606 --> 00:34:18,573
I fear she is intent

445
00:34:18,608 --> 00:34:21,404
on treating her trial
as a theater,

446
00:34:21,438 --> 00:34:23,992
where she plays
the innocent martyr

447
00:34:24,027 --> 00:34:27,513
unjustly accused
by her heretic sister queen,

448
00:34:27,548 --> 00:34:31,103
thus hoping to inspire
her Catholic supporters

449
00:34:31,138 --> 00:34:35,349
to rise against you...
so destroy you after all.

450
00:34:38,145 --> 00:34:40,699
Your commissioners have

451
00:34:40,733 --> 00:34:43,115
reached a verdict,
Your Majesty.

452
00:34:43,150 --> 00:34:47,154
The queen of Scots
is found guilty on the charge of treason

453
00:34:47,188 --> 00:34:49,708
and of conspiring
in your assassination.

454
00:34:49,742 --> 00:34:53,056
As you know,
the penalty for such an offense is...

455
00:34:53,091 --> 00:34:55,231
Death.

456
00:35:00,028 --> 00:35:03,756
We two were milkmaids
with pails upon our arms,

457
00:35:03,791 --> 00:35:06,621
and this matter was
just between us.

458
00:35:06,656 --> 00:35:08,658
Even knowing
she had sought my death,

459
00:35:08,692 --> 00:35:10,591
I would never consent to hers.

460
00:35:12,489 --> 00:35:15,527
But as I carry the burden
of my nation's welfare,

461
00:35:15,561 --> 00:35:17,287
I must demand her blood.

462
00:35:17,322 --> 00:35:23,466
Her coconspirators were hung,
drawn and quartered, Your Grace.

463
00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:27,953
Anything less than her death
will reek of nepotism.

464
00:35:27,987 --> 00:35:33,993
Or worse, of a vengeful queen
expunging a rival heir.

465
00:35:34,028 --> 00:35:38,515
And her execution could yet
send a clarion call to Spain

466
00:35:38,550 --> 00:35:43,313
to make good their threat,
send their armada against us.

467
00:35:52,426 --> 00:35:55,083
Be warned, cousin.

468
00:35:55,118 --> 00:35:57,293
One day, you will be held

469
00:35:57,327 --> 00:36:01,159
to account for
your unjust treatment of me,

470
00:36:01,193 --> 00:36:06,509
for my blood and the misery
I have endured at your hands

471
00:36:06,543 --> 00:36:10,892
will be remembered by
every Catholic in your kingdom

472
00:36:10,927 --> 00:36:12,687
and in Europe.

473
00:36:12,722 --> 00:36:17,658
They will cross the water
and avenge my death.

474
00:36:17,692 --> 00:36:21,075
The blood on your hands
will stain your kingdom

475
00:36:21,109 --> 00:36:23,353
for centuries to come.

476
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,137
Why cannot some other method
be found?

477
00:36:49,172 --> 00:36:50,173
Poison or...

478
00:36:50,208 --> 00:36:51,933
You think if your hand
is unseen,

479
00:36:51,968 --> 00:36:53,694
God will be more lenient
on you?

480
00:36:53,728 --> 00:36:55,247
My enemies might.

481
00:36:55,282 --> 00:36:56,869
Spain, to name but one.

482
00:36:56,904 --> 00:37:01,529
You make such a play that, as
queens, you and she are alike.

483
00:37:01,564 --> 00:37:04,636
Is it not in how
you discharge that duty

484
00:37:04,670 --> 00:37:07,155
where the difference lies?

485
00:37:07,190 --> 00:37:10,193
She has always let
her heart rule her head,

486
00:37:10,228 --> 00:37:12,609
put passion
before politic need.

487
00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:20,445
If you shrink before
this duty now, Bess,

488
00:37:20,479 --> 00:37:24,932
then indeed you risk the
accusation that you are alike.

489
00:37:24,966 --> 00:37:27,900
As a woman, you were just
not equal to the task.

490
00:37:47,989 --> 00:37:50,302
She will sign the death warrant.

491
00:38:51,363 --> 00:38:54,815
Oh, God in Heaven, forgive me!

492
00:38:54,849 --> 00:38:56,679
What have I done?

493
00:39:49,456 --> 00:39:52,459
I was bound for France to collect salt,

494
00:39:52,493 --> 00:39:55,496
and there was
the Spanish fleet.

495
00:39:55,531 --> 00:39:57,947
130 galleons, I counted.

496
00:39:57,981 --> 00:40:02,848
Like a vast floating city, they
were, in half-moon formation,

497
00:40:02,883 --> 00:40:05,541
stretching
near ten miles across.

498
00:40:05,575 --> 00:40:08,026
The masts and prows
of such height, Your Majesty,

499
00:40:08,060 --> 00:40:12,444
such might, it seems
they wiped out the very sky.

500
00:40:12,479 --> 00:40:15,102
The ocean groaning
under their weight.

501
00:40:15,136 --> 00:40:16,414
The beacons are lit.

502
00:40:16,448 --> 00:40:17,484
They are sighted

503
00:40:17,518 --> 00:40:18,554
off the
Cornish coast.

504
00:40:18,588 --> 00:40:19,693
Heading which way?

505
00:40:19,727 --> 00:40:21,384
Northeast, if my
intelligence is sound,

506
00:40:21,419 --> 00:40:22,696
to anchor off Calais,

507
00:40:22,730 --> 00:40:24,767
wait for the second force
to embark from Flanders here

508
00:40:24,801 --> 00:40:25,975
and join them.

509
00:40:27,459 --> 00:40:30,358
Then it begins.

510
00:40:31,946 --> 00:40:33,500
Their soldiers are professional,

511
00:40:33,534 --> 00:40:34,432
expertly trained.

512
00:40:34,466 --> 00:40:35,467
If they get
to the channel,

513
00:40:35,502 --> 00:40:36,468
they'll sweep
through Kent,

514
00:40:36,503 --> 00:40:37,745
crush London
within a week.

515
00:40:37,780 --> 00:40:39,298
No mongrel of a Spaniard
shall get through, sir,

516
00:40:39,333 --> 00:40:40,472
not while I have breath!

517
00:40:40,507 --> 00:40:42,232
What word from Plymouth?

518
00:40:42,267 --> 00:40:44,027
Drake and
the western squadron

519
00:40:44,062 --> 00:40:45,650
left under cover
of darkness.

520
00:40:45,684 --> 00:40:47,790
He means to get behind
the Spanish fleet

521
00:40:47,824 --> 00:40:48,998
and attack from the rear.

522
00:40:49,032 --> 00:40:51,414
Well, pray to God the tide stays with them.

523
00:40:51,449 --> 00:40:52,726
News, my lords!

524
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:53,554
I lack news!

525
00:40:53,589 --> 00:40:54,900
Is the Isle of Wight secure?

526
00:40:54,935 --> 00:40:56,523
But barely, Your Grace.

527
00:40:56,557 --> 00:40:58,179
Two galleons are lost to them.

528
00:40:58,214 --> 00:40:59,526
Only two?

529
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:00,734
Then it is stalemate.

530
00:41:00,768 --> 00:41:02,425
Drake's squadron is

531
00:41:02,460 --> 00:41:04,427
even now pursuing them
towards the Straits of Dover.

532
00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:06,187
Without sufficient munitions
for his cannons,

533
00:41:06,222 --> 00:41:07,188
that's all he can do.

534
00:41:07,223 --> 00:41:09,190
And the Flanders fleet?

535
00:41:09,225 --> 00:41:10,640
Holed up by storms.

536
00:41:10,675 --> 00:41:12,021
Let us hope it is

537
00:41:12,055 --> 00:41:15,231
a Protestant wind, my lords,
that keeps blowing for us.

538
00:41:15,265 --> 00:41:18,614
More papal propaganda the
Spanish carry of no interest.

539
00:41:22,065 --> 00:41:25,897
"Incestuous bastard of depraved
courtesan Anne Boleyn,

540
00:41:25,931 --> 00:41:29,797
cursed heretic, shame of
her sex and princely name."

541
00:41:29,832 --> 00:41:31,143
Of no interest indeed.

542
00:41:31,178 --> 00:41:32,904
I fear it may be of interest

543
00:41:32,938 --> 00:41:35,113
to your Catholic subjects,
Your Grace.

544
00:41:35,147 --> 00:41:36,355
Have faith, my lord.

545
00:41:36,390 --> 00:41:38,496
They are English
before they are Catholic.

546
00:42:04,142 --> 00:42:07,248
My God! 'Tis Queen Bess!

547
00:42:07,283 --> 00:42:09,319
My God! 'Tis the queen!

548
00:42:09,354 --> 00:42:11,529
The queen!

549
00:42:45,424 --> 00:42:47,737
God preserve the queen!

550
00:42:47,772 --> 00:42:50,809
God is with us, Your Majesty!

551
00:42:50,844 --> 00:42:54,641
A statement from
one Cardinal Don Pedro,

552
00:42:54,675 --> 00:42:57,782
captured by Drake
on the Rosario.

553
00:42:57,816 --> 00:43:00,716
"Upon our glorious assault
on England,

554
00:43:00,750 --> 00:43:04,616
"all heretics will be whipped
by chains until dead.

555
00:43:04,651 --> 00:43:08,620
"Protestant children under
seven to follow their fathers;

556
00:43:08,655 --> 00:43:09,828
the rest

557
00:43:09,863 --> 00:43:13,280
branded on the forehead
with the letter L for Lutheran."

558
00:43:13,314 --> 00:43:14,971
How very original.

559
00:43:17,664 --> 00:43:20,736
When this is over, you will go
to Buxton, Robbie.

560
00:43:20,770 --> 00:43:22,116
Take the water.

561
00:43:22,151 --> 00:43:25,430
Or I shall
brand you myself!

562
00:43:25,464 --> 00:43:27,846
The L shall not be for Lutheran,

563
00:43:27,881 --> 00:43:29,330
but lunkhead!

564
00:43:45,795 --> 00:43:48,246
The second force is set
to embark from Flanders.

565
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:53,285
Then in the name of God,
listen to reason.

566
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,287
For your own safety,
you must return

567
00:43:55,322 --> 00:43:57,358
to Whitehall.

568
00:43:59,982 --> 00:44:03,054
The trust you put in your people
is worthy, Bess,

569
00:44:03,088 --> 00:44:04,676
but if they turn against you,

570
00:44:04,711 --> 00:44:06,954
there is no protection
for you here.

571
00:44:09,301 --> 00:44:10,958
Or is it a martyr's death
in battle

572
00:44:10,993 --> 00:44:12,166
you hanker for?

573
00:44:12,201 --> 00:44:13,478
And a hero's epitaph?

574
00:44:13,512 --> 00:44:15,894
What greater purpose
to a prince's life

575
00:44:15,929 --> 00:44:17,724
than to teach us how to die?

576
00:44:22,176 --> 00:44:23,695
They say
the queen of Scots

577
00:44:23,730 --> 00:44:27,561
met her death with courage.

578
00:44:27,595 --> 00:44:32,600
Yet it took three strokes
of the ax to dispatch her.

579
00:44:34,257 --> 00:44:36,466
After there was panic,

580
00:44:36,501 --> 00:44:40,850
they thought they still detected
some movement in her.

581
00:44:40,885 --> 00:44:45,752
It was but her wretched dog,
sheltering beneath her skirts.

582
00:44:47,754 --> 00:44:50,860
That was not yet
her final epitaph.

583
00:44:52,034 --> 00:44:54,899
When the executioner lifted up
her severed head,

584
00:44:54,933 --> 00:44:56,417
it fell from his hand.

585
00:44:56,452 --> 00:44:59,006
He was left holding
only her wig.

586
00:45:02,182 --> 00:45:05,910
It's a thin line between respect
and ridicule, is it not?

587
00:45:34,973 --> 00:45:40,876
My loving people, I have always so conducted myself

588
00:45:40,910 --> 00:45:44,534
that, under God,
my strength and safety lies

589
00:45:44,569 --> 00:45:47,952
in the loyal hearts
and goodwill of my subjects.

590
00:45:47,986 --> 00:45:49,677
So I come amongst you...

591
00:45:49,712 --> 00:45:53,509
"I come amongst you at this time, not for my recreation,

592
00:45:53,543 --> 00:45:56,754
"but being resolved in
the midst and heat of battle

593
00:45:56,788 --> 00:45:59,998
"to live or die
amongst you all,

594
00:46:00,033 --> 00:46:05,832
"to lay down for my God and
for my kingdom and my people

595
00:46:05,866 --> 00:46:10,008
my honor and my blood,
even in the dust."

596
00:46:10,043 --> 00:46:15,393
I know I have the body
of a weak and feeble woman.

597
00:46:15,427 --> 00:46:18,948
But I have the heart
and stomach of a king...

598
00:46:18,983 --> 00:46:21,226
and a king of England, too!

599
00:46:21,261 --> 00:46:26,059
And I think foul scorn that
Spain or any prince of Europe

600
00:46:26,093 --> 00:46:29,925
should dare to invade
the borders of my realm!

601
00:46:29,959 --> 00:46:34,205
To which, rather than face
that dishonor,

602
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:37,864
I will myself
take up arms beside you!

603
00:46:37,898 --> 00:46:41,108
I will be your general
and your rewarder

604
00:46:41,143 --> 00:46:43,490
for your virtues in the field.

605
00:46:43,524 --> 00:46:47,943
We know that you already deserve
rewards and crowns,

606
00:46:47,977 --> 00:46:52,154
and we do assure you,
in the word of a prince,

607
00:46:52,188 --> 00:46:56,227
they shall be paid to you.

608
00:46:56,261 --> 00:47:00,024
And take heed, too,
of my lieutenant general,

609
00:47:00,058 --> 00:47:02,889
for no prince ever commanded

610
00:47:02,923 --> 00:47:06,824
a more worthy
or noble subject as he.

611
00:47:06,858 --> 00:47:13,071
By your obedience to him,
by your valor in battle,

612
00:47:13,106 --> 00:47:15,902
we shall yet win
a famous victory

613
00:47:15,936 --> 00:47:17,593
over these enemies of God...

614
00:47:17,627 --> 00:47:21,217
of my kingdom...
and of my people!

615
00:47:38,994 --> 00:47:44,240
"Night of the 28th July, two
miles southeast of Calais,

616
00:47:44,275 --> 00:47:46,035
reinforced by Seymour
and Winters..."

617
00:47:47,140 --> 00:47:48,106
They are celebrating.

618
00:47:48,141 --> 00:47:49,107
The news must have...

619
00:47:49,142 --> 00:47:50,108
Yes, yes!

620
00:47:50,143 --> 00:47:51,489
Read! Read!

621
00:47:51,523 --> 00:47:53,594
"Drake unleashed
eight fire ships

622
00:47:53,629 --> 00:47:55,286
"among the anchored
Spanish galleons

623
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,357
"to dislodge their formation.

624
00:47:57,391 --> 00:47:59,635
"Believing the ships
were primed with gunpowder,

625
00:47:59,669 --> 00:48:02,258
the Spanish cut
their anchors..."

626
00:48:02,293 --> 00:48:05,158
"And fled
in utmost confusion.

627
00:48:05,192 --> 00:48:08,678
"A running battle was
thereafter maintained near Gravelines.

628
00:48:08,713 --> 00:48:10,922
"So close
were we to the enemy,

629
00:48:10,957 --> 00:48:13,891
we were within speech
of one another."

630
00:48:15,513 --> 00:48:16,963
"Then the wind shifted,

631
00:48:16,997 --> 00:48:21,139
"what remained of the armada
was swept by storms and gales

632
00:48:21,174 --> 00:48:23,176
to founder in the North Sea."

633
00:48:23,210 --> 00:48:24,867
And the Flanders
force?

634
00:48:24,902 --> 00:48:27,559
"Intelligence that the Flanders
force will not embark

635
00:48:27,594 --> 00:48:29,941
without the protection
of the Spanish fleet."

636
00:48:29,976 --> 00:48:33,393
Then they are vanquished?

637
00:48:33,427 --> 00:48:35,636
God breathed
and they were scattered!

638
00:48:35,671 --> 00:48:38,467
We are saved, Robbie!

639
00:48:47,855 --> 00:48:49,927
God bless you all!

640
00:48:51,307 --> 00:48:55,346
This is not just
a Protestant victory,

641
00:48:55,380 --> 00:48:57,935
but England's victory!

642
00:48:57,969 --> 00:49:01,386
This is all our victory!

643
00:49:14,813 --> 00:49:18,403
We are saved, Your Grace!

644
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,545
Victory, my lords! Victory!

645
00:49:26,377 --> 00:49:29,000
My lord, we must
make preparations

646
00:49:29,035 --> 00:49:30,484
for our celebration.

647
00:49:30,519 --> 00:49:31,727
I will issue a proclamation,

648
00:49:31,761 --> 00:49:34,212
for a day of holiday
throughout the realm.

649
00:49:34,247 --> 00:49:35,558
And a new coin
must be struck

650
00:49:35,593 --> 00:49:36,732
in honor of
our triumph.

651
00:49:36,766 --> 00:49:38,665
And let us make
a victory procession

652
00:49:38,699 --> 00:49:40,805
to St. Paul's,
to thank God for...

653
00:49:42,462 --> 00:49:44,982
So solemn on
such a day, William?

654
00:49:45,016 --> 00:49:46,466
Shame on you!

655
00:49:46,500 --> 00:49:49,365
I would speak with you
alone, Your Grace.

656
00:49:59,375 --> 00:50:02,413
As you know, after Tilbury,
the Earl of Leicester

657
00:50:02,447 --> 00:50:05,519
was to journey to Buxton
to take the waters.

658
00:50:08,419 --> 00:50:10,835
En route he fell ill
with a fever,

659
00:50:10,869 --> 00:50:14,701
was forced to stop at his
hunting lodge in Oxford.

660
00:50:14,735 --> 00:50:18,291
He was found there
this morning by a servant.

661
00:50:18,325 --> 00:50:20,017
Say it is not so.

662
00:50:20,914 --> 00:50:23,020
Say it is not so.

663
00:50:27,438 --> 00:50:29,060
He was alone when...?

664
00:50:31,545 --> 00:50:32,581
Oh.

665
00:50:34,238 --> 00:50:36,861
Oh, my heart is wrenched
from me!

666
00:50:39,139 --> 00:50:42,867
There was a letter
for you by his side.

667
00:50:59,297 --> 00:51:02,300
Oh, God, not this.

668
00:51:02,335 --> 00:51:04,992
Anything but this.

669
00:51:27,808 --> 00:51:29,914
Your Majesty?

670
00:51:29,948 --> 00:51:30,949
News from Ireland.

671
00:51:30,984 --> 00:51:33,642
The wrecks of yet more
of the Spanish fleet

672
00:51:33,676 --> 00:51:35,782
are washed up
on their shores.

673
00:51:35,816 --> 00:51:36,610
They say the coast is

674
00:51:36,645 --> 00:51:39,475
fair littered
with their corpses!

675
00:51:39,510 --> 00:51:42,202
The pope himself acknowledges

676
00:51:42,237 --> 00:51:44,135
your supremacy,
Your Grace!

677
00:51:44,170 --> 00:51:46,137
He said though
only a woman

678
00:51:46,172 --> 00:51:49,382
and mistress
of one half of a small island,

679
00:51:49,416 --> 00:51:52,661
yet you have
made yourself feared by Spain,

680
00:51:52,695 --> 00:51:55,008
by France,
by all of Europe!

681
00:52:03,361 --> 00:52:05,984
Your Majesty, enough now.

682
00:52:08,918 --> 00:52:11,680
Throughout the realm
your people call your triumph

683
00:52:11,714 --> 00:52:13,820
the greatest victory
since Agincourt,

684
00:52:13,854 --> 00:52:16,029
and they cannot celebrate it
without you.

685
00:52:20,309 --> 00:52:24,071
My Lord Leicester would never
want his passing

686
00:52:24,106 --> 00:52:27,489
to eclipse your finest hour.

687
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:37,671
I humbly beseech you to pardon your poor old servant

688
00:52:37,706 --> 00:52:41,399
being so bold in writing to ask how my gracious lady is.

689
00:52:43,815 --> 00:52:49,476
As ever, your welfare
is all that consumes me.

690
00:52:49,511 --> 00:52:51,444
As for my own poor case,

691
00:52:51,478 --> 00:52:54,999
I am hoping to find
a perfect cure at Buxton

692
00:52:55,033 --> 00:52:56,380
as you instructed,

693
00:52:56,414 --> 00:53:00,349
so I can all the more quickly
return to your side.

694
00:53:00,384 --> 00:53:05,423
Until then, as always,
I kiss your feet.

695
00:53:05,458 --> 00:53:11,395
Your most loving,
most faithful servant, Robbie.

696
00:55:47,240 --> 00:55:48,690
That young man yonder--

697
00:55:48,724 --> 00:55:51,071
do I know him?

698
00:55:51,106 --> 00:55:52,418
Robert Devereux, Your Grace.

699
00:55:52,452 --> 00:55:55,766
The Second
Earl of Essex.

700
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:57,630
My Lord Leicester's stepson,

701
00:55:57,664 --> 00:55:58,458
Your Majesty.

702
00:55:58,493 --> 00:56:00,322
Do you not
remember him?

703
00:56:13,956 --> 00:56:15,544
I seem to recall, my lord,

704
00:56:15,579 --> 00:56:18,892
when presented to me as a child,
you shrank from me.

705
00:56:18,927 --> 00:56:21,826
So afraid were you
I might deign to kiss you.

706
00:56:24,484 --> 00:56:27,832
I am a grown man now,
Your Majesty...

707
00:56:27,867 --> 00:56:29,420
and know better.

708
00:56:43,296 --> 00:56:45,850
His son in all but name.

709
00:57:11,048 --> 00:57:12,670
God's blood, no!

710
00:57:12,705 --> 00:57:15,017
Must I say it a thousand times?

711
00:57:15,052 --> 00:57:17,088
Your Majesty,

712
00:57:17,123 --> 00:57:18,573
the bad tooth must be removed.

713
00:57:18,607 --> 00:57:20,091
There is no other remedy!

714
00:57:20,126 --> 00:57:24,233
Your Grace, the Earl of Essex's
fleet is landed in Plymouth.

715
00:57:24,268 --> 00:57:26,373
Your people gather to celebrate

716
00:57:26,408 --> 00:57:28,099
his triumphant return
with you!

717
00:57:28,134 --> 00:57:29,342
Ha!

718
00:57:29,376 --> 00:57:32,276
The tooth is diseased
and must be extracted.

719
00:57:32,310 --> 00:57:33,657
Pain will be
but momentary,

720
00:57:33,691 --> 00:57:35,279
and your weeks
of suffering

721
00:57:35,313 --> 00:57:36,556
will be at an end.

722
00:57:38,247 --> 00:57:39,490
Rather an eternity of suffering

723
00:57:39,525 --> 00:57:41,941
than die at the hands
of that loggerheaded butcher!

724
00:57:42,769 --> 00:57:45,254
Pain will be but momentary,

725
00:57:45,289 --> 00:57:47,809
and the queen's
suffering will be at an end.

726
00:57:47,843 --> 00:57:49,466
All thanks to
your courageous example.

727
00:57:49,500 --> 00:57:52,503
You'd lose a tooth,
but you win back her favor.

728
00:57:52,538 --> 00:57:54,332
Is that not the opportunity

729
00:57:54,367 --> 00:57:55,506
you've been
waiting for?

730
00:57:57,266 --> 00:57:58,302
Some years ago...

731
00:57:58,336 --> 00:57:59,924
Seven years ago,
my lord.

732
00:57:59,959 --> 00:58:01,685
Alas, I recall it
to the day.

733
00:58:01,719 --> 00:58:04,101
Master Alsop was presented
to the queen.

734
00:58:04,135 --> 00:58:05,861
As he bowed,
a voluminous fart

735
00:58:05,896 --> 00:58:06,690
escaped him--

736
00:58:06,724 --> 00:58:07,829
if voluminous
is the word.

737
00:58:07,863 --> 00:58:11,626
Easily done, sir,
when in a prone position.

738
00:58:11,660 --> 00:58:15,181
Should she remember that
unfortunate event, my lord...

739
00:58:15,215 --> 00:58:16,838
Her memory is not
what it was, Master Alsop.

740
00:58:16,872 --> 00:58:19,150
You have nothing
to fear in that regard.

741
00:58:19,185 --> 00:58:22,015
Select the sacrificial
tooth, sir.

742
00:58:22,050 --> 00:58:24,190
We will announce you.

743
00:58:39,377 --> 00:58:41,552
It is but a pinprick,
Your Majesty.

744
00:58:41,587 --> 00:58:46,557
All right,
extract the damn thing.

745
00:58:46,592 --> 00:58:48,559
I did not catch your name, sir.

746
00:58:48,594 --> 00:58:50,112
Horace Alsop,

747
00:58:50,147 --> 00:58:51,493
Your Majesty.

748
00:58:51,528 --> 00:58:54,082
Horace Alsop, Your Grace.

749
00:58:54,116 --> 00:58:58,189
We are grateful for your service
to us today, Master Alsop.

750
00:58:58,224 --> 00:59:01,399
And I had entirely forgotten
the fart.

751
00:59:10,305 --> 00:59:13,929
Every town, every village calls him England's glory.

752
00:59:13,964 --> 00:59:16,035
He basks in their praise.

753
00:59:16,069 --> 00:59:19,348
I fear your generosity these many years

754
00:59:19,383 --> 00:59:21,488
has swollen the earl's head,
Your Majesty.

755
00:59:21,523 --> 00:59:24,664
News of his triumph at Cadiz
travels fast-- deservedly so.

756
00:59:24,699 --> 00:59:28,806
It was the tactics of Sir Walter
Raleigh which triumphed there.

757
00:59:28,841 --> 00:59:30,705
Though wounded in battle,
his heroism goes unsung.

758
00:59:30,739 --> 00:59:33,086
Instead of capturing
the Spanish treasure,

759
00:59:33,121 --> 00:59:35,364
the earl's negligence
allowed them to burn their fleet.

760
00:59:35,399 --> 00:59:37,297
What ransom he plundered
he gave to his men,

761
00:59:37,332 --> 00:59:39,058
rather than reserving
it for the crown,

762
00:59:39,092 --> 00:59:40,404
as you instructed.

763
00:59:40,438 --> 00:59:42,440
The rivalry between your son
and the Earl of Essex

764
00:59:42,475 --> 00:59:44,166
is like that of two
spitting hawks, my lord,

765
00:59:44,201 --> 00:59:45,305
and is tiresome.

766
00:59:45,340 --> 00:59:47,135
You invested

767
00:59:47,169 --> 00:59:48,412
£50,000
in the venture.

768
00:59:48,446 --> 00:59:50,725
The Spanish claim they
lost millions in the siege.

769
00:59:50,759 --> 00:59:53,313
Yet we estimate
the booty the earl brings back

770
00:59:53,348 --> 00:59:54,521
as only £13,000.

771
00:59:54,556 --> 00:59:55,661
The rest is squandered.

772
00:59:55,695 --> 00:59:56,765
Or pilfered.

773
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:59,285
It is not just a Spanish ransom
he denied you.

774
00:59:59,319 --> 01:00:01,045
Every heart
of your people he wins

775
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:02,564
is one less to honor you.

776
01:00:29,211 --> 01:00:30,523
Pygmy!

777
01:00:37,288 --> 01:00:39,808
They say that every dog
must have his day.

778
01:00:39,843 --> 01:00:42,121
Mmm.

779
01:00:42,155 --> 01:00:44,364
They also say
a man's finest hour

780
01:00:44,399 --> 01:00:48,230
precedes his darkest,
Sir Robert.

781
01:00:54,858 --> 01:00:56,825
Father?

782
01:01:07,249 --> 01:01:09,286
Your Majesty!

783
01:01:10,494 --> 01:01:11,978
Just being
in your presence again

784
01:01:12,013 --> 01:01:14,325
is all that sustained me
these dreary months.

785
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:15,395
Sir Walter Raleigh!

786
01:01:15,430 --> 01:01:17,674
Is he here?

787
01:01:18,916 --> 01:01:21,436
Your injury caused us
grievous concern, my lord.

788
01:01:21,470 --> 01:01:22,713
I could not
sleep for worry.

789
01:01:22,748 --> 01:01:25,233
It was but a flesh wound,
Your Majesty... a trifle.

790
01:01:25,267 --> 01:01:27,028
Never think your skill in battle

791
01:01:27,062 --> 01:01:28,270
has gone unnoticed,
Sir Walter.

792
01:01:28,305 --> 01:01:30,410
Posterity will vouch for it,
as I will,

793
01:01:30,445 --> 01:01:32,447
even though some might
think to eclipse it.

794
01:01:32,481 --> 01:01:36,796
What fool was it
said absence makes the heart grow fonder?

795
01:01:36,831 --> 01:01:38,764
Absence is something
that some might use

796
01:01:38,798 --> 01:01:40,766
to their advantage,
my lord.

797
01:01:43,665 --> 01:01:47,324
Salvaged from the Spanish wrecks
by my own hand, Your Grace.

798
01:01:47,358 --> 01:01:49,706
My homecoming gift to you.

799
01:01:51,259 --> 01:01:52,847
Where are the gold rings?

800
01:01:52,881 --> 01:01:54,538
The casks of sugar?

801
01:01:54,572 --> 01:01:56,367
The Portuguese wines?

802
01:01:56,402 --> 01:01:58,749
I foresaw it would
end this way!

803
01:01:58,784 --> 01:02:00,751
Everyone would benefit
from this folly

804
01:02:00,786 --> 01:02:03,098
except she who actually
funded it!

805
01:02:03,133 --> 01:02:04,341
My Lord Cecil?

806
01:02:04,375 --> 01:02:07,447
Assess the value
of these trinkets

807
01:02:07,482 --> 01:02:09,726
and offset it against
the earl's debt to us.

808
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:11,728
Your Majesty knows
more than anyone

809
01:02:11,762 --> 01:02:13,591
the state of my
impoverished finances.

810
01:02:13,626 --> 01:02:15,007
Surely you will
not be so cruel.

811
01:02:15,041 --> 01:02:17,906
I am not inclined to reward
incompetence, my lord.

812
01:02:17,941 --> 01:02:21,530
And the cruelty is yours
in betraying my trust!

813
01:02:22,462 --> 01:02:24,913
The celebratory concert is canceled!

814
01:02:24,948 --> 01:02:26,777
And the fireworks display!

815
01:02:26,812 --> 01:02:28,089
Sir Charles,

816
01:02:28,123 --> 01:02:29,642
I am in the mood
for chess.

817
01:02:29,676 --> 01:02:33,611
Enough time has been
wasted on this debacle!

818
01:02:43,725 --> 01:02:45,451
'Tis his mother! 'Tis Lady Leicester!

819
01:02:45,485 --> 01:02:49,973
A glimpse of him is all we ask, my lady!

820
01:02:50,007 --> 01:02:54,805
He has restored the nation's pride! He is our pride!

821
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:59,120
It is spite which propels her.

822
01:02:59,154 --> 01:03:02,917
'Tis spite and jealousy.

823
01:03:02,951 --> 01:03:05,574
"There is but one sun
in the universe!"

824
01:03:05,609 --> 01:03:07,335
Well, another sun rises now.

825
01:03:07,369 --> 01:03:10,096
The more that she fears
it will outshine her,

826
01:03:10,131 --> 01:03:12,547
the greater the venom
she spits.

827
01:03:12,581 --> 01:03:15,170
'Tis that cripple of
a pen-pusher Robert Cecil

828
01:03:15,205 --> 01:03:16,931
who has turned her.

829
01:03:16,965 --> 01:03:20,589
The wretch takes every
opportunity to malign you.

830
01:03:20,624 --> 01:03:22,039
He may have her ear.

831
01:03:22,074 --> 01:03:25,008
My son holds
the greater prize.

832
01:03:25,042 --> 01:03:26,043
It is your name

833
01:03:26,078 --> 01:03:28,390
they call out
there, none other.

834
01:03:28,425 --> 01:03:31,462
Much use is that,
when I face bankruptcy.

835
01:03:31,497 --> 01:03:34,086
She who controls the purse
controls the man.

836
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:35,432
Not this man.

837
01:03:35,466 --> 01:03:38,262
Not my son.

838
01:03:39,056 --> 01:03:40,402
When you were absent,
they say

839
01:03:40,437 --> 01:03:41,852
that she pined for you

840
01:03:41,887 --> 01:03:44,372
like a lovesick harpy.

841
01:03:44,406 --> 01:03:48,479
Her scrawny heart can
be yours again if...

842
01:03:48,514 --> 01:03:51,241
you play her right.

843
01:03:51,275 --> 01:03:54,692
Your stepfather always said

844
01:03:54,727 --> 01:03:56,867
that however bitter
their rows,

845
01:03:56,902 --> 01:04:01,182
their reconciliations
were always sweeter.

846
01:04:01,216 --> 01:04:03,840
For each one came
gift wrapped.

847
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:15,472
Shh...

848
01:04:17,992 --> 01:04:19,338
The face is familiar.

849
01:04:19,372 --> 01:04:21,616
Alas, the name escapes me.

850
01:04:21,650 --> 01:04:25,551
Sir Charles Blount,
as well you know, my lord.

851
01:04:25,585 --> 01:04:27,622
They say your company
is much sought after

852
01:04:27,656 --> 01:04:29,072
by the queen of late;

853
01:04:29,106 --> 01:04:32,316
that you spend hours closeted
alone in her privy chamber.

854
01:04:32,351 --> 01:04:35,354
We are exploring
the theological ramifications

855
01:04:35,388 --> 01:04:37,252
of Dante's Inferno.

856
01:04:38,391 --> 01:04:42,568
My Lady relishes
such pursuits, as do I.

857
01:04:42,602 --> 01:04:44,639
He has the sallow look of a
scholar about him, it's true.

858
01:04:44,673 --> 01:04:49,713
This token you wear...
denotes what?

859
01:04:49,747 --> 01:04:52,578
This is a gift
of favor from the queen.

860
01:04:52,612 --> 01:04:54,476
It's to mark
my skill at jousting.

861
01:04:56,893 --> 01:04:58,308
I'll be blunt, Blount.

862
01:04:58,342 --> 01:04:59,792
You do not strike me

863
01:04:59,826 --> 01:05:03,209
as a man who exhibits much
in the way of athletic prowess.

864
01:05:03,244 --> 01:05:06,833
Which leads me to
one of two conclusions:

865
01:05:06,868 --> 01:05:08,766
Either you took
advantage of the queen

866
01:05:08,801 --> 01:05:11,769
and purloined the chess piece
while she was distracted...

867
01:05:11,804 --> 01:05:12,943
I did no such thing!

868
01:05:12,978 --> 01:05:14,393
Or you are a fool.

869
01:05:14,427 --> 01:05:17,189
For only a fool would
display her favor

870
01:05:17,223 --> 01:05:18,949
in so cheap a fashion.

871
01:05:18,984 --> 01:05:22,746
And only a knave would make
such a cheap insinuation.

872
01:06:22,357 --> 01:06:23,703
Oh, Robbie...

873
01:06:24,946 --> 01:06:27,914
What folly has your
impetuousness led you to now?

874
01:06:27,949 --> 01:06:32,022
It is but a flesh wound,
Your Majesty, a trifle.

875
01:06:32,057 --> 01:06:33,368
Is your life
of so little value

876
01:06:33,403 --> 01:06:35,370
you would risk it for the sake
of pointless pride?

877
01:06:35,405 --> 01:06:39,374
It is my life which is
pointless.

878
01:06:39,409 --> 01:06:43,551
Your unkindness makes it so.

879
01:06:43,585 --> 01:06:46,554
I strive only
to be worthy of you.

880
01:06:46,588 --> 01:06:47,382
I am human.

881
01:06:47,417 --> 01:06:49,005
I make mistakes.

882
01:06:49,039 --> 01:06:52,456
Am I to be
condemned for that?

883
01:06:52,491 --> 01:06:55,839
Night and day, hope and jealousy
fight within me.

884
01:06:55,873 --> 01:06:58,186
I have no respite from it!

885
01:07:01,155 --> 01:07:03,398
Only you have the power

886
01:07:03,433 --> 01:07:06,263
to free me
of the tyranny of one

887
01:07:06,298 --> 01:07:08,058
that I may
rise to the other.

888
01:07:08,093 --> 01:07:10,267
But when you shun me...

889
01:07:11,889 --> 01:07:13,063
demean me...

890
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:16,860
I wish to God he had
struck me through the heart,

891
01:07:16,894 --> 01:07:17,757
be done with it!

892
01:07:17,792 --> 01:07:18,655
Hush now.

893
01:07:24,695 --> 01:07:27,215
You are not the only one
fighting demons, Robbie.

894
01:07:27,250 --> 01:07:30,115
You do not see.

895
01:07:30,149 --> 01:07:34,119
Without your love
I am lost to them.

896
01:07:34,153 --> 01:07:37,950
There is only
futility, despair.

897
01:07:37,984 --> 01:07:40,711
Have I not proved my
affection a hundred times?

898
01:07:40,746 --> 01:07:43,024
Given you every
opportunity for advancement?

899
01:07:43,059 --> 01:07:44,819
Every chance
to prove your worth?

900
01:07:44,853 --> 01:07:51,653
Your respect is harder
to win, it seems.

901
01:07:51,688 --> 01:07:56,244
Respect is not the
prize you think, Robbie.

902
01:07:56,279 --> 01:07:57,521
People have short memories.

903
01:07:57,556 --> 01:08:01,249
Then they are fools...

904
01:08:01,284 --> 01:08:02,940
and unworthy of you.

905
01:08:14,849 --> 01:08:16,471
Do your work well, sir,

906
01:08:16,506 --> 01:08:18,887
for there is none
so precious to me.

907
01:08:24,169 --> 01:08:27,068
Your ruse with Blount was a masterstroke!

908
01:08:27,103 --> 01:08:29,519
Such a cocktail
of erudition--

909
01:08:29,553 --> 01:08:32,591
a dash of nihilism,
a pinch of devotion.

910
01:08:32,625 --> 01:08:35,145
Shakespeare himself
could not have matched it.

911
01:08:35,180 --> 01:08:39,356
You think that I am so callous,

912
01:08:39,391 --> 01:08:43,809
that my words were
but a cynical ploy...

913
01:08:43,843 --> 01:08:44,810
a sham!

914
01:08:46,605 --> 01:08:50,540
You know me less well
than you think, Francis.

915
01:09:11,630 --> 01:09:14,529
Francis Bacon is the man for your attorney general.

916
01:09:14,564 --> 01:09:16,186
I tell you, you will
find none better.

917
01:09:16,221 --> 01:09:17,567
Be warned, Robbie,

918
01:09:17,601 --> 01:09:19,638
if you mean to wear
me down with your badgering,

919
01:09:19,672 --> 01:09:21,260
many have tried
that trick

920
01:09:21,295 --> 01:09:23,193
and I have
outlived them all.

921
01:09:23,228 --> 01:09:27,956
For the sake of
both our sanities, choose another topic.

922
01:09:27,991 --> 01:09:31,408
I fear the next might
please you even less.

923
01:09:33,445 --> 01:09:38,208
My mother asks that you
receive her back in court.

924
01:09:38,243 --> 01:09:41,936
Her exile is
my punishment, too.

925
01:09:41,970 --> 01:09:44,214
My badgering is but
a whimper compared to hers.

926
01:09:44,249 --> 01:09:47,079
She gives me
no peace on it!

927
01:09:47,113 --> 01:09:49,254
She claims that
your beauty robbed her

928
01:09:49,288 --> 01:09:50,531
of her husband's love

929
01:09:50,565 --> 01:09:52,947
and now you seek to do
the same with her son.

930
01:09:53,913 --> 01:09:56,882
Do you not see
how I am caught in the enmity between you?

931
01:09:56,916 --> 01:09:59,195
Yonder trees.

932
01:09:59,229 --> 01:10:00,955
Shall we?

933
01:10:03,406 --> 01:10:06,029
It's a fair distance
for someone of your years.

934
01:10:06,063 --> 01:10:07,168
My years!

935
01:10:07,203 --> 01:10:09,412
You will choke
on those words, my boy!

936
01:10:15,763 --> 01:10:20,354
As ever, your efforts on my behalf are welcome.

937
01:10:20,388 --> 01:10:23,598
But I fear the queen suspects your generosity to your friends

938
01:10:23,633 --> 01:10:26,325
is about enhancing
your popularity

939
01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:28,500
at the expense of hers.

940
01:10:28,534 --> 01:10:31,261
If you are to erase that
suspicion from her mind,

941
01:10:31,296 --> 01:10:34,609
your watchword
must be moderation.

942
01:10:34,644 --> 01:10:37,371
I beg you,
curb your impulsiveness.

943
01:10:37,405 --> 01:10:40,097
Forget your aspirations
for military success.

944
01:10:40,132 --> 01:10:43,653
Instead, focus your energy
on the privy council.

945
01:10:43,687 --> 01:10:47,208
For only there can you halt the ascendancy of Robert Cecil.

946
01:10:48,830 --> 01:10:52,248
When his father leaves office
there will be a power vacuum.

947
01:10:52,282 --> 01:10:54,042
Prove yourself equal to it

948
01:10:54,077 --> 01:10:58,875
and the flower of your
greatness can truly flourish.

949
01:11:03,397 --> 01:11:06,331
Her Majesty is detained
on matters of state.

950
01:11:06,365 --> 01:11:09,541
She bids you
wait for her in here.

951
01:11:17,963 --> 01:11:19,585
My lady.

952
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:23,900
I thought I was
to be received in the Presence Chamber

953
01:11:23,934 --> 01:11:28,249
so the whole
court could see.

954
01:11:28,284 --> 01:11:31,425
It is but more
of her damn trickery.

955
01:11:44,403 --> 01:11:46,267
Retire?! To do what?

956
01:11:46,302 --> 01:11:50,029
Bury yourself on your estate
and breed guinea fowl?

957
01:11:50,064 --> 01:11:52,031
I am weary, Your Majesty.

958
01:11:52,066 --> 01:11:56,312
I am losing what
dexterity of mind and body I once had.

959
01:11:56,346 --> 01:11:59,211
It is time someone
younger took my place.

960
01:11:59,245 --> 01:12:01,489
"Someone" being your
son Robert, I presume.

961
01:12:01,524 --> 01:12:03,871
Have I not groomed him
for just this eventuality?

962
01:12:03,905 --> 01:12:06,632
He is too young
for so weighty a commission.

963
01:12:06,667 --> 01:12:09,566
He's older than you
when first you became sovereign.

964
01:12:09,601 --> 01:12:12,431
And you were at my side,
guiding me, counseling me.

965
01:12:12,466 --> 01:12:16,470
Would you desert
me now when I need you most?

966
01:12:16,504 --> 01:12:20,715
Gloriana is but a ghost
in my people's memory.

967
01:12:20,750 --> 01:12:22,855
The young blood
that surrounds me

968
01:12:22,890 --> 01:12:26,411
is governed only
by self-interest, by ambition.

969
01:12:26,445 --> 01:12:30,380
They care not for the values
of service and sacrifice

970
01:12:30,415 --> 01:12:32,555
which shaped our generation.

971
01:12:32,589 --> 01:12:33,832
And I am not so vain

972
01:12:33,866 --> 01:12:36,731
I mistake their flattery
for devotion, my lord.

973
01:12:38,043 --> 01:12:39,562
When you are
at my side,

974
01:12:39,596 --> 01:12:41,736
I am invincible,
William.

975
01:12:41,771 --> 01:12:44,429
You are the rock
upon which I built my reign.

976
01:12:44,463 --> 01:12:48,847
And my reign is not over yet,
nor your duty to me.

977
01:12:50,193 --> 01:12:51,401
Your Majesty.

978
01:12:51,436 --> 01:12:54,197
My mother still eagerly awaits
your audience.

979
01:12:54,231 --> 01:12:58,443
Patience is a virtue, Robbie,
and virtue is its own reward.

980
01:13:45,282 --> 01:13:46,974
She comes.

981
01:13:59,642 --> 01:14:02,714
So many years,
Your Majesty...

982
01:14:02,748 --> 01:14:06,959
They have not diminished
your beauty one iota.

983
01:14:19,316 --> 01:14:22,285
Is that it?

984
01:14:22,319 --> 01:14:25,840
It's just the first skirmish,
Mother.

985
01:14:25,875 --> 01:14:28,602
I shall win her over yet.

986
01:14:29,706 --> 01:14:31,432
I swear the best part of you

987
01:14:31,467 --> 01:14:34,746
was left running down my legs
when you were born.

988
01:14:45,653 --> 01:14:48,035
Antichrist of ingratitude!

989
01:14:48,069 --> 01:14:50,520
Duplicitous mongrel
of a Frenchman!

990
01:14:50,555 --> 01:14:54,766
Did I not help him to his crown,
support his claim to be king?

991
01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:56,940
In forging an alliance
with Spain,

992
01:14:56,975 --> 01:14:58,424
he seeks only to secure

993
01:14:58,459 --> 01:14:59,391
the safety of France.

994
01:14:59,425 --> 01:15:00,426
We could do worse

995
01:15:00,461 --> 01:15:01,911
than follow his example.

996
01:15:01,945 --> 01:15:03,188
Ally with Spain?

997
01:15:03,222 --> 01:15:04,707
When they are trying
to use Ireland

998
01:15:04,741 --> 01:15:06,294
as a back door to conquer us?

999
01:15:06,329 --> 01:15:09,884
Tyrone is not just
another Irish renegade.

1000
01:15:09,919 --> 01:15:13,060
He is using their support
to oust us.

1001
01:15:13,094 --> 01:15:15,338
He is their gateway to invasion.

1002
01:15:15,372 --> 01:15:16,753
Any treaty would be conditional

1003
01:15:16,788 --> 01:15:18,410
that King Philip ceases
his support

1004
01:15:18,444 --> 01:15:19,998
of Tyrone
and his Catholic rebels.

1005
01:15:20,032 --> 01:15:23,795
Without Spain's resources, Tyrone's rebellion will collapse

1006
01:15:23,829 --> 01:15:26,556
and our sovereignty over Ireland
will be assured.

1007
01:15:26,591 --> 01:15:29,317
Only force can accomplish that.

1008
01:15:29,352 --> 01:15:31,388
We must mount
a double offensive--

1009
01:15:31,423 --> 01:15:33,839
attack the Spanish colonies;

1010
01:15:33,874 --> 01:15:37,015
lead a military assault
against Tyrone in Ireland.

1011
01:15:37,049 --> 01:15:38,844
Boldness is the key.

1012
01:15:38,879 --> 01:15:40,812
And who will lead
such a bold campaign?

1013
01:15:40,846 --> 01:15:42,676
The question is rhetorical,
my lord.

1014
01:15:42,710 --> 01:15:45,782
Perhaps I should commend
the 55th Psalm to the earl.

1015
01:15:45,817 --> 01:15:49,372
"Bloodthirsty men
will not live half their days."

1016
01:15:49,406 --> 01:15:51,512
And those who live too long

1017
01:15:51,547 --> 01:15:55,758
lose their grasp
of the scriptures, my lord.

1018
01:15:55,792 --> 01:15:58,070
For does not
the same psalm also say

1019
01:15:58,105 --> 01:16:01,142
that God shall cast his enemies
into the pit of destruction?

1020
01:16:01,177 --> 01:16:04,629
I will not have God used as a weapon to score points--

1021
01:16:04,663 --> 01:16:09,081
not in this council chamber
or elsewhere.

1022
01:16:09,116 --> 01:16:12,878
When you are nearer the end
of your life than the beginning,

1023
01:16:12,913 --> 01:16:17,434
boldness loses something
of its appeal, my lord.

1024
01:16:17,469 --> 01:16:21,611
For you are engaged in a war
of a different kind.

1025
01:17:16,148 --> 01:17:18,357
Your jest is in poor taste,
ladies.

1026
01:17:38,826 --> 01:17:41,967
Your pamphlet is but a step away from treason, my lord.

1027
01:17:42,002 --> 01:17:44,763
You question both my authority
and my judgment.

1028
01:17:44,798 --> 01:17:47,628
I wrote it only so the people
know the disaster

1029
01:17:47,663 --> 01:17:50,044
this peace treaty
with Spain will bring us.

1030
01:17:50,079 --> 01:17:53,496
My foreign policy will not be dictated by public opinion

1031
01:17:53,530 --> 01:17:55,912
nor by such underhand tactics.

1032
01:17:55,947 --> 01:17:59,778
While we hesitate over Ireland,
we give Tyrone and his rebels

1033
01:17:59,813 --> 01:18:02,401
time to amass
yet more Spanish support.

1034
01:18:02,436 --> 01:18:04,127
We play into their hands!

1035
01:18:04,162 --> 01:18:07,648
I will not be goaded into war
on the say-so of a hothead

1036
01:18:07,683 --> 01:18:09,270
with delusions
of adequacy.

1037
01:18:09,305 --> 01:18:11,307
You will not
turn your back on me, sir!

1038
01:18:11,341 --> 01:18:12,860
I have not done with you yet!

1039
01:18:12,895 --> 01:18:15,794
Is it a hothead
who has the people

1040
01:18:15,829 --> 01:18:18,072
screaming my name
from every rooftop?

1041
01:18:18,107 --> 01:18:20,109
They know that
England's glory

1042
01:18:20,143 --> 01:18:21,869
lies not in the relics
of the past

1043
01:18:21,904 --> 01:18:24,527
but in a vision of greatness,
which can again be ours.

1044
01:18:24,561 --> 01:18:27,185
Relics? You dare to utter
such words to me?

1045
01:18:27,219 --> 01:18:30,567
To dare is what soldiers do--
it is what defines us.

1046
01:18:30,602 --> 01:18:32,362
I will teach you manners yet.

1047
01:18:33,847 --> 01:18:36,056
No woman shall strike me thus,

1048
01:18:36,090 --> 01:18:37,678
queen or not!

1049
01:18:37,713 --> 01:18:43,408
Unhand me! Release me!
Let me go!

1050
01:18:59,010 --> 01:19:03,393
Without her forgiveness, all doors will be closed to him.

1051
01:19:03,428 --> 01:19:08,467
He must yield to her will, apologize, my lady.

1052
01:19:08,502 --> 01:19:10,400
On his knees,
if she demands it.

1053
01:19:10,435 --> 01:19:12,264
A letter.

1054
01:19:12,299 --> 01:19:14,991
I have penned to her
in his name.

1055
01:19:15,026 --> 01:19:16,786
I beg you, make him see reason.

1056
01:19:16,821 --> 01:19:20,169
Put his seal on it,
dispatch it.

1057
01:19:20,203 --> 01:19:22,067
End this wretched deadlock.

1058
01:19:22,102 --> 01:19:26,347
Why is it he who must grovel in slavish apology?

1059
01:19:26,382 --> 01:19:28,108
No son of mine shall
ever subscribe

1060
01:19:28,142 --> 01:19:29,557
to such fawning hypocrisy.

1061
01:19:35,494 --> 01:19:39,740
He used to say you cannot catch
a monkey by chasing it.

1062
01:19:39,775 --> 01:19:43,779
You must make the monkey
come to you.

1063
01:19:46,126 --> 01:19:48,128
♪ Come again

1064
01:19:48,162 --> 01:19:52,960
♪ Sweet love doth now invite
thy graces that refrain ♪

1065
01:19:52,995 --> 01:19:56,032
♪ To do me due delight

1066
01:19:56,067 --> 01:20:03,350
♪ To see, to hear, to touch,
to kiss, to die ♪

1067
01:20:03,384 --> 01:20:10,046
♪ With thee again
in sweetest sympa-ha-ha-thy. ♪

1068
01:20:12,221 --> 01:20:15,224
The Earl of Essex
is gripped by a fever, Your Majesty.

1069
01:20:15,258 --> 01:20:17,260
He is mortal sick.

1070
01:20:17,295 --> 01:20:18,779
They say he is...

1071
01:20:18,814 --> 01:20:21,886
he is so weakened by it,
he has but days left.

1072
01:20:25,337 --> 01:20:28,754
Mother... mother,
do not fuss so.

1073
01:20:28,789 --> 01:20:30,722
We are not done yet.

1074
01:20:34,346 --> 01:20:37,453
You must appear weakened
by illness and remorse.

1075
01:20:37,487 --> 01:20:39,248
No tantrums or tirades.

1076
01:20:39,282 --> 01:20:41,767
Did she not send her
physician to attend me?

1077
01:20:41,802 --> 01:20:43,873
Her actions speak
louder than any words.

1078
01:20:43,908 --> 01:20:46,703
Well, this time
watch your own words, son.

1079
01:20:46,738 --> 01:20:51,398
You lose her favor again,
you will forever lose mine.

1080
01:20:55,851 --> 01:20:59,958
Your bet is
as good as lost, sir-- admit defeat.

1081
01:21:06,206 --> 01:21:09,761
I am relieved to find you in
such rude health, Your Majesty.

1082
01:21:09,795 --> 01:21:12,902
Yours is fully restored,
it seems.

1083
01:21:12,937 --> 01:21:15,767
Thanks to your mercy
and the skill of your physician.

1084
01:21:17,838 --> 01:21:19,460
Sir Walter and I
are conducting a wager.

1085
01:21:19,495 --> 01:21:21,566
He claims
he can calculate

1086
01:21:21,600 --> 01:21:25,121
the weight of smoke--
a claim which I refute.

1087
01:21:25,156 --> 01:21:26,640
Put it to the test, sir.

1088
01:21:32,749 --> 01:21:35,580
And there you have it: the weight of smoke.

1089
01:21:38,376 --> 01:21:39,929
Well done, sir.

1090
01:21:56,118 --> 01:22:01,847
I am an ignoble wretch and
unworthy of your forgiveness,

1091
01:22:01,882 --> 01:22:06,059
so I will not
insult either of us by asking for it.

1092
01:22:08,820 --> 01:22:09,959
My greatest fear is

1093
01:22:09,994 --> 01:22:13,169
your rashness will one day
destroy you, Robbie.

1094
01:22:13,204 --> 01:22:15,861
Worse, I shall be
the instrument of it.

1095
01:22:15,896 --> 01:22:19,727
Does not any son rail against
the rule of his mother?

1096
01:22:19,762 --> 01:22:23,697
It does not lessen
the bond they share.

1097
01:22:26,458 --> 01:22:29,703
A mother's love
obeys only one rule...

1098
01:22:29,737 --> 01:22:33,638
that it is given without
expectation of any in return.

1099
01:22:33,672 --> 01:22:35,985
Unconditional love
is the greatest gift

1100
01:22:36,020 --> 01:22:37,676
any woman can give a man.

1101
01:22:41,059 --> 01:22:43,682
On the Irish question--

1102
01:22:43,717 --> 01:22:46,478
we have received fresh
intelligence on the matter.

1103
01:22:46,513 --> 01:22:50,275
It seems your position on it
holds merit after all.

1104
01:22:50,310 --> 01:22:52,657
Tyrone and his rebels
are even now

1105
01:22:52,691 --> 01:22:55,004
building up his
garrisons in Ulster.

1106
01:22:55,039 --> 01:22:57,869
Forgive me, I must speak.

1107
01:22:57,903 --> 01:23:00,906
Let it be me
who quenches this fire for you.

1108
01:23:00,941 --> 01:23:05,877
For you have seen in me
qualities no others have.

1109
01:23:05,911 --> 01:23:10,088
You alone can see
beyond the trivial

1110
01:23:10,123 --> 01:23:11,607
into a man's soul.

1111
01:23:11,641 --> 01:23:16,267
I beg you,
for your honor and for mine,

1112
01:23:16,301 --> 01:23:18,994
let me beat Tyrone in the field,

1113
01:23:19,028 --> 01:23:21,893
prove to the world
Gloriana still reigns.

1114
01:23:29,314 --> 01:23:32,628
I will reflect upon it, my lord.

1115
01:24:16,706 --> 01:24:19,399
The seizure rendered him

1116
01:24:19,433 --> 01:24:21,918
without speech or movement
on his left side.

1117
01:24:21,953 --> 01:24:25,232
Please God he can still hear.

1118
01:24:25,267 --> 01:24:26,992
Time and again I warned him

1119
01:24:27,027 --> 01:24:30,927
that the burden of his duties
was too much for his years.

1120
01:24:34,897 --> 01:24:38,383
Nourishment and rest
are what's needed now.

1121
01:24:38,418 --> 01:24:41,662
We will have you restored
to your old self in a trice.

1122
01:24:43,526 --> 01:24:45,770
I understand it is your will

1123
01:24:45,804 --> 01:24:48,600
that the Earl of Essex
goes to Ireland, Your Grace,

1124
01:24:48,635 --> 01:24:50,568
to take on
the rebel Tyrone?

1125
01:24:50,602 --> 01:24:52,535
He set sail
with his army last night

1126
01:24:52,570 --> 01:24:54,123
under the cover of darkness.

1127
01:24:54,158 --> 01:24:56,643
If victory is to be
assured in battle,

1128
01:24:56,677 --> 01:25:00,371
the element of surprise
is a prerequisite, Sir Robert.

1129
01:25:00,405 --> 01:25:02,959
Drake taught me that lesson.

1130
01:25:02,994 --> 01:25:04,444
Forgive the presumption,

1131
01:25:04,478 --> 01:25:08,068
but he is no Francis Drake,
Your Majesty.

1132
01:25:08,103 --> 01:25:10,174
Is it wise to take
such a gamble

1133
01:25:10,208 --> 01:25:12,728
on one so capricious,
so headstrong?

1134
01:25:12,762 --> 01:25:15,317
Should Spain get dominance
there, your kingdom could be...

1135
01:25:15,351 --> 01:25:17,422
Do you think my wits
are so impaired

1136
01:25:17,457 --> 01:25:19,114
I cannot grasp
the consequences?

1137
01:25:19,148 --> 01:25:21,150
Why must you all persist
in always seeing

1138
01:25:21,185 --> 01:25:22,979
the faults
in him?

1139
01:25:25,016 --> 01:25:27,156
Recall him.

1140
01:25:27,191 --> 01:25:34,163
He will take you down with him,
and England with you.

1141
01:25:34,198 --> 01:25:36,752
Recall him.

1142
01:25:39,651 --> 01:25:40,963
He is tired.

1143
01:25:40,997 --> 01:25:43,448
He asks to rest.

1144
01:26:00,741 --> 01:26:03,296
It must be her mother, Anne Boleyn.

1145
01:26:03,330 --> 01:26:04,573
The one they call the whore?

1146
01:26:04,607 --> 01:26:07,058
That's why the queen
will never speak of her.

1147
01:26:07,092 --> 01:26:09,716
'Tis but one of her ladies
from the old days.

1148
01:26:09,750 --> 01:26:11,027
'Tis no one.

1149
01:26:13,271 --> 01:26:15,963
Oh, that's lovely, Agnes.

1150
01:26:18,414 --> 01:26:19,553
"His last letter"?

1151
01:26:19,588 --> 01:26:22,073
There is no seal on it.

1152
01:26:22,107 --> 01:26:23,764
Oh, quickly, quickly!

1153
01:26:29,874 --> 01:26:31,116
Quickly.

1154
01:26:31,151 --> 01:26:32,497
She comes.

1155
01:26:49,687 --> 01:26:53,069
The silence from Ireland
is explained, Your Majesty.

1156
01:26:53,104 --> 01:26:55,658
The Earl of Essex
has disobeyed your instructions.

1157
01:26:55,693 --> 01:26:57,039
He has wantonly
ignored them.

1158
01:26:57,073 --> 01:26:59,421
He did not go north to Ulster after Tyrone.

1159
01:26:59,455 --> 01:27:01,354
All this time he has
been in the South,

1160
01:27:01,388 --> 01:27:03,356
engaged in fruitless
skirmishes

1161
01:27:03,390 --> 01:27:04,943
against the rebel
outposts there!

1162
01:27:04,978 --> 01:27:09,016
Of the 16,000 men
under his command, only 4,000 remain,

1163
01:27:09,051 --> 01:27:10,466
the others lost,
if not in battle,

1164
01:27:10,501 --> 01:27:12,468
then through disease
or desertion.

1165
01:27:12,503 --> 01:27:13,504
The waste of it!

1166
01:27:13,538 --> 01:27:14,574
The earl is where now?

1167
01:27:14,608 --> 01:27:16,265
He tarries
in Dublin,

1168
01:27:16,300 --> 01:27:18,405
claiming exhaustion
and ill health.

1169
01:27:18,440 --> 01:27:21,477
He seeks your permission
to return home.

1170
01:27:26,068 --> 01:27:29,071
My lord, I forbid you to come out of that kingdom

1171
01:27:29,105 --> 01:27:32,971
until Tyrone and his garrisons
are disposed of.

1172
01:27:33,006 --> 01:27:36,216
Why have you not prosecuted
your campaign against him?

1173
01:27:36,251 --> 01:27:40,013
You have had ample time, men
and ordnance to accomplish it.

1174
01:27:40,047 --> 01:27:44,259
You defy my authority with your futile adventure in the south,

1175
01:27:44,293 --> 01:27:46,122
which has decimated my treasury

1176
01:27:46,157 --> 01:27:49,954
and cost my kingdom dear
in human life!

1177
01:27:49,988 --> 01:27:53,129
Discharge your duty
against Tyrone, my lord.

1178
01:27:53,164 --> 01:27:55,339
Do not let disgrace
be your epitaph,

1179
01:27:55,373 --> 01:27:58,618
nor the ignominy
of defeat be mine.

1180
01:27:58,652 --> 01:28:03,761
For be assured, I will not pay
the price of that alone.

1181
01:29:10,828 --> 01:29:12,588
Your Majesty?

1182
01:29:51,765 --> 01:29:55,838
You were my Alpha and my Omega, my lord.

1183
01:29:57,564 --> 01:30:00,705
No prince ever had
such a counselor.

1184
01:30:51,031 --> 01:30:52,999
Sir Francis Bacon,
Your Majesty.

1185
01:30:53,033 --> 01:30:54,897
You asked him
to attend you.

1186
01:30:54,932 --> 01:30:57,037
We have reason to be concerned

1187
01:30:57,072 --> 01:30:59,592
about the Earl of
Essex's actions, Sir Francis.

1188
01:31:00,869 --> 01:31:06,184
As one close to him, we hoped
you might give us some insight.

1189
01:31:06,219 --> 01:31:07,876
Like you, Your Grace,

1190
01:31:07,910 --> 01:31:10,948
I have always tried to be
a moderating influence,

1191
01:31:10,982 --> 01:31:13,295
tried to stay his impulses.

1192
01:31:13,329 --> 01:31:16,022
But all in vain,
I'm afraid.

1193
01:31:16,056 --> 01:31:19,128
I fear he has a malady
in his mind

1194
01:31:19,163 --> 01:31:20,889
which has tainted him
since birth.

1195
01:31:20,923 --> 01:31:25,583
Either he is tortured by
melancholy and self-doubt,

1196
01:31:25,618 --> 01:31:28,275
or he acts with such
reckless hubris

1197
01:31:28,310 --> 01:31:31,416
there is no restraining him.

1198
01:31:31,451 --> 01:31:34,350
At best, the result
is inconsistency,

1199
01:31:34,385 --> 01:31:36,594
at worst, indecision.

1200
01:31:36,629 --> 01:31:37,975
Well, he has made a decision

1201
01:31:38,009 --> 01:31:41,254
now, sir...
one he will live to regret.

1202
01:31:41,288 --> 01:31:43,532
He has agreed a truce
with the rebel Tyrone.

1203
01:31:43,567 --> 01:31:45,983
Today we received notice

1204
01:31:46,017 --> 01:31:47,156
he has deserted his post,

1205
01:31:47,191 --> 01:31:49,538
together with
a legion of his officers.

1206
01:31:49,573 --> 01:31:52,645
He has offered them knighthoods
to secure their loyalty.

1207
01:31:55,095 --> 01:31:57,408
Given the extremities
of his nature,

1208
01:31:57,442 --> 01:32:00,411
he is not just a danger
to himself, but to others.

1209
01:32:00,445 --> 01:32:03,656
Your Majesty, he must
be found, and quickly.

1210
01:32:03,690 --> 01:32:07,314
His whereabouts are
unknown to us, sir...

1211
01:32:07,349 --> 01:32:09,454
as are his intentions.

1212
01:32:23,572 --> 01:32:24,573
To London!

1213
01:32:24,608 --> 01:32:26,471
Onwards to our destiny!

1214
01:32:42,902 --> 01:32:44,317
Quickly!

1215
01:32:50,875 --> 01:32:52,359
Go! Leave me!

1216
01:34:02,706 --> 01:34:04,639
Her Grace is
not yet dressed, my lord!

1217
01:34:04,673 --> 01:34:06,054
You must leave
now, sir,

1218
01:34:06,088 --> 01:34:07,780
or we will
summon the guard!

1219
01:34:07,814 --> 01:34:08,953
Forgive my intrusion,

1220
01:34:08,988 --> 01:34:09,954
Your Majesty!

1221
01:34:09,989 --> 01:34:11,991
I had to see you.

1222
01:34:12,025 --> 01:34:13,406
I could not wait.

1223
01:34:17,686 --> 01:34:20,447
My treaty with Tyrone is not

1224
01:34:20,482 --> 01:34:23,002
the disgrace
your council have you think.

1225
01:34:23,036 --> 01:34:25,452
They fight us like savages,

1226
01:34:25,487 --> 01:34:28,248
coming at us
through the mist like ghosts,

1227
01:34:28,283 --> 01:34:32,356
deploying tactics
of ambush, of sabotage!

1228
01:34:32,390 --> 01:34:34,841
Where is the dishonor
in admitting

1229
01:34:34,876 --> 01:34:38,811
defeat against such
a foe is inevitable?

1230
01:34:39,743 --> 01:34:42,331
Is not Tyrone's threat
neutralized

1231
01:34:42,366 --> 01:34:43,505
by our treaty?

1232
01:34:43,539 --> 01:34:44,817
His rebellion quelled?

1233
01:34:44,851 --> 01:34:45,680
And bloodlessly!

1234
01:34:45,714 --> 01:34:48,372
At no more cost to your revenue.

1235
01:34:50,201 --> 01:34:52,134
As ever, your words
take the sting

1236
01:34:52,169 --> 01:34:54,205
out of your actions,
my lord.

1237
01:34:54,240 --> 01:34:56,621
You must be wearied
after your journey.

1238
01:34:56,656 --> 01:34:59,452
Why not repair to your home,
refresh yourself?

1239
01:35:00,833 --> 01:35:04,388
When we are both
more presentable,

1240
01:35:04,422 --> 01:35:08,081
we can discuss this
matter at our leisure.

1241
01:35:12,948 --> 01:35:15,261
I see now...

1242
01:35:15,295 --> 01:35:17,573
this is where I belong.

1243
01:35:21,439 --> 01:35:25,512
I was a fool to stray
so far from you.

1244
01:35:44,704 --> 01:35:46,706
He is the only prince of our hearts, my lady!

1245
01:35:46,741 --> 01:35:48,950
All our hopes rest with him.

1246
01:35:51,366 --> 01:35:52,781
She has dismissed him

1247
01:35:52,816 --> 01:35:54,024
from the
privy council,

1248
01:35:54,058 --> 01:35:55,197
stripped him
of his offices

1249
01:35:55,232 --> 01:35:57,234
of Earl Marshall,
Master of the Ordnance.

1250
01:35:57,268 --> 01:35:59,477
And now his patent on
Sweet Wines is revoked.

1251
01:35:59,512 --> 01:36:00,996
She has bankrupted him.

1252
01:36:07,554 --> 01:36:09,211
I am ruined, Mother.

1253
01:36:12,836 --> 01:36:17,461
She is as crooked
as her wretched carcass!

1254
01:36:22,431 --> 01:36:27,022
This is down to that wretch
Cecil and his conniving.

1255
01:36:28,575 --> 01:36:30,646
And as for Bacon...

1256
01:36:30,681 --> 01:36:35,548
That turncoat shall
pay for his treachery!

1257
01:36:36,998 --> 01:36:39,897
But there will
be ample time for atonement.

1258
01:36:39,932 --> 01:36:43,798
And you have squandered enough
of it on futile self-pity.

1259
01:36:57,018 --> 01:36:58,640
Cecil and the others

1260
01:36:58,674 --> 01:37:01,367
who've contrived
your downfall

1261
01:37:01,401 --> 01:37:03,472
are looking to secure
their future

1262
01:37:03,507 --> 01:37:05,198
beyond the queen.

1263
01:37:05,233 --> 01:37:08,926
And you must
do the same.

1264
01:37:12,550 --> 01:37:16,554
These hands
hold the course of history, my son.

1265
01:37:16,589 --> 01:37:21,111
Such a moment
comes to a man but once in a lifetime,

1266
01:37:21,145 --> 01:37:25,563
if he has the courage
to seize it.

1267
01:37:42,339 --> 01:37:45,445
Sir Gilly will take the palace here,

1268
01:37:45,480 --> 01:37:46,757
at the north gate.

1269
01:37:46,791 --> 01:37:49,104
Your contingent will enter
from the river, Henry.

1270
01:37:49,139 --> 01:37:50,830
Mine will take
the main gate.

1271
01:37:50,865 --> 01:37:51,831
And the palace guard?

1272
01:37:51,866 --> 01:37:54,075
Most will be marshaled
to the queen's apartment

1273
01:37:54,109 --> 01:37:55,628
and council chamber.

1274
01:37:55,662 --> 01:37:57,595
They fight for coinage,
we for a cause.

1275
01:37:57,630 --> 01:37:59,287
They will not detain us long.

1276
01:37:59,321 --> 01:38:01,703
But the queen
must not be harmed.

1277
01:38:01,737 --> 01:38:03,532
She must be confined
to her quarters

1278
01:38:03,567 --> 01:38:05,534
under guard
for her own protection.

1279
01:38:05,569 --> 01:38:07,812
And her councilors?

1280
01:38:08,848 --> 01:38:10,505
Rounded up and executed.

1281
01:38:20,653 --> 01:38:22,344
He claims you are no longer competent

1282
01:38:22,379 --> 01:38:23,967
to rule, Your Majesty.

1283
01:38:24,001 --> 01:38:24,899
He means to depose you,

1284
01:38:24,933 --> 01:38:27,315
eliminate Sir Robert
and your council,

1285
01:38:27,349 --> 01:38:29,248
proclaim himself
Lord Protector,

1286
01:38:29,282 --> 01:38:31,491
rule in your place.

1287
01:38:31,526 --> 01:38:33,424
He awaits reinforcements from the army.

1288
01:38:33,459 --> 01:38:36,565
Then he will raise the people
and attack the palace.

1289
01:38:36,600 --> 01:38:39,016
His malice against
your council

1290
01:38:39,051 --> 01:38:40,949
is quite fixed,
Your Majesty.

1291
01:38:40,984 --> 01:38:42,882
He accuses Sir Cecil

1292
01:38:42,917 --> 01:38:43,883
of secretly plotting

1293
01:38:43,918 --> 01:38:46,092
to divert
the succession to Spain,

1294
01:38:46,127 --> 01:38:48,025
and you, sir,
of contriving

1295
01:38:48,060 --> 01:38:51,270
in murderous
intrigues against him.

1296
01:38:51,304 --> 01:38:53,824
The man is delusional!

1297
01:38:53,858 --> 01:38:56,827
What meager grasp of reality
he had is lost to him.

1298
01:38:56,861 --> 01:38:59,140
I fear the Earl of Essex
was always a lost cause

1299
01:38:59,174 --> 01:39:00,762
in that regard,
my lord.

1300
01:39:00,796 --> 01:39:02,557
He also revealed
his malice to you

1301
01:39:02,591 --> 01:39:06,043
in another regard,
Your Majesty.

1302
01:39:06,078 --> 01:39:07,907
It seems he made reference to--

1303
01:39:07,942 --> 01:39:12,877
and I quote-- your
"wretched, crooked carcass."

1304
01:39:13,948 --> 01:39:15,639
'Tis true, Your Majesty.

1305
01:39:20,713 --> 01:39:22,473
We cannot rely on the fidelity

1306
01:39:22,508 --> 01:39:23,992
of your people,
Your Grace.

1307
01:39:24,027 --> 01:39:25,442
The hardships they have endured

1308
01:39:25,476 --> 01:39:26,995
could turn their hunger
into hate.

1309
01:39:27,030 --> 01:39:30,378
It is a breeding ground
for revolution.

1310
01:39:31,413 --> 01:39:33,760
Sir Walter,
you and Sir Francis will lead

1311
01:39:33,795 --> 01:39:36,108
a delegation
of my councilors to him.

1312
01:39:36,142 --> 01:39:39,559
Give him no arena
for his heroics.

1313
01:39:39,594 --> 01:39:43,218
Tell him the hearing he demands
has been granted.

1314
01:39:43,253 --> 01:39:46,739
I require him to attend me.

1315
01:39:48,327 --> 01:39:50,846
Then take him to the Tower.

1316
01:40:05,378 --> 01:40:07,691
Forgive the rabble,
my lords.

1317
01:40:07,725 --> 01:40:10,970
Their rage is born
from loyalty.

1318
01:40:11,005 --> 01:40:14,560
A rare commodity in such
troubled times, is it not?

1319
01:40:14,594 --> 01:40:16,493
The queen awaits
your attendance, sir.

1320
01:40:16,527 --> 01:40:18,667
We come to take you to her.

1321
01:40:18,702 --> 01:40:20,428
Then I must make
myself presentable

1322
01:40:20,462 --> 01:40:22,361
for such an honor.

1323
01:40:22,395 --> 01:40:24,639
The rear of the house
is safer, my lords.

1324
01:40:24,673 --> 01:40:27,435
Sir Francis is familiar
with the way.

1325
01:40:30,886 --> 01:40:33,510
I will detain you
only a moment, my lords.

1326
01:40:41,380 --> 01:40:43,071
I demand that you let us out, sir!

1327
01:40:43,106 --> 01:40:44,866
We must strike now!

1328
01:40:44,900 --> 01:40:46,937
Get your weapons-- make ready!

1329
01:40:46,971 --> 01:40:48,214
We are not yet
prepared!

1330
01:40:48,249 --> 01:40:49,664
We need
reinforcements.

1331
01:40:49,698 --> 01:40:51,942
The people will
rise behind us.

1332
01:40:51,976 --> 01:40:53,392
They will not fail us!

1333
01:40:55,394 --> 01:40:56,395
To the city!

1334
01:40:56,429 --> 01:40:58,880
A plot is laid for my life!

1335
01:40:58,914 --> 01:41:02,470
To the city for a call to arms,
to save the crown!

1336
01:41:02,504 --> 01:41:04,058
Save the crown!

1337
01:41:09,546 --> 01:41:13,412
England's crown is to be sold to
the Spanish by Sir Robert Cecil!

1338
01:41:13,446 --> 01:41:15,103
Come out, fight for the crown!

1339
01:41:15,138 --> 01:41:17,209
The queen's government has betrayed her!

1340
01:41:17,243 --> 01:41:18,865
They have betrayed us all!

1341
01:41:20,246 --> 01:41:21,454
Fight!

1342
01:41:21,489 --> 01:41:23,111
My cause is just.

1343
01:41:23,146 --> 01:41:24,664
Fight for England!

1344
01:41:26,977 --> 01:41:29,462
They have reached Fenchurch
Street, Your Majesty.

1345
01:41:29,497 --> 01:41:31,395
Others gather at Ludgate,

1346
01:41:31,430 --> 01:41:33,017
and yet more in Newgate.

1347
01:41:33,052 --> 01:41:37,021
Dispatch a contingent
of my militia north, here,

1348
01:41:37,056 --> 01:41:38,782
to block their escape.

1349
01:41:38,816 --> 01:41:39,955
Another thus--

1350
01:41:39,990 --> 01:41:41,543
to divide their ranks.

1351
01:41:43,476 --> 01:41:46,307
We need men and arms
to defend the crown!

1352
01:41:46,341 --> 01:41:48,136
Come out, I say!

1353
01:41:48,171 --> 01:41:49,275
For the queen!

1354
01:41:49,310 --> 01:41:50,656
Defend her crown!

1355
01:41:50,690 --> 01:41:52,761
Destroy the bastard traitors!

1356
01:41:57,835 --> 01:42:01,184
No! You must join us!

1357
01:42:01,218 --> 01:42:03,565
The queen's council is corrupt!

1358
01:42:03,600 --> 01:42:08,087
We must to the palace--
save her from them!

1359
01:42:08,122 --> 01:42:09,330
Out of my way!

1360
01:42:20,306 --> 01:42:21,859
Come out!

1361
01:42:21,894 --> 01:42:23,585
Deserters!

1362
01:42:23,620 --> 01:42:25,760
Cowards!

1363
01:42:27,727 --> 01:42:29,626
Why do they not come?

1364
01:42:29,660 --> 01:42:30,765
Traitors!

1365
01:42:33,147 --> 01:42:37,841
I am the Earl of Essex
and I command you, come out!

1366
01:42:37,875 --> 01:42:38,911
Fight with me!

1367
01:42:41,120 --> 01:42:44,123
Cowards! Pathetic traitors!

1368
01:42:52,718 --> 01:42:53,650
Traitors!

1369
01:42:53,684 --> 01:42:55,341
They've boxed us in.

1370
01:42:55,376 --> 01:42:56,618
We're trapped!

1371
01:43:01,244 --> 01:43:02,210
To the river!

1372
01:43:02,245 --> 01:43:03,729
We are not done for yet!

1373
01:43:03,763 --> 01:43:04,626
Save yourself! Go!

1374
01:43:42,526 --> 01:43:45,253
We need more cavalry, more horses.

1375
01:43:45,288 --> 01:43:47,255
The people are closing their doors

1376
01:43:47,290 --> 01:43:48,325
to them,
Your Majesty!

1377
01:43:48,360 --> 01:43:50,051
They are still loyal to you.

1378
01:43:50,085 --> 01:43:53,848
Remove the surprise
from your voice, Sir Charles.

1379
01:43:53,882 --> 01:43:55,919
I for one never doubted it.

1380
01:44:21,324 --> 01:44:22,773
Mother?

1381
01:44:28,883 --> 01:44:29,884
Mother.

1382
01:45:15,205 --> 01:45:16,344
The roof!

1383
01:45:18,001 --> 01:45:20,728
It is over, my lord!

1384
01:45:20,762 --> 01:45:22,626
For your life,
you must surrender!

1385
01:45:22,661 --> 01:45:24,179
I meant only to protect her

1386
01:45:24,214 --> 01:45:26,285
against those
who would betray her!

1387
01:45:27,942 --> 01:45:30,427
It was for love of her!

1388
01:45:30,462 --> 01:45:31,773
For love of England!

1389
01:45:31,808 --> 01:45:34,500
Then make your peace
with God, my lord,

1390
01:45:34,535 --> 01:45:37,296
or face the fires of Hell!

1391
01:45:47,410 --> 01:45:48,687
Your Grace?

1392
01:45:53,519 --> 01:45:56,384
The Earl has surrendered, Your Majesty.

1393
01:45:56,419 --> 01:45:58,282
The rest are scattered
or arrested.

1394
01:45:58,317 --> 01:46:01,113
Over a hundred are confined
with him at the Tower.

1395
01:46:01,147 --> 01:46:03,840
We must make preparations

1396
01:46:03,874 --> 01:46:07,430
for his trial,
Your Grace, and speedily--

1397
01:46:07,464 --> 01:46:10,743
before his supporters
can regroup.

1398
01:47:04,659 --> 01:47:09,802
When I hold my arms thus,
I am ready.

1399
01:47:09,837 --> 01:47:10,838
Let me by.

1400
01:47:10,872 --> 01:47:12,460
Let me pass!

1401
01:47:19,225 --> 01:47:22,470
Do not mourn my death...

1402
01:47:22,505 --> 01:47:24,714
for I welcome it.

1403
01:47:24,748 --> 01:47:30,547
I see now only God can give me
the peace

1404
01:47:30,582 --> 01:47:33,516
I have been denied on earth.

1405
01:47:35,414 --> 01:47:39,383
God save the queen.

1406
01:47:39,418 --> 01:47:41,731
God save us all.

1407
01:48:33,403 --> 01:48:36,095
He is gone, Your Grace.

1408
01:49:06,574 --> 01:49:09,266
Since the execution of the Earl of Essex,

1409
01:49:09,301 --> 01:49:12,787
the queen's spirit
is quite broken.

1410
01:49:12,822 --> 01:49:17,274
She is ever more melancholy,
ever more forgetful,

1411
01:49:17,309 --> 01:49:19,829
her temper more capricious.

1412
01:49:29,666 --> 01:49:32,255
She leaves her quarters now
only for duty.

1413
01:49:32,289 --> 01:49:34,982
The recitals and plays
she once relished,

1414
01:49:35,016 --> 01:49:36,673
her horse riding...

1415
01:49:39,020 --> 01:49:41,436
None can tempt her out.

1416
01:49:51,205 --> 01:49:53,794
She is beset by fears of assassination,

1417
01:49:53,828 --> 01:49:58,592
stalking the palace at night,
striking at unseen enemies.

1418
01:50:01,629 --> 01:50:03,631
Then for a brief moment,

1419
01:50:03,666 --> 01:50:06,220
her old spirit
was restored to us.

1420
01:50:06,254 --> 01:50:08,498
She was Gloriana once more.

1421
01:50:11,397 --> 01:50:16,540
To be a king and wear a crown

1422
01:50:16,575 --> 01:50:21,511
is a thing more glorious
to them who see it

1423
01:50:21,545 --> 01:50:24,410
than pleasant to them
who bear it.

1424
01:50:25,549 --> 01:50:32,660
For myself... I was never
so much enticed by it as...

1425
01:50:32,695 --> 01:50:37,492
humbled that God chose me
as his instrument

1426
01:50:37,527 --> 01:50:43,291
to defend my kingdom
from peril, dishonor,

1427
01:50:43,326 --> 01:50:47,675
tyranny and oppression.

1428
01:50:47,710 --> 01:50:51,506
There will never be a queen
with more zeal and devotion

1429
01:50:51,541 --> 01:50:53,888
for her country
and her subjects.

1430
01:50:55,062 --> 01:50:59,860
But it is my desire now

1431
01:50:59,894 --> 01:51:02,690
to reign no longer...

1432
01:51:02,725 --> 01:51:06,280
than for your good.

1433
01:51:14,460 --> 01:51:17,671
Then the flame was extinguished.

1434
01:51:17,705 --> 01:51:20,812
She began to slip away from us.

1435
01:51:40,763 --> 01:51:44,836
Too weak to walk, she has spent the past 15 hours

1436
01:51:44,870 --> 01:51:48,425
standing in her chamber,
refusing to sit,

1437
01:51:48,460 --> 01:51:51,532
lest she should never
rise again.

1438
01:52:07,306 --> 01:52:09,757
Boleyn's little bastard.

1439
01:52:20,526 --> 01:52:23,253
I will have but one mistress here,

1440
01:52:23,288 --> 01:52:27,430
and no master, do you hear me?!

1441
01:52:28,258 --> 01:52:31,606
I will have no man
rule over me!

1442
01:53:17,549 --> 01:53:22,312
Then, after over 40 years as sovereign,

1443
01:53:22,347 --> 01:53:25,764
she quietly departed this life.

1444
01:53:36,430 --> 01:53:38,846
As for the succession,

1445
01:53:38,881 --> 01:53:42,505
she neither denied
nor confirmed you.

1446
01:53:45,439 --> 01:53:46,958
But you can be assured

1447
01:53:46,992 --> 01:53:50,685
of my fidelity
in that respect, Your Majesty.

1448
01:53:57,520 --> 01:54:00,143
For King James's hand alone.

1449
01:54:00,178 --> 01:54:02,352
No other.

1450
01:54:02,387 --> 01:54:04,768
Wait outside.

1451
01:54:14,226 --> 01:54:16,815
A clasp has been added.

1452
01:54:22,856 --> 01:54:26,135
She has hidden
a portrait inside.

1453
01:54:26,169 --> 01:54:28,378
Robert Dudley.

1454
01:54:30,933 --> 01:54:33,073
'Tis the whore, Anne Boleyn.

1455
01:54:34,488 --> 01:54:36,524
Her mother.

1456
01:54:43,359 --> 01:54:47,604
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