1 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:24,800 [ woman breathing heavily, I was starting to think 2 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,150 your absence was from sulking, Robbie. 3 00:01:27,190 --> 00:01:29,570 What, and miss such a performance? 4 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,850 A puppet is still a puppet, French prince or not. 5 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:34,540 Oh, hush now. 6 00:01:34,570 --> 00:01:38,270 [ children giggling] 7 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:43,270 [ children cheering] 8 00:01:46,860 --> 00:01:49,000 Slay him! 9 00:01:49,030 --> 00:01:53,730 [ bellowing, chains rattling] 10 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:05,090 A Jesuit missionary found spreading subversive propaganda. 11 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:09,780 Whatever the crime, a grisly fate for any man. 12 00:02:09,810 --> 00:02:17,030 But then a man's fate lies in his own hands, does it not? 13 00:02:17,060 --> 00:02:21,790 [ cries continue] 14 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,420 COURTIER: Is this choice of venue to remind me 15 00:02:27,450 --> 00:02:30,490 where my loyalties lie? 16 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,250 A lesser man might be insulted. 17 00:02:33,290 --> 00:02:35,670 [ bellowing continues] 18 00:02:35,700 --> 00:02:38,390 We're under no illusion, Master Gifford. 19 00:02:38,430 --> 00:02:43,430 The ten years we've kept the queen of Scots confined 20 00:02:43,470 --> 00:02:47,020 has made her a martyr to her Catholic supporters. 21 00:02:48,890 --> 00:02:50,650 My Lord Burghley, 22 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:54,030 the gentleman I spoke of, Master Gifford. 23 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:03,180 We also know... another attempt to rescue her is being devised. 24 00:03:03,210 --> 00:03:07,420 It's details... we're lacking. 25 00:03:07,460 --> 00:03:09,460 [ coin purse clinks] 26 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,500 The Catholic League in Europe is behind this one. 27 00:03:16,540 --> 00:03:19,440 Once her freedom is secured, 28 00:03:19,470 --> 00:03:24,130 King Philip has pledged Spain's support to... 29 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:29,890 assassinate Queen Elizabeth as a prelude to invasion. 30 00:03:29,930 --> 00:03:32,480 And your role in this enterprise? 31 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:36,630 To act as... an intermediary, 32 00:03:36,660 --> 00:03:40,840 to find a means of communication with the Scottish queen, 33 00:03:40,870 --> 00:03:42,420 seek her approval. 34 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:50,670 But... your zeal over her security 35 00:03:50,710 --> 00:03:56,200 has put pay to her... her contact with foreign powers. 36 00:03:56,230 --> 00:04:02,550 If we were to be less zealous? 37 00:04:02,580 --> 00:04:06,930 Allow you access to her? 38 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:19,530 There was a man... who worked as her page when first she, um... 39 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:21,740 she sought sanctuary in England. 40 00:04:21,770 --> 00:04:25,670 He has volunteered to orchestrate her rescue. 41 00:04:25,710 --> 00:04:26,540 His name? 42 00:04:31,890 --> 00:04:34,300 Anthony Babington. 43 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:44,310 MAN: As the noxious humor is released, 44 00:04:44,350 --> 00:04:46,870 the diseased area is purified. 45 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:50,390 Your pain will ease. 46 00:04:50,420 --> 00:04:52,490 Which humor is out of balance? 47 00:04:52,530 --> 00:04:53,600 PHYSICIAN: The fourth-- 48 00:04:53,630 --> 00:04:55,500 his earth melancholy, my lord. 49 00:04:55,530 --> 00:04:56,810 See how dark his blood is? 50 00:04:56,840 --> 00:05:00,190 That signifies the bile which will... 51 00:05:00,230 --> 00:05:03,060 Oh, yes, yes, uh... carry on, do. 52 00:05:04,580 --> 00:05:06,890 As for trying to keep his visit a secret 53 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,990 by hiding him behind that screen... [ chuckles] 54 00:05:10,030 --> 00:05:12,620 They say every tavern in London is laying bets 55 00:05:12,650 --> 00:05:14,620 on when her betrothal will be announced. 56 00:05:14,650 --> 00:05:18,310 The Duke of Anjou is a whey-faced brat half her age. 57 00:05:18,350 --> 00:05:20,870 Such a man can never capture her hand, 58 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:23,250 much less her heart. 59 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:26,180 Oh, she seems most taken with him. 60 00:05:26,220 --> 00:05:29,390 And later last evening 61 00:05:29,430 --> 00:05:33,190 when you were, um... indisposed? 62 00:05:33,220 --> 00:05:38,230 It was transparent to everyone, she was captivated by him. 63 00:05:38,260 --> 00:05:41,030 [ laughter; dance music playing] 64 00:05:41,060 --> 00:05:47,030 She talks of nothing but his wit, his intellect. 65 00:05:47,070 --> 00:05:49,790 [ dance music playing] 66 00:05:58,460 --> 00:06:00,910 "My Frog Prince" she calls him, 67 00:06:00,940 --> 00:06:06,500 and his emissary, Simier, she calls her monkey. 68 00:06:06,530 --> 00:06:08,220 Though I confess I sometimes wonder 69 00:06:08,260 --> 00:06:09,850 which of the two she prefers. 70 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,300 DUDLEY: Precisely her purpose, Christopher-- 71 00:06:12,330 --> 00:06:14,850 to keep us all wondering. 72 00:06:14,890 --> 00:06:19,750 The wonder is you are so witless to fall for it. 73 00:06:22,620 --> 00:06:25,790 The wonder is she's not yet guessed your own situation. 74 00:06:27,660 --> 00:06:29,380 Of all people, you know 75 00:06:29,420 --> 00:06:32,630 how she feels about such subterfuge 76 00:06:32,660 --> 00:06:37,390 and the depth of her rage should she discover it. 77 00:06:46,710 --> 00:06:48,440 Let us hope your noxious humor 78 00:06:48,470 --> 00:06:49,890 will soon be cured, my lord, 79 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,130 for all our sakes. 80 00:06:52,170 --> 00:06:55,690 [ coughing] 81 00:06:59,900 --> 00:07:02,450 MA: Sir Francis Drake began his passage here. 82 00:07:02,490 --> 00:07:07,770 From Plymouth, he sailed thus southwards. 83 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,150 Here Sir Francis faced his first challenge, 84 00:07:10,180 --> 00:07:12,880 the mutiny of his crew. 85 00:07:15,780 --> 00:07:19,120 But instead of punishing them, he offered them their release. 86 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,400 Not a single man left his side-- not one. 87 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,920 More pity for Spain and the treasures you stole 88 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:25,130 from her colonies, my lord. 89 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,440 Sir Francis is known for his entrepreneurial spirit. 90 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,760 And at such a distance, what could a poor queen do? 91 00:07:31,790 --> 00:07:33,000 [ screaming] 92 00:07:33,030 --> 00:07:35,140 A mouse! 93 00:07:35,170 --> 00:07:36,490 God's wounds! 94 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:37,660 Don't just stand there! 95 00:07:37,690 --> 00:07:38,490 Dispatch it! 96 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:40,110 For the queen, kill the beast! 97 00:07:40,140 --> 00:07:41,320 Kill him! 98 00:07:42,490 --> 00:07:45,490 [ women screaming and laughing] 99 00:07:57,090 --> 00:07:59,650 [ footsteps descending stairs] 100 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:04,760 [ footsteps approaching] 101 00:08:15,210 --> 00:08:18,250 Um... Babington's letter to the, um, queen of Scots. 102 00:08:18,290 --> 00:08:21,010 Y-You can't say that I don't deliver, sir. 103 00:08:21,050 --> 00:08:24,400 How long to decipher the code? 104 00:08:24,430 --> 00:08:27,610 As long as it takes, sir, as always. 105 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,020 WALSINGHAM: Do not fail me, Master Gifford. 106 00:08:33,850 --> 00:08:37,440 I cannot concentrate while being watched, sir. 107 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,270 Privacy, please. 108 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:56,320 [ birds singing] 109 00:09:17,930 --> 00:09:19,380 Good morning, sir. 110 00:09:38,710 --> 00:09:40,090 Go. Go! 111 00:09:46,820 --> 00:09:49,200 [ screaming] 112 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,340 Do something, you jolt heads! 113 00:09:51,380 --> 00:09:52,350 [ laughter] 114 00:09:52,380 --> 00:09:53,350 Dispatch it! 115 00:09:53,380 --> 00:09:54,620 Kill it, I say! 116 00:09:54,660 --> 00:09:58,940 [ women hooting and laughing] 117 00:09:58,970 --> 00:10:00,800 [ whistles] 118 00:10:02,630 --> 00:10:05,670 ELIZABETH: Marriage to Anjou is the only option. 119 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:09,160 How else do we halt Spain's supremacy in the region? 120 00:10:09,190 --> 00:10:11,230 They've already annexed Portugal. 121 00:10:11,260 --> 00:10:12,750 Is England to be next? 122 00:10:12,780 --> 00:10:14,570 If you know of a better protection 123 00:10:14,610 --> 00:10:16,990 than an alliance with France, my lord, name it. 124 00:10:17,030 --> 00:10:18,200 A treaty. 125 00:10:18,230 --> 00:10:20,620 ELIZABETH: Treaties can be reneged upon. 126 00:10:20,650 --> 00:10:22,620 The match ensures our security 127 00:10:22,650 --> 00:10:25,340 and the succession in one stroke. 128 00:10:25,380 --> 00:10:28,170 And if nothing else, puts pay to the vile rumors 129 00:10:28,210 --> 00:10:30,450 that I am barren born. 130 00:10:30,490 --> 00:10:32,830 It has taken us years of negotiation 131 00:10:32,870 --> 00:10:35,180 to get this far with the duke, my lord. 132 00:10:35,220 --> 00:10:38,250 Do not undermine that now, for God's sake. 133 00:10:38,290 --> 00:10:40,810 SUSSEX: Marriage will make the Papal menace 134 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,220 vanish in a puff of smoke. 135 00:10:43,260 --> 00:10:47,990 War with Spain will be averted and the Catholics here appeased. 136 00:10:48,020 --> 00:10:49,400 The war will come to us 137 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,370 if people get wind of such a union. 138 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:53,920 They'd rather take on Spain with their bare hands 139 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:55,340 than be subsumed to France. 140 00:10:55,370 --> 00:10:57,380 Enough, my lords. 141 00:10:58,310 --> 00:10:59,580 Pick up the pace! 142 00:10:59,620 --> 00:11:01,550 Our dinner is escaping. 143 00:11:03,350 --> 00:11:06,560 [ men shouting] 144 00:12:05,370 --> 00:12:07,830 If I could have a moment, Your Majesty. 145 00:12:10,350 --> 00:12:12,170 The draft of my Act of Association 146 00:12:12,210 --> 00:12:13,940 for your approval, Your Majesty. 147 00:12:13,970 --> 00:12:18,280 Parliament are waiting for your response to ratify it. 148 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:20,180 "Any claimant or their associates 149 00:12:20,220 --> 00:12:21,770 "conspiring to seize the throne 150 00:12:21,810 --> 00:12:23,950 shall forfeit all right of succession." 151 00:12:23,980 --> 00:12:25,910 And their life. 152 00:12:27,780 --> 00:12:29,740 We all witnessed your distress 153 00:12:29,780 --> 00:12:32,470 over the signing of the Duke of Norfolk's death warrant. 154 00:12:32,510 --> 00:12:35,750 This act absolves you of all such onerous responsibility. 155 00:12:35,780 --> 00:12:38,240 You will simply be adhering to the law, 156 00:12:38,270 --> 00:12:41,790 discharging your responsibility to the state and letting us... 157 00:12:41,830 --> 00:12:42,860 I am not so obtuse 158 00:12:42,900 --> 00:12:46,000 I cannot grasp the implications, Sir Francis. 159 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:47,660 And if the claimant is ignorant 160 00:12:47,690 --> 00:12:49,800 of any conspiracy on their behalf? 161 00:12:49,830 --> 00:12:50,800 On that count, 162 00:12:50,830 --> 00:12:52,970 my sister could have sent me to the scaffold. 163 00:12:53,010 --> 00:12:54,670 As your heir, the queen of Scots, 164 00:12:54,700 --> 00:12:57,630 would do the same given the opportunity. 165 00:12:57,670 --> 00:13:00,780 And the blood she would shed would not be yours alone. 166 00:13:00,810 --> 00:13:02,880 Her ambition to make England Catholic once more 167 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,470 will engulf your people in a civil war more catastrophic 168 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:07,750 than anything your sister ever inflicted on us. 169 00:13:12,550 --> 00:13:14,960 The physician awaits, Your Majesty. 170 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,620 Amend it. 171 00:13:16,650 --> 00:13:19,280 Claimant must have knowledge 172 00:13:19,310 --> 00:13:21,450 of any conspiracy on their behalf. 173 00:13:21,490 --> 00:13:24,630 Proven knowledge, Sir Francis. 174 00:13:25,770 --> 00:13:28,490 My signature is contingent on that. 175 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:00,390 As you know, Your Grace, 176 00:14:00,420 --> 00:14:03,110 the purpose of my examination is 177 00:14:03,150 --> 00:14:06,010 to ascertain whether there is any physical impediment 178 00:14:06,050 --> 00:14:07,360 to your bearing a child. 179 00:14:07,390 --> 00:14:10,880 I'm afraid it requires that I... 180 00:14:13,190 --> 00:14:14,370 Do what you must, sir. 181 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:15,610 Get it over with! 182 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:48,570 [ exhales forcefully] 183 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:35,520 I can find nothing to prevent Her Majesty 184 00:15:35,550 --> 00:15:37,350 from bearing a child. 185 00:15:37,380 --> 00:15:39,620 [ sighs of relief and joy] 186 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,100 A sublimation code, see? 187 00:16:11,140 --> 00:16:14,490 Every letter of the alphabet is substituted by another. 188 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:16,560 These coded symbols? 189 00:16:16,590 --> 00:16:18,770 They denote the key words. 190 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:20,940 Some letters occur with more frequency. 191 00:16:20,980 --> 00:16:21,940 The letter E, for example... 192 00:16:21,980 --> 00:16:24,630 But the content, sir! 193 00:16:24,670 --> 00:16:27,530 Does Babington lay out the details of their conspiracy? 194 00:16:36,890 --> 00:16:38,300 Is it sufficient? 195 00:16:39,550 --> 00:16:43,650 "Proven knowledge" is what Her Majesty demanded. 196 00:16:43,690 --> 00:16:46,590 For that we need the queen of Scots' response. 197 00:16:48,450 --> 00:16:51,730 All shall come to he who waits, Master Phelippes. 198 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,290 [ women laughing] 199 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:56,910 SIMIER: Excusez-moi, monsieur. 200 00:16:56,940 --> 00:16:57,910 Viens, viens! 201 00:16:57,940 --> 00:16:58,940 Viens! 202 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:01,670 The Earl of Leicester? 203 00:17:01,710 --> 00:17:03,190 They are close, are they not? 204 00:17:03,220 --> 00:17:04,850 How close? 205 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:05,920 Dis-moi. 206 00:17:05,950 --> 00:17:08,130 That is the queen's private business, sir. 207 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:09,890 We are not permitted to discuss such things 208 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:10,920 out of the bedchamber. 209 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,820 Then let us find the bedchamber, hein? 210 00:17:15,310 --> 00:17:17,100 [ whispering]: I can tell you something... 211 00:17:17,130 --> 00:17:18,580 but I can't tell you here. 212 00:17:18,620 --> 00:17:19,590 I see. 213 00:17:19,620 --> 00:17:20,760 Bien! 214 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:23,800 ELIZABETH: The Earl of Leicester 215 00:17:23,830 --> 00:17:26,070 is my most trusted and loyal friend, sir! 216 00:17:26,110 --> 00:17:27,660 It's a sorry day that I listen 217 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:29,320 to the flap-mouthed venom of others! 218 00:17:29,350 --> 00:17:30,700 That you choose to indulge in it 219 00:17:30,730 --> 00:17:31,980 does you no credit, monsieur. 220 00:17:32,010 --> 00:17:33,770 Your Majesty, he is not worth your loyalty. 221 00:17:33,810 --> 00:17:34,810 Il vous a trahi! 222 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:37,810 He has betrayed you. 223 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,850 May God strike me down if I tell a lie! 224 00:17:48,750 --> 00:17:50,310 Who else knows?! 225 00:17:50,340 --> 00:17:52,960 Why was I not told?! 226 00:18:13,050 --> 00:18:14,850 Your audience with the queen 227 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,370 is delayed, my lady. 228 00:18:21,540 --> 00:18:23,580 You double-faced toad of a scullion! 229 00:18:23,610 --> 00:18:25,340 A lying, cheating knave! 230 00:18:25,380 --> 00:18:28,310 A maggot-hearted son of a mongrel traitor! 231 00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:31,110 My folly was ever to place my trust in you! 232 00:18:31,140 --> 00:18:34,140 And as if your slyness, your treachery were not enough, 233 00:18:34,180 --> 00:18:36,700 you dare to deny me the chance of my own marriage, 234 00:18:36,730 --> 00:18:38,910 while seizing it for yourself with that she-wolf! 235 00:18:38,940 --> 00:18:40,150 That vixen! 236 00:18:40,180 --> 00:18:43,080 Did I not offer you the chance of marriage a dozen times? 237 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:44,640 And a dozen times you refused me! 238 00:18:44,670 --> 00:18:46,290 And I thank God for my wit that I did. 239 00:18:46,330 --> 00:18:47,910 For my merciful escape! 240 00:18:47,950 --> 00:18:50,230 You are loathsome to my eyes! 241 00:18:50,260 --> 00:18:53,020 I detest the very sight of you! 242 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:55,890 I have mortgaged my life 243 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,550 in the hope that someday we'd be together. 244 00:18:58,580 --> 00:19:00,000 I have stood by and watched 245 00:19:00,030 --> 00:19:03,030 while others fawn at your feet, flattering your vanity... 246 00:19:03,070 --> 00:19:05,420 You did not go empty-handed for your pains! 247 00:19:05,450 --> 00:19:07,900 Well, it was a poor exchange for an empty bed! 248 00:19:09,110 --> 00:19:11,040 This wretched vow of virginity 249 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,420 was your choice, not mine. 250 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:17,600 This marriage was when? 251 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:22,500 A year since past. 252 00:19:22,540 --> 00:19:24,920 Was she still in my service 253 00:19:24,950 --> 00:19:26,090 when it began? 254 00:19:27,130 --> 00:19:28,990 After she left, when? 255 00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:32,340 In your service. 256 00:19:35,380 --> 00:19:39,590 It was for comfort, Bess. 257 00:19:39,620 --> 00:19:41,110 It was a diversion. 258 00:19:41,140 --> 00:19:43,590 And when she left my court to marry Walter Devereux? 259 00:19:43,630 --> 00:19:46,460 Did you still partake of her comfort? 260 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,080 How fortuitous for you both he died so suddenly. 261 00:19:54,570 --> 00:19:56,400 Her son, who bears Devereux's name... 262 00:19:57,330 --> 00:20:00,190 he, too, is called Robert, is he not? 263 00:20:00,230 --> 00:20:03,710 Does he have dark eyes, like you? 264 00:20:09,930 --> 00:20:14,350 Such rank insinuation is unworthy of you, Bess. 265 00:20:15,450 --> 00:20:18,830 The bond we shared was like no other, Robbie. 266 00:20:20,250 --> 00:20:22,320 You have defiled it. 267 00:20:23,290 --> 00:20:24,290 So what's it to be? 268 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:25,500 Banishment again, Bess? 269 00:20:25,530 --> 00:20:27,770 Another mission abroad? 270 00:20:29,050 --> 00:20:33,500 Henceforth, if I see you, I shall not know you. 271 00:20:33,540 --> 00:20:35,780 You are dead to me. 272 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:41,340 [ clock striking the hour] 273 00:20:50,450 --> 00:20:53,070 Look on her well, Lettice. 274 00:20:53,110 --> 00:20:56,730 For there true loyalty lies. 275 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:00,980 'Tis a pity 276 00:21:01,010 --> 00:21:03,880 you did not learn from Kat's example, is it not? 277 00:21:03,910 --> 00:21:05,260 I am heartbroke, 278 00:21:05,290 --> 00:21:10,570 Your Majesty, that we have so incurred your displeasure. 279 00:21:10,610 --> 00:21:13,230 Alas, we cannot always choose where love's arrow falls. 280 00:21:13,270 --> 00:21:17,200 Such sentimental claptrap finds no favor with me, madam. 281 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:18,380 Get up! 282 00:21:24,350 --> 00:21:25,730 Imported silk? 283 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:27,800 It's from France. 284 00:21:27,830 --> 00:21:32,630 The color is too vulgar for my taste. 285 00:21:32,670 --> 00:21:33,630 Gold? 286 00:21:35,530 --> 00:21:38,290 I am told you also run a lavish household-- 287 00:21:38,330 --> 00:21:42,880 a retinue of staff, glittering soirees, hunting parties... 288 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,580 for all the world, a queen holding court. 289 00:21:46,710 --> 00:21:48,890 I must occupy myself somehow, 290 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,170 whilst my husband attends you, 291 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:53,340 Your Grace. 292 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,350 Then I have some cheerful news for you. 293 00:21:57,380 --> 00:22:00,830 His attendance on me is no longer required. 294 00:22:00,870 --> 00:22:04,040 All gifts, gratuities and monopolies 295 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:05,800 shall cease forthwith. 296 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:08,050 Along with his salary. 297 00:22:09,700 --> 00:22:12,770 You must learn to live within your means, Lettice. 298 00:22:12,810 --> 00:22:14,500 Cut your cloth. 299 00:22:14,540 --> 00:22:16,990 Though I doubt it will be imported now. 300 00:22:19,990 --> 00:22:21,710 Do you remember those many years ago, 301 00:22:21,750 --> 00:22:23,920 when my sister held us at the Tower? 302 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,760 Those long nights, hearing the lions roar? 303 00:22:27,790 --> 00:22:29,100 The screams from the rack? 304 00:22:29,140 --> 00:22:32,070 Stench of death in our nostrils? 305 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:34,660 Come into my presence again 306 00:22:34,690 --> 00:22:37,320 and I shall fetch you back there! 307 00:23:06,380 --> 00:23:07,620 Go! 308 00:23:08,590 --> 00:23:09,660 Go! 309 00:23:14,010 --> 00:23:18,530 [ graceful music playing] 310 00:23:27,950 --> 00:23:29,300 Trounced again! 311 00:23:29,330 --> 00:23:31,200 How does she do it! 312 00:23:31,230 --> 00:23:34,750 They say chess is the gymnasium of the mind, my lord. 313 00:23:34,790 --> 00:23:37,830 Such a mind. 314 00:23:37,860 --> 00:23:39,270 Such a body. 315 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,380 You are indeed heaven sent. 316 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,600 My lord Leicester is taken ill, Your Grace. 317 00:23:53,630 --> 00:23:56,780 He hopes that you might attend him. 318 00:23:56,810 --> 00:23:58,360 How many times has he feigned illness 319 00:23:58,400 --> 00:23:59,470 to get my attention? 320 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:01,190 How many times have I run to him? 321 00:24:01,230 --> 00:24:03,130 I'm done with his trickery. 322 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,020 Tell him to pack his bags-- begone! 323 00:24:24,110 --> 00:24:25,080 Bess. 324 00:24:25,110 --> 00:24:26,360 Thank God. 325 00:24:26,390 --> 00:24:28,390 What, no fever? 326 00:24:28,430 --> 00:24:30,880 Was that beyond your contrivance? 327 00:24:30,910 --> 00:24:33,740 Your melodramatics are always entertaining, my lord. 328 00:24:33,780 --> 00:24:35,370 They lighten even the dullest day. 329 00:24:38,060 --> 00:24:42,480 I know that companionship of the flesh... 330 00:24:42,510 --> 00:24:46,410 is a poor substitute for what we both share, Bess. 331 00:24:47,450 --> 00:24:49,790 I am but a man, after all. 332 00:24:49,830 --> 00:24:53,590 That it had to be her is what cuts. 333 00:24:53,630 --> 00:24:56,390 Be thankful it was her. 334 00:24:56,420 --> 00:24:59,110 In exchange for privileges, 335 00:24:59,150 --> 00:25:01,810 she has settled for a loveless marriage. 336 00:25:02,770 --> 00:25:05,950 My heart lies elsewhere, and we both know it. 337 00:25:10,470 --> 00:25:11,820 Now tell me... 338 00:25:13,330 --> 00:25:15,060 is it truly your will 339 00:25:15,090 --> 00:25:17,990 to wed your Frog prince, Bess? 340 00:25:18,030 --> 00:25:19,100 Hmm? 341 00:25:19,130 --> 00:25:20,890 You asked for your penance. 342 00:25:20,930 --> 00:25:22,620 That is it, Robbie. 343 00:25:22,650 --> 00:25:24,790 For marry him I shall now. 344 00:25:28,900 --> 00:25:31,660 And I do it for an heir. 345 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:33,080 A child. 346 00:25:34,770 --> 00:25:37,880 I am of an age now when the idea of that... 347 00:25:37,910 --> 00:25:39,530 [ sighs] 348 00:25:41,850 --> 00:25:44,120 You have malingered long enough, my lord. 349 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,510 You have duties at court. 350 00:25:46,540 --> 00:25:49,340 It was a poor show this time, Robbie. 351 00:25:49,370 --> 00:25:51,960 Not up to your usual performance. 352 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:10,250 [ whimpering] 353 00:26:10,290 --> 00:26:11,250 [ barks] 354 00:26:11,290 --> 00:26:13,010 [ unlocks door] 355 00:26:48,670 --> 00:26:49,640 Yes! 356 00:27:07,830 --> 00:27:08,830 Your Majesty! 357 00:27:12,660 --> 00:27:17,010 "By one John Stubbs of Norfolk, the Discovery of a Gaping Gulf 358 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,530 "whereunto England is like to be swallowed by a French marriage. 359 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,190 "Let all true subjects know 360 00:27:23,220 --> 00:27:25,400 the queen is being led as a lamb to the slaughter..." 361 00:27:25,430 --> 00:27:28,780 SUSSEX: "...in this disastrous union with the Duke of Anjou. 362 00:27:28,810 --> 00:27:31,680 "How can Her Majesty surrender her virginity to a foreigner, 363 00:27:31,710 --> 00:27:37,060 "and a Catholic-- be subject to his influence? 364 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:39,450 "Has she forgotten the bloody legacy of her sister 365 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,590 "from such a match? 366 00:27:41,620 --> 00:27:43,000 "Proof of his deviousness 367 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:47,700 is in his desire to marry a woman so many years older." 368 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,420 We must double the sentries 369 00:27:51,460 --> 00:27:52,420 in your quarters. 370 00:27:52,460 --> 00:27:54,250 Outside the palace, 371 00:27:54,290 --> 00:27:56,530 an armed guard must accompany you at all times. 372 00:27:56,570 --> 00:27:57,710 And let my people think 373 00:27:57,740 --> 00:28:01,330 I have succumbed to this malicious spleen?! 374 00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:05,300 All copies of this profanity must be confiscated. 375 00:28:05,330 --> 00:28:09,100 I want this man Stubbs apprehended, dealt with. 376 00:28:09,130 --> 00:28:10,930 Hostility to your projected marriage 377 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,380 is not limited to a handful of miscreants, 378 00:28:13,410 --> 00:28:14,860 Your Grace. 379 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:17,380 The view is widespread among your subjects. 380 00:28:17,410 --> 00:28:18,930 And you, gentlemen-- 381 00:28:18,970 --> 00:28:24,350 where is the focus of your opinion now on this matter? 382 00:28:24,390 --> 00:28:26,870 This decision is too weighty to take alone, my lords. 383 00:28:26,910 --> 00:28:29,390 I must have your counsel on how I am to proceed. 384 00:28:29,430 --> 00:28:30,700 Advise me! 385 00:28:38,090 --> 00:28:44,790 [ speaking French] 386 00:28:44,820 --> 00:28:47,070 ANJOU: I cannot wait for that day, Majesty! 387 00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:49,760 I shall live for it! 388 00:29:37,740 --> 00:29:39,980 ELIZABETH: Let the jewels on my dress 389 00:29:40,010 --> 00:29:41,500 be like a thousand eyes 390 00:29:41,530 --> 00:29:43,640 so that my subjects know, however distant, 391 00:29:43,670 --> 00:29:45,680 I am always watching out for them. 392 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,400 And let there be no shadows on my face and neck, 393 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:51,960 for they accentuate age. 394 00:29:51,990 --> 00:29:57,340 Immortal is the look we're after, sir, and virginal. 395 00:29:57,380 --> 00:30:00,550 Divinity if you can so render it. 396 00:30:00,590 --> 00:30:02,730 My hair must be loose. 397 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,730 Oh, and make much of my hands! 398 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,150 Emphasize their slenderness, 399 00:30:07,180 --> 00:30:10,700 for I am told they are my best feature. 400 00:30:10,730 --> 00:30:14,190 Henceforth, when my people think of their queen, 401 00:30:14,220 --> 00:30:16,670 this is the image they must see. 402 00:30:19,470 --> 00:30:20,810 PHELIPPES: In her reply, 403 00:30:20,850 --> 00:30:23,470 the queen of Scots writes mainly of her rescue. 404 00:30:23,510 --> 00:30:29,440 On the subject of assassination, she is more circumspect. 405 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:33,720 Your proven knowledge might be hard to prove, sir. 406 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,210 I heard tell, 407 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,560 when Her Majesty was to be sent to the Tower by her sister, 408 00:30:39,590 --> 00:30:41,630 she wrote begging her for mercy. 409 00:30:41,660 --> 00:30:45,460 In order that no incriminating postscript 410 00:30:45,490 --> 00:30:49,570 could later be added, she drew lines thus. 411 00:30:50,460 --> 00:30:54,780 Pity her cousin lacked such forethought. 412 00:30:56,260 --> 00:30:58,400 Take this down. 413 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,370 "I would be glad to know..." 414 00:31:01,410 --> 00:31:05,410 Is this to be in... in her coded letter? 415 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:10,830 Both the coded letter and the transcription, Master Phelippes. 416 00:31:12,380 --> 00:31:15,350 "I would be glad to know the names 417 00:31:15,390 --> 00:31:17,700 "of the six gentlemen 418 00:31:17,730 --> 00:31:21,290 "who are to accomplish the dispatch of the impostor queen. 419 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,050 "With such knowledge, 420 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:28,230 I may advise them on how best to achieve their mission." 421 00:31:28,260 --> 00:31:30,640 As you see, her postscript is 422 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,680 in response to Babington's letter. 423 00:31:33,710 --> 00:31:36,920 I took the precaution yesterday of ordering a search 424 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:37,990 of her quarters in Derbyshire. 425 00:31:38,030 --> 00:31:40,760 Texts on cipher codes were secreted there. 426 00:31:40,790 --> 00:31:45,310 Also drafts of letters to her agents in Spain. 427 00:31:45,350 --> 00:31:47,800 There is no question of her culpability. 428 00:31:47,830 --> 00:31:50,320 Mr. Babington and his associates must be rounded up, 429 00:31:50,350 --> 00:31:51,530 brought to trial. 430 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,350 And the queen of Scots? 431 00:31:54,770 --> 00:31:56,530 If my cousin confesses her guilt, 432 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,360 vows to put an end to her wretched plotting, 433 00:31:58,390 --> 00:31:59,910 she will yet be pardoned. 434 00:31:59,950 --> 00:32:02,670 The new statute of association dictates 435 00:32:02,710 --> 00:32:05,470 that, as claimant and chief conspirator, 436 00:32:05,500 --> 00:32:07,640 she, too, must be brought to trial. 437 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:08,920 Your Majesty, that is the law now. 438 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:10,820 How prescient you were in that legislation, 439 00:32:10,850 --> 00:32:11,860 Sir Francis. 440 00:32:11,890 --> 00:32:14,170 I see now I underestimated you in that regard. 441 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:15,720 I will not make the same mistake again. 442 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,690 My lords, you shall attend the proceedings on my behalf. 443 00:32:19,730 --> 00:32:22,180 Remember the eyes of the world behold 444 00:32:22,210 --> 00:32:26,420 the actions of us princes... and judge us accordingly. 445 00:32:30,250 --> 00:32:33,570 ELIZABETH: Cousin, you have in various ways and means 446 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:34,980 attempted to take my life 447 00:32:35,020 --> 00:32:37,990 and bring my kingdom to destruction by bloodshed. 448 00:32:38,020 --> 00:32:40,920 These treasons have been proved against Babington, 449 00:32:40,950 --> 00:32:42,470 and your fellow conspirators 450 00:32:42,510 --> 00:32:44,100 have been punished for their actions. 451 00:32:44,130 --> 00:32:47,960 It is my command that you answer the peers of my kingdom 452 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,860 as if I myself were present. 453 00:32:49,890 --> 00:32:54,040 Act honestly, cousin, and you might yet obtain my favor." 454 00:32:54,070 --> 00:32:58,350 SIR WILLIAM: Thirty noblemen commissioned as judges arranged thus. 455 00:32:58,390 --> 00:33:00,970 Move. Come on. 456 00:33:05,460 --> 00:33:06,810 Put that there 457 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,330 to signify the presence of the queen, though absent. 458 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,090 And the queen of Scots? 459 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:15,820 If... if we place her adjacent, that makes her an equal. 460 00:33:15,850 --> 00:33:19,160 She goes there, where we can read her face. 461 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,000 CHRISTOPHER: No, could you... 462 00:33:22,030 --> 00:33:24,240 Get this damn dog out of here! 463 00:33:24,270 --> 00:33:26,690 We need chairs here and here. 464 00:33:36,110 --> 00:33:42,190 MARY: I repudiate the legality of these proceedings against me. 465 00:33:42,220 --> 00:33:44,670 Like you, as a queen, 466 00:33:44,710 --> 00:33:49,130 I am subject only to God's jurisdiction. 467 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,820 The evidence against me is forgery. 468 00:33:51,850 --> 00:33:54,750 I know nothing of this man Babington 469 00:33:54,790 --> 00:33:57,650 nor ever exchanged letters with him. 470 00:33:57,690 --> 00:34:03,070 I declare I would rather shipwreck my soul 471 00:34:03,110 --> 00:34:05,280 than seek your death. 472 00:34:11,180 --> 00:34:16,570 SIR WILLIAM: She is tireless in her wretched protestations of innocence. 473 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,570 I fear she is intent 474 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,400 on treating her trial as a theater, 475 00:34:21,430 --> 00:34:23,990 where she plays the innocent martyr 476 00:34:24,020 --> 00:34:27,510 unjustly accused by her heretic sister queen, 477 00:34:27,540 --> 00:34:31,100 thus hoping to inspire her Catholic supporters 478 00:34:31,130 --> 00:34:35,340 to rise against you... so destroy you after all. 479 00:34:38,140 --> 00:34:40,690 WALSINGHAM: Your commissioners have 480 00:34:40,730 --> 00:34:43,110 reached a verdict, Your Majesty. 481 00:34:43,150 --> 00:34:47,150 The queen of Scots is found guilty on the charge of treason 482 00:34:47,180 --> 00:34:49,700 and of conspiring in your assassination. 483 00:34:49,740 --> 00:34:53,050 As you know, the penalty for such an offense is... 484 00:34:53,090 --> 00:34:55,230 Death. 485 00:34:56,990 --> 00:34:59,130 [ speaking Latin] 486 00:35:00,020 --> 00:35:03,750 We two were milkmaids with pails upon our arms, 487 00:35:03,790 --> 00:35:06,620 and this matter was just between us. 488 00:35:06,650 --> 00:35:08,650 Even knowing she had sought my death, 489 00:35:08,690 --> 00:35:10,590 I would never consent to hers. 490 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,520 But as I carry the burden of my nation's welfare, 491 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,280 I must demand her blood. 492 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:23,460 Her coconspirators were hung, drawn and quartered, Your Grace. 493 00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:27,950 Anything less than her death will reek of nepotism. 494 00:35:27,980 --> 00:35:33,990 Or worse, of a vengeful queen expunging a rival heir. 495 00:35:34,020 --> 00:35:38,510 And her execution could yet send a clarion call to Spain 496 00:35:38,550 --> 00:35:43,310 to make good their threat, send their armada against us. 497 00:35:52,420 --> 00:35:55,080 MARY: Be warned, cousin. 498 00:35:55,110 --> 00:35:57,290 One day, you will be held 499 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:01,150 to account for your unjust treatment of me, 500 00:36:01,190 --> 00:36:06,500 for my blood and the misery I have endured at your hands 501 00:36:06,540 --> 00:36:10,890 will be remembered by every Catholic in your kingdom 502 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,680 and in Europe. 503 00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:17,650 They will cross the water and avenge my death. 504 00:36:17,690 --> 00:36:21,070 The blood on your hands will stain your kingdom 505 00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:23,350 for centuries to come. 506 00:36:47,230 --> 00:36:49,130 Why cannot some other method be found? 507 00:36:49,170 --> 00:36:50,170 Poison or... 508 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:51,930 You think if your hand is unseen, 509 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:53,690 God will be more lenient on you? 510 00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:55,240 My enemies might. 511 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:56,860 Spain, to name but one. 512 00:36:56,900 --> 00:37:01,520 You make such a play that, as queens, you and she are alike. 513 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,630 Is it not in how you discharge that duty 514 00:37:04,670 --> 00:37:07,150 where the difference lies? 515 00:37:07,190 --> 00:37:10,190 She has always let her heart rule her head, 516 00:37:10,220 --> 00:37:12,600 put passion before politic need. 517 00:37:14,850 --> 00:37:17,200 [ sighs] 518 00:37:17,230 --> 00:37:20,440 If you shrink before this duty now, Bess, 519 00:37:20,470 --> 00:37:24,930 then indeed you risk the accusation that you are alike. 520 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,900 As a woman, you were just not equal to the task. 521 00:37:47,980 --> 00:37:50,300 She will sign the death warrant. 522 00:37:54,340 --> 00:38:01,450 [ women whispering in prayer] 523 00:38:29,370 --> 00:38:33,440 [ Mary sobbing] 524 00:38:43,970 --> 00:38:45,770 [ screams] 525 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:54,810 Oh, God in Heaven, forgive me! 526 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:56,670 What have I done? 527 00:39:25,430 --> 00:39:27,500 [ whispering in prayer] 528 00:39:49,450 --> 00:39:52,450 MAN: I was bound for France to collect salt, 529 00:39:52,490 --> 00:39:55,490 and there was the Spanish fleet. 530 00:39:55,530 --> 00:39:57,940 130 galleons, I counted. 531 00:39:57,980 --> 00:40:02,840 Like a vast floating city, they were, in half-moon formation, 532 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,540 stretching near ten miles across. 533 00:40:05,570 --> 00:40:08,020 The masts and prows of such height, Your Majesty, 534 00:40:08,060 --> 00:40:12,440 such might, it seems they wiped out the very sky. 535 00:40:12,470 --> 00:40:15,100 The ocean groaning under their weight. 536 00:40:15,130 --> 00:40:16,410 The beacons are lit. 537 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:17,480 They are sighted 538 00:40:17,510 --> 00:40:18,550 off the Cornish coast. 539 00:40:18,580 --> 00:40:19,690 Heading which way? 540 00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:21,380 Northeast, if my intelligence is sound, 541 00:40:21,410 --> 00:40:22,690 to anchor off Calais, 542 00:40:22,730 --> 00:40:24,760 wait for the second force to embark from Flanders here 543 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:25,970 and join them. 544 00:40:27,450 --> 00:40:30,350 Then it begins. 545 00:40:31,940 --> 00:40:33,500 SUSSEX: Their soldiers are professional, 546 00:40:33,530 --> 00:40:34,430 expertly trained. 547 00:40:34,460 --> 00:40:35,460 If they get to the channel, 548 00:40:35,500 --> 00:40:36,460 they'll sweep through Kent, 549 00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:37,740 crush London within a week. 550 00:40:37,780 --> 00:40:39,290 No mongrel of a Spaniard shall get through, sir, 551 00:40:39,330 --> 00:40:40,470 not while I have breath! 552 00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:42,230 What word from Plymouth? 553 00:40:42,260 --> 00:40:44,020 Drake and the western squadron 554 00:40:44,060 --> 00:40:45,650 left under cover of darkness. 555 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,790 He means to get behind the Spanish fleet 556 00:40:47,820 --> 00:40:48,990 and attack from the rear. 557 00:40:49,030 --> 00:40:51,410 SUSSEX: Well, pray to God the tide stays with them. 558 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:52,720 News, my lords! 559 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:53,550 I lack news! 560 00:40:53,580 --> 00:40:54,900 Is the Isle of Wight secure? 561 00:40:54,930 --> 00:40:56,520 SIR WILLIAM: But barely, Your Grace. 562 00:40:56,550 --> 00:40:58,170 Two galleons are lost to them. 563 00:40:58,210 --> 00:40:59,520 Only two? 564 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:00,730 Then it is stalemate. 565 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,420 SIR WILLIAM: Drake's squadron is 566 00:41:02,460 --> 00:41:04,420 even now pursuing them towards the Straits of Dover. 567 00:41:04,460 --> 00:41:06,180 Without sufficient munitions for his cannons, 568 00:41:06,220 --> 00:41:07,180 that's all he can do. 569 00:41:07,220 --> 00:41:09,190 ELIZABETH: And the Flanders fleet? 570 00:41:09,220 --> 00:41:10,640 SUSSEX: Holed up by storms. 571 00:41:10,670 --> 00:41:12,020 ELIZABETH: Let us hope it is 572 00:41:12,050 --> 00:41:15,230 a Protestant wind, my lords, that keeps blowing for us. 573 00:41:15,260 --> 00:41:18,610 More papal propaganda the Spanish carry of no interest. 574 00:41:22,060 --> 00:41:25,890 "Incestuous bastard of depraved courtesan Anne Boleyn, 575 00:41:25,930 --> 00:41:29,790 cursed heretic, shame of her sex and princely name." 576 00:41:29,830 --> 00:41:31,140 Of no interest indeed. 577 00:41:31,170 --> 00:41:32,900 SUSSEX: I fear it may be of interest 578 00:41:32,930 --> 00:41:35,110 to your Catholic subjects, Your Grace. 579 00:41:35,140 --> 00:41:36,350 Have faith, my lord. 580 00:41:36,390 --> 00:41:38,490 They are English before they are Catholic. 581 00:42:04,140 --> 00:42:07,240 SOLDIER: My God! 'Tis Queen Bess! 582 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,310 My God! 'Tis the queen! 583 00:42:09,350 --> 00:42:11,520 The queen! 584 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:18,530 [ soldiers shouting with excitement] 585 00:42:45,420 --> 00:42:47,730 SOLDIER: God preserve the queen! 586 00:42:47,770 --> 00:42:50,800 SOLDIER: God is with us, Your Majesty! 587 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,640 A statement from one Cardinal Don Pedro, 588 00:42:54,670 --> 00:42:57,780 captured by Drake on the Rosario. 589 00:42:57,810 --> 00:43:00,710 "Upon our glorious assault on England, 590 00:43:00,750 --> 00:43:04,610 "all heretics will be whipped by chains until dead. 591 00:43:04,650 --> 00:43:08,620 "Protestant children under seven to follow their fathers; 592 00:43:08,650 --> 00:43:09,820 the rest 593 00:43:09,860 --> 00:43:13,280 branded on the forehead with the letter L for Lutheran." 594 00:43:13,310 --> 00:43:14,970 How very original. 595 00:43:17,660 --> 00:43:20,730 When this is over, you will go to Buxton, Robbie. 596 00:43:20,770 --> 00:43:22,110 Take the water. 597 00:43:22,150 --> 00:43:25,430 Or I shall brand you myself! 598 00:43:25,460 --> 00:43:27,840 The L shall not be for Lutheran, 599 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:29,330 but lunkhead! 600 00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:30,840 [ laughs] 601 00:43:45,790 --> 00:43:48,240 The second force is set to embark from Flanders. 602 00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:53,280 Then in the name of God, listen to reason. 603 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,280 For your own safety, you must return 604 00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,350 to Whitehall. 605 00:43:59,980 --> 00:44:03,050 The trust you put in your people is worthy, Bess, 606 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:04,670 but if they turn against you, 607 00:44:04,710 --> 00:44:06,950 there is no protection for you here. 608 00:44:09,300 --> 00:44:10,950 Or is it a martyr's death in battle 609 00:44:10,990 --> 00:44:12,160 you hanker for? 610 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:13,470 And a hero's epitaph? 611 00:44:13,510 --> 00:44:15,890 What greater purpose to a prince's life 612 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:17,720 than to teach us how to die? 613 00:44:22,170 --> 00:44:23,690 They say the queen of Scots 614 00:44:23,730 --> 00:44:27,560 met her death with courage. 615 00:44:27,590 --> 00:44:32,600 Yet it took three strokes of the ax to dispatch her. 616 00:44:34,250 --> 00:44:36,460 After there was panic, 617 00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:40,850 they thought they still detected some movement in her. 618 00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:45,750 It was but her wretched dog, sheltering beneath her skirts. 619 00:44:47,750 --> 00:44:50,860 That was not yet her final epitaph. 620 00:44:52,030 --> 00:44:54,890 When the executioner lifted up her severed head, 621 00:44:54,930 --> 00:44:56,410 it fell from his hand. 622 00:44:56,450 --> 00:44:59,000 He was left holding only her wig. 623 00:45:02,180 --> 00:45:05,910 It's a thin line between respect and ridicule, is it not? 624 00:45:11,740 --> 00:45:15,570 [ snoring] 625 00:45:34,970 --> 00:45:40,870 ELIZABETH: My loving people, I have always so conducted myself 626 00:45:40,910 --> 00:45:44,530 that, under God, my strength and safety lies 627 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,950 in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects. 628 00:45:47,980 --> 00:45:49,670 So I come amongst you... 629 00:45:49,710 --> 00:45:53,500 SIR WILLIAM: "I come amongst you at this time, not for my recreation, 630 00:45:53,540 --> 00:45:56,750 "but being resolved in the midst and heat of battle 631 00:45:56,780 --> 00:45:59,990 "to live or die amongst you all, 632 00:46:00,030 --> 00:46:05,830 "to lay down for my God and for my kingdom and my people 633 00:46:05,860 --> 00:46:10,000 my honor and my blood, even in the dust." 634 00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:15,390 I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman. 635 00:46:15,420 --> 00:46:18,940 But I have the heart and stomach of a king... 636 00:46:18,980 --> 00:46:21,220 and a king of England, too! 637 00:46:21,260 --> 00:46:26,050 And I think foul scorn that Spain or any prince of Europe 638 00:46:26,090 --> 00:46:29,920 should dare to invade the borders of my realm! 639 00:46:29,950 --> 00:46:34,200 To which, rather than face that dishonor, 640 00:46:34,230 --> 00:46:37,860 I will myself take up arms beside you! 641 00:46:37,890 --> 00:46:41,100 I will be your general and your rewarder 642 00:46:41,140 --> 00:46:43,490 for your virtues in the field. 643 00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:47,940 We know that you already deserve rewards and crowns, 644 00:46:47,970 --> 00:46:52,150 and we do assure you, in the word of a prince, 645 00:46:52,180 --> 00:46:56,220 they shall be paid to you. 646 00:46:56,260 --> 00:47:00,020 And take heed, too, of my lieutenant general, 647 00:47:00,050 --> 00:47:02,880 for no prince ever commanded 648 00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:06,820 a more worthy or noble subject as he. 649 00:47:06,850 --> 00:47:13,070 By your obedience to him, by your valor in battle, 650 00:47:13,100 --> 00:47:15,900 we shall yet win a famous victory 651 00:47:15,930 --> 00:47:17,590 over these enemies of God... 652 00:47:17,620 --> 00:47:21,210 of my kingdom... and of my people! 653 00:47:21,250 --> 00:47:26,700 [ soldiers cheer wildly] 654 00:47:38,990 --> 00:47:44,240 "Night of the 28th July, two miles southeast of Calais, 655 00:47:44,270 --> 00:47:46,030 reinforced by Seymour and Winters..." 656 00:47:46,070 --> 00:47:47,100 [ men cheering outside] 657 00:47:47,140 --> 00:47:48,100 They are celebrating. 658 00:47:48,140 --> 00:47:49,100 The news must have... 659 00:47:49,140 --> 00:47:50,100 ELIZABETH: Yes, yes! 660 00:47:50,140 --> 00:47:51,480 Read! Read! 661 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,590 "Drake unleashed eight fire ships 662 00:47:53,620 --> 00:47:55,280 "among the anchored Spanish galleons 663 00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,350 "to dislodge their formation. 664 00:47:57,390 --> 00:47:59,630 "Believing the ships were primed with gunpowder, 665 00:47:59,660 --> 00:48:02,250 the Spanish cut their anchors..." 666 00:48:02,290 --> 00:48:05,150 "And fled in utmost confusion. 667 00:48:05,190 --> 00:48:08,670 "A running battle was thereafter maintained near Gravelines. 668 00:48:08,710 --> 00:48:10,920 "So close were we to the enemy, 669 00:48:10,950 --> 00:48:13,890 we were within speech of one another." 670 00:48:15,510 --> 00:48:16,960 "Then the wind shifted, 671 00:48:16,990 --> 00:48:21,130 "what remained of the armada was swept by storms and gales 672 00:48:21,170 --> 00:48:23,170 to founder in the North Sea." 673 00:48:23,210 --> 00:48:24,860 And the Flanders force? 674 00:48:24,900 --> 00:48:27,550 "Intelligence that the Flanders force will not embark 675 00:48:27,590 --> 00:48:29,940 without the protection of the Spanish fleet." 676 00:48:29,970 --> 00:48:33,390 Then they are vanquished? 677 00:48:33,420 --> 00:48:35,630 God breathed and they were scattered! 678 00:48:35,670 --> 00:48:38,460 We are saved, Robbie! 679 00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,050 [ bells ringing, people shouting happily] 680 00:48:44,090 --> 00:48:47,820 [ people cheering queen] 681 00:48:47,850 --> 00:48:49,920 God bless you all! 682 00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:51,270 [ cheering and applause] 683 00:48:51,300 --> 00:48:55,340 This is not just a Protestant victory, 684 00:48:55,380 --> 00:48:57,930 but England's victory! 685 00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,380 This is all our victory! 686 00:49:01,420 --> 00:49:08,320 [ cheering and applause] 687 00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:14,770 [ cheering, applause] 688 00:49:14,810 --> 00:49:18,400 WOMAN: We are saved, Your Grace! 689 00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,540 Victory, my lords! Victory! 690 00:49:22,580 --> 00:49:26,340 [ Elizabeth laughing with others] 691 00:49:26,370 --> 00:49:29,000 My lord, we must make preparations 692 00:49:29,030 --> 00:49:30,480 for our celebration. 693 00:49:30,510 --> 00:49:31,720 I will issue a proclamation, 694 00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:34,210 for a day of holiday throughout the realm. 695 00:49:34,240 --> 00:49:35,550 And a new coin must be struck 696 00:49:35,590 --> 00:49:36,730 in honor of our triumph. 697 00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:38,660 And let us make a victory procession 698 00:49:38,690 --> 00:49:40,800 to St. Paul's, to thank God for... 699 00:49:42,460 --> 00:49:44,980 So solemn on such a day, William? 700 00:49:45,010 --> 00:49:46,460 Shame on you! 701 00:49:46,500 --> 00:49:49,360 I would speak with you alone, Your Grace. 702 00:49:53,090 --> 00:49:54,880 [ giggling] 703 00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,750 [ cheering, bells ringing outside] 704 00:49:59,370 --> 00:50:02,410 As you know, after Tilbury, the Earl of Leicester 705 00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,510 was to journey to Buxton to take the waters. 706 00:50:08,410 --> 00:50:10,830 En route he fell ill with a fever, 707 00:50:10,860 --> 00:50:14,700 was forced to stop at his hunting lodge in Oxford. 708 00:50:14,730 --> 00:50:18,290 He was found there this morning by a servant. 709 00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,010 [ weakly]: Say it is not so. 710 00:50:20,910 --> 00:50:23,020 [ voice quavering]: Say it is not so. 711 00:50:27,430 --> 00:50:29,060 He was alone when...? 712 00:50:31,540 --> 00:50:32,580 Oh. 713 00:50:34,230 --> 00:50:36,860 Oh, my heart is wrenched from me! 714 00:50:36,890 --> 00:50:39,100 [ sobbing] 715 00:50:39,130 --> 00:50:42,860 There was a letter for you by his side. 716 00:50:42,900 --> 00:50:44,590 [ sobbing] 717 00:50:59,290 --> 00:51:02,300 Oh, God, not this. 718 00:51:02,330 --> 00:51:04,990 Anything but this. 719 00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:29,910 Your Majesty? 720 00:51:29,940 --> 00:51:30,940 News from Ireland. 721 00:51:30,980 --> 00:51:33,640 The wrecks of yet more of the Spanish fleet 722 00:51:33,670 --> 00:51:35,780 are washed up on their shores. 723 00:51:35,810 --> 00:51:36,610 They say the coast is 724 00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:39,470 fair littered with their corpses! 725 00:51:39,510 --> 00:51:42,200 SIR WILLIAM: The pope himself acknowledges 726 00:51:42,230 --> 00:51:44,130 your supremacy, Your Grace! 727 00:51:44,170 --> 00:51:46,130 He said though only a woman 728 00:51:46,170 --> 00:51:49,380 and mistress of one half of a small island, 729 00:51:49,410 --> 00:51:52,660 yet you have made yourself feared by Spain, 730 00:51:52,690 --> 00:51:55,000 by France, by all of Europe! 731 00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:05,980 Your Majesty, enough now. 732 00:52:08,910 --> 00:52:11,680 Throughout the realm your people call your triumph 733 00:52:11,710 --> 00:52:13,820 the greatest victory since Agincourt, 734 00:52:13,850 --> 00:52:16,020 and they cannot celebrate it without you. 735 00:52:20,300 --> 00:52:24,070 My Lord Leicester would never want his passing 736 00:52:24,100 --> 00:52:27,480 to eclipse your finest hour. 737 00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:37,670 DUDLEY: I humbly beseech you to pardon your poor old servant 738 00:52:37,700 --> 00:52:41,390 being so bold in writing to ask how my gracious lady is. 739 00:52:43,810 --> 00:52:49,470 As ever, your welfare is all that consumes me. 740 00:52:49,510 --> 00:52:51,440 As for my own poor case, 741 00:52:51,470 --> 00:52:54,990 I am hoping to find a perfect cure at Buxton 742 00:52:55,030 --> 00:52:56,380 as you instructed, 743 00:52:56,410 --> 00:53:00,340 so I can all the more quickly return to your side. 744 00:53:00,380 --> 00:53:05,420 Until then, as always, I kiss your feet. 745 00:53:05,450 --> 00:53:11,390 Your most loving, most faithful servant, Robbie. 746 00:53:50,670 --> 00:53:53,430 [ heavy lock unlatching] 747 00:53:57,510 --> 00:54:01,370 [ murmuring; clothes rustling as all kneel en masse] 748 00:54:38,300 --> 00:54:39,510 [ raps staff twice] 749 00:54:39,550 --> 00:54:41,760 [ musicians begin playing lively piece] 750 00:55:47,240 --> 00:55:48,690 That young man yonder-- 751 00:55:48,720 --> 00:55:51,070 do I know him? 752 00:55:51,100 --> 00:55:52,410 Robert Devereux, Your Grace. 753 00:55:52,450 --> 00:55:55,760 The Second Earl of Essex. 754 00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:57,630 SIR WILLIAM: My Lord Leicester's stepson, 755 00:55:57,660 --> 00:55:58,450 Your Majesty. 756 00:55:58,490 --> 00:56:00,320 Do you not remember him? 757 00:56:13,950 --> 00:56:15,540 I seem to recall, my lord, 758 00:56:15,570 --> 00:56:18,890 when presented to me as a child, you shrank from me. 759 00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:21,820 So afraid were you I might deign to kiss you. 760 00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:27,830 I am a grown man now, Your Majesty... 761 00:56:27,860 --> 00:56:29,420 and know better. 762 00:56:43,290 --> 00:56:45,850 His son in all but name. 763 00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:07,900 [ excited chattering, young people laughing] 764 00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:12,670 ELIZABETH: God's blood, no! 765 00:57:12,700 --> 00:57:15,010 Must I say it a thousand times? 766 00:57:15,050 --> 00:57:17,080 MAN: Your Majesty, 767 00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:18,570 the bad tooth must be removed. 768 00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,090 There is no other remedy! 769 00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:24,230 Your Grace, the Earl of Essex's fleet is landed in Plymouth. 770 00:57:24,260 --> 00:57:26,370 SIR WILLIAM: Your people gather to celebrate 771 00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:28,090 his triumphant return with you! 772 00:57:28,130 --> 00:57:29,340 ELIZABETH: Ha! 773 00:57:29,370 --> 00:57:32,270 The tooth is diseased and must be extracted. 774 00:57:32,310 --> 00:57:33,650 Pain will be but momentary, 775 00:57:33,690 --> 00:57:35,270 and your weeks of suffering 776 00:57:35,310 --> 00:57:36,550 will be at an end. 777 00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:39,490 Rather an eternity of suffering 778 00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:41,940 than die at the hands of that loggerheaded butcher! 779 00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:45,250 SIR WILLIAM: Pain will be but momentary, 780 00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:47,800 and the queen's suffering will be at an end. 781 00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:49,460 All thanks to your courageous example. 782 00:57:49,500 --> 00:57:52,500 You'd lose a tooth, but you win back her favor. 783 00:57:52,530 --> 00:57:54,330 Is that not the opportunity 784 00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:55,500 you've been waiting for? 785 00:57:55,540 --> 00:57:57,230 [ sighing worriedly] 786 00:57:57,260 --> 00:57:58,300 Some years ago... 787 00:57:58,330 --> 00:57:59,920 Seven years ago, my lord. 788 00:57:59,950 --> 00:58:01,680 Alas, I recall it to the day. 789 00:58:01,710 --> 00:58:04,100 Master Alsop was presented to the queen. 790 00:58:04,130 --> 00:58:05,860 As he bowed, a voluminous fart 791 00:58:05,890 --> 00:58:06,690 escaped him-- 792 00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:07,820 if voluminous is the word. 793 00:58:07,860 --> 00:58:11,620 Easily done, sir, when in a prone position. 794 00:58:11,660 --> 00:58:15,180 Should she remember that unfortunate event, my lord... 795 00:58:15,210 --> 00:58:16,830 Her memory is not what it was, Master Alsop. 796 00:58:16,870 --> 00:58:19,150 You have nothing to fear in that regard. 797 00:58:19,180 --> 00:58:22,010 Select the sacrificial tooth, sir. 798 00:58:22,050 --> 00:58:24,190 We will announce you. 799 00:58:24,220 --> 00:58:29,400 [ both grunting and groaning] 800 00:58:33,090 --> 00:58:35,960 [ panting and gasping] 801 00:58:39,370 --> 00:58:41,550 It is but a pinprick, Your Majesty. 802 00:58:41,580 --> 00:58:46,550 All right, extract the damn thing. 803 00:58:46,590 --> 00:58:48,550 ELIZABETH: I did not catch your name, sir. 804 00:58:48,590 --> 00:58:50,110 [ mumbling]: Horace Alsop, 805 00:58:50,140 --> 00:58:51,490 Your Majesty. 806 00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:54,080 SIR WILLIAM: Horace Alsop, Your Grace. 807 00:58:54,110 --> 00:58:58,180 We are grateful for your service to us today, Master Alsop. 808 00:58:58,220 --> 00:59:01,390 And I had entirely forgotten the fart. 809 00:59:01,430 --> 00:59:02,640 [ chuckles] 810 00:59:10,300 --> 00:59:13,920 MAN: Every town, every village calls him England's glory. 811 00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:16,030 He basks in their praise. 812 00:59:16,060 --> 00:59:19,340 SIR WILLIAM: I fear your generosity these many years 813 00:59:19,380 --> 00:59:21,480 has swollen the earl's head, Your Majesty. 814 00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:24,660 News of his triumph at Cadiz travels fast-- deservedly so. 815 00:59:24,690 --> 00:59:28,800 It was the tactics of Sir Walter Raleigh which triumphed there. 816 00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:30,700 Though wounded in battle, his heroism goes unsung. 817 00:59:30,730 --> 00:59:33,080 Instead of capturing the Spanish treasure, 818 00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:35,360 the earl's negligence allowed them to burn their fleet. 819 00:59:35,390 --> 00:59:37,290 What ransom he plundered he gave to his men, 820 00:59:37,330 --> 00:59:39,050 rather than reserving it for the crown, 821 00:59:39,090 --> 00:59:40,400 as you instructed. 822 00:59:40,430 --> 00:59:42,440 The rivalry between your son and the Earl of Essex 823 00:59:42,470 --> 00:59:44,160 is like that of two spitting hawks, my lord, 824 00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:45,300 and is tiresome. 825 00:59:45,340 --> 00:59:47,130 SIR WILLIAM: You invested 826 00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:48,410 £50,000 in the venture. 827 00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:50,720 The Spanish claim they lost millions in the siege. 828 00:59:50,750 --> 00:59:53,310 Yet we estimate the booty the earl brings back 829 00:59:53,340 --> 00:59:54,520 as only £13,000. 830 00:59:54,550 --> 00:59:55,660 The rest is squandered. 831 00:59:55,690 --> 00:59:56,760 Or pilfered. 832 00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:59,280 It is not just a Spanish ransom he denied you. 833 00:59:59,310 --> 01:00:01,040 Every heart of your people he wins 834 01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:02,560 is one less to honor you. 835 01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:13,290 [ crowd cheering and applauding] 836 01:00:29,210 --> 01:00:30,520 Pygmy! 837 01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:39,800 They say that every dog must have his day. 838 01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,120 Mmm. 839 01:00:42,150 --> 01:00:44,360 They also say a man's finest hour 840 01:00:44,390 --> 01:00:48,230 precedes his darkest, Sir Robert. 841 01:00:54,850 --> 01:00:56,820 Father? 842 01:00:56,860 --> 01:00:57,930 [ pounding heavily] 843 01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:04,620 [ crowd quiets] 844 01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:09,280 Your Majesty! 845 01:01:10,490 --> 01:01:11,970 Just being in your presence again 846 01:01:12,010 --> 01:01:14,320 is all that sustained me these dreary months. 847 01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:15,390 Sir Walter Raleigh! 848 01:01:15,430 --> 01:01:17,670 Is he here? 849 01:01:18,910 --> 01:01:21,430 Your injury caused us grievous concern, my lord. 850 01:01:21,470 --> 01:01:22,710 I could not sleep for worry. 851 01:01:22,740 --> 01:01:25,230 It was but a flesh wound, Your Majesty... a trifle. 852 01:01:25,260 --> 01:01:27,020 ELIZABETH: Never think your skill in battle 853 01:01:27,060 --> 01:01:28,270 has gone unnoticed, Sir Walter. 854 01:01:28,300 --> 01:01:30,410 Posterity will vouch for it, as I will, 855 01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:32,440 even though some might think to eclipse it. 856 01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:36,790 What fool was it said absence makes the heart grow fonder? 857 01:01:36,830 --> 01:01:38,760 Absence is something that some might use 858 01:01:38,790 --> 01:01:40,760 to their advantage, my lord. 859 01:01:43,660 --> 01:01:47,320 Salvaged from the Spanish wrecks by my own hand, Your Grace. 860 01:01:47,350 --> 01:01:49,700 My homecoming gift to you. 861 01:01:51,250 --> 01:01:52,840 Where are the gold rings? 862 01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:54,530 The casks of sugar? 863 01:01:54,570 --> 01:01:56,360 The Portuguese wines? 864 01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:58,740 I foresaw it would end this way! 865 01:01:58,780 --> 01:02:00,750 Everyone would benefit from this folly 866 01:02:00,780 --> 01:02:03,090 except she who actually funded it! 867 01:02:03,130 --> 01:02:04,340 My Lord Cecil? 868 01:02:04,370 --> 01:02:07,440 Assess the value of these trinkets 869 01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:09,720 and offset it against the earl's debt to us. 870 01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:11,720 Your Majesty knows more than anyone 871 01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:13,590 the state of my impoverished finances. 872 01:02:13,620 --> 01:02:15,000 Surely you will not be so cruel. 873 01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:17,900 I am not inclined to reward incompetence, my lord. 874 01:02:17,940 --> 01:02:21,530 And the cruelty is yours in betraying my trust! 875 01:02:22,460 --> 01:02:24,910 ELIZABETH: The celebratory concert is canceled! 876 01:02:24,940 --> 01:02:26,770 And the fireworks display! 877 01:02:26,810 --> 01:02:28,080 Sir Charles, 878 01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:29,640 I am in the mood for chess. 879 01:02:29,670 --> 01:02:33,610 Enough time has been wasted on this debacle! 880 01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:40,270 [ door thuds closed] 881 01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:45,450 MAN: 'Tis his mother! 'Tis Lady Leicester! 882 01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:49,970 MAN: A glimpse of him is all we ask, my lady! 883 01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:54,800 WOMAN: He has restored the nation's pride! He is our pride! 884 01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:59,120 LETTICE: It is spite which propels her. 885 01:02:59,150 --> 01:03:02,910 'Tis spite and jealousy. 886 01:03:02,950 --> 01:03:05,570 "There is but one sun in the universe!" 887 01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:07,330 Well, another sun rises now. 888 01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:10,090 The more that she fears it will outshine her, 889 01:03:10,130 --> 01:03:12,540 the greater the venom she spits. 890 01:03:12,580 --> 01:03:15,170 'Tis that cripple of a pen-pusher Robert Cecil 891 01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:16,930 who has turned her. 892 01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:20,580 The wretch takes every opportunity to malign you. 893 01:03:20,620 --> 01:03:22,030 LETTICE: He may have her ear. 894 01:03:22,070 --> 01:03:25,000 My son holds the greater prize. 895 01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:26,040 It is your name 896 01:03:26,070 --> 01:03:28,390 they call out there, none other. 897 01:03:28,420 --> 01:03:31,460 Much use is that, when I face bankruptcy. 898 01:03:31,490 --> 01:03:34,080 She who controls the purse controls the man. 899 01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:35,430 LETTICE: Not this man. 900 01:03:35,460 --> 01:03:38,260 Not my son. 901 01:03:39,050 --> 01:03:40,400 When you were absent, they say 902 01:03:40,430 --> 01:03:41,850 that she pined for you 903 01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:44,370 like a lovesick harpy. 904 01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:48,470 Her scrawny heart can be yours again if... 905 01:03:48,510 --> 01:03:51,240 you play her right. 906 01:03:51,270 --> 01:03:54,690 Your stepfather always said 907 01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:56,860 that however bitter their rows, 908 01:03:56,900 --> 01:04:01,180 their reconciliations were always sweeter. 909 01:04:01,210 --> 01:04:03,840 For each one came gift wrapped. 910 01:04:12,290 --> 01:04:14,120 [ men chuckling] 911 01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:15,470 Shh... 912 01:04:17,990 --> 01:04:19,330 The face is familiar. 913 01:04:19,370 --> 01:04:21,610 Alas, the name escapes me. 914 01:04:21,650 --> 01:04:25,550 Sir Charles Blount, as well you know, my lord. 915 01:04:25,580 --> 01:04:27,620 They say your company is much sought after 916 01:04:27,650 --> 01:04:29,070 by the queen of late; 917 01:04:29,100 --> 01:04:32,310 that you spend hours closeted alone in her privy chamber. 918 01:04:32,350 --> 01:04:35,350 We are exploring the theological ramifications 919 01:04:35,380 --> 01:04:37,250 of Dante's Inferno. 920 01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:38,350 [ others laughing] 921 01:04:38,390 --> 01:04:42,560 My Lady relishes such pursuits, as do I. 922 01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:44,630 He has the sallow look of a scholar about him, it's true. 923 01:04:44,670 --> 01:04:49,710 This token you wear... denotes what? 924 01:04:49,740 --> 01:04:52,570 This is a gift of favor from the queen. 925 01:04:52,610 --> 01:04:54,470 It's to mark my skill at jousting. 926 01:04:54,510 --> 01:04:56,850 [ others laugh again] 927 01:04:56,890 --> 01:04:58,300 I'll be blunt, Blount. 928 01:04:58,340 --> 01:04:59,790 You do not strike me 929 01:04:59,820 --> 01:05:03,200 as a man who exhibits much in the way of athletic prowess. 930 01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:06,830 Which leads me to one of two conclusions: 931 01:05:06,860 --> 01:05:08,760 Either you took advantage of the queen 932 01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:11,760 and purloined the chess piece while she was distracted... 933 01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:12,940 I did no such thing! 934 01:05:12,970 --> 01:05:14,390 Or you are a fool. 935 01:05:14,420 --> 01:05:17,180 For only a fool would display her favor 936 01:05:17,220 --> 01:05:18,940 in so cheap a fashion. 937 01:05:18,980 --> 01:05:22,740 And only a knave would make such a cheap insinuation. 938 01:05:23,850 --> 01:05:27,470 [ others groan derisively, then laugh] 939 01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:30,990 [ yells] 940 01:06:22,350 --> 01:06:23,700 Oh, Robbie... 941 01:06:24,940 --> 01:06:27,910 What folly has your impetuousness led you to now? 942 01:06:27,940 --> 01:06:32,020 It is but a flesh wound, Your Majesty, a trifle. 943 01:06:32,050 --> 01:06:33,360 Is your life of so little value 944 01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:35,370 you would risk it for the sake of pointless pride? 945 01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:39,370 It is my life which is pointless. 946 01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:43,550 Your unkindness makes it so. 947 01:06:43,580 --> 01:06:46,550 I strive only to be worthy of you. 948 01:06:46,580 --> 01:06:47,380 I am human. 949 01:06:47,410 --> 01:06:49,000 I make mistakes. 950 01:06:49,030 --> 01:06:52,450 Am I to be condemned for that? 951 01:06:52,490 --> 01:06:55,830 Night and day, hope and jealousy fight within me. 952 01:06:55,870 --> 01:06:58,180 I have no respite from it! 953 01:07:01,150 --> 01:07:03,390 Only you have the power 954 01:07:03,430 --> 01:07:06,260 to free me of the tyranny of one 955 01:07:06,290 --> 01:07:08,050 that I may rise to the other. 956 01:07:08,090 --> 01:07:10,260 But when you shun me... 957 01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:13,060 demean me... 958 01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:16,860 I wish to God he had struck me through the heart, 959 01:07:16,890 --> 01:07:17,750 be done with it! 960 01:07:17,790 --> 01:07:18,650 Hush now. 961 01:07:24,690 --> 01:07:27,210 You are not the only one fighting demons, Robbie. 962 01:07:27,250 --> 01:07:30,110 You do not see. 963 01:07:30,140 --> 01:07:34,110 Without your love I am lost to them. 964 01:07:34,150 --> 01:07:37,950 There is only futility, despair. 965 01:07:37,980 --> 01:07:40,710 Have I not proved my affection a hundred times? 966 01:07:40,740 --> 01:07:43,020 Given you every opportunity for advancement? 967 01:07:43,050 --> 01:07:44,810 Every chance to prove your worth? 968 01:07:44,850 --> 01:07:51,650 Your respect is harder to win, it seems. 969 01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:56,240 Respect is not the prize you think, Robbie. 970 01:07:56,270 --> 01:07:57,520 People have short memories. 971 01:07:57,550 --> 01:08:01,240 Then they are fools... 972 01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:02,940 and unworthy of you. 973 01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:16,470 Do your work well, sir, 974 01:08:16,500 --> 01:08:18,880 for there is none so precious to me. 975 01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:27,060 SIR FRANCIS BACON: Your ruse with Blount was a masterstroke! 976 01:08:27,100 --> 01:08:29,510 Such a cocktail of erudition-- 977 01:08:29,550 --> 01:08:32,590 a dash of nihilism, a pinch of devotion. 978 01:08:32,620 --> 01:08:35,140 Shakespeare himself could not have matched it. 979 01:08:35,180 --> 01:08:39,350 You think that I am so callous, 980 01:08:39,390 --> 01:08:43,800 that my words were but a cynical ploy... 981 01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:44,810 a sham! 982 01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:50,540 You know me less well than you think, Francis. 983 01:08:53,990 --> 01:09:02,620 [ laughing] 984 01:09:11,630 --> 01:09:14,520 ESSEX: Francis Bacon is the man for your attorney general. 985 01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:16,180 I tell you, you will find none better. 986 01:09:16,220 --> 01:09:17,560 Be warned, Robbie, 987 01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:19,630 if you mean to wear me down with your badgering, 988 01:09:19,670 --> 01:09:21,260 many have tried that trick 989 01:09:21,290 --> 01:09:23,190 and I have outlived them all. 990 01:09:23,220 --> 01:09:27,950 For the sake of both our sanities, choose another topic. 991 01:09:27,990 --> 01:09:31,400 I fear the next might please you even less. 992 01:09:33,440 --> 01:09:38,200 My mother asks that you receive her back in court. 993 01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:41,930 Her exile is my punishment, too. 994 01:09:41,970 --> 01:09:44,210 My badgering is but a whimper compared to hers. 995 01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:47,070 She gives me no peace on it! 996 01:09:47,110 --> 01:09:49,250 She claims that your beauty robbed her 997 01:09:49,280 --> 01:09:50,530 of her husband's love 998 01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:52,940 and now you seek to do the same with her son. 999 01:09:53,910 --> 01:09:56,880 Do you not see how I am caught in the enmity between you? 1000 01:09:56,910 --> 01:09:59,190 Yonder trees. 1001 01:09:59,220 --> 01:10:00,950 Shall we? 1002 01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:06,020 It's a fair distance for someone of your years. 1003 01:10:06,060 --> 01:10:07,160 My years! 1004 01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:09,410 You will choke on those words, my boy! 1005 01:10:09,440 --> 01:10:10,960 [ shouts to horse] 1006 01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:20,350 BACON: As ever, your efforts on my behalf are welcome. 1007 01:10:20,380 --> 01:10:23,590 But I fear the queen suspects your generosity to your friends 1008 01:10:23,630 --> 01:10:26,320 is about enhancing your popularity 1009 01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:28,500 at the expense of hers. 1010 01:10:28,530 --> 01:10:31,260 If you are to erase that suspicion from her mind, 1011 01:10:31,290 --> 01:10:34,600 your watchword must be moderation. 1012 01:10:34,640 --> 01:10:37,370 I beg you, curb your impulsiveness. 1013 01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:40,090 Forget your aspirations for military success. 1014 01:10:40,130 --> 01:10:43,650 Instead, focus your energy on the privy council. 1015 01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:47,200 For only there can you halt the ascendancy of Robert Cecil. 1016 01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:48,790 [ door opens] 1017 01:10:48,830 --> 01:10:52,240 When his father leaves office there will be a power vacuum. 1018 01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:54,040 Prove yourself equal to it 1019 01:10:54,070 --> 01:10:58,870 and the flower of your greatness can truly flourish. 1020 01:11:03,390 --> 01:11:06,330 Her Majesty is detained on matters of state. 1021 01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:09,540 She bids you wait for her in here. 1022 01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:19,580 My lady. 1023 01:11:19,620 --> 01:11:20,960 [ door closes] 1024 01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:23,900 I thought I was to be received in the Presence Chamber 1025 01:11:23,930 --> 01:11:28,240 so the whole court could see. 1026 01:11:28,280 --> 01:11:31,420 It is but more of her damn trickery. 1027 01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:46,260 ELIZABETH: Retire?! To do what? 1028 01:11:46,300 --> 01:11:50,020 Bury yourself on your estate and breed guinea fowl? 1029 01:11:50,060 --> 01:11:52,030 I am weary, Your Majesty. 1030 01:11:52,060 --> 01:11:56,310 I am losing what dexterity of mind and body I once had. 1031 01:11:56,340 --> 01:11:59,210 It is time someone younger took my place. 1032 01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:01,480 "Someone" being your son Robert, I presume. 1033 01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:03,870 Have I not groomed him for just this eventuality? 1034 01:12:03,900 --> 01:12:06,630 He is too young for so weighty a commission. 1035 01:12:06,660 --> 01:12:09,560 He's older than you when first you became sovereign. 1036 01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:12,430 And you were at my side, guiding me, counseling me. 1037 01:12:12,460 --> 01:12:16,470 Would you desert me now when I need you most? 1038 01:12:16,500 --> 01:12:20,710 Gloriana is but a ghost in my people's memory. 1039 01:12:20,750 --> 01:12:22,850 The young blood that surrounds me 1040 01:12:22,890 --> 01:12:26,410 is governed only by self-interest, by ambition. 1041 01:12:26,440 --> 01:12:30,380 They care not for the values of service and sacrifice 1042 01:12:30,410 --> 01:12:32,550 which shaped our generation. 1043 01:12:32,580 --> 01:12:33,830 And I am not so vain 1044 01:12:33,860 --> 01:12:36,730 I mistake their flattery for devotion, my lord. 1045 01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:39,560 When you are at my side, 1046 01:12:39,590 --> 01:12:41,730 I am invincible, William. 1047 01:12:41,770 --> 01:12:44,420 You are the rock upon which I built my reign. 1048 01:12:44,460 --> 01:12:48,840 And my reign is not over yet, nor your duty to me. 1049 01:12:50,190 --> 01:12:51,400 ESSEX: Your Majesty. 1050 01:12:51,430 --> 01:12:54,190 My mother still eagerly awaits your audience. 1051 01:12:54,230 --> 01:12:58,440 Patience is a virtue, Robbie, and virtue is its own reward. 1052 01:13:02,370 --> 01:13:04,380 [ laughs] 1053 01:13:24,710 --> 01:13:35,750 [ tapping hands impatiently] 1054 01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:46,970 She comes. 1055 01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:02,710 So many years, Your Majesty... 1056 01:14:02,740 --> 01:14:06,950 They have not diminished your beauty one iota. 1057 01:14:19,310 --> 01:14:22,280 Is that it? 1058 01:14:22,310 --> 01:14:25,840 It's just the first skirmish, Mother. 1059 01:14:25,870 --> 01:14:28,600 I shall win her over yet. 1060 01:14:29,700 --> 01:14:31,430 I swear the best part of you 1061 01:14:31,460 --> 01:14:34,740 was left running down my legs when you were born. 1062 01:14:45,650 --> 01:14:48,030 ELIZABETH: Antichrist of ingratitude! 1063 01:14:48,060 --> 01:14:50,520 Duplicitous mongrel of a Frenchman! 1064 01:14:50,550 --> 01:14:54,760 Did I not help him to his crown, support his claim to be king? 1065 01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:56,940 In forging an alliance with Spain, 1066 01:14:56,970 --> 01:14:58,420 he seeks only to secure 1067 01:14:58,450 --> 01:14:59,390 the safety of France. 1068 01:14:59,420 --> 01:15:00,420 We could do worse 1069 01:15:00,460 --> 01:15:01,910 than follow his example. 1070 01:15:01,940 --> 01:15:03,180 Ally with Spain? 1071 01:15:03,220 --> 01:15:04,700 When they are trying to use Ireland 1072 01:15:04,740 --> 01:15:06,290 as a back door to conquer us? 1073 01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:09,880 Tyrone is not just another Irish renegade. 1074 01:15:09,910 --> 01:15:13,060 He is using their support to oust us. 1075 01:15:13,090 --> 01:15:15,330 He is their gateway to invasion. 1076 01:15:15,370 --> 01:15:16,750 Any treaty would be conditional 1077 01:15:16,780 --> 01:15:18,410 that King Philip ceases his support 1078 01:15:18,440 --> 01:15:19,990 of Tyrone and his Catholic rebels. 1079 01:15:20,030 --> 01:15:23,790 RALEIGH: Without Spain's resources, Tyrone's rebellion will collapse 1080 01:15:23,820 --> 01:15:26,550 and our sovereignty over Ireland will be assured. 1081 01:15:26,590 --> 01:15:29,310 ESSEX: Only force can accomplish that. 1082 01:15:29,350 --> 01:15:31,380 We must mount a double offensive-- 1083 01:15:31,420 --> 01:15:33,830 attack the Spanish colonies; 1084 01:15:33,870 --> 01:15:37,010 lead a military assault against Tyrone in Ireland. 1085 01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:38,840 Boldness is the key. 1086 01:15:38,870 --> 01:15:40,810 And who will lead such a bold campaign? 1087 01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:42,670 The question is rhetorical, my lord. 1088 01:15:42,710 --> 01:15:45,780 Perhaps I should commend the 55th Psalm to the earl. 1089 01:15:45,810 --> 01:15:49,370 "Bloodthirsty men will not live half their days." 1090 01:15:49,400 --> 01:15:51,510 And those who live too long 1091 01:15:51,540 --> 01:15:55,750 lose their grasp of the scriptures, my lord. 1092 01:15:55,790 --> 01:15:58,070 For does not the same psalm also say 1093 01:15:58,100 --> 01:16:01,140 that God shall cast his enemies into the pit of destruction? 1094 01:16:01,170 --> 01:16:04,620 ELIZABETH: I will not have God used as a weapon to score points-- 1095 01:16:04,660 --> 01:16:09,080 not in this council chamber or elsewhere. 1096 01:16:09,110 --> 01:16:12,870 When you are nearer the end of your life than the beginning, 1097 01:16:12,910 --> 01:16:17,430 boldness loses something of its appeal, my lord. 1098 01:16:17,460 --> 01:16:21,610 For you are engaged in a war of a different kind. 1099 01:16:26,440 --> 01:16:39,830 [ Elizabeth tapping her feet rhythmically] 1100 01:16:48,050 --> 01:16:52,430 [ continues tapping] 1101 01:17:08,550 --> 01:17:12,690 [ ladies laughing] 1102 01:17:16,140 --> 01:17:18,350 Your jest is in poor taste, ladies. 1103 01:17:38,820 --> 01:17:41,960 ELIZABETH: Your pamphlet is but a step away from treason, my lord. 1104 01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:44,760 You question both my authority and my judgment. 1105 01:17:44,790 --> 01:17:47,620 I wrote it only so the people know the disaster 1106 01:17:47,660 --> 01:17:50,040 this peace treaty with Spain will bring us. 1107 01:17:50,070 --> 01:17:53,490 ELIZABETH: My foreign policy will not be dictated by public opinion 1108 01:17:53,530 --> 01:17:55,910 nor by such underhand tactics. 1109 01:17:55,940 --> 01:17:59,770 While we hesitate over Ireland, we give Tyrone and his rebels 1110 01:17:59,810 --> 01:18:02,400 time to amass yet more Spanish support. 1111 01:18:02,430 --> 01:18:04,120 We play into their hands! 1112 01:18:04,160 --> 01:18:07,640 I will not be goaded into war on the say-so of a hothead 1113 01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:09,270 with delusions of adequacy. 1114 01:18:09,300 --> 01:18:11,300 You will not turn your back on me, sir! 1115 01:18:11,340 --> 01:18:12,860 I have not done with you yet! 1116 01:18:12,890 --> 01:18:15,790 Is it a hothead who has the people 1117 01:18:15,820 --> 01:18:18,070 screaming my name from every rooftop? 1118 01:18:18,100 --> 01:18:20,100 They know that England's glory 1119 01:18:20,140 --> 01:18:21,860 lies not in the relics of the past 1120 01:18:21,900 --> 01:18:24,520 but in a vision of greatness, which can again be ours. 1121 01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:27,180 Relics? You dare to utter such words to me? 1122 01:18:27,210 --> 01:18:30,560 To dare is what soldiers do-- it is what defines us. 1123 01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:32,360 I will teach you manners yet. 1124 01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:36,050 ESSEX: No woman shall strike me thus, 1125 01:18:36,090 --> 01:18:37,670 queen or not! 1126 01:18:37,710 --> 01:18:43,400 Unhand me! Release me! Let me go! 1127 01:18:59,010 --> 01:19:03,390 BACON: Without her forgiveness, all doors will be closed to him. 1128 01:19:03,420 --> 01:19:08,460 SOUTHAMPTON: He must yield to her will, apologize, my lady. 1129 01:19:08,500 --> 01:19:10,400 On his knees, if she demands it. 1130 01:19:10,430 --> 01:19:12,260 BACON: A letter. 1131 01:19:12,290 --> 01:19:14,990 I have penned to her in his name. 1132 01:19:15,020 --> 01:19:16,780 I beg you, make him see reason. 1133 01:19:16,820 --> 01:19:20,160 Put his seal on it, dispatch it. 1134 01:19:20,200 --> 01:19:22,060 End this wretched deadlock. 1135 01:19:22,100 --> 01:19:26,340 LETTICE: Why is it he who must grovel in slavish apology? 1136 01:19:26,380 --> 01:19:28,100 No son of mine shall ever subscribe 1137 01:19:28,140 --> 01:19:29,550 to such fawning hypocrisy. 1138 01:19:35,490 --> 01:19:39,740 He used to say you cannot catch a monkey by chasing it. 1139 01:19:39,770 --> 01:19:43,770 You must make the monkey come to you. 1140 01:19:46,120 --> 01:19:48,120 BLOUNT: ♪ Come again 1141 01:19:48,160 --> 01:19:52,960 ♪ Sweet love doth now invite thy graces that refrain ♪ 1142 01:19:52,990 --> 01:19:56,030 ♪ To do me due delight 1143 01:19:56,060 --> 01:20:03,350 ♪ To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die ♪ 1144 01:20:03,380 --> 01:20:10,040 ♪ With thee again in sweetest sympa-ha-ha-thy. ♪ 1145 01:20:10,080 --> 01:20:12,180 [ applauds] 1146 01:20:12,220 --> 01:20:15,220 The Earl of Essex is gripped by a fever, Your Majesty. 1147 01:20:15,250 --> 01:20:17,260 He is mortal sick. 1148 01:20:17,290 --> 01:20:18,770 They say he is... 1149 01:20:18,810 --> 01:20:21,880 he is so weakened by it, he has but days left. 1150 01:20:21,920 --> 01:20:23,300 [ both panting] 1151 01:20:25,330 --> 01:20:28,750 Mother... mother, do not fuss so. 1152 01:20:28,780 --> 01:20:30,720 We are not done yet. 1153 01:20:34,340 --> 01:20:37,450 You must appear weakened by illness and remorse. 1154 01:20:37,480 --> 01:20:39,240 No tantrums or tirades. 1155 01:20:39,280 --> 01:20:41,760 Did she not send her physician to attend me? 1156 01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:43,870 Her actions speak louder than any words. 1157 01:20:43,900 --> 01:20:46,700 Well, this time watch your own words, son. 1158 01:20:46,730 --> 01:20:51,390 You lose her favor again, you will forever lose mine. 1159 01:20:55,850 --> 01:20:59,950 Your bet is as good as lost, sir-- admit defeat. 1160 01:20:59,990 --> 01:21:01,750 [ three knocks at door] 1161 01:21:06,200 --> 01:21:09,760 I am relieved to find you in such rude health, Your Majesty. 1162 01:21:09,790 --> 01:21:12,900 Yours is fully restored, it seems. 1163 01:21:12,930 --> 01:21:15,760 Thanks to your mercy and the skill of your physician. 1164 01:21:17,830 --> 01:21:19,460 Sir Walter and I are conducting a wager. 1165 01:21:19,490 --> 01:21:21,560 He claims he can calculate 1166 01:21:21,600 --> 01:21:25,120 the weight of smoke-- a claim which I refute. 1167 01:21:25,150 --> 01:21:26,640 Put it to the test, sir. 1168 01:21:32,740 --> 01:21:35,580 RALEIGH: And there you have it: the weight of smoke. 1169 01:21:35,610 --> 01:21:38,340 [ Elizabeth laughing] 1170 01:21:38,370 --> 01:21:39,920 Well done, sir. 1171 01:21:56,110 --> 01:22:01,840 I am an ignoble wretch and unworthy of your forgiveness, 1172 01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:06,050 so I will not insult either of us by asking for it. 1173 01:22:08,820 --> 01:22:09,950 My greatest fear is 1174 01:22:09,990 --> 01:22:13,160 your rashness will one day destroy you, Robbie. 1175 01:22:13,200 --> 01:22:15,860 Worse, I shall be the instrument of it. 1176 01:22:15,890 --> 01:22:19,720 Does not any son rail against the rule of his mother? 1177 01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:23,690 It does not lessen the bond they share. 1178 01:22:26,450 --> 01:22:29,700 A mother's love obeys only one rule... 1179 01:22:29,730 --> 01:22:33,630 that it is given without expectation of any in return. 1180 01:22:33,670 --> 01:22:35,980 Unconditional love is the greatest gift 1181 01:22:36,020 --> 01:22:37,670 any woman can give a man. 1182 01:22:41,050 --> 01:22:43,680 On the Irish question-- 1183 01:22:43,710 --> 01:22:46,470 we have received fresh intelligence on the matter. 1184 01:22:46,510 --> 01:22:50,270 It seems your position on it holds merit after all. 1185 01:22:50,310 --> 01:22:52,650 Tyrone and his rebels are even now 1186 01:22:52,690 --> 01:22:55,000 building up his garrisons in Ulster. 1187 01:22:55,030 --> 01:22:57,860 Forgive me, I must speak. 1188 01:22:57,900 --> 01:23:00,900 Let it be me who quenches this fire for you. 1189 01:23:00,940 --> 01:23:05,870 For you have seen in me qualities no others have. 1190 01:23:05,910 --> 01:23:10,080 You alone can see beyond the trivial 1191 01:23:10,120 --> 01:23:11,600 into a man's soul. 1192 01:23:11,640 --> 01:23:16,260 I beg you, for your honor and for mine, 1193 01:23:16,300 --> 01:23:18,990 let me beat Tyrone in the field, 1194 01:23:19,020 --> 01:23:21,890 prove to the world Gloriana still reigns. 1195 01:23:29,310 --> 01:23:32,620 I will reflect upon it, my lord. 1196 01:23:38,040 --> 01:23:41,490 [ group laughing] 1197 01:24:16,700 --> 01:24:19,390 ROBERT CECIL: The seizure rendered him 1198 01:24:19,430 --> 01:24:21,910 without speech or movement on his left side. 1199 01:24:21,950 --> 01:24:25,230 ELIZABETH: Please God he can still hear. 1200 01:24:25,260 --> 01:24:26,990 CECIL: Time and again I warned him 1201 01:24:27,020 --> 01:24:30,920 that the burden of his duties was too much for his years. 1202 01:24:34,890 --> 01:24:38,380 Nourishment and rest are what's needed now. 1203 01:24:38,410 --> 01:24:41,660 We will have you restored to your old self in a trice. 1204 01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:45,770 I understand it is your will 1205 01:24:45,800 --> 01:24:48,600 that the Earl of Essex goes to Ireland, Your Grace, 1206 01:24:48,630 --> 01:24:50,560 to take on the rebel Tyrone? 1207 01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:52,530 He set sail with his army last night 1208 01:24:52,570 --> 01:24:54,120 under the cover of darkness. 1209 01:24:54,150 --> 01:24:56,640 If victory is to be assured in battle, 1210 01:24:56,670 --> 01:25:00,370 the element of surprise is a prerequisite, Sir Robert. 1211 01:25:00,400 --> 01:25:02,950 Drake taught me that lesson. 1212 01:25:02,990 --> 01:25:04,440 Forgive the presumption, 1213 01:25:04,470 --> 01:25:08,060 but he is no Francis Drake, Your Majesty. 1214 01:25:08,100 --> 01:25:10,170 Is it wise to take such a gamble 1215 01:25:10,200 --> 01:25:12,720 on one so capricious, so headstrong? 1216 01:25:12,760 --> 01:25:15,310 Should Spain get dominance there, your kingdom could be... 1217 01:25:15,350 --> 01:25:17,420 Do you think my wits are so impaired 1218 01:25:17,450 --> 01:25:19,110 I cannot grasp the consequences? 1219 01:25:19,140 --> 01:25:21,150 Why must you all persist in always seeing 1220 01:25:21,180 --> 01:25:22,970 the faults in him? 1221 01:25:25,010 --> 01:25:27,150 Recall him. 1222 01:25:27,190 --> 01:25:34,160 He will take you down with him, and England with you. 1223 01:25:34,190 --> 01:25:36,750 Recall him. 1224 01:25:39,650 --> 01:25:40,960 He is tired. 1225 01:25:40,990 --> 01:25:43,440 He asks to rest. 1226 01:26:00,740 --> 01:26:03,290 [ whispering]: It must be her mother, Anne Boleyn. 1227 01:26:03,330 --> 01:26:04,570 The one they call the whore? 1228 01:26:04,600 --> 01:26:07,050 That's why the queen will never speak of her. 1229 01:26:07,090 --> 01:26:09,710 'Tis but one of her ladies from the old days. 1230 01:26:09,750 --> 01:26:11,020 'Tis no one. 1231 01:26:13,270 --> 01:26:15,960 Oh, that's lovely, Agnes. 1232 01:26:18,410 --> 01:26:19,550 "His last letter"? 1233 01:26:19,580 --> 01:26:22,070 [ whispering]: There is no seal on it. 1234 01:26:22,100 --> 01:26:23,760 AGNES: Oh, quickly, quickly! 1235 01:26:29,870 --> 01:26:31,110 LADY: Quickly. 1236 01:26:31,150 --> 01:26:32,490 She comes. 1237 01:26:43,570 --> 01:26:45,920 [ swords clanging] 1238 01:26:49,680 --> 01:26:53,060 The silence from Ireland is explained, Your Majesty. 1239 01:26:53,100 --> 01:26:55,650 The Earl of Essex has disobeyed your instructions. 1240 01:26:55,690 --> 01:26:57,030 He has wantonly ignored them. 1241 01:26:57,070 --> 01:26:59,420 CECIL: He did not go north to Ulster after Tyrone. 1242 01:26:59,450 --> 01:27:01,350 All this time he has been in the South, 1243 01:27:01,380 --> 01:27:03,350 engaged in fruitless skirmishes 1244 01:27:03,390 --> 01:27:04,940 against the rebel outposts there! 1245 01:27:04,970 --> 01:27:09,010 Of the 16,000 men under his command, only 4,000 remain, 1246 01:27:09,050 --> 01:27:10,460 the others lost, if not in battle, 1247 01:27:10,500 --> 01:27:12,460 then through disease or desertion. 1248 01:27:12,500 --> 01:27:13,500 The waste of it! 1249 01:27:13,530 --> 01:27:14,570 The earl is where now? 1250 01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:16,260 He tarries in Dublin, 1251 01:27:16,300 --> 01:27:18,400 claiming exhaustion and ill health. 1252 01:27:18,440 --> 01:27:21,470 He seeks your permission to return home. 1253 01:27:26,060 --> 01:27:29,070 ELIZABETH: My lord, I forbid you to come out of that kingdom 1254 01:27:29,100 --> 01:27:32,970 until Tyrone and his garrisons are disposed of. 1255 01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:36,210 Why have you not prosecuted your campaign against him? 1256 01:27:36,250 --> 01:27:40,010 You have had ample time, men and ordnance to accomplish it. 1257 01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:44,250 You defy my authority with your futile adventure in the south, 1258 01:27:44,290 --> 01:27:46,120 which has decimated my treasury 1259 01:27:46,150 --> 01:27:49,950 and cost my kingdom dear in human life! 1260 01:27:49,980 --> 01:27:53,120 Discharge your duty against Tyrone, my lord. 1261 01:27:53,160 --> 01:27:55,330 Do not let disgrace be your epitaph, 1262 01:27:55,370 --> 01:27:58,610 nor the ignominy of defeat be mine. 1263 01:27:58,650 --> 01:28:03,760 For be assured, I will not pay the price of that alone. 1264 01:28:05,790 --> 01:28:08,800 [ ensemble playing sedate music] 1265 01:29:10,820 --> 01:29:12,580 Your Majesty? 1266 01:29:18,490 --> 01:29:20,630 [ music stops] 1267 01:29:28,120 --> 01:29:32,290 [ bell tolling] 1268 01:29:51,760 --> 01:29:55,830 ELIZABETH: You were my Alpha and my Omega, my lord. 1269 01:29:57,560 --> 01:30:00,700 No prince ever had such a counselor. 1270 01:30:51,030 --> 01:30:52,990 Sir Francis Bacon, Your Majesty. 1271 01:30:53,030 --> 01:30:54,890 You asked him to attend you. 1272 01:30:54,930 --> 01:30:57,030 ELIZABETH: We have reason to be concerned 1273 01:30:57,070 --> 01:30:59,590 about the Earl of Essex's actions, Sir Francis. 1274 01:31:00,860 --> 01:31:06,180 As one close to him, we hoped you might give us some insight. 1275 01:31:06,210 --> 01:31:07,870 Like you, Your Grace, 1276 01:31:07,910 --> 01:31:10,940 I have always tried to be a moderating influence, 1277 01:31:10,980 --> 01:31:13,290 tried to stay his impulses. 1278 01:31:13,320 --> 01:31:16,020 But all in vain, I'm afraid. 1279 01:31:16,050 --> 01:31:19,120 I fear he has a malady in his mind 1280 01:31:19,160 --> 01:31:20,880 which has tainted him since birth. 1281 01:31:20,920 --> 01:31:25,580 Either he is tortured by melancholy and self-doubt, 1282 01:31:25,610 --> 01:31:28,270 or he acts with such reckless hubris 1283 01:31:28,310 --> 01:31:31,410 there is no restraining him. 1284 01:31:31,450 --> 01:31:34,350 At best, the result is inconsistency, 1285 01:31:34,380 --> 01:31:36,590 at worst, indecision. 1286 01:31:36,620 --> 01:31:37,970 RALEIGH: Well, he has made a decision 1287 01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:41,250 now, sir... one he will live to regret. 1288 01:31:41,280 --> 01:31:43,530 He has agreed a truce with the rebel Tyrone. 1289 01:31:43,560 --> 01:31:45,980 ELIZABETH: Today we received notice 1290 01:31:46,010 --> 01:31:47,150 he has deserted his post, 1291 01:31:47,190 --> 01:31:49,530 together with a legion of his officers. 1292 01:31:49,570 --> 01:31:52,640 He has offered them knighthoods to secure their loyalty. 1293 01:31:55,090 --> 01:31:57,400 Given the extremities of his nature, 1294 01:31:57,440 --> 01:32:00,410 he is not just a danger to himself, but to others. 1295 01:32:00,440 --> 01:32:03,650 Your Majesty, he must be found, and quickly. 1296 01:32:03,690 --> 01:32:07,310 His whereabouts are unknown to us, sir... 1297 01:32:07,340 --> 01:32:09,450 as are his intentions. 1298 01:32:14,560 --> 01:32:16,390 [ men laughing] 1299 01:32:23,570 --> 01:32:24,570 RIDER: To London! 1300 01:32:24,600 --> 01:32:26,470 RIDER 2: Onwards to our destiny! 1301 01:32:26,500 --> 01:32:28,540 [ riders laughing] 1302 01:32:42,900 --> 01:32:44,310 ESSEX: Quickly! 1303 01:32:50,870 --> 01:32:52,350 ESSEX: Go! Leave me! 1304 01:33:32,150 --> 01:33:33,910 [ door opening] 1305 01:34:02,700 --> 01:34:04,630 Her Grace is not yet dressed, my lord! 1306 01:34:04,670 --> 01:34:06,050 You must leave now, sir, 1307 01:34:06,080 --> 01:34:07,780 or we will summon the guard! 1308 01:34:07,810 --> 01:34:08,950 Forgive my intrusion, 1309 01:34:08,980 --> 01:34:09,950 Your Majesty! 1310 01:34:09,980 --> 01:34:11,990 I had to see you. 1311 01:34:12,020 --> 01:34:13,400 I could not wait. 1312 01:34:17,680 --> 01:34:20,440 My treaty with Tyrone is not 1313 01:34:20,480 --> 01:34:23,000 the disgrace your council have you think. 1314 01:34:23,030 --> 01:34:25,450 They fight us like savages, 1315 01:34:25,480 --> 01:34:28,240 coming at us through the mist like ghosts, 1316 01:34:28,280 --> 01:34:32,350 deploying tactics of ambush, of sabotage! 1317 01:34:32,390 --> 01:34:34,840 Where is the dishonor in admitting 1318 01:34:34,870 --> 01:34:38,810 defeat against such a foe is inevitable? 1319 01:34:39,740 --> 01:34:42,330 Is not Tyrone's threat neutralized 1320 01:34:42,360 --> 01:34:43,500 by our treaty? 1321 01:34:43,530 --> 01:34:44,810 His rebellion quelled? 1322 01:34:44,850 --> 01:34:45,680 And bloodlessly! 1323 01:34:45,710 --> 01:34:48,370 At no more cost to your revenue. 1324 01:34:50,200 --> 01:34:52,130 As ever, your words take the sting 1325 01:34:52,160 --> 01:34:54,200 out of your actions, my lord. 1326 01:34:54,240 --> 01:34:56,620 You must be wearied after your journey. 1327 01:34:56,650 --> 01:34:59,450 Why not repair to your home, refresh yourself? 1328 01:35:00,830 --> 01:35:04,380 When we are both more presentable, 1329 01:35:04,420 --> 01:35:08,080 we can discuss this matter at our leisure. 1330 01:35:12,940 --> 01:35:15,260 I see now... 1331 01:35:15,290 --> 01:35:17,570 this is where I belong. 1332 01:35:19,500 --> 01:35:21,400 [ kisses ring] 1333 01:35:21,430 --> 01:35:25,510 I was a fool to stray so far from you. 1334 01:35:42,660 --> 01:35:44,660 [ supporters shouting] 1335 01:35:44,700 --> 01:35:46,700 GIRL: He is the only prince of our hearts, my lady! 1336 01:35:46,740 --> 01:35:48,950 MAN: All our hopes rest with him. 1337 01:35:51,360 --> 01:35:52,780 SOUTHAMPTON: She has dismissed him 1338 01:35:52,810 --> 01:35:54,020 from the privy council, 1339 01:35:54,050 --> 01:35:55,190 stripped him of his offices 1340 01:35:55,230 --> 01:35:57,230 of Earl Marshall, Master of the Ordnance. 1341 01:35:57,260 --> 01:35:59,470 And now his patent on Sweet Wines is revoked. 1342 01:35:59,510 --> 01:36:00,990 She has bankrupted him. 1343 01:36:07,550 --> 01:36:09,210 I am ruined, Mother. 1344 01:36:09,240 --> 01:36:12,800 [ Essex crying] 1345 01:36:12,830 --> 01:36:17,460 She is as crooked as her wretched carcass! 1346 01:36:22,430 --> 01:36:27,020 This is down to that wretch Cecil and his conniving. 1347 01:36:28,570 --> 01:36:30,640 And as for Bacon... 1348 01:36:30,680 --> 01:36:35,540 That turncoat shall pay for his treachery! 1349 01:36:36,990 --> 01:36:39,890 But there will be ample time for atonement. 1350 01:36:39,930 --> 01:36:43,790 And you have squandered enough of it on futile self-pity. 1351 01:36:57,010 --> 01:36:58,640 Cecil and the others 1352 01:36:58,670 --> 01:37:01,360 who've contrived your downfall 1353 01:37:01,400 --> 01:37:03,470 are looking to secure their future 1354 01:37:03,500 --> 01:37:05,190 beyond the queen. 1355 01:37:05,230 --> 01:37:08,920 And you must do the same. 1356 01:37:12,550 --> 01:37:16,550 These hands hold the course of history, my son. 1357 01:37:16,580 --> 01:37:21,110 Such a moment comes to a man but once in a lifetime, 1358 01:37:21,140 --> 01:37:25,560 if he has the courage to seize it. 1359 01:37:42,330 --> 01:37:45,440 ESSEX: Sir Gilly will take the palace here, 1360 01:37:45,480 --> 01:37:46,750 at the north gate. 1361 01:37:46,790 --> 01:37:49,100 Your contingent will enter from the river, Henry. 1362 01:37:49,130 --> 01:37:50,830 Mine will take the main gate. 1363 01:37:50,860 --> 01:37:51,830 And the palace guard? 1364 01:37:51,860 --> 01:37:54,070 Most will be marshaled to the queen's apartment 1365 01:37:54,100 --> 01:37:55,620 and council chamber. 1366 01:37:55,660 --> 01:37:57,590 They fight for coinage, we for a cause. 1367 01:37:57,630 --> 01:37:59,280 They will not detain us long. 1368 01:37:59,320 --> 01:38:01,700 But the queen must not be harmed. 1369 01:38:01,730 --> 01:38:03,530 She must be confined to her quarters 1370 01:38:03,560 --> 01:38:05,530 under guard for her own protection. 1371 01:38:05,560 --> 01:38:07,810 And her councilors? 1372 01:38:08,840 --> 01:38:10,500 Rounded up and executed. 1373 01:38:20,650 --> 01:38:22,340 BACON: He claims you are no longer competent 1374 01:38:22,370 --> 01:38:23,960 to rule, Your Majesty. 1375 01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:24,890 He means to depose you, 1376 01:38:24,930 --> 01:38:27,310 eliminate Sir Robert and your council, 1377 01:38:27,340 --> 01:38:29,240 proclaim himself Lord Protector, 1378 01:38:29,280 --> 01:38:31,490 rule in your place. 1379 01:38:31,520 --> 01:38:33,420 RALEIGH: He awaits reinforcements from the army. 1380 01:38:33,450 --> 01:38:36,560 Then he will raise the people and attack the palace. 1381 01:38:36,600 --> 01:38:39,010 His malice against your council 1382 01:38:39,050 --> 01:38:40,940 is quite fixed, Your Majesty. 1383 01:38:40,980 --> 01:38:42,880 He accuses Sir Cecil 1384 01:38:42,910 --> 01:38:43,880 of secretly plotting 1385 01:38:43,910 --> 01:38:46,090 to divert the succession to Spain, 1386 01:38:46,120 --> 01:38:48,020 and you, sir, of contriving 1387 01:38:48,060 --> 01:38:51,270 in murderous intrigues against him. 1388 01:38:51,300 --> 01:38:53,820 The man is delusional! 1389 01:38:53,850 --> 01:38:56,820 What meager grasp of reality he had is lost to him. 1390 01:38:56,860 --> 01:38:59,140 I fear the Earl of Essex was always a lost cause 1391 01:38:59,170 --> 01:39:00,760 in that regard, my lord. 1392 01:39:00,790 --> 01:39:02,550 He also revealed his malice to you 1393 01:39:02,590 --> 01:39:06,040 in another regard, Your Majesty. 1394 01:39:06,070 --> 01:39:07,900 It seems he made reference to-- 1395 01:39:07,940 --> 01:39:12,870 and I quote-- your "wretched, crooked carcass." 1396 01:39:13,940 --> 01:39:15,630 'Tis true, Your Majesty. 1397 01:39:20,710 --> 01:39:22,470 CECIL: We cannot rely on the fidelity 1398 01:39:22,500 --> 01:39:23,990 of your people, Your Grace. 1399 01:39:24,020 --> 01:39:25,440 The hardships they have endured 1400 01:39:25,470 --> 01:39:26,990 could turn their hunger into hate. 1401 01:39:27,030 --> 01:39:30,370 It is a breeding ground for revolution. 1402 01:39:31,410 --> 01:39:33,760 Sir Walter, you and Sir Francis will lead 1403 01:39:33,790 --> 01:39:36,100 a delegation of my councilors to him. 1404 01:39:36,140 --> 01:39:39,550 Give him no arena for his heroics. 1405 01:39:39,590 --> 01:39:43,210 Tell him the hearing he demands has been granted. 1406 01:39:43,250 --> 01:39:46,730 I require him to attend me. 1407 01:39:48,320 --> 01:39:50,840 Then take him to the Tower. 1408 01:39:53,530 --> 01:39:56,540 [ mob shouting] 1409 01:40:05,370 --> 01:40:07,690 Forgive the rabble, my lords. 1410 01:40:07,720 --> 01:40:10,970 Their rage is born from loyalty. 1411 01:40:11,000 --> 01:40:14,560 A rare commodity in such troubled times, is it not? 1412 01:40:14,590 --> 01:40:16,490 The queen awaits your attendance, sir. 1413 01:40:16,520 --> 01:40:18,660 We come to take you to her. 1414 01:40:18,700 --> 01:40:20,420 Then I must make myself presentable 1415 01:40:20,460 --> 01:40:22,360 for such an honor. 1416 01:40:22,390 --> 01:40:24,630 The rear of the house is safer, my lords. 1417 01:40:24,670 --> 01:40:27,430 Sir Francis is familiar with the way. 1418 01:40:30,880 --> 01:40:33,510 I will detain you only a moment, my lords. 1419 01:40:41,380 --> 01:40:43,070 RALEIGH: I demand that you let us out, sir! 1420 01:40:43,100 --> 01:40:44,860 We must strike now! 1421 01:40:44,900 --> 01:40:46,930 Get your weapons-- make ready! 1422 01:40:46,970 --> 01:40:48,210 We are not yet prepared! 1423 01:40:48,240 --> 01:40:49,660 We need reinforcements. 1424 01:40:49,690 --> 01:40:51,940 The people will rise behind us. 1425 01:40:51,970 --> 01:40:53,390 They will not fail us! 1426 01:40:55,390 --> 01:40:56,390 To the city! 1427 01:40:56,420 --> 01:40:58,880 A plot is laid for my life! 1428 01:40:58,910 --> 01:41:02,470 To the city for a call to arms, to save the crown! 1429 01:41:02,500 --> 01:41:04,050 Save the crown! 1430 01:41:09,540 --> 01:41:13,410 England's crown is to be sold to the Spanish by Sir Robert Cecil! 1431 01:41:13,440 --> 01:41:15,100 Come out, fight for the crown! 1432 01:41:15,130 --> 01:41:17,200 SOUTHAMPTON: The queen's government has betrayed her! 1433 01:41:17,240 --> 01:41:18,860 They have betrayed us all! 1434 01:41:20,240 --> 01:41:21,450 Fight! 1435 01:41:21,480 --> 01:41:23,110 My cause is just. 1436 01:41:23,140 --> 01:41:24,660 Fight for England! 1437 01:41:24,690 --> 01:41:26,940 [ mob yells in support] 1438 01:41:26,970 --> 01:41:29,460 They have reached Fenchurch Street, Your Majesty. 1439 01:41:29,490 --> 01:41:31,390 BLOUNT: Others gather at Ludgate, 1440 01:41:31,430 --> 01:41:33,010 and yet more in Newgate. 1441 01:41:33,050 --> 01:41:37,020 Dispatch a contingent of my militia north, here, 1442 01:41:37,050 --> 01:41:38,780 to block their escape. 1443 01:41:38,810 --> 01:41:39,950 Another thus-- 1444 01:41:39,990 --> 01:41:41,540 to divide their ranks. 1445 01:41:43,470 --> 01:41:46,300 We need men and arms to defend the crown! 1446 01:41:46,340 --> 01:41:48,130 Come out, I say! 1447 01:41:48,170 --> 01:41:49,270 For the queen! 1448 01:41:49,310 --> 01:41:50,650 Defend her crown! 1449 01:41:50,690 --> 01:41:52,760 Destroy the bastard traitors! 1450 01:41:52,790 --> 01:41:54,660 [ men shouting] 1451 01:41:57,830 --> 01:42:01,180 No! You must join us! 1452 01:42:01,210 --> 01:42:03,560 The queen's council is corrupt! 1453 01:42:03,600 --> 01:42:08,080 We must to the palace-- save her from them! 1454 01:42:08,120 --> 01:42:09,330 Out of my way! 1455 01:42:20,300 --> 01:42:21,850 MAN: Come out! 1456 01:42:21,890 --> 01:42:23,580 MAN: Deserters! 1457 01:42:23,620 --> 01:42:25,760 Cowards! 1458 01:42:27,720 --> 01:42:29,620 MAN: Why do they not come? 1459 01:42:29,660 --> 01:42:30,760 Traitors! 1460 01:42:33,140 --> 01:42:37,840 I am the Earl of Essex and I command you, come out! 1461 01:42:37,870 --> 01:42:38,910 Fight with me! 1462 01:42:41,120 --> 01:42:44,120 MAN: Cowards! Pathetic traitors! 1463 01:42:44,150 --> 01:42:46,980 [ several men shouting] 1464 01:42:52,710 --> 01:42:53,650 Traitors! 1465 01:42:53,680 --> 01:42:55,340 SOUTHAMPTON: They've boxed us in. 1466 01:42:55,370 --> 01:42:56,610 We're trapped! 1467 01:42:56,650 --> 01:42:59,750 [ soldiers, mob shouting] 1468 01:43:01,240 --> 01:43:02,210 To the river! 1469 01:43:02,240 --> 01:43:03,720 We are not done for yet! 1470 01:43:03,760 --> 01:43:04,620 Save yourself! Go! 1471 01:43:05,930 --> 01:43:10,770 [ soldiers, mob shouting; weapons clashing] 1472 01:43:24,370 --> 01:43:25,950 [ cannon firing] 1473 01:43:40,520 --> 01:43:42,490 [ advisers speaking quietly] 1474 01:43:42,520 --> 01:43:45,250 MAN: We need more cavalry, more horses. 1475 01:43:45,280 --> 01:43:47,250 BLOUNT: The people are closing their doors 1476 01:43:47,290 --> 01:43:48,320 to them, Your Majesty! 1477 01:43:48,360 --> 01:43:50,050 They are still loyal to you. 1478 01:43:50,080 --> 01:43:53,840 Remove the surprise from your voice, Sir Charles. 1479 01:43:53,880 --> 01:43:55,910 I for one never doubted it. 1480 01:43:57,090 --> 01:44:02,440 [ shouting in distance, swords ringing, cannon firing ] 1481 01:44:08,930 --> 01:44:10,140 [ door slams] 1482 01:44:10,170 --> 01:44:14,970 [ breathing heavily] 1483 01:44:19,180 --> 01:44:21,280 [ dogs barking outside] 1484 01:44:21,320 --> 01:44:22,770 Mother? 1485 01:44:28,880 --> 01:44:29,880 Mother. 1486 01:44:59,870 --> 01:45:01,880 [ cannon fires outside] 1487 01:45:15,200 --> 01:45:16,340 The roof! 1488 01:45:18,000 --> 01:45:20,720 RALEIGH: It is over, my lord! 1489 01:45:20,760 --> 01:45:22,620 For your life, you must surrender! 1490 01:45:22,660 --> 01:45:24,170 I meant only to protect her 1491 01:45:24,210 --> 01:45:26,280 against those who would betray her! 1492 01:45:27,940 --> 01:45:30,420 It was for love of her! 1493 01:45:30,460 --> 01:45:31,770 For love of England! 1494 01:45:31,800 --> 01:45:34,500 Then make your peace with God, my lord, 1495 01:45:34,530 --> 01:45:37,290 or face the fires of Hell! 1496 01:45:47,410 --> 01:45:48,680 CECIL: Your Grace? 1497 01:45:53,510 --> 01:45:56,380 CECIL: The Earl has surrendered, Your Majesty. 1498 01:45:56,410 --> 01:45:58,280 The rest are scattered or arrested. 1499 01:45:58,310 --> 01:46:01,110 Over a hundred are confined with him at the Tower. 1500 01:46:01,140 --> 01:46:03,840 RALEIGH: We must make preparations 1501 01:46:03,870 --> 01:46:07,430 for his trial, Your Grace, and speedily-- 1502 01:46:07,460 --> 01:46:10,740 before his supporters can regroup. 1503 01:46:28,520 --> 01:46:32,970 [ ravens calling outside] 1504 01:46:33,000 --> 01:46:37,900 [ dogs barking in distance] 1505 01:47:04,650 --> 01:47:09,800 When I hold my arms thus, I am ready. 1506 01:47:09,830 --> 01:47:10,830 LETTICE: Let me by. 1507 01:47:10,870 --> 01:47:12,460 Let me pass! 1508 01:47:19,220 --> 01:47:22,470 Do not mourn my death... 1509 01:47:22,500 --> 01:47:24,710 for I welcome it. 1510 01:47:24,740 --> 01:47:30,540 I see now only God can give me the peace 1511 01:47:30,580 --> 01:47:33,510 I have been denied on earth. 1512 01:47:35,410 --> 01:47:39,380 God save the queen. 1513 01:47:39,410 --> 01:47:41,730 God save us all. 1514 01:47:56,980 --> 01:48:00,990 [ breathing raggedly] 1515 01:48:05,650 --> 01:48:09,960 [ playing melancholy piece] 1516 01:48:17,420 --> 01:48:19,590 [ door opening] 1517 01:48:33,400 --> 01:48:36,090 He is gone, Your Grace. 1518 01:48:36,130 --> 01:48:38,270 [ music trails off] 1519 01:49:06,570 --> 01:49:09,260 CECIL: Since the execution of the Earl of Essex, 1520 01:49:09,300 --> 01:49:12,780 the queen's spirit is quite broken. 1521 01:49:12,820 --> 01:49:17,270 She is ever more melancholy, ever more forgetful, 1522 01:49:17,300 --> 01:49:19,820 her temper more capricious. 1523 01:49:29,660 --> 01:49:32,250 She leaves her quarters now only for duty. 1524 01:49:32,280 --> 01:49:34,980 The recitals and plays she once relished, 1525 01:49:35,010 --> 01:49:36,670 her horse riding... 1526 01:49:36,700 --> 01:49:38,980 [ players shout happily, clapping] 1527 01:49:39,020 --> 01:49:41,430 None can tempt her out. 1528 01:49:45,540 --> 01:49:47,610 [ shouts menacingly, weakly] 1529 01:49:51,200 --> 01:49:53,790 CECIL: She is beset by fears of assassination, 1530 01:49:53,820 --> 01:49:58,590 stalking the palace at night, striking at unseen enemies. 1531 01:50:01,620 --> 01:50:03,630 Then for a brief moment, 1532 01:50:03,660 --> 01:50:06,220 her old spirit was restored to us. 1533 01:50:06,250 --> 01:50:08,490 She was Gloriana once more. 1534 01:50:11,390 --> 01:50:16,540 ELIZABETH: To be a king and wear a crown 1535 01:50:16,570 --> 01:50:21,510 is a thing more glorious to them who see it 1536 01:50:21,540 --> 01:50:24,410 than pleasant to them who bear it. 1537 01:50:25,540 --> 01:50:32,660 For myself... I was never so much enticed by it as... 1538 01:50:32,690 --> 01:50:37,490 humbled that God chose me as his instrument 1539 01:50:37,520 --> 01:50:43,290 to defend my kingdom from peril, dishonor, 1540 01:50:43,320 --> 01:50:47,670 tyranny and oppression. 1541 01:50:47,710 --> 01:50:51,500 There will never be a queen with more zeal and devotion 1542 01:50:51,540 --> 01:50:53,880 for her country and her subjects. 1543 01:50:55,060 --> 01:50:59,860 But it is my desire now 1544 01:50:59,890 --> 01:51:02,690 to reign no longer... 1545 01:51:02,720 --> 01:51:06,280 [ voice quavering]: than for your good. 1546 01:51:14,460 --> 01:51:17,670 CECIL: Then the flame was extinguished. 1547 01:51:17,700 --> 01:51:20,810 She began to slip away from us. 1548 01:51:40,760 --> 01:51:44,830 Too weak to walk, she has spent the past 15 hours 1549 01:51:44,870 --> 01:51:48,420 standing in her chamber, refusing to sit, 1550 01:51:48,460 --> 01:51:51,530 lest she should never rise again. 1551 01:52:07,300 --> 01:52:09,750 MAN [ in memory]: Boleyn's little bastard. 1552 01:52:20,520 --> 01:52:23,250 ELIZABETH: I will have but one mistress here, 1553 01:52:23,280 --> 01:52:27,430 and no master, do you hear me?! 1554 01:52:28,250 --> 01:52:31,600 I will have no man rule over me! 1555 01:53:17,540 --> 01:53:22,310 CECIL: Then, after over 40 years as sovereign, 1556 01:53:22,340 --> 01:53:25,760 she quietly departed this life. 1557 01:53:36,430 --> 01:53:38,840 As for the succession, 1558 01:53:38,880 --> 01:53:42,500 she neither denied nor confirmed you. 1559 01:53:45,430 --> 01:53:46,950 But you can be assured 1560 01:53:46,990 --> 01:53:50,680 of my fidelity in that respect, Your Majesty. 1561 01:53:51,820 --> 01:53:52,820 [ spits onto seal] 1562 01:53:57,520 --> 01:54:00,140 CECIL: For King James's hand alone. 1563 01:54:00,170 --> 01:54:02,350 No other. 1564 01:54:02,380 --> 01:54:04,760 Wait outside. 1565 01:54:14,220 --> 01:54:16,810 A clasp has been added. 1566 01:54:22,850 --> 01:54:26,130 She has hidden a portrait inside. 1567 01:54:26,160 --> 01:54:28,370 Robert Dudley. 1568 01:54:30,930 --> 01:54:33,070 'Tis the whore, Anne Boleyn. 1569 01:54:34,480 --> 01:54:36,520 Her mother. 1570 01:54:43,350 --> 01:54:47,600 by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org