1 00:02:30,585 --> 00:02:33,797 When we compare the present life of man on Earth... 2 00:02:33,964 --> 00:02:36,675 with that time of which we have no knowledge... 3 00:02:36,842 --> 00:02:39,136 it seems to me like the swift flight... 4 00:02:39,302 --> 00:02:42,431 of a single sparrow through a banqueting hall... 5 00:02:42,597 --> 00:02:44,558 on a winter's day. 6 00:02:45,183 --> 00:02:48,937 After a few moments of comfort, he vanishes from sight... 7 00:02:49,104 --> 00:02:52,107 into the wintry world from which he came. 8 00:02:52,524 --> 00:02:57,279 Even so, man appears on Earth for a little while... 9 00:02:57,446 --> 00:03:03,869 but of what went before this life or what will follow, we know nothing. 10 00:03:07,122 --> 00:03:09,249 In these last days... 11 00:03:09,416 --> 00:03:12,419 I have been thinking a great deal about loss. 12 00:03:12,961 --> 00:03:17,507 What loss, Your Grace, is to man most irrecoverable? 13 00:03:18,300 --> 00:03:20,510 His virtue. - No. 14 00:03:20,677 --> 00:03:23,180 For by his actions, he may redeem his virtue. 15 00:03:24,139 --> 00:03:25,140 Then his honour. 16 00:03:25,307 --> 00:03:29,644 No. For again he may find the means to recover it... 17 00:03:29,811 --> 00:03:32,481 even as a man recovers some fortune he has lost. 18 00:03:34,524 --> 00:03:36,401 Then I cannot say, Your Majesty. 19 00:03:36,568 --> 00:03:39,446 Time, Your Grace. 20 00:03:40,238 --> 00:03:42,157 Of all losses... 21 00:03:42,324 --> 00:03:44,660 time is the most irrecuperable... 22 00:03:45,494 --> 00:03:47,537 for it can never be redeemed. 23 00:04:05,889 --> 00:04:07,516 {\an8}Walter. 24 00:04:11,269 --> 00:04:12,521 {\an8}Take this... 25 00:04:13,188 --> 00:04:14,648 {\an8}very carefully... 26 00:04:14,815 --> 00:04:15,857 {\an8}and give it... 27 00:04:16,691 --> 00:04:19,069 {\an8}to my Lord Risley. 28 00:04:20,278 --> 00:04:21,696 {\an8}Yes, Your Grace. 29 00:04:26,910 --> 00:04:29,579 {\an8}The lord high admiral of France. 30 00:04:37,879 --> 00:04:39,089 {\an8}Your Majesty. 31 00:04:56,106 --> 00:04:57,649 {\an8}Thank you, Your Highness. 32 00:04:57,816 --> 00:05:00,819 {\an8}It is my great privilege and honour to be here. 33 00:05:01,611 --> 00:05:02,737 {\an8}My lord admiral. 34 00:05:06,575 --> 00:05:08,493 {\an8}May I present His Majesty's daughters... 35 00:05:08,660 --> 00:05:11,580 {\an8}the Lady Mary and the Lady Elizabeth? 36 00:05:13,039 --> 00:05:15,458 I never thought to be welcomed in this cordial way... 37 00:05:15,625 --> 00:05:17,460 by His Majesty's family. 38 00:05:17,627 --> 00:05:19,921 But you are a very special and honoured guest... 39 00:05:20,088 --> 00:05:21,464 Admiral D'Annebault. 40 00:05:21,631 --> 00:05:24,092 And your visit most timely. 41 00:05:25,093 --> 00:05:28,096 I am sure His Majesty will be here presently. 42 00:05:34,519 --> 00:05:37,647 My Lord Hertford seems to be in the king's good graces. 43 00:05:37,814 --> 00:05:40,442 I fear it seems to be so. 44 00:05:40,609 --> 00:05:43,278 The earl grows more powerful daily... 45 00:05:43,445 --> 00:05:47,949 because of the king's infirmity and his control of the boy. 46 00:05:48,116 --> 00:05:50,869 God help us then if the king should die. 47 00:05:51,036 --> 00:05:52,245 Yes. 48 00:05:54,289 --> 00:05:55,957 But I have heard many say... 49 00:05:56,124 --> 00:06:00,420 that the people would rather see you anointed as queen... 50 00:06:00,587 --> 00:06:06,635 than leave the country at the mercy of a mere child... 51 00:06:06,801 --> 00:06:09,471 and an overweening uncle. 52 00:06:10,138 --> 00:06:12,557 And what of the queen? 53 00:06:13,892 --> 00:06:17,812 You shall hear more on that subject very soon. 54 00:06:20,857 --> 00:06:21,983 The king. 55 00:06:26,821 --> 00:06:29,157 Your Majesty. 56 00:06:46,925 --> 00:06:48,343 Admiral. 57 00:06:49,427 --> 00:06:53,431 We are very pleased to make a new treaty with France. 58 00:06:53,890 --> 00:06:56,726 I will have no further business with the emperor... 59 00:06:58,353 --> 00:07:00,522 who has betrayed me at every turn. 60 00:07:00,689 --> 00:07:04,317 I can assure Your Majesty that you will find us good and faithful friends... 61 00:07:04,484 --> 00:07:06,361 unlike the emperor. 62 00:07:06,861 --> 00:07:09,614 As you know, in my kingdom... 63 00:07:09,781 --> 00:07:12,742 I have made many changes to religious life. 64 00:07:13,451 --> 00:07:17,038 I have reformed a corrupt church. 65 00:07:17,205 --> 00:07:23,128 I have swept aside hundreds of years of lies and superstitions. 66 00:07:23,295 --> 00:07:28,550 I have revealed to all mankind that the pope is but a fallible prince... 67 00:07:28,717 --> 00:07:31,469 and not the voice of God. 68 00:07:32,595 --> 00:07:34,723 All this, no doubt, you'll have heard. 69 00:07:34,889 --> 00:07:38,518 I am certainly aware that Your Majesty has wrought many changes... 70 00:07:38,685 --> 00:07:40,395 in your own kingdom. 71 00:07:42,022 --> 00:07:45,984 Well, if we are going to be allies, Monsieur... 72 00:07:46,151 --> 00:07:48,153 then I propose a further change. 73 00:07:48,987 --> 00:07:53,783 I propose that Mass be abolished in both our realms... 74 00:07:53,950 --> 00:07:57,954 and replaced with a simple communion service. 75 00:07:58,913 --> 00:08:02,417 Now, how would you feel about that? 76 00:08:06,963 --> 00:08:11,426 Your Majesty, I have no authority to renegotiate the terms of our treaty... 77 00:08:11,593 --> 00:08:14,929 especially, as Your Majesty knows, my king is dying. 78 00:08:15,764 --> 00:08:17,766 Of syphilis, I know. 79 00:08:17,932 --> 00:08:20,101 I am very sorry to hear it. 80 00:08:20,268 --> 00:08:22,604 I have known Francis a long time... 81 00:08:22,771 --> 00:08:26,149 and I beg you to send him my love. 82 00:08:26,316 --> 00:08:28,360 But you may also tell him... 83 00:08:28,526 --> 00:08:32,947 that his disease is a reminder of his own mortality. 84 00:08:33,281 --> 00:08:36,326 Which, in times past, he has forgotten. 85 00:08:46,878 --> 00:08:47,962 Walter? 86 00:08:48,129 --> 00:08:50,131 I have something for you to show the queen. 87 00:08:51,007 --> 00:08:53,385 I'm supposed to take it to Lord Risley. 88 00:08:53,551 --> 00:08:56,137 Hide it. When the queen's read it, give it back to me. 89 00:08:56,846 --> 00:08:58,723 So handsome. 90 00:09:00,975 --> 00:09:02,227 Sister. 91 00:09:03,937 --> 00:09:05,480 What is it? 92 00:09:17,992 --> 00:09:19,702 My God. 93 00:09:22,330 --> 00:09:23,998 What is that? 94 00:09:25,792 --> 00:09:26,918 Who is it? 95 00:09:27,085 --> 00:09:31,297 It's the queen's Majesty, Your Majesty. 96 00:09:33,508 --> 00:09:36,094 And why is she screaming like that? 97 00:09:39,514 --> 00:09:41,349 I'll go and see her. 98 00:09:51,985 --> 00:09:53,361 Kate. 99 00:09:54,988 --> 00:09:56,197 What is it? 100 00:10:11,463 --> 00:10:13,006 'I' 101 00:10:15,049 --> 00:10:16,759 I fear... 102 00:10:17,343 --> 00:10:20,138 you have grown displeased with me. 103 00:10:20,680 --> 00:10:22,140 Why so? 104 00:10:29,147 --> 00:10:30,732 Because“. 105 00:10:32,817 --> 00:10:36,571 I fear that you have utterly forsaken me. 106 00:10:39,073 --> 00:10:40,909 I don't understand. 107 00:10:42,076 --> 00:10:44,078 What has caused you to think so? 108 00:10:45,413 --> 00:10:48,625 And why would I have reason to be displeased with you? 109 00:11:00,553 --> 00:11:02,055 Are you not... 110 00:11:02,972 --> 00:11:04,933 displeased with me? 111 00:11:05,391 --> 00:11:06,893 Kate... 112 00:11:07,393 --> 00:11:09,646 I will ask you one more time... 113 00:11:10,647 --> 00:11:12,607 is there any reason I should be? 114 00:11:20,114 --> 00:11:21,616 No. 115 00:11:23,618 --> 00:11:25,870 There is none, Your Majesty. 116 00:11:28,623 --> 00:11:30,542 Good day, my lady. 117 00:11:39,217 --> 00:11:42,303 Sister. Ladies. 118 00:11:42,470 --> 00:11:44,180 Now, you must do as I ask. 119 00:11:44,347 --> 00:11:46,099 Clear your coffers of all books... 120 00:11:46,266 --> 00:11:48,601 whether you suppose them to be forbidden or not. 121 00:11:48,768 --> 00:11:51,479 And from now on we shall talk no more amongst ourselves... 122 00:11:51,646 --> 00:11:55,358 of any matters whether religious or controversial... 123 00:11:55,525 --> 00:12:00,738 and I shall try, in all things, to conform myself to the king's mind. 124 00:12:00,905 --> 00:12:03,157 Now go. Hurry. 125 00:12:05,827 --> 00:12:07,662 My Lord Hertford. 126 00:12:08,871 --> 00:12:10,164 Good day. 127 00:12:11,332 --> 00:12:13,501 May I be presented to His Grace? 128 00:12:13,668 --> 00:12:17,422 Alas, my Lord, His Grace is indisposed. 129 00:12:17,589 --> 00:12:20,092 He caught a chill and is still Abed. 130 00:12:21,009 --> 00:12:23,011 I am very sorry to hear it. 131 00:12:23,177 --> 00:12:25,930 I will return some other time when the duke is well. 132 00:12:26,097 --> 00:12:27,932 No, no, my lord. 133 00:12:28,099 --> 00:12:29,767 I am... 134 00:12:30,935 --> 00:12:32,228 well enough to see you. 135 00:12:38,735 --> 00:12:39,861 My lord. 136 00:12:48,411 --> 00:12:52,498 I think your faction is engaged in a fight to the death... 137 00:12:52,665 --> 00:12:54,626 with Bishop Gardiner and his. 138 00:12:56,544 --> 00:12:58,755 I will not hide the truth from you, Your Grace. 139 00:13:00,214 --> 00:13:04,552 The king's infirmity and the youth of my nephew... 140 00:13:04,719 --> 00:13:07,972 make the question of succession urgent. 141 00:13:09,140 --> 00:13:11,893 The stakes could not possibly be higher. 142 00:13:12,477 --> 00:13:14,228 And you desire to know, I assume... 143 00:13:14,395 --> 00:13:16,898 on which side of the argument I belong? 144 00:13:19,359 --> 00:13:22,320 Your Grace, whether you will it or not... 145 00:13:22,487 --> 00:13:24,530 you carry a great weight of confidence... 146 00:13:24,697 --> 00:13:27,909 and influence with the king. And everyone knows that. 147 00:13:28,076 --> 00:13:30,662 But fewer people know that your wife, the duchess... 148 00:13:30,828 --> 00:13:32,955 and my wife Anne, together with the queen... 149 00:13:33,122 --> 00:13:36,959 are as close on matters of religion as it is possible to be. 150 00:13:37,919 --> 00:13:40,755 And this close affinity has emboldened me now... 151 00:13:40,922 --> 00:13:42,715 to approach Your Grace. 152 00:13:43,591 --> 00:13:48,096 Surely your wife has told you that the duchess and I are estranged. 153 00:13:48,262 --> 00:13:52,308 Thus her affinities are not necessarily my own... 154 00:13:52,475 --> 00:13:55,520 and you do me a great disservice to assume they are. 155 00:13:55,687 --> 00:13:57,980 Your Grace, forgive me. 156 00:14:02,777 --> 00:14:04,195 I do forgive you. 157 00:14:05,488 --> 00:14:10,576 I forgive you even for hounding poor proud Surrey to his death... 158 00:14:11,327 --> 00:14:13,329 for it was his fault. 159 00:14:16,499 --> 00:14:17,709 But as to religion... 160 00:14:17,875 --> 00:14:20,795 I have never read the Gospels, and never shall. 161 00:14:20,962 --> 00:14:25,466 I am sure they enlighten you, but I prefer them to remain mysterious. 162 00:14:26,634 --> 00:14:28,636 And as for the promise of a better world... 163 00:14:28,803 --> 00:14:32,140 I can only say that England was merry before... 164 00:14:32,306 --> 00:14:34,726 and all things considered... 165 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:39,897 I would all things were as they used to be in times past. 166 00:14:44,068 --> 00:14:47,321 Your Grace, if I do not have your support... 167 00:14:48,531 --> 00:14:51,993 may I ask if you will act against me? 168 00:14:53,369 --> 00:14:56,414 I'm not sure if this is any answer, my Lord Hertford. 169 00:14:56,914 --> 00:15:00,209 But I have always been drawn to a phrase used by the French peasants: 170 00:15:01,085 --> 00:15:03,045 'Praise the God of all... 171 00:15:03,212 --> 00:15:04,839 drink the wine... 172 00:15:05,965 --> 00:15:08,176 and let the world be the world.' 173 00:15:16,142 --> 00:15:17,685 Lady Hertford, Your Grace. 174 00:15:21,022 --> 00:15:22,774 My Lady Hertford. 175 00:15:22,940 --> 00:15:25,067 Your Grace... 176 00:15:25,234 --> 00:15:28,362 I was summoned here but I have no idea why. 177 00:15:28,529 --> 00:15:30,698 I wonder how I may help you. 178 00:15:30,865 --> 00:15:35,077 You may help me, my lady, by telling me the truth. 179 00:15:36,370 --> 00:15:41,876 You were a friend, I believe, of the heretic Anne Askew... 180 00:15:42,043 --> 00:15:43,920 recently burned'? 181 00:15:44,754 --> 00:15:46,714 I was acquainted with her. 182 00:15:47,548 --> 00:15:49,634 More than acquainted, I think. 183 00:15:49,801 --> 00:15:52,011 While she was in prison, one of your servants... 184 00:15:52,178 --> 00:15:56,015 a man wearing a blue coat, gave her money. 185 00:15:57,391 --> 00:16:00,061 I desired to make her circumstances more tolerable. 186 00:16:01,354 --> 00:16:03,940 I was only acting out of Christian charity. 187 00:16:04,106 --> 00:16:08,319 I had been informed that those who tortured her illegally... 188 00:16:08,486 --> 00:16:10,988 had stretched her on the rack until the strings... 189 00:16:11,155 --> 00:16:13,741 of her arms and legs were perished. 190 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,746 But you admit she was a self-confessed heretic? 191 00:16:19,247 --> 00:16:23,125 You are therefore guilty by association. 192 00:16:23,292 --> 00:16:25,795 You have a warrant for my arrest? 193 00:16:40,518 --> 00:16:43,604 You will never serve that warrant. 194 00:16:44,188 --> 00:16:45,606 Why not? 195 00:16:46,357 --> 00:16:48,609 Because I know your secret. 196 00:16:50,152 --> 00:16:53,322 What secret, my Lady Hertford? 197 00:16:54,073 --> 00:16:58,452 You are not such a saint as you appear, are you, Your Grace? 198 00:16:58,828 --> 00:17:02,456 You have not exactly renounced worldly goods... 199 00:17:02,999 --> 00:17:04,375 have you? 200 00:17:05,167 --> 00:17:07,378 There are two monasteries in Cornwall. 201 00:17:07,545 --> 00:17:11,007 They were stripped and closed on His Majesty's orders, and burnt. 202 00:17:11,966 --> 00:17:13,509 Except... 203 00:17:13,676 --> 00:17:16,721 that they were neither stripped nor burnt... 204 00:17:16,888 --> 00:17:21,058 but their titles and contents were quietly transferred to Your Grace. 205 00:17:21,767 --> 00:17:25,646 Thus you are a rich man indeed... 206 00:17:26,647 --> 00:17:29,400 but only by embezzling from the king. 207 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:35,656 I advise you to tear up your warrant, Your Grace. 208 00:18:03,392 --> 00:18:06,896 Majesty, Her Majesty, the queen. 209 00:18:14,028 --> 00:18:17,448 Kate. Come in here. 210 00:18:22,370 --> 00:18:24,872 Your Majesty. - Your Majesty. 211 00:18:35,633 --> 00:18:37,635 I am glad you have come. 212 00:18:38,052 --> 00:18:41,389 You can resolve me of certain doubts. 213 00:18:41,973 --> 00:18:44,850 I wonder, Kate, how much you think you can learn... 214 00:18:45,017 --> 00:18:48,187 from reading the Gospels and other religious books? 215 00:18:48,688 --> 00:18:54,694 Majesty, since God has appointed you as supreme head of us all... 216 00:18:54,860 --> 00:18:58,072 it is from you that I will ever learn. 217 00:18:59,573 --> 00:19:01,283 But that surely is not so. 218 00:19:01,450 --> 00:19:03,995 You have become a doctor, Kate... 219 00:19:04,161 --> 00:19:07,957 to instruct us, as we have seen many times before... 220 00:19:08,124 --> 00:19:11,085 but not to be instructed or directed by us. 221 00:19:13,421 --> 00:19:16,507 Majesty, I think my meaning has been mistaken... 222 00:19:17,466 --> 00:19:19,510 for I have always held it preposterous... 223 00:19:19,677 --> 00:19:21,554 for a woman to instruct her Lord. 224 00:19:21,721 --> 00:19:23,639 And yet you seem sometimes to have... 225 00:19:23,806 --> 00:19:26,809 a different view of religion than we do. 226 00:19:26,976 --> 00:19:30,146 Only so that you could correct me. 227 00:19:30,813 --> 00:19:33,065 Forgive me, Your Majesty... 228 00:19:33,232 --> 00:19:36,444 but I thought that talking and discussing... 229 00:19:36,610 --> 00:19:38,988 helped to ease the pain and weariness... 230 00:19:39,155 --> 00:19:41,615 of your present infirmity. 231 00:19:41,782 --> 00:19:45,036 And it encouraged me in my boldness... 232 00:19:45,202 --> 00:19:50,332 in the hope of profiting from your learned discourse. 233 00:19:51,500 --> 00:19:52,752 I am... 234 00:19:53,627 --> 00:19:55,629 I am but a woman... 235 00:19:56,464 --> 00:19:59,133 with all the imperfections... 236 00:19:59,300 --> 00:20:03,012 natural to the weakness of my sex... 237 00:20:03,179 --> 00:20:08,350 and therefore, in all matters of doubt and difficulty... 238 00:20:08,517 --> 00:20:10,811 I must refer myself... 239 00:20:10,978 --> 00:20:14,315 to Your Majesty's better judgement... 240 00:20:14,482 --> 00:20:18,319 as my lord and head. 241 00:20:22,615 --> 00:20:24,742 Is that so, sweetheart? 242 00:20:25,993 --> 00:20:29,205 And you made your argument for no worse ends? 243 00:20:30,581 --> 00:20:34,668 Well, then we are perfect friends again. 244 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:41,675 I thank Your Majesty. 245 00:20:49,767 --> 00:20:53,270 I promise that I will never doubt you again. 246 00:21:01,862 --> 00:21:03,239 Sweet Kate. 247 00:21:04,657 --> 00:21:06,325 Majesty- 248 00:21:16,210 --> 00:21:17,628 Majesty... 249 00:21:17,795 --> 00:21:19,713 shall I rescind Your Majesty's order... 250 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,049 to arrest the queen tomorrow? 251 00:21:23,217 --> 00:21:24,885 Why? 252 00:21:28,472 --> 00:21:29,807 Music. 253 00:21:39,233 --> 00:21:40,943 What is it, sweetheart? 254 00:21:41,944 --> 00:21:44,488 Nothing. Nothing. 255 00:21:45,865 --> 00:21:47,324 I was dreaming. 256 00:21:49,618 --> 00:21:51,412 We were back in Boulogne... 257 00:21:53,414 --> 00:21:55,249 but I let you go. 258 00:21:57,626 --> 00:21:59,044 I'm here. 259 00:22:03,632 --> 00:22:04,758 Has the dawn come yet? 260 00:22:04,925 --> 00:22:06,886 Not yet. Not yet. 261 00:22:13,601 --> 00:22:15,519 I hate the nights. 262 00:22:17,104 --> 00:22:18,814 They make me think of perpetual night. 263 00:22:18,981 --> 00:22:20,816 Hush, darling. 264 00:22:20,983 --> 00:22:24,820 The dawn will be here soon, and you well again. 265 00:22:33,704 --> 00:22:36,332 Brigitte. - Yes, my darling? 266 00:22:38,959 --> 00:22:40,586 I'm so happy. 267 00:22:59,230 --> 00:23:00,814 Kate? 268 00:23:00,981 --> 00:23:02,733 What is this? 269 00:23:06,820 --> 00:23:09,657 Lord Chancellor. Why have you come? 270 00:23:10,908 --> 00:23:13,661 I have come to execute the warrant for the queen's arrest... 271 00:23:13,827 --> 00:23:16,372 and to escort her and her ladies to the Tower. 272 00:23:16,538 --> 00:23:19,124 You knave! 273 00:23:19,291 --> 00:23:22,336 You arrant knave! 274 00:23:22,503 --> 00:23:24,880 Get out! Get out of my sight! 275 00:23:25,047 --> 00:23:26,340 Forgive me. - Get out! 276 00:23:26,507 --> 00:23:29,218 And take your bastards with you. 277 00:23:36,308 --> 00:23:37,643 'I' 278 00:23:37,810 --> 00:23:41,855 I am so sorry that the Lord Chancellor... 279 00:23:42,022 --> 00:23:46,277 should make such a mistake. 280 00:23:48,237 --> 00:23:51,740 You don't know how little he deserves your sympathy. 281 00:23:54,201 --> 00:23:56,203 He was not your friend, Kate. 282 00:24:08,215 --> 00:24:10,384 Lord Hertford. - My Lord Hertford. 283 00:24:12,886 --> 00:24:15,431 Your Grace, I have already explained. 284 00:24:15,597 --> 00:24:17,725 He called me a knave. All manner of things. 285 00:24:17,891 --> 00:24:20,269 But for whose ears? 286 00:24:20,436 --> 00:24:24,773 Supposing he still wants the queen to feel falsely secure? 287 00:24:24,940 --> 00:24:28,736 If it was feigned anger, it seemed very real to me. 288 00:24:31,071 --> 00:24:33,907 My lords, in the king's absence, council is called upon... 289 00:24:34,074 --> 00:24:38,454 to declare its content with the terms of the peace treaty with France. 290 00:24:38,620 --> 00:24:39,997 All in favour say 'aye.' 291 00:24:40,164 --> 00:24:41,582 Aye. 292 00:24:41,749 --> 00:24:46,003 Council is also called upon to discuss all arrangements made... 293 00:24:46,170 --> 00:24:50,090 for the security and safety of His Highness Prince Edward... 294 00:24:50,257 --> 00:24:53,093 heir to the throne, and for all provisions made... 295 00:24:53,260 --> 00:24:56,513 for his temporal and spiritual welfare. 296 00:24:57,890 --> 00:24:59,850 My lords, pray... 297 00:25:00,017 --> 00:25:02,353 what induces you to discuss such things now... 298 00:25:02,519 --> 00:25:04,688 when all such provisions are already made... 299 00:25:04,855 --> 00:25:08,776 and the prince is secure at Windsor by His Majesty's orders? 300 00:25:08,942 --> 00:25:10,110 Aye. - True. 301 00:25:10,277 --> 00:25:15,783 My Lord Hertford, council is still constituted to examine such matters... 302 00:25:15,949 --> 00:25:18,660 especially since the king's infirmities... 303 00:25:18,827 --> 00:25:21,372 give us all cause to think of the future. 304 00:25:22,164 --> 00:25:25,459 And it is treason, my Lord Chancellor... 305 00:25:25,626 --> 00:25:27,294 to envisage the king's death. 306 00:25:27,461 --> 00:25:28,462 Aye! - My lord... 307 00:25:28,629 --> 00:25:30,631 all our concern is for the prince. 308 00:25:30,798 --> 00:25:32,299 Your concern? 309 00:25:32,466 --> 00:25:35,010 Are you forgetting that he is of my blood? 310 00:25:35,177 --> 00:25:38,347 He is also of the king's blood... 311 00:25:38,514 --> 00:25:41,850 which gives us cause enough to examine those put in charge of him. 312 00:25:42,017 --> 00:25:44,186 And among them, some of whom we find... 313 00:25:44,353 --> 00:25:47,147 like his tutors, to be suspected heretics. 314 00:25:47,314 --> 00:25:50,651 Yes. Heretics. - You talk of heresy. You. 315 00:25:50,818 --> 00:25:54,989 And what are you, but a puffed-up porkling of the pope's. 316 00:25:55,155 --> 00:25:56,657 My lord. 317 00:25:58,659 --> 00:26:01,954 I still say, my Lord Hertford... 318 00:26:02,121 --> 00:26:05,833 that the real truth behind your intentions towards the prince... 319 00:26:05,999 --> 00:26:09,711 and the crown must be placed before the king. 320 00:26:13,507 --> 00:26:15,509 What are you doing? - Take your hands off. 321 00:26:21,223 --> 00:26:26,353 Your Majesty, Bishop Gardiner desires an audience with Your Majesty. 322 00:26:28,021 --> 00:26:29,398 Refused. 323 00:26:29,773 --> 00:26:32,151 His Grace has a troublesome nature... 324 00:26:32,317 --> 00:26:35,696 and I don't want to see him here ever again. 325 00:26:36,113 --> 00:26:38,532 I desire him to leave my court. 326 00:26:39,533 --> 00:26:41,618 Yes, Your Majesty. 327 00:26:50,335 --> 00:26:54,381 Your Grace, His Majesty instructs you to leave court. 328 00:27:47,309 --> 00:27:48,852 My Lord Hertford. - Lord Hertford. 329 00:27:49,019 --> 00:27:51,146 Lord Hertford. - My lord. 330 00:27:52,606 --> 00:27:55,776 My Lord Hertford. - Lord Chancellor. 331 00:27:55,943 --> 00:27:57,486 What may I do for you? 332 00:27:57,653 --> 00:28:00,864 You may forgive me, if you find it possible to do so... 333 00:28:01,031 --> 00:28:04,284 from some past associations, which I now regret. 334 00:28:04,868 --> 00:28:07,788 I have no hesitation in pledging my utter loyalty... 335 00:28:07,955 --> 00:28:09,957 to your lordship's house... 336 00:28:10,123 --> 00:28:13,001 and I trust in future I can serve you... 337 00:28:13,168 --> 00:28:16,964 as faithfully as I have always served His Majesty. 338 00:28:18,715 --> 00:28:22,803 I am most grateful to you, my Lord Chancellor. 339 00:28:41,488 --> 00:28:42,864 Your Majesty. 340 00:28:44,199 --> 00:28:45,492 Mr. Holbein. 341 00:28:53,667 --> 00:28:54,960 Mr. Holbein. 342 00:28:55,127 --> 00:28:56,336 Majesty- 343 00:28:57,170 --> 00:28:58,922 I have a commission for you. 344 00:28:59,298 --> 00:29:01,550 I am most grateful to Your Majesty. 345 00:29:03,343 --> 00:29:05,429 I assume Your Majesty means a portrait? 346 00:29:06,430 --> 00:29:08,890 You once painted my father. 347 00:29:09,057 --> 00:29:10,892 Now you will paint me. 348 00:29:11,059 --> 00:29:13,186 I am deeply honoured. 349 00:29:17,190 --> 00:29:18,525 Sweetheart. 350 00:29:19,484 --> 00:29:20,777 Sweetheart. 351 00:29:21,445 --> 00:29:24,114 Here is a messenger from His Majesty. 352 00:29:33,707 --> 00:29:37,669 Your Grace, His Majesty has heard of your indisposition... 353 00:29:37,836 --> 00:29:40,380 and has asked to see you. 354 00:29:42,341 --> 00:29:43,842 No. 355 00:29:44,009 --> 00:29:47,554 That is impossible. Ask the physicians. 356 00:29:51,391 --> 00:29:53,393 What shall I tell His Majesty? 357 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,270 Tell him... 358 00:29:56,355 --> 00:29:58,273 I shall come. 359 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,400 But you can't. 360 00:30:02,736 --> 00:30:04,404 How can I lie in bed, my love... 361 00:30:04,571 --> 00:30:07,240 when the king of England has summoned me? 362 00:30:08,408 --> 00:30:10,410 Just get them to help me. 363 00:31:04,297 --> 00:31:05,799 What are you doing here? 364 00:31:06,591 --> 00:31:09,511 I have come to see my daughter. 365 00:31:10,262 --> 00:31:13,056 Why should that surprise you, Henry? 366 00:31:14,558 --> 00:31:17,352 You have not always been kind to her. 367 00:31:17,519 --> 00:31:20,147 I have wept so often... 368 00:31:20,313 --> 00:31:24,943 to see her alone, abandoned by her father. 369 00:31:26,987 --> 00:31:31,700 Is that why you've come back, Catherine? 370 00:31:32,868 --> 00:31:36,997 To chide me for all that I am not? 371 00:31:37,164 --> 00:31:40,417 She ought to be a long time married by now. 372 00:31:40,584 --> 00:31:43,712 She ought to have her own children. 373 00:31:46,548 --> 00:31:49,760 Go away... shade. 374 00:31:52,053 --> 00:31:53,930 Go away, Catherine. 375 00:31:55,265 --> 00:31:57,350 You sent me away before... 376 00:31:58,351 --> 00:32:00,645 though I loved you. 377 00:32:01,897 --> 00:32:06,359 But I was still your wife in God's eyes. 378 00:32:06,860 --> 00:32:09,571 And still am. 379 00:32:33,011 --> 00:32:35,013 His Grace, the Duke of Suffolk. 380 00:32:52,739 --> 00:32:53,949 Charles. 381 00:32:55,742 --> 00:32:57,118 Majesty- 382 00:32:58,495 --> 00:33:02,082 They told me you were ill, so I had to see you. 383 00:33:06,169 --> 00:33:08,421 I have a slight fever. 384 00:33:09,548 --> 00:33:13,677 Perhaps Your Majesty should not come so close. 385 00:33:16,304 --> 00:33:19,891 We've known each other a long time. 386 00:33:20,058 --> 00:33:22,769 A very long time. 387 00:33:24,271 --> 00:33:25,522 Yes. 388 00:33:26,439 --> 00:33:28,108 And I remember everything. 389 00:33:31,319 --> 00:33:32,654 In fact... 390 00:33:33,446 --> 00:33:34,990 I remember... 391 00:33:35,156 --> 00:33:37,284 things from long ago... 392 00:33:38,243 --> 00:33:40,620 better than I remember yesterday. 393 00:33:45,125 --> 00:33:47,460 I remember Your Majesty's sister so well. 394 00:33:51,506 --> 00:33:53,550 And the Battle of the Spurs. 395 00:33:58,096 --> 00:34:00,473 And when Your Majesty made me a duke... 396 00:34:05,312 --> 00:34:07,564 God knows why. 397 00:34:10,150 --> 00:34:14,821 You were my general, in York and in France... 398 00:34:14,988 --> 00:34:17,616 because I could trust no one else. 399 00:34:21,453 --> 00:34:23,997 And I beg you now, Charles... 400 00:34:24,164 --> 00:34:25,999 to trust me. 401 00:34:31,129 --> 00:34:35,592 I have the power to make you well again. You know that. 402 00:34:40,347 --> 00:34:43,516 They told me you were like to die... 403 00:34:43,683 --> 00:34:45,268 but you won't die. 404 00:34:46,519 --> 00:34:47,938 I forbid it. 405 00:34:51,024 --> 00:34:52,192 Kneel. 406 00:35:13,088 --> 00:35:17,759 By the grace of God, I, the Eighth Henry... 407 00:35:17,926 --> 00:35:22,263 king of England, Ireland, and France... 408 00:35:23,098 --> 00:35:25,016 defender of the faith... 409 00:35:25,934 --> 00:35:28,144 and of the Church of England... 410 00:35:28,979 --> 00:35:31,314 command you to be healed. 411 00:36:33,084 --> 00:36:35,170 Lady Suffolk. - My Lady Suffolk. 412 00:36:35,336 --> 00:36:36,796 My lady. 413 00:36:40,091 --> 00:36:41,342 Your Grace. 414 00:36:41,509 --> 00:36:45,305 May I say on behalf of all His Grace's loyal servants and staff... 415 00:36:45,472 --> 00:36:48,767 that we are as heartbroken and wretched as Your Grace must be... 416 00:36:48,933 --> 00:36:50,894 on this unhappy day- 417 00:36:51,853 --> 00:36:54,856 For we all loved His Grace as much as you... 418 00:36:55,023 --> 00:36:57,484 his wife, and son, loved him. 419 00:36:57,650 --> 00:37:01,863 Thank you. Your sympathy and loyalty touch my son and I most deeply. 420 00:37:40,235 --> 00:37:43,905 He is to be buried at St George's Chapel at Windsor. 421 00:37:45,031 --> 00:37:46,866 At my expense. 422 00:37:48,368 --> 00:37:49,702 Majesty- 423 00:37:50,870 --> 00:37:54,541 I tell you this, my Lord Hertford... 424 00:37:55,583 --> 00:37:58,586 as long as Charles Brandon served me... 425 00:37:58,753 --> 00:38:01,631 he never betrayed a friend... 426 00:38:02,215 --> 00:38:06,219 nor ever took unfair advantage of an enemy... 427 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:13,309 which is more than I can say for anyone else at my court. 428 00:38:17,105 --> 00:38:19,357 I never thought he would die. 429 00:38:24,445 --> 00:38:25,697 We should talk... 430 00:38:25,864 --> 00:38:28,032 my Lord Hertford, about the arrangements... 431 00:38:28,199 --> 00:38:30,660 for the prince's minority... 432 00:38:30,827 --> 00:38:32,996 after I am dead. 433 00:38:45,842 --> 00:38:49,762 Your Majesty, Mr. Holbein is here. 434 00:38:50,513 --> 00:38:52,140 Mr. Holbein. 435 00:38:52,307 --> 00:38:53,933 Majesty... 436 00:38:54,100 --> 00:38:57,812 with your permission, I came to show you my work in progress. 437 00:39:11,618 --> 00:39:12,994 Master Holbein. 438 00:39:14,621 --> 00:39:16,664 When you painted my father... 439 00:39:17,123 --> 00:39:18,791 you made his likeness... 440 00:39:18,958 --> 00:39:23,504 when he was old, sickly and ill. 441 00:39:24,422 --> 00:39:27,133 He looked nothing like a king of England... 442 00:39:28,343 --> 00:39:30,595 more like a poor wretch. 443 00:39:31,346 --> 00:39:36,476 A feeble, plain and dying man. 444 00:39:37,477 --> 00:39:39,312 And now you have done the same for me. 445 00:39:39,479 --> 00:39:40,521 Majesty, I... 446 00:39:40,688 --> 00:39:44,651 Mr. Holbein, this portrait is a lie! 447 00:39:50,782 --> 00:39:52,492 Do it again. 448 00:39:53,368 --> 00:39:54,994 Get out. 449 00:40:37,704 --> 00:40:39,539 Why are you here? 450 00:40:39,706 --> 00:40:41,582 To see my daughter. 451 00:40:41,749 --> 00:40:44,711 She was the only pure thing in my life. 452 00:40:44,877 --> 00:40:47,797 And in my life I neglected her, since she was only a girl... 453 00:40:47,964 --> 00:40:50,883 and I wanted so much to give you a son. 454 00:40:51,050 --> 00:40:53,553 But now I am so proud of her. 455 00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:55,388 Fiercely proud. 456 00:40:55,555 --> 00:40:57,307 She is so clever. 457 00:40:58,308 --> 00:41:00,893 And though she is like me in so many ways... 458 00:41:01,060 --> 00:41:03,563 she is not intemperate as I was. 459 00:41:04,522 --> 00:41:07,108 You must be proud of her too, Henry. 460 00:41:09,902 --> 00:41:11,571 I am. 461 00:41:11,738 --> 00:41:14,449 I am very proud of her. 462 00:41:15,992 --> 00:41:18,745 And I know how clever she is. 463 00:41:22,957 --> 00:41:26,419 And I wish that I could love her more. 464 00:41:30,715 --> 00:41:32,633 But from time to time... 465 00:41:34,510 --> 00:41:36,179 she reminds me of you... 466 00:41:37,513 --> 00:41:39,098 and of what you did to me. 467 00:41:39,265 --> 00:41:41,225 I did nothing to you. 468 00:41:42,101 --> 00:41:43,686 I was innocent. 469 00:41:44,187 --> 00:41:47,648 All the accusations against me were false. 470 00:41:48,608 --> 00:41:50,651 I thought you knew. 471 00:41:53,488 --> 00:41:55,823 Poor Catherine Howard. 472 00:41:55,990 --> 00:41:59,535 She lies in the cold ground next to me. 473 00:41:59,911 --> 00:42:01,704 Poor child. 474 00:42:02,121 --> 00:42:04,499 It was not her fault either. 475 00:42:05,458 --> 00:42:08,961 But we were like two moths, drawn to the flame... 476 00:42:10,171 --> 00:42:11,297 and burned. 477 00:42:21,766 --> 00:42:23,726 Anne, please don't. 478 00:42:39,992 --> 00:42:42,120 His Majesty, the king. 479 00:42:49,710 --> 00:42:51,838 Your Majesty. 480 00:42:57,009 --> 00:42:58,594 Lady Mary. 481 00:43:00,054 --> 00:43:01,973 Lady Elizabeth. 482 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,060 Kate. 483 00:43:07,562 --> 00:43:09,188 Come here. 484 00:43:13,025 --> 00:43:17,113 I have decided to send you away to Greenwich. 485 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:21,534 I will not spend Christmastide with you this year... 486 00:43:21,701 --> 00:43:22,869 or thereafter. 487 00:43:26,247 --> 00:43:29,083 Why, Your Majesty? - Kate. 488 00:43:29,792 --> 00:43:32,336 Do not question my command. 489 00:43:32,712 --> 00:43:34,088 It is as it is. 490 00:43:34,255 --> 00:43:35,923 Yes, Your Majesty. 491 00:43:44,432 --> 00:43:45,933 Mary. 492 00:43:46,100 --> 00:43:50,813 You must be a kind and loving mother to your brother... 493 00:43:50,980 --> 00:43:56,235 who I leave in this world a helpless little child. 494 00:43:58,070 --> 00:44:02,575 Please, father, I beg you, do not leave me an orphan so soon. 495 00:44:03,743 --> 00:44:05,244 Mary. 496 00:44:06,496 --> 00:44:08,164 Mary. 497 00:44:14,378 --> 00:44:15,963 Elizabeth. 498 00:44:24,138 --> 00:44:26,098 You are so very young... 499 00:44:26,265 --> 00:44:29,685 but you too can look after your brother. 500 00:44:29,852 --> 00:44:31,896 Yes, Your Majesty. 501 00:44:32,063 --> 00:44:33,397 I promise. 502 00:44:35,274 --> 00:44:36,776 Bless you, child. 503 00:44:37,944 --> 00:44:39,570 Bless you. 504 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:50,706 Kate. 505 00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:59,465 The time has come for us to bid farewell. 506 00:45:00,466 --> 00:45:02,468 It is God's will. 507 00:45:03,803 --> 00:45:07,640 When I die, I order these gentlemen... 508 00:45:07,807 --> 00:45:10,810 to treat you as if I were living still... 509 00:45:11,978 --> 00:45:15,398 and if it is your pleasure to remarry... 510 00:45:15,982 --> 00:45:19,902 I order that you shall have 7000 pounds a year... 511 00:45:20,069 --> 00:45:23,322 as long as you live for your service... 512 00:45:24,699 --> 00:45:28,494 as well as your jewels and ornaments. 513 00:45:56,897 --> 00:45:58,691 Now go. 514 00:46:35,561 --> 00:46:37,438 How is my son? 515 00:46:43,527 --> 00:46:45,071 Jane. 516 00:46:50,159 --> 00:46:51,911 He is well. 517 00:46:52,870 --> 00:46:55,998 I have taken all care of him. 518 00:46:57,249 --> 00:46:59,085 Sweet Jane. 519 00:47:00,753 --> 00:47:04,090 And soon, he will be king. 520 00:47:07,426 --> 00:47:10,137 My poor boy. 521 00:47:11,263 --> 00:47:13,432 My poor child. 522 00:47:13,891 --> 00:47:15,142 No! 523 00:47:15,768 --> 00:47:18,062 He is the most beloved. 524 00:47:21,065 --> 00:47:23,192 He is my special boy. 525 00:47:25,361 --> 00:47:26,946 He will die young. 526 00:47:27,613 --> 00:47:29,740 No. No. 527 00:47:30,366 --> 00:47:33,786 Poor child. You expected too much of him. 528 00:47:33,953 --> 00:47:36,872 He was only a boy. 529 00:47:37,039 --> 00:47:40,292 Kings, too, are made of clay. 530 00:47:40,459 --> 00:47:43,003 And God forbid you locked him away from the world... 531 00:47:43,170 --> 00:47:44,797 like your father did with you. 532 00:47:44,964 --> 00:47:46,507 No. 533 00:47:46,882 --> 00:47:49,135 Don't you understand? 534 00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,470 You have killed him. 535 00:47:52,471 --> 00:47:53,848 No. 536 00:48:14,243 --> 00:48:18,164 Herewith, my lords, is my testament. 537 00:48:18,706 --> 00:48:20,374 When I am dead... 538 00:48:20,541 --> 00:48:23,502 my Lord Hertford will act as Lord Protector... 539 00:48:23,669 --> 00:48:26,088 during Prince Edward's minority. 540 00:48:26,255 --> 00:48:28,048 He will be supported... 541 00:48:28,215 --> 00:48:30,509 by my Lord Chancellor Risley... 542 00:48:30,676 --> 00:48:32,511 and Archbishop Cranmer. 543 00:48:35,139 --> 00:48:36,599 It is my desire... 544 00:48:37,433 --> 00:48:41,520 to be buried next to the body of my true and loving wife... 545 00:48:41,687 --> 00:48:45,024 Queen Jane Seymour, at Windsor. 546 00:48:46,484 --> 00:48:51,363 You shall raise an honourable tomb upon which will be our effigies... 547 00:48:51,530 --> 00:48:55,534 fashioned as if we are sweetly sleeping. 548 00:50:41,098 --> 00:50:42,474 Majesty- 549 00:50:54,695 --> 00:50:56,405 Your Majesty. 550 00:50:57,698 --> 00:51:00,743 Mr. Holbein awaits you in the chapel. 551 00:53:57,002 --> 00:53:58,837 Master Holbein... 552 00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:01,715 it is well done.