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You're too long in Brittany, Henry Tudor. I can only beat what you put in

front of me, uncle.

The king is dead.

We must be ready to raise an army.

I will work with all of you to put Prince Edward on the throne.

We are to escort the king to the tower for his protection.

Secure the prince's safety.

How dare he terrorize my sons?

We're going into sanctuary.

What's stopping him from snatching my other son?

Prince Richard must flee secretly to Flanders.

You must find a boy that's the very image of you.

You didn't think it was safe for Prince Richard to go to the Tower.

And you must believe Edward's at risk too.

Why did he want both sons?

He knows that if you have the heirs, you hold all the power.

How can you crown a boy who grew up to be your enemy?

Name yourself king.

It is the safest option now.

I'm Dr. Lewis, Lady Margaret Stanley's physician. Richard, you could gloss the

plans to make himself king.

Parliament declared your marriage to Edward of York invalid.

and your sons as bastards.

Lady Margaret, I need your help.

We must free Prince Edward from the tower.

We're working with her to get the princes out of the tower.

Is Buckingham with us? As much as he ever will be.

His claim is as strong as your son's. Oh, then we must strengthen his claim.

Marry well, Princess Elizabeth.

Your ambition will be the death of the boys.

I will restore your good names and get my boys back.

I will not.

My affinity, my kin, my loyal men-at-arms.

I am the rightful king.

You are guardians of my kingdom, the men whom I rely on.

Sir Robert Brackenbury, now Constable of the Tower.

Harry Stafford Duke of Buckingham

Lord Chamberlain of England

Lord

Thomas

Stanley

Lord High Constable of England, and in place

of Antony Rivers, the Order of the Guard.

I serve my duty to God. I'm King Richard.

I'm grateful for your loyalty.

They will be loyal to us, Richard.

You are the rightful king now, and England will grow to love you.

London is against me still.

They will come around.

The North is loyal, and soon the South will follow.

And when the time is right...

We will invest our boy as Prince of Wales.

And England will blossom in your York sun again.

Thank you, Anne.

Nobody wanted a Rivers boy on the throne, whose mother would tear England

apart.

Your Grace,

no one ever mentions the boys in the Tower.

Or their mother.

They may not mention them.

It does not mean they are forgotten.

Do they think that if they ring the bells for days and end it will make his

coronation less a sin?

England will not accept it.

They love Edward's boys, and Richard is a fool to think he can usurp Prince

Edward. Do you still have no word from Prince Richard?

The letter may have gone astray.

Or perhaps we have sent him to his death.

Elizabeth. Maybe we shall all die.

Now my father's gone.

Maybe he and Richard Grey and Uncle Antony were just the first. No one else

will die, Elizabeth.

I've heard word from Buckingham.

He's, um... He's told me what his terms are for joining us against the king.

I'll tell Elizabeth and we'll mount our attack on the tower.

Does she trust you?

Yes.

Once you've rescued her boys, she'll rise with us against Richard.

I think those boys are still a problem, though.

Richard naming them as bastards made no difference.

The people still support them.

Anne and Richard know it too.

But perhaps that might provide us with a solution.

Lay down.

Sir Robert.

I did not think to see you here.

We are shortly on our royal progress.

But I should like to have sight of those boys before I go.

They can be neither boys nor men, because just by living they are a threat

to us.

We hoped by declaring their illegitimacy that they would lose their power, but

people still support them.

Would you wish them killed?

I can't wish it.

Not a pair of innocent boys.

You are too tender-hearted then.

Because boys become men.

boys can be a cause that men will kill for.

Then I do wish it.

Else how will the king and I ever be safe?

I received a message from King Richard that if we were to leave Sanctuary and

go live at Grafton, then my boys would be returned to me. He says they will

have peace now.

Do you trust him?

Of course I do not trust him.

He killed my son and my brother Anthony.

My boys must be released to me before I leave here.

Take care, Your Grace.

Lady Margaret fears the King would play you false.

She says the Duke of Buckingham believes it too, and that he is so aggrieved he

is ready to turn against King Richard.

Buckingham will turn?

As evidence of his good faith.

He will storm the tower with you to free the princes.

And what is Buckingham's price?

For betraying his dearest friend?

The Duke asks that his eldest daughter should marry your son, Prince Edward.

And that he himself be named regent until the young king is of age.

And no doubt she wants her exiled son Henry to return to England. And Princess

Elizabeth's hand in marriage to Henry. And that Henry is named heir after your

Prince Edward.

It means your daughter could be queen.

And Lady Margaret says that such a marriage would unite the houses of York

and Lancaster and end these wars.

But my boys must be rescued straight away.

And my great son Thomas, he will join the raid to see that all goes well.

Send this note to him to come to see me.

Your Grace.

To Henry and Jasper, I greet you well.

I have much news.

We are to free Elizabeth's boys from the tower, and then she will bring her army

against Richard.

You must make ready.

Whoever wins must find you landed in force, Lancaster Rising, and a second

battle to fight against your fresh troops.

As you were, gentlemen.

I think this is our moment I

have

selected the men who will join in the attack on the tower I have to know your

will

My will is God's will.

When they break down the door of the prince's room, is it your will, or God's

will, that they slice their little heads off there and then?

Elizabeth's own son, Thomas Gray, will be there, as will her man, Sir John.

What, kill them all?

This is your plan, to put your son on the throne.

If the princes are dead, then he is two steps closer.

The people would not choose Henry over them.

I brought the little one to life myself.

War is hard.

What are your commands, my lady?

You would have me order the deaths of two boys, only nine and twelve.

Well, say the word and we will rescue them from their wicked uncle and free

the queen too.

Would you like the royal family of York restored with a little Prince Edward on

the throne?

Well, then you must choose!

Save or slaughter!

Hmm?

Which is it to be?

Save or slaughter?

Obviously, the men must kill him.

Father,

the men are waiting.

Do you know your orders?

Yes, Lord Stanley.

We must join the king.

Wait until the men have reached the gate. Then send a letter. What letter?

To Sir Ovid Brackenbury at the tower, warning him of the attack.

Warning him? So we are seen to be on Richard's side if it goes wrong.

Father?

It won't go wrong.

Stanley.

How do I fare as a fisherman, Mother? Oh, it's so good to see you.

Sir John, thank you.

I have been in mourning for the King, Your Grace.

And aggrieved at your boys being taken from you.

You will watch them on the raid, won't you?

Buckingham and Stanley. Both are on the King's wall of progress.

The King trusts no one, so he's taken them with him.

It's their men we're meeting. At least it shows he has no true supporters.

Mother. If Henry Tudor and Buckingham are really on our side, we cannot fail.

Richard will not stand a chance against us all united. Just bring my boy to me.

Be ready to leave when we send word.

Thomas, John, take care.

Your grace.

You must be brave and wait!

We fell.

The boys were better guarded than we thought.

The man who should have let us in was cut down. You didn't even get inside.

We tried to ram the door, but the guards came from the courtyard and we had to

fight them.

The door was slamming and shouting as the boys were taken further in.

Once we had discovered there was no chance we could get to them, I shouted

to my brother, you must be brave and wait, we are coming for you.

He did not answer.

We must call all out to uprising.

We must hope for a quick defeat, so we can reach the boys before they come to

any harm.

I'll write to Lady Margaret and tell her to raise Buckingham.

And do you trust your newfound friends, Mother?

Who suddenly flock to rescue the boys and yet don't quite succeed, because all

of them feast quite merrily at Uncle Richard's table.

I cannot choose my allies, Elizabeth.

And to save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

I think that you already have.

Richard, what is it?

The rivers have attacked the tower.

The Mamlud were in the north and miles away.

Sir Robert Brackenby has written to me.

She did not get the princes out. They're not princes anymore.

I'm sorry.

Grace? Your son, Lord Strange, he found out and sent a warning.

It came too late, but I'm grateful to him.

You must punish those concerned. It showed no mercy.

The boys are safe under lock and key.

It is her and no one else.

Of course it is.

But how does she still have men she can command?

The boys command them by their very living.

We must have our boy infested Prince of Wales.

We'll do it here in York.

Then there can be no question who is next in line for the throne.

Why could we not reach them?

You want the boys to live?

I am your obedient daughter.

So if it is your will that they should take the throne and not my son, then you

need to give me a sign.

You need to give me a sign right now.

They botched it, then.

If my son hadn't sent his warning letter, Richard may well have pointed

his finger at me.

How do I know it wasn't your son's letter that caused us to fail?

Richard plans to move the princes to the north.

Once he does, we'll never get to him, so you need a new plan. I have a plan. I

just don't care to share it with you in case you send any more letters. I risk

my neck leaving the king's side to see if this thing can be salvaged. Do not

exclude me now.

I'm meeting Buckingham.

He has access to the tower.

You are older than I am and therefore wiser, and I... I trust your holy

judgment.

Do you think we must try again to free the princes and restore them to their

state? If they were legitimate, then of course.

But Richard says they're not, so perhaps you'd risk everything just for a witch's

sons. Perhaps we might.

I do fear for their lives, though.

Richard will surely want them out of the way now our plot to free them came so

close. You don't think he would murder them?

God forbid.

Though if he did, it would mean the end of the river's line.

That would serve her right.

Oh, that witch Elizabeth.

who made me marry her yokel sister.

Or if someone else were to kill them in Richard's name, who would doubt it was

really Richard's doing.

And you, of course, have access to the tower.

And the rebellion that overthrew him would leave the throne open to someone

new.

But, of course, you mean your own boy, Henry Tudor.

Henry's direct Lancastrian heir. It is his birthright.

We should continue as planned.

You, my son, and Elizabeth working together to overthrow Richard. Only what

she doesn't know is that when he's defeated, we'll put my son on the

throne, not hers.

And if, God forbid, your Henry should fall in

battle... Then you would be king.

As you would if he should die without issue, but if he should live.

Then you will have his gratitude and any price you name.

Will you take my fealty to your son?

I swear my fealty to God and to King Henry Tudor.

On behalf of my son?

Henry Cheetah, rightful king of England, I accept your fealty.

Let us overthrow Richard and his standard of the boar and bring joy back

to England.

Shall I really be king one day, father?

Yes, Edward.

You will be king of England.

I don't want to be king if you will die.

I won't die for a very long time.

I promise.

And I always keep my word, don't I?

Richard.

Edward. It is time.

My beautiful boy.

Brave as your father.

He'd be so proud of you.

I will raise an army in Flanders like him and come back to avenge Richard.

Thomas sends word that no one has seen our brother or the changeling since the

raid. Our letters are returned to us with the seals not even broken.

And now Richard has made his own son Prince of Wales.

And that usurper will die for it.

Haven't enough died, Mother?

It is his birthright, Elizabeth, the throne of England.

And this is my life?

And my sisters.

Lizzie, don't. You coop us up here like rats while all you do all day is plot

revenge. Elizabeth. You want the throne, but do you even have a boy to put on it?

No.

Queen Elizabeth!

Your Grace!

Thomas!

I've love from Flanders.

My Prince Richard! He's safe!

My Prince Richard!

My dear Jasper and Henry, our London house is now the secret headquarters of

our rebellion.

Dr Lewis goes between Elizabeth and myself almost daily, as she in turn

draws out those men still loyal to the Orc princes and signs them to our

rebellion.

My spies report that Buckingham's men are secretly arming, as he promised, and

will meet you when you land in Wales.

He and Elizabeth think that you will land your men in Tenby to join them.

They do not know you will be off the coast waiting until their battle with

Richard is over, so you can defeat the victor.

Only Richard, far away in the north, has no

notion of the plans that are forming at the very heart of his own capital.

And when the time comes, he'll have no idea what hit him.

What's wrong, my love?

I thought once the boys were disinherited, we would be safe.

But Henry Tudor has betrothed the Princess Elizabeth, our niece.

How do you know?

Lord Stanley told me.

I fear I must reprimand my wife. I thought she'd respond to my authority,

but... The Tudors and Elizabeth are in alliance.

They're planning a rebellion.

I must insist the Duke of Brittany hands Henry Tudor over before he can attack.

Thank you for your loyalty, Lord Stanley.

Your grace.

Grace.

Richard, Lord Stanley would let you lock up his own wife.

How do you know you can trust him?

He says he is loyal to me.

That's the thing with Stanley.

No one ever really knows whose side he's on.

You must arrest Lady Margaret.

She has betrayed us. Don't tell me what to do.

I have enough enemies as it is.

I cannot arrest a woman who is notorious for her piety, or I'll create a dozen

more.

Richard, you must not let this come between us.

We stand together and then we are strong.

I know. I'm sorry.

I will intercept her letters.

I will set my spies on her.

We will learn more that way. And if Brittany won't hand Tudor over?

He will invade.

And I must prepare for war.

Don't stay long. The king trusts no one anymore.

He knows there's a rebellion in the making and he suspects you and therefore

me as well. So tell me quickly, are the princes dead?

Yes.

And have you seen the bodies?

Of course I have not.

How do you know that they're dead?

Because the duke and I agreed it.

But how do you know that he hasn't lied to you and he holds them somewhere safe?

What would he have to gain from that? He wants them gone as much as we do.

So you'd better be loyal.

You'd better fight for Henry.

It is Buckingham!

My own true friend who's behind the rebellion of Marcus Stanley's.

I've intercepted her letters.

Richard.

Leave.

A

man with the

best cause to be true.

I've given him everything he's ever asked for.

I never was a traitor better treated.

Now he is joining Elizabeth and Henry Tudor, who is mustering to sail from

Brittany.

Buckingham is false.

Lady Margaret too.

Elizabeth we expect, but all of them together.

Now I must postpone my Parliament.

Just when I've called for it and prepared.

I just want to show Inglot what a king I can be, and how I plan to serve them.

And you will still show them. You will defeat this uprising.

That is not even the worst of it.

What? What is it?

Buckingham is spreading a rumour that the princes in the Tower are dead.

What?

By my hand.

It is all over the city.

But why would they say that?

Because Buckingham...

slanders me to win men to his course.

And are they dead?

It's not true.

You know I have not armed them.

You know I would never do that.

Would someone else have done it?

They will be safely in the tower.

I have written to Sir Robert to be sure.

But now I must prepare for war.

Sir John.

I offer you my sympathy, Your Grace.

We prayed for the princes, and we hoped to rescue them in time.

We are more sorry for your loss than I can say.

My loss?

What?

God spare me.

Don't say you didn't know, and I've just told you like a fool.

Are you saying that my son, Prince Edwin, has been executed?

All I've heard is dead.

Forgive me for being the one to tell you.

All we wanted was to know your wishes now. He has not been executed.

No. Not publicly.

We were just told the princes had been put to death, God save them.

And the rebellion would go on against Richard.

But now we would put Henry Tudor on the throne.

Margaret Beaufort's boy.

We mustered for your cause, Margaret. Who told you they were dead?

A man of Buckingham's.

The false king had ordered their deaths in secret.

Listen to me.

Go back to Kent and tell your men to rise up.

Tell them to destroy this false king, Richard, and to take vengeance for me

and my wife.

Buckingham and Tudor are to meet in Wales.

They'll cross the River Severn to invade.

I must cut them off and wrap them there.

May I give you a wife's blessing?

Come back to me, my Richard.

My love.

There's a rumor that my boys are dead. The Duke of Buckingham is saying it.

I fear, Your Grace, it is more than just a rumor.

The false King Richard has killed his nephews to secure his throne.

At least my Richard is safe, though.

He's safe?

They're both safe, please, God.

But they haven't been seen since the Tower attack.

And the Duke and Lady Margaret both believe that Richard had them killed.

But why would Buckingham tell the men in the very moment we muster them to free

my boys that our cause is already lost?

So that everyone knows it was the false King Richard who gave the order that

he's to blame. But who would doubt it was Richard?

No one would doubt it, of course.

Your Grace, what did you mean when you said, at least my son Richard is safe?

Look, if you had two rare jewels and you feared thieves, would you put both of

them in the same box?

Richard was not in the time.

But two boys were killed in their beds.

In their beds?

Were they?

You know that for sure now?

How do you know it?

How are you suddenly so very sure?

Your Grace, I... If you have the slightest hand in this, then you will go

to hell, and so will Lady Margaret!

Mother, what's happened?

Elizabeth, have you heard the river singing as it did when Antony and your

brother Richard Grey died?

Not like that night.

But you hear something.

Faintly.

Like a lullaby, don't you?

The people I thought were on our side are our bitterest enemies.

And all of our safety now depends on Buckingham and Henry Tudor losing this

battle.

I thought King Richard was our enemy, and that's why we rose up with them

against him. Richard stole the crown, but I think it was Buckingham and Lady

Margaret who killed my boy.

I must write to my son and Sir John and tell them that we are changing sides.

that they now must turn against you to unbucking him.

Elizabeth summoned me to sanctuary tonight. She begged me to tell her that

the princes are not dead.

I didn't know what you would have me say, so I told her what everyone is

whispering, that Richard had them killed.

But Lady Margaret, she said something else.

Tell me.

She said, at least my Richard is safe.

Prince Richard, how can he be?

She looked at me in the most determined manner and she said, Doctor, if you had

two rare jewels, would you put them in the same box?

She would say nothing more.

She became most angry and I took my leave.

Lady Margaret, is it true?

Are the boys both dead?

They are like all of us in the hands of God.

Good night.

Lady Margaret?

Mother, I can't sleep.

Nor I.

Where are they meeting, Buckingham and Tudor?

In Wales, to cross the river.

Then we must do something.

I wish that it would rain.

Let it rain.

You must not worry about your father.

He will be home soon and we'll all be safe again.

Buckingham's army will wait in Wales for Henry Tudor.

Lady Margaret will know that her son cannot set sail in this.

Not if it's this bad over the Channel.

And it will be.

Five thousand mercenaries.

A force that cannot fail against whoever wins the first battle.

So we cannot even get the throne.

My dearest Anne, I am in hell.

Our march is slower than torture.

The horse is chest deep in the mud, and half the bridges are washed away so we

have to go for miles to find fault.

Our men march with their heads down, and when we rest we can't light fires as

everything is soaked.

Buckingham will give up his weight for Tudor.

He will be forced to fight Richard on his own.

Buckingham's life will shrink to a long march in the rain.

He will pray God for a miracle.

But not in this rain.

There are no miracles.

And God is raging at what they have done to my poor boy.

Lady Margaret, your son has not arrived to join me, and most of my men have

fled.

I cannot win against Richard with these numbers, and he knows it, and is hunting

me.

When I'm routed, he will build a scaffold for all the traitors, and he

will search the tower for the princess.

Edward!

Rachel!

John!

Quick, A-Man, open the door!

Your Grace!

Richard, what are you doing?

You must sentence the traitors.

They're gone.

They've just vanished. It'll be that witch.

She'll have spirited them away. That is why you must drag her out of sanctuary

and punish her.

I've searched every room and stairwell.

Where can they be?

Richard, please.

Name the traitors and call your parliament.

It's what you've always wanted.

Do the good for England you've dreamed of and then we can be happy.

The guards said they put the boys to bed one night and in the morning they were

gone. Sir Robert Brackenbury raised the alarm.

Sir Robert?

What did Sir Robert say of it?

That he was sorry.

He is sorry.

So where are they?

Then it must be Buckingham.

Surely at most, who else could it be?

Will you ask him if he has killed them?

I will execute Buckingham for ruining my good name and my peace.

He knows.

Richard knows you've been working with the Queen.

You're guilty of treason.

Punishable by death.

If he thinks that you're faithful... I am faithful.

While you were betraying him, I was at his side.

Richard's shocked.

He feels you're as faithless as your kinsman Buckingham. He's been executed.

I could run away.

I could go to Brittany. I have my money chest. But I've been nominated as your

jailer.

Which has decided that all your lands and your wealth will come to me.

My men are in your chambers now, removing your goods. And your money

chest.

And your wine.

You're robbing me.

You led me to the block to rob me.

You'll be under house arrest in my country house at Bledsoe.

Your servants will be dismissed. You will not meet with anyone.

You betrayed me to get my fortune.

Now, Margaret, I've saved you from a traitor's death.

And I'm still in place to hear of Richard's plans against your son.

You signed his death warrant with your failure.

You can write to him.

But all your letters should come through me. I must have the appearance of

controlling you completely.

You give the appearance of being on both sides.

Always.

Sister, let me in.

You're not my brother.

I am the king.

Not to me.

Let me in, Elizabeth, for all our sakes.

Tell me, please, do you have your son Edward and his brother somewhere safe?

They're not in the tower.

In God's name, if you have, I swear I will not hunt them. Just tell me that

they are safe.

No.

No.

Everyone saying they are dead and that I did it.

Think, Elizabeth.

When we killed King Henry, we had his body shown to the people.

The whole point was to tell the world that his line had ended.

If I killed your sons, I would have done the same.

I'm sorry for your loss.

You have nothing to gain now by staying in Sanctuary.

I'll make you an agreement and promise for your safety and that of your girls

if you come out.

I shall go home. You're under house arrest.

I cannot trust you not to come against me.

I cannot trust anyone anywhere.

You have grown beautiful, Elizabeth.

Lizzie, Cecily, leave us.

People are saying that I killed your brothers.

But I want you to know that I am innocent.

You have my word.

Whoever killed my sons, I will curse them.

We will both curse them.

Then the years until all their sons die out.

Take care.

Your curses last too long.

May turn on someone you love.

Bless me, Father, for I have... I do not know what I have done.

I am afraid I have done something.

I... I said things to someone.

And what if he has acted upon them?

What if I killed two little boys?

What should I do?

Read it aloud.

Melusina will take the curse and see it's done.

Our boy Edward was in the tower.

But he is gone.

And we think he is murdered.

We come to you, Lady Mother.

And we put into your depths this curse.

Whoever took our firstborn son...

you will take his firstborn son from him and his grandsons too and his firstborn

boys all down his line and we will know the murderer by the workings of our

curse burn it

Richard, what are you doing?

Parliament is waiting for you, my love.

Elizabeth doesn't have the boys.

She doesn't know where they are.

You have seen her.

I had to know.

I had to ask her.

What did she say?

She said she would curse whoever killed them.

She cursed us. Not us.

I did not order their deaths.

How could you think that of me?

I said Elizabeth can come out

of sanctuary.

What?

She will go to Grafton under house arrest.

The older girls will come to court.

I want to keep Princess Elizabeth close to me.

What are you doing?

They are witches.

She rose against you and only God's reign saved you.

Please, Richard.

Richard.

What is happening to us?

Thomas Gray senses love from Brittany.

He has fled to safety at Henry Tudor's court.

Lucky him.

Well, I take it I no longer need to marry Tudor.

Now we think his mother killed my brother Edward.

I've written to Lady Margaret that your betrothal still stands.

What?

Mother, you... Lizzie, it was you who told me you foresaw you would be queen.

I said that I feared it, not that I wanted it.

Henry Tudor could be killed the moment he sets foot in England, but he will

come. He has his army and he will not waste it.

He will try again for the throne of England and we have not sacrificed this

much to step aside if he should win.

I will not marry him, Mother.

No matter what you say.

Fujin will send me someone else.