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Previously... - For the Emperor! - For the Emperor!

You will lose your electoral rank.

And all and each one of your possessions in the Duchy of Saxony!

The King is dead. Long live the King!

I have failed you. You and the Empire.

Marry my cousin? Is this the favour my uncle is disposed to give to me?

Maximilian will not come back. Because I have decided to give him the Regency of Spain.

Ferdinand received Maximilian's complaints and I got our brother's

who doesn't understand why you make orts of his son.

Why do you give him the regency if you don't want him to govern?

My moment has come. I ask you to clear the way.

De las Casas has come back from the Indies, demanding that the encomiendas and the slavery

of the Indians should be eradicated. And, thanks to his influence in the Council of the Indies,

they stopped the publication of Sepúlveda's book.

These are the theologians who will form the jury.

There is no point to present my cause before such a tribunal.

Do know that the tribunal has requested that your 3 days of presentation

would be summarized for investigation.

- I thought it over and I believe I was unfair to our brother. - Are you going to negotiate about another solution?

Maximilian will succeed Philip.

The two branches of the family will take turns at having the Imperial Crown,

- and nobody will be insulted. - What kind of joke is this?

Let us rebel against him again!

Tell Frederick of Saxony that France will go and defend its allies.

Gather as many men as able to leave now to help the Emperor!

We cannot finish with the imperial army.

- But we can finish with the man they fight for. - Are you suggesting the Emperor's murder?

What are you scheming?

Go back! If you go on you will go to certain death.

I wish to be nobody

Those gunfires are French. Our powder ran out days ago.

Your Majesty, be prudent. We are still in time to ask for a truce.

The humiliation of Innsbruck was enough. No...

- I am not going to let them win in Metz! - They know about your wounded pride.

Can't you see that they take advantage of it? They are just provoking us to take you to disaster.

You are so stubborn it seems disloyalty.

My sword!

Am I called stubborn by someone who wants to fight tormented by gout?

The pain will disappear. In battle one doesn't feel the body.

Only the fear.

The command is yours.

Take off his armour! They must not know it is him.

Take the Caesar away from here!

Leave me.

I didn't know I would find you awake.

And should I sleep while my men are fighting?

Tell me.

We have done what we could.

I don't doubt that.

How many?

Hundreds.

But we have enough men for another act.

We are retreating.

I will ask for a truce.

You will be the one who negotioates about the conditions.

With your self-esteem, you will not yield easily to the abuses of the French.

If you know my pride, why do you force me?

- I tried to avoid the defeat! - Look at me! For God's sake!

I will not add more dishonors to those that I have already suffered.

I am not going to show myself ill.

If you don't want to obey me someone else will complete the mission.

I wil serve you with the care as always.

But, if you made a mistake, Your Majesty,

paying for it would clean your soul.

- The young man who gave his life for me... - Guzmán!

Make sure his family wants for nothing.

I will.

What news are you bringing from Portugal?

Its prosperity grows with every advance in the New World.

Nothing distracts them neither disturbs its bonds with Spain.

And those that broke one day will settle, perhaps.

Your aunt Eleanor's daughter.

I told her I would visit Flanders and I could take a portrait to her mother.

I had to insist, but I got it in the end.

Maria, am I right?

So much beauty is not usually accompanied by wit.

- Is this the case? - During our conversation,

she talked about state affairs as well as about music and philosophy.

A very unusual young woman, certainly.

It is a shame that your aunt doesn't enjoy such a virtuous child.

I have to prepare my departure.

Go.

Damn it!

I feel... I am not a good son.

If you venerate your father...

But I despise him for making absurd decisions.

Like those that led to losing Metz.

If you disagree with his orders that doesn't make you a traitor.

Sometimes I would like to take his place.

Immediately.

Before he keeps reducing, with his mistakes, what I will get one day.

I love him with devotion,

but...

I don't admire him anymore.

I feel I am more sensible and stronger than him.

In my hands, his domains would not know failure.

Your Highness,

you are both humans.

Neither he is incapable of everything nor you are infallible.

It is said he can hardly get up from bed!

You fear that...

the one who was a great man and doesn't have strength to be that anymore

will spoil your future?

Then, help him as much as you can.

If you see him weak, give him strength.

If mistaken, advise him.

Take care of those that will be yours by being generous to him.

And get ready, Your Highness.

Get ready for the day when you are the most powerful man in the Christendom.

What will be the penitence, father?

Something that may teach you what is really living in impotence.

Who is coming?

Your Highness.

Grandmother.

Are you the one who has his name?

And you possess his handsome appearance.

Be merciful to the women who love you.

How are you?

My legs don't respond now. It has taken 40 years for them

to understand that here I have no use of them.

If you need any care, let me know and it will be given.

With what aim have you come?

- What do you want from me? - Nothing more than knowing about you.

Why are you having suspicions?

Because you have my blood.

I have never known a family so destitute of compassion like this.

We disarmed the Emperor, my son.

Here you have his sword.

Thank you, Father.

If your father had gained it, he would have asked to be buried with it.

He would be proud of you.

He would be even prouder of my next actions.

I will be merciful, Montmorency.

I am going to kill the dying man.

What do you mean? You accepted to negotiate a truce with him.

Only in Flanders.

I am talking about Italy.

France is surrounded by that poor old man's domains.

I have to use this opportunity to relieve France of that siege.

I will not let the Emperor

leave this world doubting his greatness.

- He has to know he hasn't got it anymore. - Italy is not Metz, my lord!

In order to take what the Caesar possesses, you would need the millions you owe

after the last fights.

And what does it matter, increasing the debt, if that gives us victory?

There will be time to repay it, will there not?

Such a sublime intention cannot be restrained by such triviality.

I see we agree.

I just citaba your father.

Learn from your predecessor's fault, Your Highness.

Or you will give a bitter liberation for France if you ruin it in order to achieve that.

It is expedient that I marry again.

I have to look to the future.

One heir is not total guarantee of continuity.

And these kingdoms would have, in the person who will be my wife, their regent.

Who have you chosen?

The Princess Maria of Portugal.

Another Portuguese?

Before you become disappointed again:

you are not going to find your mother her, either.

I expected that you would marry sooner or later.

I know my place.

I settle for keeping it.

I love you.

But my intention is that I stop loving you.

My father was never unfaithful to his wife.

And I want to be better than him in everything.

Their love was a miracle that doesn't happen twice.

You have been a mistake.

A very beautiful one.

Do you not believe me capable of giving up you?

My soul is free.

And freely...

it will always come back to me.

The truce has obligated me to tolerate the heresy.

In return for peace.

The unity of the faith gave reason the Empire.

And I could not achieve it.

The heresy has spread like plague

and Rome has done nothing to impede it.

- Anyone would have failed. - But it was me!

And it is not my only fault.

I stock a field with dead men in Metz.

And I have ruined Spain with my ventures.

The merit can be found in living and aspiring above our strength

and extracting those from that pride.

Those words of yours were my guide.

The one who wrote them was someone else.

Younger and more vigorous than me.

With less defeats on his shoulders and capable of drawing the sword.

Mary,

I have come to that place of the way when only decline awaits.

If the greatest one of the Emperors did it

it will not dishonor me at all if I imitate it.

I wish to reitre.

What are you saying, Your Majesty? Only God removes the rulers.

Are the mediocre people who hang on power better example than Charlemagne?

Onyl vanity keeps someone on the throne who already knows that he is useless.

Also the sense of duty.

Since I have it,

I don't want my decline cause that of my domains.

But don't worry,

I know my will cannot be complied immediately.

Your mother.

You have to govern Castille in her name until she dies.

And I don't want to leave hostile with Ferdinand.

Or, as soon as I leave, war will break out for my legacy.

I am afraid that hostility will survive the Queen.

I will ask my sister again to mediate between the two of us.

And you to dispose of the necessary things

so that, at that time, nothing detains my retiring.

You are speaking with melancholia because you see yourself ill.

What did the phyisicians say to you?

Only one of their remedies pleases me.

Resting under the sun of Spain.

Magnificent idea!

I will undertake that I find a place there for you where you can rest.

I am sure that when you recover

your mind to govern will come back.

I am not sad, my dear Granvela.

Just very tired.

Brother, finally, a happy surprise for you.

Father.

I am bringing you money to reload the tresury after the last venture.

Do you come to relieve me or reproach me for the defeat?

I am coming to offer you my support in hours so bitter for my father.

Nothing could please me more.

The gout!

And some superfluous efforts.

Just like fleeing from Innsbruck to save your life

because your brother didn't want to join you?

I makes no sense if you are angrier with Ferdinand than I am.

Because of him, death chased you in your Empire!

And thanks to him, I avoided it!

- He saved me! - From the punishment he himself imposed on you.

- He is as disloyal as his son! - Philip!

There is a long history between Ferdinand and I.

More complicated than you think.

If we summed up the offenses of one another maybe I would be the villain.

The anger exhausts. And more for someone who should be our ally.

The enemies are others.

Don't forget it.

I went to visit the Queen Joanna.

She is dying.

Father, I would like to marry again.

Do you have candidates?

My cousin Maria of Portugal has not been married off yet.

I would be opportune to redo our union with Lisbon.

The one that was lost when my wife died.

Who else did you think of?

What does she have?

She is beautiful and, according to Granvela, cultured.

I don't know why, but I believe she will be the one who makes me happy.

Something that poor Maria Manuela could not achieve.

You are young.

At your age I had not been in love yet.

I know what it is to love.

But not whom I should.

Do you keep visiting that woman? That is not beneficial if you don't care for her

- and even less if you do! - I know.

That is why I wish to marry someone who interests me

and to leave my deviations behind.

I want for myself what you and mother shared.

Sometimes I feel it a punishment that I was witness of your love.

I fear I will always look for something so perfect

and be unhappy if I don't find it.

If you wish for it you will have it.

As long as you set aside passions that leads you nowhere.

I said goodbye to her, Father.

You have my blessing.

I will write to Portugal, without fail,

soliciting the marriage.

- I am going to marry. - Whom?

Your daughter.

If you will excuse me, I have to reply to her letter.

Eleanor.

It is great news.

When I last saw her she was a baby.

Does it scare you to see her again?

I left her in Portugal and didn't look behind.

What kind of a mother behaves likes like that?

Ours.

And we didn't grow up hating her.

Just ignoring her existence.

That is aready terrible in itself.

They say she will not live long.

Your Majesty, the King of England is dead.

Edward?

So yound?

Maybe God punishes those who turn their back on Rome.

- Who will take the throne? - Your cousin, Mary Tudor.

She is devoted Catholic.

Maybe she makes England return to the obedience of Rome.

But she is in years.

And has not married yet.

If she died without having an heir, her half-sister Elizabeth would rule,

the most convinced of Lutherans.

With Mary, there is a possible alliance against France.

She will have to find a consort to prolong her lineage

and not lose that advantage.

Do you still have the idea of retiring?

It is the most brillant idea I have ever had.

I have heard about a place in Castile where you could rest awhile.

It is a Hieronymites monastery.

Maybe verystill for someone who is so accustomed to activity.

Where is it?

In the county of La Vera. In Extremadura.

It is a sunlit region and the environment of the monastery is beautiful.

With groves and streams.

If you like it, I would not wait to prepare your stay there.

Do it.

- Brother, can I talk to you? - Speak.

If you don't need me here, please give me permission

to travel to Castile.

There is something I would like to settle before it is too late.

Mother.

I don't wish to disturb your peace

but I need to gain mine.

You neglected us,

you forgot about us and it didn't even seem to regret it.

As if we had not come from your womb.

You had children but you were never a mother.

You don't wish to disturb my peace and you appear,

reminding me of all my faults?

My faults are no less.

Just like your other children, I have let you

stay here locked up for almost half a century.

Every time I have come to visit you I wished the hour of my leaving had come.

And you have hardly

had place in my thoughts.

Don't blame yourself.

If I have not been mother, why would you feel love for your parent?

You have payed abundantly for your faults.

Do I deserve compassion for that?

All my love

was for my husband.

For you

there was nothing left.

I am sorry for that.

But...

I have no regrets.

Because I was the only way I could be.

Let us forgive each other.

Both of us.

Let us be mother and daughter, even if just one time.

Why?

With mi daughter, I have committed the same sin as you have.

And I need to believe that any distance can be overcome.

Even if it is late.

If it gives you peace,

okay.

Marry Mary Tudor?

Look for the inconvenience and you will not find it.

It would associate us with England and, giving it an heir,

Catholicism would be perpetuated in that kingdom.

You and I would collaborate in the crusade against heretics.

And you would become king of England.

- I had other plans, Father! - Your plans are my plans.

I will make your decision mine.

But know

that when I take your place I will pay attention to other wills and not just mine.

Because I know that whoever imposes has punishment.

Your Highness.

Thank you for the embassy.

It will not be hard for you to take the promise of fraternity from this court

- to my cousin the Emperor. - Which he will return sincerely.

His wish for the concord with you is such that he hands you his son as a bond.

Entire Europe seems determined to marry me!

The Crown of France has also given me a suitor.

Of such a high rank like the Caesar's heir?

And who will inherit Spain, the Indies, Naples and Siciliy?

A man... after all.

And I don't know if I find his company pleasant.

Why is solitude considered as a defect when it is a gift?

Because it will not give you the heir the throne of England needs.

And it will be your sister who succeeds you.

Half-sister!

What is your prince like?

Pious. Determined but dependable.

He likes music, and he is handsome.

Believing you is question of trust?

As to his inward virtues, you have to trust my word... and I give it.

But his appearance,

you can judge it yourself.

They say you have to thank Tiziano for making you king of England.

I hope your journey will be fortunate.

The passage to there is short.

But the stay will be long.

Your reading is intachable.

For this reason, from now on I put the Kingdom of Naples in your hands.

Which I receive with honour.

Thank you, Father.

I married your mother in order to get her dowry.

No feeling made me choose her.

And, even so, I have not known love like ours.

Who knows? Maybe on the other side of the sea the same happines awaits you.

Your Highness.

Welcome.

The land you are stepping on will be yours soon.

Care for it and it will care for you.

The honour of the throne that awaits me fades beside the prize of your company.

With this kingdom and with you, I will be led by the same thing:

devotion.

I have heard people talking about the Spanish gallantry.

The Spaniards, we are not flatterers, my lady.

Just incapable of keeping back what we think.

They are unacceptable! You will not use your position

to give prebends if it is not for an Englishman.

Neither to involve this kingdom in the Emperor's or your own conflicts.

And if you become a widower, this island will owe you nothing but respect.

Do you think that anyone of my rank would make do with being husband?

My lord, the English Parliament

has accepted our union only under these conditions!

They fear that if you had more power,

- my kingdom would be subjected by Spain. - My inheritence is colossal!

I will not subject England, but neither will it subject me!

I will not sign!

I curse the day when I obeyed my father!

- I should be in Lisbon. - Forget about that.

The Portuguese Infanta was humiliated by this pact

and would never accept you again.

What is the benefit if this sacrifice if I get nothing with it?

You have power even if it is not written.

Ever since I showed her your portrait, she is infatuated with you.

Are you asking me to behave like females? To gain my influence in the bed?

Forgive my fury.

You are...

incapable of keeping back what you think.

And as such, I am telling you I don't like the conditions.

But I like the cancellation of this union even less.

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Be gentle.

Don't worry.

Until I ask you to stop being gentle.

I am glad to share this joy with you!

Philip and his wife has made England return to the obedience of Rome.

Something that nobody believed possible.

Maybe being his father has impeded me to see what a great man he is.

Does he not seem to you capable of anything?

No. He does not.

Did Ferdinand say that to you?

I see his anger has not given in a trifle.

Neither do you give up your endeavor to elevate Philip only.

Have you not thought about that it could be dangerous for him if everything is put in his hands?

There is no powerful man who lacks enemies.

If the man is too powerful, that is the only thing he will have.

Is this the future you want for your son?

You should prefer that he governs in peace.

Without generating hatred and with his family's support.

The price of that support is very high.

For someone who will already have too many adversaries, it is quite worth it.

Don't be silly.

This remedy is keeping you alive.

Please.

I want to go so that others could rest.

Let me be generous with my people.

The Queen needs your assistance, father.

You have to get ready for your meeting with God, Your Highness.

It is the moment to rid your soul from all sins.

I am not going to confess, father.

My lady, the Almighty is calling for you.

You cannot leave this world risking eternal condemnation.

I wish for nothing but meeting husband again.

Something tells me it is not heaven where he went.

It is your duty as a Christian to strike the balances.

I am not obligated to give God any explanation.

It is Him who owes me that.

For the existence He made me suffer.

Your Highness...

Daughter...

Let all Castile know that their queen is dead.

It is my command to convoke you on the day 25th of October of this year of the Lord,

not giving you option to refuse or postpone

the fulfillment of this will which is order.

On this date, I expect all of you without fail.

Here, by my side.

You will stay in England during my absence.

I would not like the Queen to hear only those who likes me a little in the kingdom.

Don't worry, Your Highness.

I hope Flanders brings only good news for you.

My lord!

You have not given me the date of your return.

If I knew what I will face I could guess how long it will take.

- It will be as soon as possible, in any case. - I hope it will be so.

Because someone will have to take care of me

and the heir who grows in me.

It is great news, my lady!

This kingdom will have thus future far from the heresy.

I will com back soon to be with you.

Congratulations, Your Highness.

Know that Portugal has taken as an offense

the breaking off of your engagement with my daughter.

And it has caused me deep pain.

No one has suffered more than you that the Crown decides

which marriage is appropriate for us.

- So I am applying for your understanding. - Their Royal Highnesses,

Maximilian and Mary of Austria!

How dare you present yourself in this court? Retrace your steps

- if you don't want to be arrested as a traitor. - Brother, please...

It would be treason to disobey the Emperor' order.

Philip, I am glad to see you.

So am I, since I thought I would be welcomed by a hangman.

That is how it should be, if my father preferred justice to family.

Her Royal Highness, Doña Mary of Hungary!

At least your father had the decency of not showing himself.

It has not been the decency that has kept him back.

- But that his brother has none of it. - Enough! For God's sake!

It is time.

I want to tell you some thing from my own mouth.

A short time ago, in Castile my mother died,

who, too long ago,

gave birth to me between these walls.

Her generousity made me govern that kingdom

at the age of 17.

Then,

and being still a youngster,

I was given the honor of the Empire.

At the same time, I hade to rule Flanders, Naples and Sicily

and the oversea lands.

My life has been one long journey,

which has not only consumed this body of mine,

but also rived often my most beloved companies from me.

My cildren's company...

and my wife's,

to whom I would have liked to give all of my days.

It was not only duty what called me.

For my torment and that of my domains, so did wars.

I always battled obligated, to defend myself from the ambition of others.

From those who I thought would have to be my only one enemy, the Turks,

and from that punishment-made king who was Francis to me.

Besides, I had to fight against the outbreak of the heresy in the very Empire,

a danger I have not been able to ease the way I have wanted.

But none of these things was more painful to me neither saddened me so much

than that I feel now that I am leaving you.

I have no strength any more to govern the states that God gave me.

And the little I have left will run out soon.

Being so tired now,

I cannot do you any services

the way those will who receive my legacy:

my son Philip,

whom I bequeath Spain, Flanders,

the Italian lands and those of the Indies.

And the Empire...

The Empire will remain in my brother Ferdinand's hands,

whom I would have liked to look in the eyes when I give it to him.

I know he will govern it with the same brightness with which he has ruled it,

with the happiness of having his most loyal ally in my son,

to whom he will know how to return it.

Though there are many enemies,

the power of that union, and only this,

will succeed in defeating them.

And know I am leaving you.

Thank you for your services and I trust you could forgive me my mistakes.

Soon I will leave for Spain to never come back.

Stay to God, children,

because in my soul I keep you determined.

You lied to me!

As I knew, England has been an exile to take the Empire away from me!

One day you will thank me for having deprived you of it!

You would not want for yourself the burden my brother and his son will have to bear.

It is the greatest grandeur of the Christendom!

It is a punishment!

Expenses,

heresy,

betrayals,

wars...

And its future seems to be even darker than it has been so far.

You are my firstborn son.

Nothing is more important to me than you.

What else do I have to do so that you understand?

Forgive me.

Forgive me, Father.

You get the jewels of my Crown:

the loyal Spain, that treasury which the Indies are,

Italy with its influence,

and the rich lands where I was born.

I do not only want to bequeath you honours,

but also, and above all, lessons.

That ruling the Empire is torment is one of them.

The loyalty of the family, is the most valuable.

You will be the new great master of the Order of the Golden Fleece.

You know its principles.

Nobleness, valor and faith.

Who could fulfill their virtues better than someone who already possesses them?

The man who has done the miracle of drawing England out of its heresy.

And who now looks after its future,

thanks to the heir they expect.

You are incapable of disappointing me.

I go calmly

because I leave what is mine in the best hands.

I will go and visit you in your resort as soon as I can.

I know, by experience, the work that waits for you.

You will not have time to waste in a monastery.

Don't worry.

I will be fine.

Calm, finally.

Father...

I cannot say goodbye to you just yet.

You are my pride.

Now, yes.

You are the legitimate emperor.

And as such, you can choose your worthy successor.

Your brother will soon retire to Castile.

I was told to ask you to visit him before his departure.

He wishes to say goodbye to you.

No!

What sets you against him now?

Father, the Empire is ours now.

You are right.

But what is broken

is broken.

The circle that strangled France will be history.

The Emperor's abdication is a victory.

Fool! Everything has remained in the same family's hands!

A family that doesn't behave as such.

I recommend you, in fact, to make friends with Philip.

Your Highness, you are both the new branches of your lineage.

What if you tried to live in peace?

Peace?

- For some time. - Who knows?

Maybe you get used to it

and to the tranquillity and prosperity that it could procure to France.

Count on me as mediator. Nothing would please me more

than plastering a wound I have seen bleeding so much.

Do it!

You have done the correct thing, Father.

And what if Philip doesn't accept this concord?

I have to think out a maneuver if that case happens.

Like what?

Like asking the new pope

if he gave me his support to invade Naples.

- My lord! - I promised you I would come back soon.

My heart has made the days of your absence become years.

I have felt the same way.

Your Highness.

Tell me. What did the Emperor want from you?

That who left as king of England is returnin as king of Spain as well.

What are you saying?

My father abdicated.

He has named me master of his best domains.

Best?

He bequeathed the Empire to my uncle.

I am sorry, my lord. I know how much you wanted it.

I prefer celebrating what I got, which is a lot,

to suffer because of that loss.

Without intention, yours words are comfort for me.

The happines of having you by my side mitigates the pain

because of the loss of our child.

My lady,

I am sorry for not being by your side in such difficult moments.

I trust God will not delay in blessing my womb again.

It will be so.

I don't doubt it.

Your Highness!

You have lost no child. There has never been any.

What are you saying?

Are you suggesting that the Queen faked her state?

The physicians gave belief that the symptons were that of the pregnancy,

but it never came.

His mother...

My aunt Catherine had only her.

Her womb seemed to be cursed.

What if my wife has inherited her illness?

It is too soon to know that.

The Queen has known no man but you and you two have been married for a short time.

But, given her age,

and her blood...

If anything bad happened to her, the Crown would get into her sister's hands.

And, with her, to the Protestants.

Let us trust that such a thing will not happen.

A king doesn't trust,

he acts.

Should you not keep abstinence for 40 days?

It was a loss, not childbirth.

Besides, the sooner we do for having that heir the better.

You should consider the posibility that your half-sister succeeds you.

Don't even mention her! She my father's and that Boleyn bitch's daughter!

Fruit of my mother's disgrace and my disgrace!

If you don't become a mother, she will reign after you.

I ask you to set the future of your kingdom and your faith above the rancor.

Who should I do that?

I will be able to give you children. Believe me. I will!

Make her marry a Catholic and promise her the succession if she gives up her heresy.

Never!

- My lord... - Your footman, rather!

Because you do not only deny me the command but you also despise my opinions.

You insult me!

No...

Don't say that.

I... I love you.

Love is not just enjoy in bed and have someone to dance with in parties.

Love, my lady, is also sacrifice.

It is my will

that the King of England, here present,

should enjoy the privileges and rights he deserves by his title.

He has to have power for nominations.

His signature will be inescapable for the approval of laws and amendments.

And there will be no question of council which does not go through him.

And when, of your union,

an heir is born

my husband will dispose, until their age of 15,

of their custody

and that of the kingdom.

That is how I order

and that is how it will happen.

In the first place, I would like to felicitate you on the honors you have now.

I trust that it has been your father's generousity and not poor health

- that made him resign. - Do you worry about his welfare

those who has put so many efforts to damage it?

Denying the past is as absurd as condemning ourselves to repeat it.

That is why my lord offers you an agreement of friendship for the future.

French friendship?

I didn't know that such a thing exists.

Because only my family's enemies have enjoyed it.

And not in faraway times.

It has been quite little time since your king took Metz away from my father.

As you surely know, my lord bore the Emperor a grudge

for the captivity to which he submitted him during his childhood.

An understandable aversion, after such hard times.

But, in justice, you are innoccent of that sin.

The wounds have to cicatrize.

For everyone's sake.

The peace France would be beneficial, my lord.

The Christians, we have to be one against the heresy.

We should not have other mission except that victory.

The torment your kingdom has caused to my father

- is difficult to forget. - Do you want that suffering for yourself, perhaps,

when we give you the opportunity so that it never occurs again?

Your Highness,

concord.

Can you believe it, Montmorency?

The new pope is more hostile to the Habsburgs than my own father.

Neither he praises Philip for making England return to the subjection of Rome

nor reproaches me for my alliance with the Protestants.

Invadiing his Italian territories? Ignore such siren songs!

They are too beautiful to be disregarded.

Your Highness, the agreement I got for you will be very beneficial for France!

It will have Spain, Flanders and England as allies.

I have always reigned without their favour.

Why would I miss it now?

Because, if you don't keep the sealed thigns with Philip,

he will make you pay for not only the invasion of Italy but also the deception.

You will renew an old hatred which will bring only war and ruin for to France

My lord! France has invaded Naples.

Have we not got an answer from my brother today either?

My soul hurts for leaving without seeing him one last time.

The one who has offered his hand should not suffer if he sees it is not taken.

Although...

If you wish we can postpone our travel to Spain.

Prepare everything. We are leaving.

Your carriage is waiting, Your Majesty.

It will have to wait.

I have to say goodbye.

Was the passage pleasant, Your Majesty?

Exhausting.

But I will not have to cross another port expect that of death.

Castile celebrates your return.

Many people wish to present their respect before you leave for Yuste.

And great homages have been prepared in your honour.

Thank those who are entitled to that but they will have to be cancelled.

Now nothing obligates me to endure present or bows

- or prattles of any illustrious person. - Brother...

And save me any government affairs, please.

Why should I deal with them now that I am nobody?

Nobody!

Monastery if Yuste

Stop!

Down!

Left!

Stop!

Next time... This war has to settle your reign.

What you do in it will decide how they will look at you in the years that have to come.

It is from the portuguese court.

God has taken home the King, our lord.

When do we expect my grandson's visit?

I have only one petition to you. That Eleanor doesn't come to live in Portugal.

I made the Coucil understand that the war against France is our war, too.

I am going to be a soldier.

Anyone can be a soldier. But if what you want is commanding an army, it is not enough if you play with a lath.

- Intercede one more time. - I granted your request.

- I cannot do more. - You are the Emperor!

Why have you called me?

We will not attack what Henry conquered. We will invade France itself.

Leave us. Go!

This child you think so highly of can be very valuable for oru family.

Now nothing can be done.

The King has to go to Paris.

We will take...

Calais.

The battle continues.

And you will be in it.

Queens of England, what kind of curse do we have?

I wish to get to know our sister Catherine.

Your Highness. A large French contingent is nearing Saint-Quentin to break our siege.

Lose this battle and you will lose it all.