The Spanish Princess (2019) s02e08 Episode Script

Previously on The Spanish Princess
Who will govern England after me?
The answer lies in there.
[MEG] I will take what I'm owed in gold.
Think of it as a border raid.
[CATHERINE] We understand
that the duke of Albany
proposes a petition for your
marriage to be annulled.
If they were lovers,
the pope would throw out
their petition without consideration.
Yes, that would be so.
[WOLSEY] A marriage made in God's eyes
cannot be undone.
[CATHERINE] Martin Luther's reformists.
They say the king is
not anointed by God.
If you burn books,
will you soon burn people?
I fight a war for God and for the Crown.
- I do good.
- There is no good in that machine.
[LINA] It no longer feels safe anywhere.
This is a different England.
Help me. [WHIMPERS]
You must tell no one.
Please, not the king.
I swear to you.
[WOLSEY] Edward Stafford,
you stand convicted of treason.
You are sentenced to death.
- [HENRY] Ahh!
- [GLASS SHATTERING]
No! I will not hear this!
[GLASS SHATTERING]
You stand before me
and you tell me another
son of mine is dead.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[GRUNTS]
What demon are you?
How shall I bear this?
How shall I?
[FIRE CRACKLING]
You're not cramped in pain.
[CATHERINE GASPS]
[HENRY] There's no blood.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
How long have you kept this from me?
- When did you kill him?
- I did not kill him!
[HENRY] You carried him, so when?
[DAUNTING MUSIC]
[WHIMPERS]
[HENRY BREATHES SHAKILY]
Was it brought about by
Stafford's execution?
No. [BREATHES SHAKILY]
No, it was before.
It was the reason he
was with me in my rooms.
He was
was tending to me.
So Stafford knew before I did?
He was kind.
- He was a dog!
- [METALLIC CLATTERING]
It was his duty to tell me,
and he kept it from me!
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
I'm glad I took his head.
Yeah, maybe I should take yours too.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Then do it.
It could not cause me more pain
than I feel from you this moment.
Bring my Henry Fitzroy to me.
I will have my son here at the palace.
And have my aunt ejected from the palace
and never in my sight again.
Unless you'd rather a
view from Traitor's Gate
beside Lord Stafford.
How can you bear him, Catherine?
He flays you, wounds your daughter,
and takes the lives of loyal men
Do not malign the king.
- [CATHERINE] Mary, come.
- He is a monster!
[CATHERINE] Your words
are treasonous, Lady Pole.
And this time,
if he locked you in the Tower,
I would not come to help you.
Come. Come, Mary!
Pray with me.
I am sorry for your father's mood.
It is not your doing.
[SOFTLY] I love you very much.
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
[PRAYING INDISTINCTLY]
[MEG] Good. They're here.
[HORSE SNORTING]
Men of Arran and men of Hamilton,
you know me.
You loved my husband.
King James gave
his life for this country
and its future.
That future, which lives in my son
and heir to the Scots throne, James
my wee Jamie,
who is now held captive
by Albany in Stirling.
So I ask you,
pure noblemen of Scotland,
help me put my son
onto his rightful throne
so our country may be healed,
and I will pay you all
in English gold.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[COINS JINGLING]
[HORSES CHUFFING]
Will you do it?
[GRUNTS] Get back!
[BOTH GRUNTING]
That's it! That's better!
- [JAMIE WHEEZES]
- Come on, block me.
Huh? Find my weak spot!
[GRUNTS]
[MEG] And we have.
Lady Mother!
[JAMIE GRUNTS]
[HORSE CHUFFING]
[UNEASY MUSIC]
[BIRD SQUAWKING]
[PANTING]
What the fuck is this?
Call it "justice," Alexander Stewart.
Jamie, where's your brother?
Oh, he's inside.
- Go and fetch him!
- Aye.
Jamie, come here.
[BLADE SWISHES]
So it's a kidnapping.
No.
It is a coronation.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[URSULA WHIMPERS]
I can't believe the queen
would say that, even her.
To turn against us
- The court is rotten
- [URSULA SNIFFLING]
all of them.
What will happen to us?
Will we starve or hang?
I wish that I had listened to you
and made myself invisible.
There is nothing wrong with
what you wanted, nothing,
and I will not hear you say it.
[URSULA BREATHES SHAKILY]
We will not starve.
We will eat sweetmeats from
great golden plates again,
or I will see the Tudors burn in hell.
[EXHALES, SNIFFLES]
[MAN IN DISTANCE] Open the gate!
- Who is that?
- [MAN] Stand aside!
[MAGGIE] Henry!
By order of the king,
all goods and chattels
of the Stafford estate are
hereby to be confiscated.
How are you so lost
- that you would do this to your own
- [POLE] Confiscated
- flesh and blood? Your sister
- And seized by the Crown in accordance
with the laws of treason.
and I am your mother.
[URSULA, SOFTLY] Lady Mother, no.
[HENRY] Madam, by order of the king,
you will move out of our path
or I'll have the soldiers move you.
Step aside.
We knew this had to come.
No.
No, I will not move.
May God have mercy on your rotten soul.
I will not be commanded by a boy
and one who answers to a tyrant
rather than his own good conscience.
Please. Please, Lady Mother.
Move aside.
I will not move for you or for anyone.
So draw your sword,
you big, brave knight,
and run your mother through.
-
- [BIRD SCREECHES]
Your Grace.
Well
this is all very
- curious.
- I'm taking back my castle.
You may return to France.
I will be regent to King James myself.
I have only ever tried to help you.
You are besmirched with lies and gossip
that would have us as lovers.
I cannot have this said.
It tarnishes us both.
I prefer your sister, Mary.
[SCOFFS]
I assume your brother, the king,
does not sanction this.
I care not for his opinion
or that of his Spanish queen.
I care for Scotland and my boys.
[ALBANY SIGHS]
[GROANS, CHUCKLES]
Enough of this circus of fools.
Good-bye, Alexander.
May God bless you
and keep you, King James.
Do not mistake my gentle sex
for weakness or yielding.
No more in the shadows.
I shall rule this kingdom with my son,
and all who stand against
me will be punished.
[BESSIE] The king has summoned us.
He will make an
announcement about our son.
What announcement, Bessie?
The queen is not required.
[BELL TOLLING]
[CATHERINE] You have never
looked more queenly, Mary.
You have in you the strength
of Aragon and Castile.
Come.
[STATELY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[BESSIE] You do what His Majesty
and the good cardinal tell you.
Don't stoop like a farmhand.
Straight, like a knight.
Where were you?
I had need of you today.
[STATELY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC CONTINUES]
My father doesn't want me here.
Then we will make him change his mind.
[LINA] Catherine,
are you sure this is wise?
Your Grace, what an unexpected
joy to see you here.
"Unexpected," to see the queen
and her pureblood royal princess?
[FANFARE PLAYING]
[SIGHS]
[WOLSEY] His Majesty the king.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[BESSIE] Your great Majesty
we're humbled by your invitation.
[HENRY] Our Lord God tells us of His joy
bestowing gifts upon His children.
Henry.
Pater meus
Meus adiutor meus
bene
[MARY] What are you trying to say?
[CATHERINE] He attempts to say,
"I shall receive your blessing, Father."
Pater mee, benediction tuum accipiam.
[CROWD MURMURING]
And Henry, now you.
Pater mee, benedict-on
accipiam, Father.
[MARY] You said "father" twice.
Do you have two?
[CROWD MURMURING]
But of course, dear Mary,
he has two great fathers
one in heaven and one here,
on the throne of England.
[MORE] He's a delightful child.
- Hmm.
- [APPLAUSE]
[HENRY] Through the
auspices of this court
I hereby bestow upon my son, Henry,
the dukedoms of Richmond and Somerset.
[BESSIE] Oh, the duke! [LAUGHS]
[HENRY] And he is
also this day appointed
Lord High Admiral,
President of the Council of the North,
and Warden of the Marches.
[CROWD MURMURING]
God save the king!
[ALL] God save the king!
[STATELY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
For our daughter, Majesty?
There's nothing I can give a girl.
The throne.
You can give her England.
No, I'll have a son for that.
[WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
[MARY BRANDON] Catherine.
- Mary.
- I'm sorry about the baby.
My sister wrote to me of a rumor
that she and Albany are lovers.
She says it came from you.
Your sister is engaged in folly.
[MARY BRANDON] Albany is gone.
He has returned to France.
Meg has put her own son on the throne
and will rule with him as
regent until he is of age.
Then she will rule with Angus,
as he will not be denied
his husband's rights.
My brother is more sympathetic
to her cause than he has been.
He now supports her
hope for an annulment.
Mary, come.
We must congratulate
the king and his son.
I'm sorry that we won't be
friends as we once were.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[CHARLIE] Congratulations.
Go to the king, Anne.
Smile and win his favor.
- [BIRDS CHIRPING]
- [LOUD THUDDING]
Please, leave us just that one shield.
That was given to my father by the king.
[URSULA] Don't be such a fool, Henry.
[WAGONS CLATTERING]
[BIRDS TWITTERING]
[FOOTSTEPS CLOMPING]
Sir Thomas, I'm sorry. I couldn't
She will not move.
"Sir" Thomas?
Is that how torturers are rewarded
in this brave, new England?
You have been knighted?
[MORE] Let this confiscation
run its course, please, Maggie.
Do not use my name, Sir Thomas.
I am Lady Pole, Countess of Salisbury.
[MORE] No, you are not.
Your title is rescinded.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
Look, I came here
and you may dispute this if you wish
But I came here as a friend.
A friend?
Do you know how
many friends I have lost?
Family?
Those I have loved and cared for?
And you, who I came
to think of as a dear friend,
not one capable of
listening to men in agony
I've explained my reasons.
Oh, yes, "For God and for the Crown."
[MORE] That's right.
I have struggled my whole life
to be a loyal servant to them both,
and look where it's got me.
I'm afraid for you, Lady Pole.
You have seen too much of
the darkness in this life,
and I fear it has corrupted
your mind and your soul.
If you have nothing,
then there is nothing to be afraid of.
It is those who have
everything who need be afraid.
Why?
What do you intend to do?
[CATHERINE] Henry, we will mend this.
I am still strong and healthy.
Don't; it diminishes us both, Catherine.
I worship at the altar
three times every day
and beseech Him for a son.
What more can I do?
Is my marriage cursed?
Wondered for a long time, Catherine.
Did you lie with my brother?
I'll have the truth this time.
Why would you ask me this again?
After all these years and all this pain,
I did not lie with him.
Why, then? Why would God deny me?
- [CATHERINE] Henry, please
- No, no, it's too late for us.
You know it. I know it too.
Then our daughter is enough.
Is it beyond all
possibility in your mind
that God has given us a
daughter to rule England
in place of a son?
A new dawn for our country.
You're remarkable.
Rather than admit to your own failings,
you would actually twist
the will of God out of shape.
It's you God denies.
- I have Henry Fitzroy.
- He is a bastard.
Whereas Mary is a true princess.
Don't you say that of my son.
Don't you dare!
And God has promised me
a dozen more, Catherine.
A dozen more sons.
[CRYING]
Shh
[BELL TOLLING]
[BABY COOING]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[OVIEDO] Lina
there is a sickness in the king,
and it will take us all if we don't
[LINA] Don't what?
You said yourself,
the boys have not felt
safe here since the riots.
There is nowhere we can go.
Oviedo, this will pass. It must.
I have heard word
from the other soldiers.
Rosa and her husband
have docked at Tilbury
on their ship.
I know.
She wrote to me.
What did she say?
She would like to see us.
Where are they headed? After England?
[SOMBER MUSIC]
[LINA] Now is not the time, Oviedo.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
I cannot reach him.
He's locked in his belief
that God is judging us.
I am being punished.
It is Wolsey who fans the flame
to further his own power.
Do you think he will seek to claim
our marriage is unlawful?
I do not know.
- Rosa has arrived in London
- I have no time for that!
How are your family?
Are they well?
Our boys are taunted
for not being English.
[CHUCKLES] At least you have boys.
You make it look so easy.
Lady Pole is here.
I suppose she comes to
beg the king for charity.
Lady Pole.
Uh, Sir Thomas,
we were not expecting her.
Perhaps you thought me dead already
of starvation in a ditch.
[MORE] She tells me she has
information for the king,
but she will not reveal it.
Be warned, Lady Pole,
the king will not be trifled with.
His mood is-is inconstant.
I should have told him many years ago,
but I did not.
Oh, Thomas.
You were so quick to
join in Wolsey's attack
- of your friend Stafford.
- You will hold your tongue.
There is no one you would
not send to the block
to keep your family name,
Boleyn, in favor.
So maybe now I learn from you.
I do not wish to hear the word
"no" from you again.
Have you got that, Wolsey?
Yes, Your Majesty, but as a cardinal
of the Catholic church,
I must speak plainly
that a marriage made before
God cannot simply be undone
Your Majesty, your lady aunt
requests an audience with you.
Your Majesty.
You have sought to
punish my family and I
in many different ways, and I have
asked the Lord my God
why you would do that.
And He has given me His answer.
That I was wrong to
keep the truth from you.
Madam, there is nothing
you can tell His Majesty
The truth about a lie.
What lie, Lady Aunt?
- I'm sure it is nothing
- What truth?
[UNEASY MUSIC]
- Go.
- Your Majesty.
Go!
Well, speak, Lady Aunt.
Those who will repent
will find me generous.
[BIRDS SQUAWKING]
The queen lay with your brother.
She was not a maid when you wed.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[CATHERINE] You
will ensure she is versed
- in politics and economics.
- Yes, Your Grace.
And do not tell me they are
not the subjects for a girl.
Lady Mother.
[CATHERINE] What is it?
- Show me.
- "Spanish dog."
Look.
It was meant for me to find.
I come to invite you to go hunting.
Just you and I.
Of course.
I am ever at your pleasure,
but before we go
may I?
[TENSE MUSIC]
[CATHERINE SNIFFLING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[MEG] Good lords of this parliament,
I thank you for acknowledging
that my son James is now
the full and righteous king.
[ALL STOMPING]
Of course, he will be advised
on all state matters
by myself and others
until he comes of age.
[ALEXANDER] Fuck that.
God has granted us a new era
of peace and prosperity
and strength in unity.
We will be more than a match now
for that greedy English
king and his deceitful wife.
[ALEXANDER] You mean,
your brother, Your Grace,
and your own family?
- This is my family.
- [ALEXANDER] You're a Tudor.
And you married a
Douglas when you promised
not to wed at all.
How can we know that when you give
our sovereign advice that
you're not speaking Tudor
out of your mouth and
Angus out of your asshole?
[LAUGHTER]
Well, you can consider
that from your prison cell.
[LAUGHS] No, you can't do that.
- I'm brother to
- I can do as I wish.
And I just did.
[CROWD MURMURING]
[ALEXANDER] No.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ALEXANDER] Move.
Anyone else?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[LEAVES RUSTLING]
[CATHERINE] Henry,
is there something wrong?
[HENRY] What could possibly be wrong?
[CATHERINE] It doesn't seem
there will be much prey down here.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[HENRY] Go further.
Just there.
Henry, unless you want us
to shoot fish
- Go.
- [GRUNTING]
Ow. Stop!
Ow! Ow!
[WHIMPERING]
No! He-Hen-Henry what is happening?
You're a liar
- and a sinner!
- [CATHERINE WHIMPERING]
My lady aunt confessed it all.
[WATER LAPPING]
You lay with my brother,
and you lied to me for years.
[CATHERINE] No, I-I have not!
She stood outside your door,
and she heard you, Catherine!
No, she-she lies to
you to try to win her way
back in your favor. Get off of me!
- [HENRY GRUNTS]
- [CATHERINE] Stop!
She stood before me, Catherine,
and she swore it on the Bible.
[CATHERINE] She was
not inside the chamber,
so her testimony is false.
[DAUNTING MUSIC]
Arthur was.
He told her himself of his
great joy at your lovemaking.
Say many things about
my brother, Catherine
but he's not a liar.
You're a jezebel,
and you've cast me into sin
- [CATHERINE] Henry, I
- and all of England with me.
[CATHERINE] I have not.
"If a man takes his brother's wife,
"it is an unclean thing,
and they shall be childless."
Leviticus.
You have burned all my sons
in the fire of God's wrath!
There is another passage in the Bible!
Deuteronomy.
"When a brother dies and has no child,
"the wife shall not
be given to a stranger,
"but her husband's brother
shall take her as his wife
and be a husband to her."
[UNEASY MUSIC]
Then you admit it.
Finally.
[LAUGHS] After all these years.
You're a wanton whore.
You loved me, Henry.
You love me still.
No, I hate you.
You've cast me into
the flames of hell, Catherine.
I have given you my heart and soul.
I have loved you more than
any woman ever loved a man.
I have given you myself
my loyalty
my body
my devotion.
But you were not a maid.
I was yours from the
first moment I saw you.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Henry, please.
[SHAKILY] Please.
[MOURNFUL MUSIC]
Please.
[TWIGS SNAP]
Who is here?
[SINISTER MUSIC]
Henry, who is here?
Who is it, Henry?
No one.
Is it Wolsey?
Did you bring him here to kill me?
[MUTTERING INDISTINCTLY]
[HENRY] Bring me my horse!
[GASPING] No, Henry.
Henry! Henry, please!
[SOBBING] No!
[HENRY] Bring me my horse!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Henry, no.
[SOBBING]
Henry!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GASPING]
[CRYING]
Oviedo, promise me
that you won't say too much.
I need more time.
[ROSA] Lina!
[LAUGHING] Lina!
Dear, dear Rosa!
[ROSA LAUGHS]
I am so happy you're coming with us.
My girls and your boys
will grow up all together
in the Ottoman Empire.
[GASPS]
Coming with you?
Rosa, we have not decided yet.
My husband, Alvaro,
has a job for Oviedo,
a good job as a shipwright.
[BABY COOING]
Your boys may be apprentices.
You already know this?
You did not tell me.
Lina, we will have a better life.
That is what we came to England for.
No.
[BABY COOING]
[BABY COOING]
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
Rosa.
[LAUGHS]
I, um I have missed you.
I would love to sail away
but the queen
she is in pain.
You are kind and ever loyal.
Oviedo's in pain as well.
So are your boys.
[BABY COOS]
Come.
[MAGGIE] I will need a page
with me to carry the deeds
to the Stafford estate,
and see to it that all
the goods and chattels
that were confiscated are returned.
The king is generous to those
who will do his bidding.
Your Grace, where are your guards?
What did you say to him?
I am a loyal servant to the king.
Is that not what you'd have me be?
You must do as your
conscience tells you.
As we all must.
Leave me.
Tell Lina to come when she is here.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
[WHIMPERING]
[CATHERINE] "Dearest Meg
I know that you are angry with me,
but I write to you for help.
The king believes
that I have lied to him.
He will seek annulment of our marriage.
Whatever now becomes of me,
I must protect my daughter
and her place in England.
You have your brother's ear now,
and I bid you, please,
have him think of Mary.
[DISTANT SCREECH]
Catherine, your faithful sister."
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
Come in.
[FIRE CRACKLING]
One is from the King of England,
your brother.
The other's from Queen Catherine.
A letter from each of them.
I must be doing something right.
What do you think they say?
They say the queen was not
a maid when she was wed.
Perhaps King Henry would
commiserate on being married
to a spouse you'd be rid of.
And Catherine, what does she say?
Catherine is unknowable to me.
And to me now.
And once, she was my inspiration.
But I believe she is
as lost as he is now.
What a sad face you pull, Hal Stewart.
There is word that your hus
Lord Angus says you're unfit to rule.
He draws men to this banner
and will mount a challenge to you.
Well, then we
will blast him out of Scotland.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Hal, I'm making you
my most senior officer.
Your Grace Meg
your son's reign is still
parlous with some of the clans.
I'm a Stewart, so perhaps
promoting from another house
- would be more
- But I want you, Hal.
Forever.
Until the end of Heaven and Earth.
Come.
Wash your hands and face for bed.
[FIRE CRACKLING]
Barnaby, who did this to you?
The English boys.
[UNEASY MUSIC]
[CATHERINE] Lady Pole told
him that I was not a maid
when we were wed.
The king will not forgive me.
He will not even see me.
But he must.
You are his wife.
I believe he will seek to change that.
But he can't.
I am sorry, Lina
[SIGHS]
for how I've been of late.
I have been unfair to you,
my dearest friend.
I could not be without you.
Please forgive me.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
- Catherine
- What can I do for you?
For the boys and Oviedo?
Are there things you need?
[CATHERINE] My king.
I would speak with you
It seems you are already.
Thomas, I wish to honor you.
Your daughters shall be part
of the queen's household
as her ladies.
Your Majesty, you are too kind.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CATHERINE] Who is here?
Henry, who is here?
[HENRY] What demon are you? No!
[GLASS SHATTERS]
[FOOTSTEPS CRUNCHING]
[INSECTS CHIRPING]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
[BOW CLATTERING]
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
[SLOWED BREATHING]
[SNIFFLES]
[WHISPERS] God forgive me.
[BOW CLATTERS]
Well, come on!
Meg! Meg!
[NEGASI] My Lord, why
don't you go back to the tavern
that you have come from?
Watch your tongue.
Meg!
Meg!
Meg!
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Advance.
[HAL] He's coming around the west side.
[LAUGHS] Good!
He may receive my gift!
[DISTANT SHOUTING]
- [ANGUS] Charge!
- [ALL YELLING]
[CANNON BOOMS]
What the fuck?
[MEG] Fire! Keep firing!
[CANNON BOOMING]
[MAN GRUNTING]
Get up!
[MEG PANTING]
[LAUGHS, PANTING]
[SIZZLES, BOOMS]
[ANGUS] Meg! You bitch!
[SCREAMS]
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[LINA] Highness
[CATHERINE] What is it?
You have bad news.
[LINA] Highness, you are crying.
[CATHERINE] No.
What is it?
Rosa is at Tilbury.
You wish to leave.
No
not leave you.
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
But it is a chance for us my boys.
Of course you must.
[CATHERINE SIGHS]
- Highness
- I wish I could come with you.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
Catherine, what has happened?
I thought
[CATHERINE BREATHING SHAKILY]
I thought to do something so wicked
that it would cast me into hell.
I thought
to finish him.
- [LINA] I will not go.
- No, no, you must.
It has passed now.
I will draw strength from my pain.
I will endure.
Then you will be saved.
Isn't that what the Bible says?
"He who endures to the end
shall be saved."
[SOFTLY] Yes. [INHALES SHARPLY]
Yes, you're right.
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
It is God's will.
Lina, you have been my dearest friend.
I love you very much.
And I love you.
You will always be the light.
[HENRY] You see,
and then my father took the crown
by God's grace at Bosworth,
and all of England benefitted.
My lady aunt now benefits
from God's good favor
and mine.
Or does this not please you, Lady Aunt?
Sit up, Henry. Such posture.
You dishonor your father.
You know, sometimes in you now,
I see my lady grandmother.
I believe I am wealthier, Your Majesty.
[CATHERINE] "Better the
little that the righteous have
"than the wealth of many wicked
for the Lord upholds the righteous."
Psalms 37.
Henry, I will speak with you alone.
Lady Aunt, please take
my son out to archery.
I'll join you presently.
Your Majesty.
I know you would be rid of me.
And I will grant it.
I will leave Westminster
and live quietly far from court.
- But this is my decision, and I
- [CATHERINE] No.
No, I have made it.
I love you.
I pity you.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
But know this, Henry.
I will not let you push
me from this marriage.
I will always be your wife.
There is nothing you
can do to change that.
I hope you may find peace.
[SNIFFLES]
[CATHERINE] Savor
what you have with him.
It will not last,
and you may sleep in my bed for now,
but you will never take my
place as Queen of England.
[CATHERINE] "My dearest daughter Mary,
there is much that you are
yet too young to understand
[SOMBER MUSIC]
About why we are leaving
the palace and your father.
But there is nothing I regret.
Were God to grant me all my time again,
I would live exactly as
I did the first time,
and I would not change my course.
I have known love
and joy
and friendship.
[WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
For a time, we built
what others only dreamt of
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Camelot for England
and a paradise for us."
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
Lady Mother, is it dead?
God tests our faith,
and we do not always know
what he is testing.
Is it our strength to stay the course,
or is it to accept the
things we cannot change
and find peace in acceptance
and our supplication to the Lord?
I hear God speak to me.
He asks me to find peace
to fill my heart with
loving you and Him.
[BIRD SQUAWKS]
[MUFFLED LAUGHTER]
[FOREBODING MUSIC]
[MANDOLIN MUSIC PLAYING]
[CATHERINE] "Your father casts himself
in many troubles, Mary.
He fears he has offended God,
and so he breaks his
mind upon a goose chase
for a prize that he can never win.
But in his search, he fails to see
the biggest prize of all
that God has given us,
and it is you.
Forgive him.
Pray that he may find his way again
and that he be may granted his peace."
People call me Harry.
[CATHERINE] "Believe your purpose, Mary.
Be of merry heart."
There.
That's north. See?
[SIGHS]
[CATHERINE] "I love you very much
as I love him.
Shall we set him free?
[CATHERINE] I am his wife.
[STIRRING MUSIC]
I am Queen of England.
I am God's obedient servant.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
But you you are England's future."
[BREATHES DEEPLY]