[WIND BLOWING]
[DISTANT ANIMALS CALLING]
GIRL: In a rotten, blood-soaked island Kingdom,
cursed by plague and riven by religious unrest,
there once was a queen by the name of Katherine Parr.
She was the sixth wife of an angry and ailing king.
[INDISTINCT VOICES WHISPERING]
[INHALES]
GIRL: Of the wives that had gone before,
two were cast out.
One died in childbirth.
And two more had their heads struck from their bodies,
on the King's order.
Twice a widow but yet to conceive a child herself,
Queen Katherine gathered the other wives' children
around her and loved us as her own.
She was the only mother I have ever known.
This one needs your signature.
GIRL: The Queen dreamed of a land free from tyranny.
She believed she could steer the Kingdom to the light.
And when the King went to war across the sea,
Queen Katherine was made regent.
For a moment, it was as though a great weight had lifted
and a new dawn was approaching.
[METAL CLANGING]
[WATER SPLASHING]
[EXHALES]
[HORSES WHINNYING]
LADY IN WAITING 1: Katherine, the horses are ready.
Thank you.
LADY IN WAITING 2: She was seen near the shrine
to the Virgin Mary yesterday.
The one on Goyt's Lane.
She can't be far from there.
KATHERINE: How far is it?
LADY IN WAITING 2: It's about a two-hour ride.
LADY IN WAITING 3: Ellen, where are the hoods?
ELLEN: They're here, look.
LADY IN WAITING 2: This should fit you, Katherine.
Leave that, Dot. We must hurry.
[LOCK THUDDING]
[HORSES NEIGHING]
[MEN CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
[HORSES NICKERING]
[NEIGHING]
[DISTANT HORSES WHINNYING]
Your Majesty?
Only women are allowed at the shrine.
But, Your Majesty, we must escort you.
You can't go on your own.
We'll be back before dusk.
GUARD: Here, take the horse.
WOMAN 1: Ten years ago,
our King cast off the chains of Rome.
He said, "Rid yourselves of the Pope's Latin,
here is a Bible in your own language."
And with this act, our King freed us.
Now, peasant and pauper, soldier and merchant,
man and woman,
could understand what the priests chanted at us.
[WOMAN 1 SPEAKING LATIN]
[IN ENGLISH] Does anyone know what that means?
CROWD: No.
No? [CHUCKLES]
But you've heard it,
you've heard it countless times in church.
Better to place your trust in the Lord
than to place your trust in princes.
Psalm 118, verse 9. WOMAN 1: That's right.
You, sir.
If the Bible is English and not Latin,
you can read it as well as any priest, could you not?
Of course you can! [CROWD LAUGHING]
Of course you can! MAN [CHUCKLES]: Yes.
And you can interpret it just as well too
because we were not hearing God.
We were not hearing God in those sermons,
we were hearing the priest.
[PEOPLE GRUNT IN AFFIRMATION]
Now our bishops and our lords and our King
do not like that, do they?
Oh, no. Oh, no, they don't.
We have created an appetite
for questioning His Majesty's church, oh, no!
We have created an appetite for protest!
"Where will it end?" they cry. Where will it end.
[SNIFFLES] [CROWD MURMURING]
If we may question a priest, what else will we question?
Who else?
Everything.
Anyone.
Last year, the King and his men
once again banned the English Bible,
forcing us to obey diktats
in a tongue we do not understand,
but they cannot dam the river now.
It is not for those above us to tell us what to believe!
PEASANT: Hear, hear! Hear, hear!
Listen to me, now. It is too late for words,
for petitions.
For gentle persuasion.
We...
We must rise up and take what is ours.
CROWD: Yes!
Revolution is upon us!
CROWD: Yes!
The King will be with us or we will go without him!
CROWD: Yes!
We shouldn't be here, should we?
ELLEN: No, that was treason.
Your Highness, we must go.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
MAN: Who's the one to follow?
WOMAN 1: If you cannot read, we will teach you!
Join us!
What are you doing here?
I heard you were close.
[CHUCKLING] I had to see you.
Seven years.
ANNE: Seven years?
Look, I brought you something.
He let you publish under your own name?
It might not be as radical as you want it to be,
but it's my writing.
It's what I believe...
and every princess
in every court in Europe has read it.
Oh?
Well, if it's good enough for princesses...
ANNE: Come.
I thought you came to hear me speak.
To hear treason against my husband?
Oh, your husband?
The killer you were forced to marry?
What, do you love him now?
He has never laid a finger on me.
I've lasted longer than any of his wives since his first.
He's changed, he listens to me.
[SIGHS]
He's allowing me to educate Edward and Elizabeth
in the new faith.
They're the future, Anne.
He's made me regent whilst he's in France.
[SCOFFS] He puts his wife on the throne
so that a man cannot take it when he is gone.
Have you been allowed to do anything
but sign household bills?
His confidence in your weakness
is what keeps you safe. Nev...
[COUGHING]
Never in my life
did I think you would stand here
and tell me the King just needs to "listen."
Whose side are you on?
I believe that I was chosen.
By God, to change the King's mind.
[SOFTLY] Kit.
[SIGHS]
Do you think that is all God planned for you?
[HORSES WHINNYING]
[HORSE NEIGHING]
KATHERINE: Edward, what are you doing up?
I'm bored, Mama. [CHUCKLES]
I want to go back to Hampton Court.
I know. I know.
But right now, God is testing us.
He sent us the plague as a proof of our sin,
and that's why we're here.
Let me see.
"He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
"he was crucified, died, and buried.
He descended into hell."
You chose the word "hell"?
[CHUCKLES] It's a straight translation from Matthew.
Yes, but it doesn't say "hell."
It says "Hades."
[CHUCKLES] Which means the underworld.
It is the very same thing.
Mm-hmm.
But is that the only meaning?
EDWARD: Uncle Thomas! Edward!
[GROANS] My Prince, you're so big!
ELIZABETH: ...can mean the devil.
How are you? I'm bored.
Yes, and in Greek it means "the unseen."
Think about which one is the most rich in expression.
Elizabeth, you have an exceptional mind.
Use it for more than simple translations.
Did you really go to that shrine?
Why would I have gone elsewhere?
Finish that, please.
We found Anne close to the shrine.
And?
She was preaching to a large group.
Her following is growing.
[SCOFFING] So what?
She's gonna overthrow the Church?
She can't be serious.
KATHERINE: I've never known her not to be.
Is she going to overthrow the King too?
[SCOFFS SOFTLY] Of course not.
THOMAS: Well, she survived this long.
The way she spoke...
it excited me.
THOMAS: And nobody knows except me.
KATHERINE: And your brother?
Well, Edward believes what we believe.
I must return to Antwerp.
I really can't stand it here,
it's so backward and cold.
Well, I've heard there might be a match for you there.
Mm-hmm.
Maybe. Mm-hmm.
[SMACKS LIPS]
Her father doesn't like me, though.
Oh?
But she does.
And what about you?
What does it matter what I feel?
KATHERINE: Hmm?
I never had what I truly wanted.
[KATHERINE GRUNTS]
Neither did I.
Does the King know you're teaching his daughter
that she can translate the Bible as she sees fit?
[SIGHS] You know, uh,
Henry trusts me.
He trusts you, does he? Mm-hmm. He does.
[CLEARS THROAT] Your Majesty.
Remember we have a Privy Council meeting
tomorrow morning. Your Majesty.
Katherine, you mustn't speak with Anne Askew again.
[PRAYING IN LATIN]
Amen. COUNCIL: Amen.
Amen.
[IN ENGLISH] Let's commence with the war.
The King needs more troops for his French campaign.
I suggest we start recruiting as of next week.
Four thousand men, mercenaries if necessary.
It will be expensive.
Then we'll raise the taxes...
[THOMAS CHUCKLES] ...if needed.
The nobles will not like that.
LORD EDWARD: There is enough trouble in the country,
do we need to cause more reason for revolt?
GARDINER: My Lord Edward,
can't you Seymours just cooperate for once?
The nobles will do what is asked of them.
The King will value their sacrifice.
Then we are agreed.
So if the Queen would turn her mind
to domestic matters,
there are reports that the plague
has followed us to Derbyshire.
Yes, there are too many who came with us from London.
Anyone who's not essential must return to their estates.
GARDINER: We cannot have the King return
to a plague infested palace.
Indeed, the risk is too great.
Good.
My apologies, Your Highness.
Uh, if you'll excuse me. Before you leave,
I would like to propose a new commission
to explore the consequences
of having allowed the commoners
to hear the Bible in their own tongue.
Your Highness, you cannot mean
to reignite that debate, please.
Though it is true that the country is
of two minds in this matter.
And the King welcomes informed debate, Bishop Gardiner.
The King left strict instructions
that no major religious policy is to be enacted
whilst he is in France.
And you know that very well, Lord Seymour.
I know you fear anarchy, Bishop.
So do I.
But I also believe that the short time
that the commoners were allowed to hear the Bible in English
may have in fact strengthened and deepened their devotion.
[SCOFFS] Oh, God's sake.
KATHERINE: To Henry, to God.
Hear, hear.
[TABLE THUMPING]
[PAGE WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
KATHERINE: The King will be back earlier than expected.
Well, if you'll excuse me, Your Highness.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[CHAIRS SCRAPING]
THOMAS: Your Majesty.
We need to warn Anne. She must get away from here.
ELLEN: The horses are being prepared.
They'll be ready in a minute.
[WHISPERS INDISTINCTLY]
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
Here are the books you asked for.
Did anyone see you? No.
Do you want me to keep it for you?
No.
I won't be searched.
LADY IN WAITING 1: Please be careful.
[HORSE NEIGHS]
ANNE: ...to make their bodies useful,
to make their lives worthwhile!
We refuse to be taken for fools!
Let us pray, come.
WOMAN 1: Praise the Lord! PEASANTS: Praise the Lord!
KATHERINE: You have to leave.
Henry's on his way back. [SCOFFS]
If they find you here preaching, they will burn you!
And so be it. Do you hear me?
I will not hide. I will not hide!
[COUGHS] I can see that you're not well.
I'm fine, Kit. I'm fine.
This is what people look like
when they sleep in hard beds and eat hard food.
[SIGHS] I'm going further north,
where your husband allows the Catholic lords
to punish people for speaking in their own language.
Good people.
Friends killed for preaching in towns and villages
what you just play at in the palace.
I will not waste my chance as you are wasting yours.
[SCOFFS] What would you have me do?
I would have you pull his head from his neck.
I would have you bloodied,
your pretty dress ripped, hands calloused,
covered in mud over his dead body.
You're not being serious.
No, I know what you are capable of.
You have to go. You have to leave.
Do you hear me?
[PEASANTS CONTINUE PRAYING]
[SCOFFS]
[ANNE LAUGHS]
Do you remember we cried for hours
the night of your first wedding?
You have to go.
Henry will be looking for heretics in every corner.
[SOFTLY] I can't.
They're chopping people's heads off,
burning people, hear what I'm telling you?
They're burning people.
Come here.
[SOBS]
[SNIFFLES]
Kit.
Sell it.
That will keep you through the winter.
No.
Take it.
[SOFTLY] I can't. Take it.
KATHERINE: Hmm.
[BOTH SNIFFLING]
[SIGHS]
MAN: I heard her speak this morning.
A new woman passing pamphlets out.
I got one in English!
Oh, I felt fellowship, I felt faith.
LADY IN WAITING: "And out of it,
"a young lady to come was seen.
"Of winsomest mien, of stature fine and thin,
"and bright as though a moon
"of the fourteenth night she had been,
"or the sun raining lively sheen.
"She rose like the morn
as she shone through the night..."
[CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
The Great Hall looks beautiful.
The tables have been set, the flowers arranged.
And was it aired? It needs to be aired before.
It has all been taken care of.
ELLEN: Van Wilder's musicians are setting up downstairs.
Right.
And what about the new piece?
They've managed it, been rehearsing all night.
Good.
LADY IN WAITING 1: Oh, merde!
Oh, he's here! He's early!
LADY IN WAITING 2: Oh! Oh, no!
Gather everyone.
PAGE: His Majesty will be retiring to his chambers,
he asks that you meet him there.
He does not want any feasts or celebration.
[FLUTE PLAYING OFF-KEY]
[HENRY SNIFFLES]
[SIGHS, GROANS]
Missed you.
You're back earlier than expected.
Mm.
I'm happy to see you.
You didn't want the feast...
These legs. ...and the music?
These legs are worse.
It's why we came home.
Couldn't get on my horse.
In front of all my men. It was humiliating.
[BIRD SQUAWKS]
What's that?
We brought you a gift.
[BIRD SQUAWKS] [CHUCKLES]
We named it Carlos.
[SQUAWKS]
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Feed it. Carlos?
You brought home the Emperor of Spain?
Mm. He's about as useful.
Feed it.
[SOFTLY] Ah, he's so gentle.
[CHUCKLES]
We're proud of you.
You were an excellent regent.
We thank you.
Did you enjoy it?
I wish I could have done more.
Mm, I bet.
The plague is getting worse. Mm.
Deaths are increasing in London. Yes.
I think it might be best if we postpone our journey.
Yes, yes. We're staying.
We're staying. Mm.
I'm back now.
I'm home and you don't need to worry
your little head about it anymore.
Dr. Farabi is here, Harry.
[HENRY MUMBLES]
Farabi, you wretched snatch.
Your Majesty.
It is lovely to have you here back.
Oh. Such a magnificent liar.
FARABI: How are we feeling?
[SIGHS]
[LAUGHING]
[SIGHS]
The French damp got in and stayed.
Ten years and it still hasn't healed.
Will you allow me to take a look?
Yeah.
MAN: Harry.
[GROANS]
Gently.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[CARLOS SQUAWKING]
[MUFFLED GROANING]
[CONTINUES GROANING]
FARABI: This does not look good, Your Majesty.
I'm afraid I have to clean it.
[HENRY GROANS]
[HENRY GRUNTS, BREATHES HEAVILY]
[SOFTLY] Wait.
[KATHERINE CLEARS THROAT] [GRUNTING]
What is this, what are you doing?
Um, it's... it's my book.
You like the new cover?
Another prayer book?
It's the same.
It's done rather well.
I have ordered a new edition, just...
making a few changes.
You published your book now.
Why must... Why must you insist on writing more?
Hmm?
You must be careful.
Always to hold the line.
Don't push too hard.
I'm God's deputy.
And won't be patron to heretics.
You understand, don't you?
HENRY: This boar was the size of a wagon with four wheels,
I kid you not. [LORDS LAUGH]
HENRY: On this Ascension Day,
we welcome our daughter
and pearl...
Mary.
No, no. Get up.
Lady Jalida Marquez. Your Majesty.
You look the same as you did the day you arrived from Spain.
We remember.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] Thank you, Your Majesty.
Ho!
Come on, Harry. Come and play something.
No, no, no. Come on.
Oh, all right. Just one.
NOBLEMAN 1: See?
NOBLEMAN 2: Sing and play.
He's been practicing all morning.
[MARY GIGGLES] [HENRY SIGHS]
This was highly unexpected.
[CROWD CHUCKLES]
[PLAYING VIRGINALS]
♪ Pastimes with good company ♪
♪ I love And shall until I die ♪
MEN: ♪ Grudge who lust But none deny ♪
♪ So God be pleased ♪
♪ Thus live will I ♪
♪ For my pastance ♪
♪ Hunt, sing and dance ♪
♪ My heart is set ♪
♪ All goodly sport ♪
♪ For my comfort ♪
♪ Who shall me let? ♪
HENRY: Everybody.
ALL: ♪ Youth must have Some dalliance ♪
♪ Of good Or ill some pastance ♪
♪ Company methinks them best ♪
[LAUGHS]
♪ All thoughts and fancies To digest ♪
♪ For idleness Is chief mistress ♪
♪ Of vices ♪
[GARDINER PRAYS IN LATIN]
Amen. ALL: Amen.
Amen. [SNIFFLES]
[MAN SPEAKING LATIN] [IN ENGLISH] Begin.
I'd almost forgotten what it's like to be in court.
It's nice to have you back.
We must band together against the madness of these times.
We're family, after all.
This preacher woman...
Anne Askew.
Did she confess before the end?
No, she didn't break.
Oh.
She kept quoting the Bible.
She said that it speaks of equality for all men.
Will! Less.
Well, did she say anything?
Well, when she was asked if the Holy Spirit holds
a higher authority than the King,
she refused to answer.
Again and again.
Refused? [LAUGHS] Yes.
It is safe, Your Majesty.
Do you have a knife?
Yes. Misguided but...
impressive in its way.
Were there many more of them?
She was arrested with some of her followers,
a few managed to escape to the continent, apparently.
MARY: Katherine. We'll find them.
Katherine.
What are those? Uh...
HENRY: Can't have heretics.
Spreading division... Blue cherries.
...dissent.
GARDINER: They cannot evade us much longer.
And each one we burn, well, that serves as a...
as a warning for the others, doesn't it?
The ham is excellent.
[HAWK CALLING]
[PEOPLE LAUGH]
Well?
[CHEEPS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
She was arrested a couple of days
after you saw her.
Some of our people are escaping to Flanders.
It can't have been her.
She was arrested, tortured and then burned
on orders of the King.
She's gentry. It's against the law.
Apparently,
she sewed paper and stuffed gunpowder into her gown
so she would burn faster.
[GROANS SOFTLY]
[DOGS BARKING] [INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
Get up, for God's sake. Stand up.
We need to be careful.
This is becoming extremely dangerous.
Katherine, I pray no one saw you there that day.
[MAN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY] [HAWKS CALLING]
LADY IN WAITING 1: ...to our call.
LADY IN WAITING 2: It's not at all how it came earlier.
LADY IN WAITING 1: Oh, yes. I think he's over there.
Are you all right?
LADY IN WAITING 2: Ellen, are you coming?
[HAWK CHEEPS]
My love, look at this beauty.
Did you do it?
Huh?
WORKER: Put your hand on that reel, I baited it.
Anne Askew. Did they burn her?
What, the preacher woman?
[GRUNTS AND GROANS]
That's Gardiner's business. [GROANS]
He would never do anything without asking you first.
Oh, Kit.
What's this woman to you?
She was a radical.
She deserted her husband, her children.
She was a fanatic preaching...
Her death is on your soul.
What?
[WHIMPERS]
[HAWK SQUAWKING] James! James!
Take the hawk. What? I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry. I don't know...
I don't know what came over me.
She was a childhood... Shh.
Friend from childhood. Shh.
You confused me.
[SOFTLY] Forgive me. Shh.
[MUMBLES] Forgive me. Don't question us.
And don't speak of our soul.
Anne Askew wanted the King dead.
Is that what you want? No. No. Goodness, not.
Good.
[KATHERINE BREATHES HEAVILY]
Good. Please forgive me.
You confused me.
When was the last time you saw her?
I really don't know. It was a long time ago.
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
[SOFTLY] You don't...
You don't... You don't want any harm to come to me, do you?
[SOFTLY] No. No.
You don't want to hurt me? No, never.
[EXHALES] Good.
It's me and my silly mind.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Let's begin again. Mm.
Ellen, Maud. Come.
[SNIFFLES]
[GROANS]
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
What's this?
Is this your responsibility?
Your Majesty.
This is the King's table.
We're... We're not pigs, are we?
ELLEN: No, Katherine. Here, leave that.
The boy will do that.
Quickly!
The Queen has asked it to be tidy!
Leave that, that's not for you to do.
It's all right.
ELLEN: Quickly.
LADY IN WAITING: No need to help.
[CLATTERING]
Here, clear that up.
KATHERINE: I'm terribly sorry.
LADY IN WAITING: Let's leave, shall we?
Put that down. Oh.
CAT: Shall we leave? LADY IN WAITING: Katherine.
CAT: Katherine, let's go,
shall we? Yes.
[HAWKS CALLING]
[HENRY PRAYING IN LATIN]
[IN ENGLISH] Pray.
[BOTH PRAYING IN LATIN]
[IN ENGLISH] You've such a lively mind.
And it's led you too far.
[KATHERINE CONTINUES IN LATIN]
[IN ENGLISH] We'll help guide you.
Pay more attention.
Louder. [CONTINUES PRAYING IN LATIN]
Amen.
[IN ENGLISH] Again.
[HENRY SPEAKS LATIN] [PRAYING IN LATIN]
[HENRY PRAYING IN LATIN]
[IN ENGLISH] Louder.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[GARDINER PRAYING IN LATIN]
[SINGING IN LATIN]
[♪♪]
[SPEAKS LATIN]
[SIGHS]
[ELIZABETH CLEARS THROAT]
[IN ENGLISH] Is my father often angry with you?
No.
It's just that the pain in his leg sometimes...
makes him a bit vulnerable. [CHUCKLES]
He will kill me like he did my mother.
He would never do that to you.
I never know what he's going to do,
I never know what he's thinking.
He will never break you.
Do you hear me?
Ever.
Your Majesty,
for this evening we have the venison pie with oranges
and strawberries with beef olives.
Quieten down.
[CHUCKLING] MAN: Yes, Your Majesty.
PAGE: In front of you we have
goose eggs and quail eggs... Jack.
...and behind that we have pheasant and quail.
I want to eat her.
To the right we have some more pheasant and quail
with a selection of cheese at the end.
Baked apples, pork pie and a selection of fruit
including grapes, strawberries and oranges.
You have a cheese selection.
We have...
we have, uh, the civet of hare
to the right hand side of the table
as well as an array of fruit and vegetables.
[GIGGLING]
PAGE: And another selection of cheeses
as well as more quail and pheasant.
[GIGGLING]
We also have, as I said before...
The most beautiful one...
Mm.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Fine teeth.
Ooh, fine teeth.
[GIGGLES] Mm.
[SNIFFS]
Mm. Mm-hmm.
[LAUGHS, GASPS]
Ooh. [GIGGLES] Shh.
PAGE: To the right of that we have the creamed fish
and loin of veal. Turn slowly.
We have the roasted suckling pig
and obviously a selection of wines
for you to choose from.
Which one shall... This.
Of course, Your Majesty. [AGNES GIGGLES]
Allow me to test it first.
HENRY: No need.
We want...
our wife to test it.
Try it. [CHATTERING STOPS]
[CHAIR THUDS]
[HENRY CHUCKLES]
Is it good? [CHUCKLING]
It lacks a bit of salt.
[LAUGHS]
[ALL LAUGH]
HENRY: Salt!
My dear, my dear!
Who's this beautiful girl?
I haven't seen her before.
Is she from London?
Are you jealous?
What's your name, darling?
[GIGGLES]
Your Majesty, my name is Agnes Howard.
You have a most extraordinary voice.
Doesn't she?
Can you sing?
[LAUGHING]
Stop laughing!
Of course you can.
What's your favorite song?
Il bianco e dolce cigno.
[CHUCKLES] Perfect.
[AGNES GIGGLES] Go on.
[AGNES CLEARS THROAT] HENRY: Wicked.
KATHERINE: Up here. Don't be nervous.
[CLEARS THROAT]
[INSTRUMENT PLAYING]
[SINGING IN ITALIAN]
[IN ENGLISH] She's luminous, isn't she?
[SINGING CONTINUES]
[IN ENGLISH] ♪ Blow thy horn, hunter ♪
♪ And blow thy horn on high ♪
♪ There is a doe In yonder woods ♪
♪ In faith she will not die ♪
MEN: ♪ Now blow ♪
♪ Blow thy horn, hunter ♪
♪ Now blow thy... ♪
[COUGHING]
HENRY: Will!
Well, there was a chick... [ALL LAUGHING]
...who had a fit and ran right round the room!
The hunter stuck him with his horn
and blew him to the moon!
[LAUGHING CONTINUES]
ALL: ♪ Now blow thy horn hunter ♪
♪ Now blow thy horn Jolly hunter ♪
♪ Now blow thy horn, hunter ♪
HENRY: It's Will Summer's turn!
♪ Now blow thy horn Jolly hunter ♪
Stop!
[LADY IN WAITING COUGHS]
HENRY [GROANS]: Oh, God, I need to piss.
[LADY IN WAITING RETCHING AND COUGHING]
Poor woman.
You have food coming out of your nose.
[LAUGHING] [CONTINUES COUGHING]
HENRY: Food coming out of her nose!
Have some more.
WILL [LAUGHS]: Please, have some more!
[HENRY GRUNTS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY, GROANING]
[SCREAMS]
My leg!
[GROANS]
Curse these legs.
[SIGHS] Fuck! Oh, these legs.
[SIGHS SOFTLY] God's sake.
Come here. Oh, these legs! Leave me!
[HENRY BREATHES HEAVILY]
[MOANING]
...eight, nine and...
Stop turning! Ten!
JALIDA: Your mother told you
of the first Catherine's troubles?
I came with her from Alcala de Henares
and saw how his eyes lit up whenever he saw her.
Though in the end, it meant nothing.
When that other one caught his eye
he got rid of Catalina.
He ordered poisons into her food
that burned her from the inside.
Even now the smell of nightshade
reminds me of the effect on her poor body.
All swollen and red.
A horror you don't forget.
KATHERINE: Oh, Lord, Jesus Christ,
King of Kings and son of God.
With humble hearts we beseech you,
look down upon us
and fill us with the grace of your holy spirit.
GARDINER: Would you like me to hear your confession?
I'm quite happy alone.
I've always been impressed by your ability
to compose your own prayers.
Just personal devotions.
[SCOFFS]
And yet you believe that priests are insufficient.
Of course not.
May we walk in the path of righteousness.
Keep us from ignorance.
[GRUNTS]
Fill our hearts with...
You know, even for priests, God's work is hard.
[SIGHS]
Rooting out heresy.
It's a heavy burden.
Weighs on me.
Because if I fail, then...
how many more will become infected?
How many more will have to burn?
As did your friend, Anne Askew.
We trusted you, Katherine,
with the stability of this realm, no less,
when I married you to the King.
And you make him happy, I can see that.
Hmm.
In a way that the others didn't.
You were a good choice.
And you know very well
the situation with regards to the King's health.
You sleep with him every night.
So I'm warning you,
there's absolutely no doubt
that what the radicals propose will trigger chaos.
And your playing around with the Seymours,
your flirting with the radicals...
it could endanger the stability of this realm.
But we can sort this out.
If you let your love for an old friend
cloud your judgment, even for a moment,
then confess it now
and together we will put it right.
Bishop.
What precisely are you implying?
My conscience...
is clear.
[GARDINER SIGHS SOFTLY]
It would have been better if you'd confessed.
God will send the proof.
Oh, Lord Jesus,
instruct King Henry to obey your divine majesty.
Grant him health.
May he shine with the joy of your blessing.
Grant him strength to vanquish all his foes
and to be feared by all the enemies of his realm.
[DOOR CLOSES]
Amen.
KATHERINE: It's been eight weeks.
Since what?
Since I bled.
Well, that's the longest you've gone.
Are you going to tell him?
It changes everything.
DOT: We must thank the Lord.
Yes.
We must.
[HENRY COUGHS]
HENRY: Careful. FARABI: Yes.
[SPEAKS ARABIC]
[SCREAMS] Oh! Your hand!
[FARABI SPEAKS ARABIC]
HENRY [IN ENGLISH]: Out!
PAGE: I've warned you. Out!
Will you allow me... Shut up!
HENRY: I want Katherine to do it.
Katherine.
I want you to do it.
FARABI: But, Your Majesty, this procedure...
Stop! KATHERINE: You want me to do it?
Of course.
[KATHERINE GRUNTS]
Careful.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] [GULPS]
Why are you laughing?
Is it funny? Why are you laughing?
I think I might be pregnant.
[CHUCKLES]
[EXHALES]
[CLEARS THROAT]
It! [GASPS]
[CHUCKLING]
When my brother comes,
you promise you'll love me more?
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
The most.
[GRUNTING]
EDWARD: I don't want a brother.
ELIZABETH [CHUCKLES]: Me neither.
Say good night. Good night, Carlos.
[CARLOS SQUAWKS]
[GOATS BLEATING]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
Which of your ladies handles the Queen's linens?
ATTENDANT: I do.
Is the Queen's blood regular?
No.
Search the trousseau. MAN: With pleasure, sir.
ATTENDANT: No, don't touch. LORD EDWARD: Herbert!
ATTENDANT: Stop that! [DOG BARKING]
EDWARD: Count them.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
Do continue.
Morning, Kit. KATHERINE: Morning.
Do you feel it's a boy?
I... We know of a woman in Devon.
Fetch her.
She will lay her hands on you and tell us
if it's a boy and if he's strong long before...
Long before you even show anything.
Are you done, Seymour?
There. All complete.
All clean.
Good. Leave us.
[CARLOS SQUAWKS] We'll be alone with my wife.
[CARLOS SQUAWKS] Shut up.
Take the King of Spain to our chambers.
The Queen must have peace.
[SQUAWKING] Quiet.
[GROANS]
[KATHERINE SIGHS]
Seymour, always...
[MIMICKING WHISPERING]
...whispering in corridors, you noticed?
Is that so? Mm.
He thinks because his nephew is my son,
our heir,
that one day he'll be King...
in all but name.
[MUMBLING]
KATHERINE: It doesn't matter.
HENRY: Mm. [DOG BARKS]
Soon, you'll have another son.
MAN: Is it a boy? Is it a girl?
It's a boy! [CHUCKLES]
Is it a boy?
[WHISPERS] It's a boy.
[KATHERINE CHUCKLES] It's a boy!
You clever girl. WOMAN: We have a boy!
You clever girl.
DENNY: James Barnham, heresy.
Nicholas Belenian, heresy.
William Boweth and William Harpin,
counterfeiting.
Adam Darnlip, treason.
Joan Edling, clipping the King's coins.
Thomas Fiennes, murder.
Margaret Pole, Henry Pole, Arthur Pole, heresy.
They will all be executed by the end of this month
in the year of our Lord 1546.
They're all guilty of crimes against our King Henry,
who, by the grace of God,
is the King of England, France, Ireland,
and Defender of the Faith.
[COURTIERS CHEERING]
Quiet for the King!
We have amended our will.
We name Queen Katherine
regent to our son,
Prince Edward, should he,
God forbid, be called to our throne before he is a man.
[SPEAKS LATIN]
[IN ENGLISH] The Queen!
COURTIERS: The Queen!
[CLAPPING]
GARDINER: Contraband books continue to be smuggled
into the country, My Lord.
What?
These are works expressly banned by Your Majesty.
Passages from the English Bible. Thank you.
Heretical texts from the Swiss confederacy.
Zwingli and Calvin to name but two.
And fanatics have even been found
who sew pamphlets into their clothes.
[SOFTLY] Ridiculous.
[GARDINER CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
They are that determined to undermine your authority
and I fear that the changes to Your Majesty's Will
may have perhaps fanned the flames.
Are you questioning our judgment, Stephen?
I merely draw attention to the implications, My Lord.
It's one thing to put a wife on the throne when you're abroad,
but it's quite another to trust a woman,
particularly one
with increasingly erroneous opinions,
with the future of this realm.
The future of this realm could well be in her tummy.
Yes, absolutely.
Let's hope so.
I... I worry only for the stability of your Kingdom.
Good.
Leave us. We're done here.
[HENRY LAUGHS] LORD EDWARD: Oh, well done.
Well done! Did he really hit some?
Your hat, you do this and your hat stands still.
[ELIZABETH LAUGHS]
[ALL GROAN]
LORD EDWARD: Misjudged it.
[CHEERING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[GRUNTS]
Huh.
How is our...
heir?
Very well.
Are you winning? Of course.
[LAUGHS]
Even with these wretched legs.
[GRUNTS]
[MEN GROAN]
HENRY: Give it to me.
KATHERINE: You called for me? Yes.
We wanted your thoughts.
That preacher you were so fond of...
Anne Askew,
has come back to bite us.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Gardiner says he has heard rumors
she was given
an enormous sum before her arrest.
One of her disciples fled with it.
It's already being used
to plot insurrection against us.
I would question why a man of his authority
would base his beliefs on rumors.
Nonetheless.
And who would give her such a large amount of money?
Who?
Who indeed?
A wealthy donor.
[SNIFFLES]
A noble.
[CHUCKLES]
HENRY: Oh! Shot!
[CHUCKLES] I'm sure no one would dare.
[CHUCKLES]
No, quite.
One would think...
[CHUCKLES]
They know what would happen.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
We would have to have their head cut off.
I'm sure you would come up with something
much more creative.
Sometimes,
we think you know us better than we know ourself.
HENRY: Not my money, I hope, you're betting with.
Individual bets, is that what was agreed? I think so.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[MEN GROAN]
[MAN 1 GROANS] [CROWD CHEERING]
[MAN 2 GROANING] [CROWD CONTINUES CHEERING]
[WOMEN GIGGLING]
[ALL LAUGHING DELIRIOUSLY]
[DISTORTED NEIGHING]
[CROWD EXCLAIMS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[FESTIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
It makes me think of the time when you danced the "green man."
And you did it with such grace.
I wish that you and I could have a dance.
Shut up. You're making it worse.
[SNIFFLES]
I see your friend is back.
Thomas Seymour!
Your Majesty.
Would you dance with the Queen?
I'm sure Her Highness wouldn't want that.
No, no, she wants to dance.
Come along.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING, LAUGHING]
[MUSIC STOPS]
[RHYTHMIC MUSIC PLAYING]
THOMAS: One of Anne Askew's followers
found me in Flanders.
Apparently, you gave Anne quite a gift.
How could you take such a risk
to give her a necklace Henry gave you?
What is the point of me being Queen
if I don't have the courage of my convictions?
It's not about conviction, it's careless!
You must be more careful.
[RHYTHMIC MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
HENRY [SHOUTS]: Where is the Queen?
Fetch the Queen.
[GROANING]
[SHOUTS] Katherine! Keep him still!
[BURPS]
[GROANING AND YELLING] Katherine!
[MUFFLED PAGE YELLING INDISTINCTLY]
[PAGE LAUGHING AND SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
HENRY: Shut up. Shut up, you fool!
Now go. Go.
Get my drink and go.
[BREATHLESS] All of you, go.
[GROANS, BREATHES HEAVILY]
All of you! [BURPS]
[BREATHLESS] Lock the door.
[GROANS]
Did you enjoy your dancing?
Huh?
KATHERINE: You know I didn't.
You look flushed. [CLEARS THROAT]
What were you whispering to Thomas?
And what do you see when I'm on top of you?
And your eyes are closed?
Thomas or God?
You.
[LAUGHS]
Mm. Mm.
[KATHERINE CLEARS THROAT]
[HENRY BREATHES HEAVILY]
You need... I think... Is this child ours?
I think you need to rest. Is this child ours?
Of course, what are you d... Of course!
Is this child ours? Of course it's your...
[LAUGHS] ...child!
Are you lying? Why do you ask?
[LAUGHS] Are you lying?
[SHOUTS] Of course I'm not! Are you a liar?
Your-- Stop it! Are you a liar?
[SHOUTS] Are you a fucking liar?
No, I... I have never lied!
In the eyes of God, I've never lied to you!
It's your child!
Why should we believe you?
[KATHERINE BREATHING HEAVILY] Why should we believe you?
[WHISPERING] What are you saying...
Are you just like all the others?
You know... [SHOUTS] You're like the others!
No, Henry, Henry! No, not now. No, not now.
[HENRY GRUNTS]
No... Just... Stop it.
[KATHERINE GROANS]
Get off me! [HENRY GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS LOUDLY]
[KATHERINE GROANS] [BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GROANS]
Henry, please, the child.
Henry... Stop it! [GRUNTING LOUDLY]
[KATHERINE GROANING] [BREATHING HEAVILY]
Stay there.
Stop...
[KATHERINE YELLS] Stay there!
[HENRY GRUNTS]
No! Lie still!
[YELLING] [FLESH SQUELCHES]
[SCREAMS] My leg!
[CRIES] My leg! [YELLS]
[HENRY SCREAMING]
[KATHERINE BREATHES HEAVILY]
Henry?
He fell! He fell!
[HENRY BREATHES HEAVILY]
MAN 1: Henry? MAN 2: Send for a doctor!
MAN 1: Farabi! MAN 2: Farabi, anyone?
[PEOPLE CLAMORING]
MAN 1: Quickly!
[KATHERINE GRUNTS]
[KATHERINE SNIFFLING]
[KATHERINE GROANS SOFTLY]
[COUGHS]
Quick. Get the door.
Oh, Lord. Please let the child be unharmed.
Just bring Edward to my rooms.
[GRUNTS]
If you're gonna clean...
FARABI: How long has he been like this?
MAN 1: Careful. MAN 2: More covers.
[HENRY MUTTERING INDISTINCTLY]
HENRY: More!
How long as he been like this? MAN: Not long.
[HENRY GRUNTING]
GARDINER: Will it pass?
FARABI: We shall see.
LORD EDWARD: Your Majesty... [SHIVERING]
GARDINER: Tell me what happened.
Uh...
[STUTTERS] He was complaining a lot
about his leg outside.
And, um,
today I think he had a bit too much to drink.
He collapsed. FARABI: He needs to rest.
Everyone should leave.
Your Majesty?
The infection is spreading.
[HENRY MUMBLING] We must control it.
FARABI: We must.
If you please, my Lord. My Lady.
[SOBS]
Please, my Lady, he needs to rest. Come.
[HENRY CONTINUES MUMBLING]
PAGE: My Lord, please, he needs his rest.
Gardiner is going to persuade Mary
to get the King to change his Will.
MAN 1: Your Majesty. MAN 2: Your Majesty.
Do you think that if the King somehow gained the strength
to hold a pen...
Yes?
...then he might not think too favorably
on you becoming Regent?
I'm Edward's mother
and I'm keeping a second heir inside of me.
I'm... I'm surely your best bet.
What, no, no, no.
You are his stepmother.
My sister was his mother.
Yes, but your sister is dead.
MARY [SOFTLY]: Father?
Father, what did...
What did you mean before?
[HENRY BREATHING HEAVILY]
Do you still want Katherine as Regent?
Whatever is written in your will I am...
I am bound by God to obey but...
We cannot let the realm slip
into the hands of the reformers.
To the Seymours.
The bishop wants me to hold the throne for Edward.
Perhaps I... I could take us back to when things...
When things were good.
With Mother, Catalina.
[HENRY MUMBLING]
Catalina.
[IN SPANISH]
[MUMBLES] [GASPS]
[MUMBLING INDISTINCTLY]
[HENRY MUMBLES]
[MARY SPEAKING]
[MARY PRAYING]
[HENRY GROANS]
[PRAYING]
[DOOR OPENS]
[WHISPERING]
Mm-hmm.
[IN ENGLISH] His leg oozes with pus,
and it's filling the room with the smell of death.
How long? Two days.
[YAWNS]
[SNEEZES]
[STRINGS PLUCKING]
[HENRY BREATHING HEAVILY]
[PRAYING IN SPANISH]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[KATHERINE HUMMING TUNE]
[CLEARS THROAT]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
FARABI [IN ENGLISH]: Your Majesty,
the King's awake.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
KATHERINE: Henry... Close the door.
No, no, no. No, no!
Henry?
[♪♪]
Let me in.
James...
Please...
[DOG WHINES, BARKS]
Mm.
[DOOR OPENS]
[KATHERINE GASPS]
How?
He's a very strong man.
[EXHALES]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GRUNTING]
No, I can't lose it.
[GROANING]
Just stay in.
Stay in.
[CRIES]
[VOICE BREAKING] Just stay in!
[GROANING]
[SOBBING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[♪♪]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[DOOR OPENS]
Your Majesty...
The blood on your linens...
indicates that the child is lost.
This is fate.
I have watched my Queen, Catherine of Aragon,
and all his other wives,
surrender and fall.
This must not happen to you.
The King's wound is deep and relentless.
Eventually, the infection will take his whole body.
In a month,
perhaps much less.
Was it a boy?
[GRUNTS]
[SHOUTS] Was it male?
[GROANS]
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
I'm so sorry, my Lord.
We really believed...
she loved us enough to give us a spare.
HENRY: Hmm.
We've been here before, haven't we?
Yes. Yes.
[VOICE SHAKING] My Lord, I...
[SIGHS]
To remove a wife...
of whom you have grown tired
will not sit well with your enemies.
It...
It will allow them to paint you unfairly
as unstable.
MAN: They wouldn't. Would they dare?
MAN: They wouldn't. GARDINER: But, but, but, but...
Would they dare? But it would be different...
if the charge was heresy.
And what...
What harm could there be in allowing me to pursue
further investigations?
MAN: Harry, your leg. Farabi, come.
Look. [HENRY GROANING]
FARABI: Raise it. Raise it.
Slowly. Slowly and easy.
FARABI: I need Talal al-Waleed here, please.
[HENRY MOANING]
[ASSISTANT COUGHING]
Hold him.
HENRY [GRITTED TEETH]: Gardiner, do it.
Find your proof.
Investigate.
[GROANING]
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
ELLEN: Oh, merde.
Would you give us a moment, Your Highness?
I'll stay.
As you wish.
That's very pretty.
Can I have a word?
I am confident...
that you two, sooner or later,
will make a full confession.
Yes?
Every heretical whisper the Queen has ever uttered.
Every illegal pamphlet she's smuggled into the palace.
What contact she had with that heretic, Anne Askew.
What money she gave.
ELLEN: There's nothing to confess.
[SOFTLY] Oh?
I've been the Queen's friend most of my life,
you'll never find anything to condemn her.
Have you ever considered, Bishop,
that it may be you who is in error?
[GARDINER CHUCKLES]
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you
and persecute you and say all manner
of evil against you falsely. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
No one can deny that you can both speak
the scriptures very prettily.
But perhaps once... once this is all over
you will understand that you have no more business
with the scriptures than a pig with a saddle.
[MAN LAUGHS]
Better a pig with a saddle than an ass with a miter.
[LAUGHS]
"An ass with a miter"?
Very good.
Well, I'll leave you to think about it.
But if you omit even the smallest detail,
I'll see you burned alongside your Queen.
And I'm also confident...
that were I to ask,
the King would give me permission
to question you too, Your Highness.
[♪♪]
Anything that can connect us to Anne, find it.
LADY IN WAITING 1: Get the pamphlets.
ELLEN: Somebody, look under the bed.
LADY IN WAITING 2: She can't find it.
Ellen...
Here. Did you find it?
Yes, I've looked.
[ELLEN STUTTERS]
LADY IN WAITING 1: Under the bed! Keep looking!
[PANTING]
Where is it?
What?
The Luther book. Where's the Luther book?
[WOMEN CHATTERING EXCITEDLY]
Did you throw it in the fire?
Sit down.
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
[ALL PANTING]
Your Majesty, orders from the King.
We must remove your books.
[OUT OF BREATH, CHUCKLES] All my books?
GUARD 1: Yes, Your Majesty.
[CARLOS SQUAWKS]
KATHERINE: Stay, stay! [PANTING]
I have news.
[SCOFFS] You have news?
Good news.
Good news?
Mm-hmm.
My men have found the necklace.
It's on its way here from Flanders as we speak.
Once it's returned to your wardrobe,
you're in the clear. Wait, you...
You have the necklace. I have. We found it.
When is it here? Soon.
Soon you'll have it. [CHUCKLES] You have it?
We found it. [SOBBING]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[SOFTLY] It's going to be all right.
[THOMAS SHUSHING]
It's going to be all right, Katherine.
GARDINER: Tell me again,
during the King's absence,
how many times did the Queen leave the palace?
Only twice. Oh?
I swear.
She went to pray at the shrine
to the Virgin Mary on Goyt's Lane.
And you were with her the whole time?
No, sir.
GARDINER: No?
Well, only women are permitted.
She told you that, did she?
Yes.
And how long was it, do you imagine,
that she was out of your sight?
I don't know, three hours? Four?
"Hours"?
[SOFTLY] "Hours"?
You saw no one approach her?
No, sir. Not that I recall.
And you are certain
that the Queen never left the palace
on any other occasion?
No, no one could take a horse without me knowing,
I would know.
You never heard her speak of the name Anne Askew?
Never. GUARD: What of the prisoner?
Your Majesty.
Be assured, Your Majesty, I will find evidence.
[GROANING AND GRUNTING] No!
Is she more vicious than all the others?
Is she more of a vicious whore than all the others?
We've been here before!
We've been here before. and we cut you down!
[OBJECTS CLATTER] We cut them down!
We cut them down! Didn't we?
Are you testing me? Are you testing me again?
[MUFFLED] She's the devil! She's the devil!
Well, I will cut her down!
I am God's deputy!
Do not test me!
MAN: Lord Seymour!
It's beautiful here, isn't it?
LORD EDWARD: Mm.
[MAN COUGHS]
Bishop Gardiner,
he believes
he will find proof Katherine is a radical.
What do you think?
I think that will be difficult.
Katherine is a passionate supporter of reform,
but I can't believe she would...
Her Ladies are loyal?
Well, she gives them no reason not to be.
They love her.
And what of her love for your brother?
Surely the Queen's fidelity is not in question?
The King would owe a lot to the man who could help him.
My brother Thomas is honorable.
Yours is a close family, isn't it?
They always said the Seymours ran together
like a clan of hyenas.
Come.
If you cannot be of use,
we'll send you away.
Your Majesty-- We'll send you away,
and your nephew will not see you.
Edward's our son.
He'll forget his mother's name.
Your name.
Help yourself.
[MEN CHEERING, APPLAUDING]
[HENRY EXCLAIMS AND LAUGHS]
HERBERT: Oh!
Lady Will! [MEN LAUGHING]
WILL: ♪ La, la, la ♪
HERBERT: So dainty, so delicate! So hairy!
[MEN CONTINUE LAUGHING] [WILL CONTINUES SINGING]
KATHERINE: Have mercy on me, God.
Wash me thoroughly from my wickedness
and cleanse me from my sin.
For I acknowledge my faults,
and my sin is for ever before me.
[LAUGHTER IN DISTANCE]
[SIGHS]
THOMAS: Mark, would you take care of the luggage, please?
And check the horse, I think it needs re-shoeing.
[WHISTLING]
[CHUCKLES] What are you doing in here?
Have you heard?
Henry's ready to sign her death warrant.
He's demanding evidence against her,
that she betrayed him in some way or...
or she's a radical.
Now, Tom. [GRUNTS]
You know how this goes.
Because likely this will be the end for us too.
[HORSE NEIGHING] [MAN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Unless...
Unless what?
He's promised...
What?
He's promised to pardon you
if you can provide love letters.
[SCOFFS] Evidence that she
betrayed him with you.
He'll kill me! No, no, no, no.
I've seen him, Tom. He's sick.
He won't last long, I've seen it.
Now, I can steer this for you and me.
But you have to give me something, Tom.
Please give me anything.
There isn't anything.
There are no letters.
Since she's been with Henry, she's kept me at arm's length!
Always!
Then we are dead.
But you just remember our nephew, young Edward.
Because when he becomes King...
we won't be there.
Ed!
Edward!
[♪♪]
What?
[THOMAS BREATHES HEAVILY]
[JEWELRY JINGLING]
There is something.
I knew it.
[SOFTLY] Oh, God.
It's a necklace.
[VOICE BREAKING] She gave it to Anne Askew.
[GASPS] This is perfect!
[OBJECTS CLATTERING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Where's my crown?
[GRUNTS]
WILL: ♪ There were three ravens ♪
♪ Sat in a tree ♪
♪ Down de-down Hay down, hay down ♪
♪ They were as black As they might be ♪
MEN: ♪ With a down... ♪
WILL: ♪ Then one of them said ♪
♪ To his mate ♪
♪ Where shall we Our breakfast take?
MEN: ♪ With a down ♪
♪ Derry, derry, derry Down, down ♪
♪ Down in yonder green... ♪
[HENRY COUGHING]
[ELLEN SHIVERING]
[HENRY GRUNTS]
[KATHERINE BREATHES HEAVILY]
[GASPS]
Henry?
How I've missed you.
No.
No more lies, Kit.
[EXHALES]
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[KATHERINE BREATHES HEAVILY]
No more lies.
[KATHERINE CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY]
[♪♪]
GARDINER: Your Majesty...
[WOMAN SHRIEKS] ...Katherine Parr,
Queen of England and Ireland. Henry!
Katherine Willoughby Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk.
Ellen Calthorpe, Countess of Sussex...
Get off me. ...I arrest you
in the name of the King.
Anything in the Queen's apartments
is now and has always been the property of the Crown.
We will escort you from these rooms,
and install you in other more appropriate lodgings
until we have discovered the full scope of your crimes.
It was my duty to arrest you,
but the final decision of what to do with you
remains with the King.
Don't!
[CELL DOOR CLOSES]
DENNY: It's cold. Let's get you up, Harry.
[HENRY GROANS] That's it.
It's done, Harry.
[MAN STUTTERS]
You know it had to be done.
Oh, Harry.
It's done.
Onwards, hmm?
[SNIFFLES]
[GROANS]
[DOG BARKING]
[WHINING]
[WHISTLING TUNE]
[DENNY CHUCKLING]
Lord, give me courage.
I don't have Anne's strength.
If I do the wrong thing, correct me...
[DOOR OPENS]
...but please don't send me to my enemy.
Shh.
You still think of me as your enemy, don't you?
But I warned you that God would provide the proof.
Cat and Ellen are innocent.
What you want is me.
Oh, Katherine.
What do I want?
You admit that...
you met with the heretic Anne Askew,
and that you financed sedition against the King.
You will let them go. All that remains now is...
I want your word.
...to recant the dangerous heresy
that you've allowed to seduce you.
Throw yourself at the King's feet
and beg for forgiveness.
He showed precious little mercy
to his other wives, but...
he's older now.
Wiser, perhaps.
You're asking me to speak falsely.
[SOFTLY] Oh, Kat.
But I believe just as Anne did
that scripture is the highest authority.
God will never have intended for anything
to stand between him and his people.
Not a bishop, not a priest, not even a king.
Then you will burn.
[HENRY BREATHES DEEPLY]
Why are you so solemn?
Sing. Sing for me.
LORD EDWARD: Edward, do what your father says.
Please,
I don't want to.
Sing!
Here.
[GRUNTS]
When I was your age I was singing, dancing...
LORD EDWARD [WHISPERS]: Sing for the King.
[HENRY GRUNTS]
Sing.
[SHOUTS] What's the matter with you?
He misses his mother.
Where is she?
Are you simple? Your mother's dead.
He means Queen Katherine.
[HENRY BREATHES HEAVILY]
She your mother too?
And yours?
ELIZABETH: She loves us all like a mother.
[HENRY BREATHES HEAVILY]
ELIZABETH: Unlike you.
Take me away.
You all disgust me.
Disgusting. Take me away.
Away!
I don't want to see them any more,
don't want to look at them.
LORD EDWARD: This way, quickly.
Quickly.
MARY: You must be careful how you speak.
Do you want our father to send you away?
As he did me?
As he did my mother? [SCOFFS]
Passed from prison castle to prison castle
as her limbs stiffened... [CHUCKLES]
Why are you laughing?
He let her rot... [CHUCKLES]
...Elise.
Do you remember the last time I saw my mother?
No? No. [SOFTLY] No.
[MARY SOBS SOFTLY] Nor do I.
[MUFFLED CAT AND ELLEN PRAYING]
Cat!
Ellen!
[MUFFLED PRAYING CONTINUES]
Cat!
[SOBBING]
[MUFFLED CAT AND ELLEN SCREAMING]
KATHERINE [DISTORTED]: Ellen? Cat?
Cat!
[RAIN PATTERING]
KATHERINE: Ellen!
Cat!
[MOANS]
[MUMBLING INDISTINCTLY]
[BREATHES WEAKLY]
That's it.
[BREATHING WEAKLY]
[PRAYING IN LATIN]
[BOTH PRAYING]
[BREATHING WEAKLY]
[CONTINUES PRAYING] [GARDINER CONTINUES PRAYING]
[IN ENGLISH] Henry?
[CONTINUES BREATHING WEAKLY]
[KATHERINE GRUNTING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Your bath, My Lady.
It's time.
[KATHERINE SHIVERING]
It's all right.
Come.
It's all right. Come, child.
It's cold.
Come. [KATHERINE SHIVERING]
Sit.
[♪♪]
[DOOR OPENS]
[♪♪]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY]
GUARD: Your Majesty, please follow me.
KING'S MAN: Your Majesty,
the King...
the King will only talk to you.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
What are we gonna do with you...
Kit?
That's why you brought me here...
to help you decide?
[HUSHED CHATTER]
[HENRY SIGHS]
We've missed you.
We missed you so much.
[HENRY BREATHES DEEPLY]
Oh.
Do you love me?
[STAGGERED BREATHING]
Do you love me, Kit?
I've loved my King.
[STRAINED] That's not what I asked.
[GASPS] I love you.
I love you.
Do you believe in hell?
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
I think we're both bound for it.
No.
No, Kit.
I'm ready.
[SOFTLY] No. Are you?
[WEAKLY] No, Kit.
No, Kit.
[STRUGGLED BREATHING]
[KATHERINE GROANS]
[HENRY CHOKING]
[KATHERINE GRUNTING]
[HENRY CHOKING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[HENRY GURGLES]
[GRUNTS LOUDLY]
[THROAT CRUSHES]
[GRUNTING RAGGEDLY]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
[SNIFFLES]
[SNIFFLING]
[EXHALES]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[SIGHS]
[♪♪]
[SQUAWKING]
ELIZABETH: It was in no one's interest
to question what had happened.
My father's dark heart was deemed to have stopped.
Overcome by poison from his ulcerating leg.
His death was kept secret for more than a week,
while the men around him
fought over the bones of his will.
His tomb fell to decay
and was lost for 100 years.
After my father's death,
Katherine published her most daring book of prayers.
It laid the foundations for a new faith.
Open and tolerant.
There is more than one way to scorch the earth.
She forged something in her flames...
and made way
for the tender shoots of hope to burst forth.
[♪♪]
♪ I lost my heart ♪
♪ Under the bridge ♪
♪ To that little girl ♪
♪ So much to me ♪
♪ And now I moan ♪
♪ And now I holler ♪
♪ She'll never know ♪
♪ Just what I found ♪
♪ That blue-eyed girl ♪ ♪ That blue-eyed girl ♪
♪ She said, "No more" ♪ ♪ She said, "No more" ♪
♪ And that blue-eyed girl ♪ ♪ That blue-eyed girl ♪
♪ Became blue-eyed whore ♪ ♪ Became blue-eyed whore ♪
♪ Down by the water ♪ ♪ Down by the water ♪
♪ I took her hand ♪ ♪ I took her hand ♪
♪ Just like my daughter ♪ ♪ Just like my daughter ♪
♪ Won't see her again ♪ ♪ See her again ♪
♪ Oh, help me, Jesus ♪
♪ Come through this storm ♪
♪ I had to lose her ♪
♪ To do her harm ♪
♪ I heard her holler ♪ ♪ I heard her holler ♪
♪ I heard her moan ♪ ♪ I heard her moan ♪
♪ My lovely daughter ♪ ♪ My lovely daughter ♪
♪ I took her home ♪ ♪ I took her home ♪
♪ Little fish, big fish Swimming in the water ♪
♪ Come back here, man Gimme my daughter ♪
♪ Little fish, big fish Swimming in the water ♪
♪ Come back here, man Gimme my daughter ♪
♪ Little fish, big fish Swimming in the water ♪
♪ Come back here, man Gimme my daughter ♪
♪ Little fish, big fish Swimming in the water ♪
♪ Come back here, man Gimme my daughter ♪
♪ Little fish, big fish Swimming in the water ♪
♪ Come back here, man Gimme my daughter ♪
♪ Little fish, big fish Swimming in the water ♪
♪ Come back here, man Gimme my daughter ♪
♪ Little fish, big fish Swimming in the water ♪
♪ Come back here, man Gimme my daughter ♪
♪ Little fish, big fish Swimming in the water ♪
♪ Come back here, man Gimme my daughter ♪
♪ Little fish, big fish Swimming in the water ♪
♪ Come back here, man Gimme my daughter ♪
♪ Little fish, big fish Swimming in the water ♪
♪ Come back here, man Gimme my daughter ♪
♪ Little fish, big fish Swimming... ♪