1 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Wolsey, you're out! 2 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:06,990 My Lords Norfolk and Suffolk. 3 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:08,870 Cardinal Wolsey. 4 00:02:08,920 --> 00:02:11,150 You're dismissed as Lord Chancellor, 5 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,070 by the King's orders. 6 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,220 You're to return to us the Great Seal. 7 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:19,840 You'll have supper? 8 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,030 You wanted all to rule yourself, didn't you? 9 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,240 and had the lords like schoolboys, creeping in here. 10 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,040 Well, I am here now... 11 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,630 .. and I will chew you up. 12 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,440 Bones, flesh and gristle. 13 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,670 You're to hand over the Great Seal. 14 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,870 CROMWELL WHISPERS 15 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:51,750 Ah! 16 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:56,830 Apparently, a written request from the King is necessary. 17 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:58,670 Do you have one? 18 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:00,390 No? 19 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,510 Oh, that's careless. 20 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,470 My lawyer, Thomas Cromwell. 21 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,190 You want us to ride back to Windsor for a piece of paper? 22 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,110 In this weather? 23 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,120 CROMWELL WHISPERS 24 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:20,230 I see, yes. 25 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:24,670 Actually, my lawyer tells me I can't give you the Seal, 26 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,310 written request or no. 27 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,470 He tells me that, properly speaking, 28 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:33,220 I should hand it only to the Master of the Rolls. 29 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:35,550 So... 30 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,340 you'd better come back with him. 31 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:42,950 I'm obliged, master. 32 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,120 WOLSEY SIGHS 33 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,580 Did you know that, or did you make it up? 34 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,550 They'll be back in a day. 35 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,910 Well, these days, 36 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,560 24 hours feels like a victory. 37 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,120 CLATTERING 38 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:30,120 GLASS SHATTERS 39 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:43,630 Do we have refreshments for our guests? 40 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:45,990 Served on what? They've taken the plate. 41 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:47,270 What's this? 42 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:48,430 It's borrowed. 43 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:50,710 They've confiscated my wardrobe 44 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,950 and you know how I feel the cold. 45 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,940 Thank you, Peter. 46 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,480 This is to be Anne Boleyn's, I think. 47 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,590 The King wants her to have a London residence. 48 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:05,790 This palace belongs to the Archdiocese of York. 49 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:07,870 When did Lady Anne become an Archbishop? 50 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,360 Now, now, Thomas. Everything I have, I have from the King. 51 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,350 If he wants to take York Place, fully furnished, 52 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,440 then I'm sure we'll find some other roof to shelter under. 53 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:30,190 He's expecting to find a wax figure of himself 54 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,710 with a pin stuck through it. 55 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:43,950 Come and see me. 56 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,670 Why, My Lord? 57 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,310 When? 58 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,100 When you've mended your manners. 59 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,080 What it is, to serve a prince. 60 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,800 The gentlest, wisest prince in Christendom. 61 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:16,480 I'll not hear a word against Henry from any man. 62 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,390 Do you think it's something about the English? 63 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,550 They cannot see a great man set up, but they have to pull him down? 64 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,740 It's not the English. 65 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,020 It's just people. 66 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,080 COURT MUSIC PLAYS 67 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,910 'We brought the Lady Anne back from France, 68 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,160 'to marry into Ireland. 69 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:13,320 'Now I hear she danced at the court masque with young Harry Percy. 70 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,470 'Connived in dark corners with him. 71 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,830 'And I won't have that.' 72 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,710 Your grace can't think that I'm party to... 73 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:28,990 Oh, Sir Thomas Boleyn. 74 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,870 You'd be amazed at what I can think. 75 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,390 Anne knows things can't proceed with young Harry Percy. 76 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,190 ~ But he believes he's free to choose his own wife. ~ Free? 77 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,510 Choose his own...? 78 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:43,830 He's not some ploughboy! 79 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:49,180 He's the man who'll have to hold the north for us, some day. 80 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,830 The Percy family comprise the noblest in the land, 81 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:55,910 whereas the Boleyns were once in... 82 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,300 What? Trade, weren't you? 83 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:02,110 Who is that? 84 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:03,830 Who's that? 85 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:07,150 Oh, it's Stephen Gardiner, my Secretary. 86 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:08,870 Send him out. 87 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:14,000 Stephen. 88 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:22,990 And who is that? 89 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,380 Never mind who that is. He's nobody. 90 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:35,100 The problem is... 91 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:37,190 .. my daughter and Harry Percy, 92 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,390 I think they may have gone a little far in the matter. 93 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,110 It seems they've pledged themselves before witnesses... 94 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,950 Well, you can forget all talk of pledges and witnesses. 95 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,230 I'll get his father down from the borders 96 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,470 and if the prodigal defies his father, 97 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,630 he'll be tossed out of his heirdom on his prodigal snout. 98 00:08:55,680 --> 00:09:00,070 Now, get your daughter married into Ireland, 99 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,920 before her intended hears any rumours of spoilt goods. 100 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:08,550 Finished, My Lord Cardinal? 101 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:11,910 Finished. 102 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,270 Butcher's boy! 103 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:21,060 Butcher's dog! 104 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,120 WOLSEY CHUCKLES 105 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:27,190 WOLSEY WHISTLES 106 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:28,980 Come out, dog. 107 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,190 He's talking to you. 108 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,680 So, Master Cromwell. 109 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:19,280 William Popely tells me I might find a use for you. 110 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:23,510 A man of many talents, he says. 111 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,030 A remarkable memory? 112 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:29,190 There's a technique, My Lord. 113 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,380 I learnt it in Italy. 114 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:33,870 How long were you abroad? 115 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:35,950 12 years. 116 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:36,990 Where are you from? 117 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,510 Putney. Left when I was a boy. 118 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:40,710 Your father? 119 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:42,070 Blacksmith. 120 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,870 Ah, at last! 121 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:47,990 A man born in a more lowly state than myself. 122 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:49,710 WOLSEY LAUGHS 123 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:56,360 DOG BARKS 124 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:00,480 Hey... 125 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:04,910 ~ Bella! ~ Eaten? 126 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,030 ~ Mm-hmm. ~ Wine? 127 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:08,480 Why not? 128 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,860 I'm going to work for him - the Cardinal. 129 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:36,630 You know what they say in Italy? 130 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:39,680 "Il principe bisogna sceglierlo." 131 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,280 ~ "You have to pick your prince." ~ Doing what? 132 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:46,830 Whatever he wants. 133 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:48,680 We have enough. 134 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:54,200 I don't want to spend my life dealing in conveyances, Liz. 135 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:00,100 Whether this man's fence should be here or here... 136 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:06,660 You know what you're doing, I suppose. 137 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:10,360 At least, you always look as if you do. 138 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,390 Yeah, I do, don't I? 139 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:17,550 You're sweeter to look at than the Cardinal. 140 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,350 That's the smallest compliment a woman ever received. 141 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,340 CROMWELL CHUCKLES 142 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,720 What does our son say? 143 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,470 He... hopes you are well, hopes I am well, 144 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:42,830 hopes his lovely little sisters Anne and Grace are well. 145 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:43,950 He is well. 146 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,790 "And now no more, for lack of time, your dutiful son, Gregory." 147 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:49,640 Terrible Latin. 148 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:54,120 Anne's the better scholar. 149 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:56,990 Anne, go and get your breakfast. 150 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:59,390 After I've Latin, I'd like to learn Greek. 151 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,980 Gregory has hardly any Greek. 152 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:04,740 CROMWELL CHUCKLES 153 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,560 What will London be like when that one's Lord Mayor? 154 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,070 From Germany. 155 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:33,760 It came packaged as something else. I almost sent the boy away. 156 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:40,670 ~ If you want to know... ~ I don't want to know. 157 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,720 .. it's Tyndale's New Testament, Liz. 158 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:48,030 You should read it for yourself. 159 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,950 It's in English - that's the point. 160 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,670 Not Latin. 161 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:54,920 How can that be heresy? 162 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,830 Read it and you'll see how you're misled. 163 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:00,990 No mention of nuns, monks, relics... 164 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:02,590 No mention of Popes. 165 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:04,510 My prayer book's good reading for me. 166 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:06,360 CROMWELL LAUGHS 167 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:09,950 Your prayer book? 168 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,200 Grace, look at this. 169 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:21,710 Rafe? 170 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:23,830 Richard? 171 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:25,360 Oh... 172 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,270 ~ Late. ~ Me, or your good self? 173 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:56,510 You - he's waiting. 174 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:58,390 The boatmen were drunk. 175 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:00,550 I'm surprised you didn't take an oar yourself. 176 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,870 You grew up at the river, didn't you? 177 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:04,720 God bless you. 178 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:08,040 Thanks! 179 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:42,110 Oh, the King sent for me this morning - 180 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:44,230 exceptionally early. 181 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:47,350 What did he want? 182 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:48,670 Pity. 183 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,190 A son. 184 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:53,950 The King wants a son. 185 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,870 18 years of marriage, with no heir. 186 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:02,640 He's decided some sin must have been committed, to cause this curse. 187 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:13,230 Oh, God... 188 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:15,620 Where did you learn this? 189 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,340 At the docks, a little after I left home. 190 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:22,630 Earned a living from it, for a while. 191 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,830 Everyone thought they could beat a child. 192 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,070 What else should I know about you, 193 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,060 monstrous servant? 194 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,590 Once, in Italy, I held a snake for a bet. 195 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:37,030 Was it poisonous? 196 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,580 We didn't know - that was the point of the bet. 197 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:43,070 The sin? 198 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,160 Oh, yes, the sin. 199 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:51,830 I remember when they brought the Queen over from Spain 200 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,750 to marry Henry's brother, Prince Arthur. 201 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:56,430 16... 202 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:58,820 barely a word of English. 203 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,000 God, when she danced... 204 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:06,220 .. her red hair slid over her shoulder... 205 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,870 God forgive you? 206 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,080 God forgive us all. 207 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:17,550 Then Arthur dies, 208 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:21,430 Henry decides he'll have his brother's widow for himself. 209 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,270 Katherine declares that she's still a virgin, 210 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,320 poor Arthur never having touched her. 211 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:29,950 Rome issues the dispensation 212 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,470 and any doubts anyone has... 213 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:37,310 But now? 214 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:40,860 Well, now, the Queen can't give the King a son. 215 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:43,280 So, now... 216 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:48,700 .. the Queen must not have been a virgin, after all. 217 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:53,710 Henry says that he's lived all these years in an unlawful marriage. 218 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:55,150 Hence the sin. 219 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,920 So it's back to Rome, for an annulment. 220 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,270 She's blaming me, of course - Katherine. 221 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,990 She can't blame the king, so it's all my doing. 222 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,440 No matter that I've begged him not to proceed. 223 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:14,470 When she defeated the Scots, I heard she wanted to send 224 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,590 the Scottish King's head in a bag to Henry, 225 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:19,510 to cheer him up. 226 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:23,550 Well, she's a fighter. 227 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:24,840 Ha! 228 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,630 Perhaps you should teach me your three-card trick, hmm? 229 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,310 In case we both end up on the streets! 230 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:33,430 WOLSEY LAUGHS 231 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,150 THUNDER ROLLS 232 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:56,920 THUNDER RUMBLES 233 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,600 HE GROANS 234 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:26,070 Unpack everything. Masters, I want kindling, dry kindling. 235 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:29,520 Get the fires lit. Stephen, find the kitchen. 236 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,830 Actually, see him in first. I need the bedding. 237 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,870 What... Who is that? Michael? Down, off. The horses, later. 238 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,920 We want the Cardinal in bed and warm. 239 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,400 Come on, come on, we're not done yet! 240 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,310 I asked if they had nutmeg or saffron - 241 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:52,760 they looked at me as if I was speaking Greek. 242 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,670 I'll have to find a local supplier. 243 00:19:57,720 --> 00:19:59,790 I shall pray for it. 244 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:09,990 Currently, I pray for the King and all his counsellors. 245 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:13,140 I pray for Queen Katherine and Lady Anne. 246 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,480 I pray for Thomas More, who hates me so. 247 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,910 I pray for a better harvest 248 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,560 and that the rains might stop. 249 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:25,790 I pray for everyone and everything. 250 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,590 It's only when I say to the Lord... 251 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,990 "Now, about Thomas Cromwell..." 252 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:34,710 .. does God say to me, 253 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:38,350 "Wolsey, don't you know when to give up?" 254 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,150 THEY LAUGH 255 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,040 WOLSEY COUGHS 256 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,790 Let me... Let me bless you. 257 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,790 This is what they've waited for - 258 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,720 Suffolk, Norfolk, Boleyn. 259 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,560 They won't rest until they have my head. 260 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,990 You should leave me, Thomas. 261 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:15,790 Gardiner has. 262 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:18,960 Gardiner would. 263 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:21,840 Tom? 264 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:26,060 Safe journey home. 265 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,110 I'm going to leave. 266 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,270 He says he'll send me to the Lady Anne. 267 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,350 I think she'll like me well enough, don't you? 268 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,350 SNIGGERING 269 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,750 What's the point of staying here? 270 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,310 They're going to be rid of the old man. 271 00:21:57,360 --> 00:21:58,870 It serves him right. 272 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:00,190 And Cromwell? 273 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,110 The lawyer? He'll go down with him. 274 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,030 Well... I say, "lawyer" - 275 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:07,830 who knows what he is? 276 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:09,950 He comes from nothing. 277 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:11,590 The old man brings him in 278 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:15,150 and in a few years, it's as if he's the one in charge... 279 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,500 .. as if he has some hold over the Cardinal. 280 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,400 I heard he killed a man abroad and never made confession. 281 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:26,670 But that kind... 282 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,870 they always weep when they see the hangman. 283 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:30,640 CHUCKLING 284 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,600 VOICES BELOW 285 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:40,760 IN ITALIAN: 286 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,310 I did, but... 287 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,520 .. with things the way they are with Wolsey, I thought... 288 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:54,430 Thomas More is here. 289 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,430 Well, I expect you invited him too. 290 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,040 MURMUR OF CONVERSATION 291 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:11,780 SNAPS HIS FINGERS 292 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,620 CONVERSATION STOPS 293 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,480 ~ Gracia. ~ Prego. 294 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,190 Did you want to talk about me, Master More? 295 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,280 You can speak while I'm here, I have a thick skin. 296 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,110 No-one was talking of you. 297 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,360 Of the Cardinal, then? 298 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:56,070 Thomas, this is Monsieur Chapuys, 299 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:58,310 the Emperor's new ambassador here in London. 300 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:01,760 Monsieur Chapuys, my friend, Thomas Cromwell. 301 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:03,580 Enchanted. 302 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,840 I hardly know where I come from, myself. 303 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,710 If you want to speak half-secretly, 304 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,680 try Greek, Monsieur Chapuys. 305 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:37,040 My friend, you are looking at your herring as if you hate it. 306 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,990 ~ There's nothing wrong with the herring. ~ Ah. 307 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,110 But of Cardinal Wolsey, I'll say only this - 308 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,070 he has brought his fall on himself. 309 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:49,590 He's drawn all to himself - land, money and titles. 310 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,590 He's always had a greed for ruling over other men. 311 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,030 The Cardinal's a public man. 312 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:55,950 Would you have him shrink from a public role? 313 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,310 Well, I think it's a little late 314 00:24:57,360 --> 00:24:59,630 to read the Cardinal a lesson in humility. 315 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,710 His real friends have read it long ago and been ignored. 316 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,990 And you count yourself a real friend, do you? 317 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,910 I'll tell him - and by the blood of Christ, Lord Chancellor, 318 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,350 he'll find it a consolation as he sits in exile 319 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,230 and wonders why you slander him to the King. 320 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,270 ~ Gentlemen... ~ No, let's have this straight. 321 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,230 Thomas here says, "I'd spend my life in the church, if I had a choice. 322 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,550 "I'm devoted to things of the spirit. 323 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,390 "I care nothing for wealth. 324 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,150 "The world's esteem is nothing to me." 325 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:25,790 So how is it I come back to London 326 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,040 and find you've become Lord Chancellor? 327 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,870 Lord Chancellor. 328 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,390 What's that? 329 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,800 A fucking accident? 330 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,870 You're no friend to the church, Thomas. 331 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:49,630 You're a friend to one priest only - 332 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,780 and he's the most corrupt in Christendom. 333 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,120 You must give me the recipe for this sauce. 334 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,870 Thomas More is my old friend. 335 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,860 You shouldn't come here to bait him. 336 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,960 Am I not your friend too, Bonvisi? 337 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,220 You know you are. 338 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,990 And that's why I give you this advice. 339 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,190 The Cardinal is finished. 340 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:27,790 He'll go. 341 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,430 And then you will be without a master to protect you. 342 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,220 Leave him now. 343 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,960 Do you think it's true? 344 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,420 The mistake was being too proud? 345 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,310 I remember when he used to say, 346 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:54,830 "The King will do such and such." 347 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,180 And then it was, "WE will do such-and-such." 348 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,710 Now, it's "This is what I will do." 349 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,440 No, no. 350 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,980 The mistake was making an enemy of Anne Boleyn. 351 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,900 But then, who knew how far she'd rise? 352 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,670 Thomas! 353 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,150 Of course, master. News from Rome. 354 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,990 The Emperor's troops have run wild in the city. 355 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:31,510 They're killing, raping... 356 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,230 Thomas More says they're roasting babies on spits. 357 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,790 Soldiers don't have time to eat babies. They're too busy stealing. 358 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,110 If the Emperor Charles had paid them once in a while... 359 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,590 They've taken the Pope prisoner. 360 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,550 What? 361 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,870 The Emperor is the Queen's nephew. 362 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,990 If he has the Pope, then the King's divorce petition is... 363 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:51,440 Yeah... 364 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:00,990 In every emergency, 365 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:05,360 look to see if there's some advantage for your prince, Thomas. 366 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:08,880 Ah, cherries. 367 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,870 How did I do that, I wonder? 368 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,510 Here - take. 369 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,190 Now, in this current emergency, 370 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:26,430 it will be to me that Pope Clement looks to... 371 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,310 well, keep Christendom together. 372 00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:33,070 So, suppose if I were to travel to France 373 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:36,110 and gather together the cardinals in a council, you know, 374 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,030 to conduct the business of the church in the Pope's absence? 375 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,510 Now, if this business... 376 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,910 happened to include the King's private matter... 377 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,510 might we not rule on it? 378 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,190 And voila, 379 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,440 the King of England will be a bachelor. 380 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:58,440 What? 381 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,430 Not more gossip from the silk merchants? 382 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,950 Rumour is the King has moved from Mary Boleyn 383 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,470 to her flat-chested sister. 384 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,350 Anne? 385 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,190 She hasn't forgiven you for that business with Harry Percy. 386 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,710 ~ Well... ~ Cavendish tells me she's sworn vengeance on you. 387 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,070 Poor chit of a girl. 388 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,270 The King will have her in his bed by summer. 389 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:24,020 By autumn, he'll tire of her and pension her off. 390 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,480 What are you doing? 391 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:40,910 For Gregory. 392 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,960 It's the same design Queen Katherine uses for the King's shirts. 393 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,990 Well, if I were her, 394 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:54,590 I'd leave the needle in. 395 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,580 I know you would. 396 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,640 CHILDREN GIGGLE 397 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,710 Your sister was here today. 398 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,760 She asked again if you'd go and see him? 399 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,600 She said you'd hardly know him now. He's stopped drinking, settled down. 400 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,500 CROMWELL CHUCKLES 401 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,150 Grace, sweetheart, 402 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,870 will you keep away from the fire with those, eh? 403 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,260 They're your angel wings. 404 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,590 They're just supposed to be for Christmas. 405 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:37,830 I know. 406 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,080 All right, off you go. 407 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,110 Your own father, Thomas - 408 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,900 and he's never seen the children. 409 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,380 Well, let's keep it that way. 410 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,390 Can I choose who I want to marry? 411 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:10,710 What? 412 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,500 Can I choose who I want to marry? 413 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,110 Within reason. 414 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,790 Then I choose Rafe. 415 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,830 ~ You... ~ CROMWELL CHUCKLES 416 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,950 Grace says I can't marry him because he's my cousin. 417 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,030 Well, Richard's your cousin, not Rafe. 418 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,510 Rafe is my ward. 419 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,550 That means Rafe's father asked me to take him in 420 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,990 and bring him up in business. Do you understand? 421 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,180 So I can choose Rafe? 422 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,720 If he'll wait for you. 423 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:47,150 Rafe? 424 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,640 She could do worse. 425 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,600 FOOTSTEPS 426 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,580 ~ I'm too warm. ~ Oh. 427 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,030 Go back to bed, Grace, sweetheart. 428 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,630 Are you going to wear those angel wings all night? 429 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,880 Till I say my prayers. 430 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,080 HE CHUCKLES 431 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,040 Tell me when you're going. 432 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,600 Liz, I'm not going. 433 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,320 I'm not going to France with Wolsey, remember? 434 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,470 Go back to bed, Liz. 435 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,630 ~ Hello, Francis. ~ Sir. 436 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,310 Anyone asks for me, I'm not here. 437 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,500 Yes, Master Cromwell. 438 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:52,430 The words of the scripture are as honey to me. 439 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,080 I am drunk on the word of God. 440 00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:58,950 I've read Tyndale's gospel. 441 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,310 Masses, fasting, vigils, 442 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:03,790 pardons out of purgatory... 443 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,110 all useless. 444 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,270 This is revealed to me. 445 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,110 For Christ's sake, man, do you think you can crawl out of your hole 446 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,900 because Cardinal Wolsey is away? 447 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,070 All that means is that Gardiner and More 448 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,430 have a free hand to pursue us, 449 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,110 to brand us heretics. 450 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:23,550 Wolsey protects us. 451 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,000 Wolsey? 452 00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:27,750 Wolsey burns bibles. 453 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,000 More will burn men. 454 00:34:31,720 --> 00:34:33,550 I met with Tyndale in Germany... 455 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,600 Oh, I... 456 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,950 I don't want to know where Tyndale is. 457 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,670 Gentlemen... 458 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,160 I'm going to go to Rome and see His Holiness. 459 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,600 I know I can bring him over to our way of thinking. 460 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,080 CHURCH BELL RINGS 461 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,160 What is it? 462 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:09,800 Say it. 463 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,180 She... 464 00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:00,320 She said she was tired this morning, after you left. 465 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,630 She wouldn't eat anything, then... 466 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,750 she started shaking. 467 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,100 We called for the priest around two. 468 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,190 She said she held a snake in Italy, 469 00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:20,140 but the priest said that was just the fever talking. 470 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,580 He couldn't wait to get away. 471 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:33,460 Did she, er... 472 00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:37,120 Did she leave any message? 473 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:40,480 For me? 474 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,940 Just kept saying she was thirsty. 475 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,660 URGENT FOOTSTEPS APPROACH 476 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,080 It's the girls. 477 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:56,510 Come on, come on! 478 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,500 Come on, come on! 479 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,990 Stay with me. Come on, come on, wake up, darling. 480 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,870 Come on, come on. Can you hear me, darling? 481 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,670 Can you hear me? Come on. 482 00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:08,910 Come on, please, please... 483 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:10,350 Wake up, open your eyes. 484 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,430 Open your eyes, please, darling. 485 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,190 Please, come on... 486 00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:17,310 Come on, come on, come on, please... 487 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:21,350 Please, open your eyes, darling, come on, come on... 488 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,470 Don't, don't. 489 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,320 ~ Please, come on... ~ No. ~ Please... 490 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,480 Mercy, mercy, mercy... 491 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:31,980 Don't. 492 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,160 WOMEN SOB 493 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,870 (God bless you.) 494 00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:01,790 (God bless you.) 495 00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:17,520 It's all right. 496 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,800 It's all right. 497 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,320 Go. Go now. 498 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,990 Everybody said it was back. 499 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:06,520 This... 500 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,540 .. sweating sickness. 501 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,640 I should have sent them to the country. 502 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,440 Liz wouldn't have let them go. 503 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:24,180 Anne cried every time you were away. 504 00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:27,080 Did she? 505 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:30,590 Anne did? 506 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:37,040 John and I can stay with you for a while. 507 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,800 Look after the household, until you're... 508 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,480 She wanted to learn Greek. 509 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,320 SHE SOBS 510 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,240 Hey... 511 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,960 HAMMERING 512 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,360 Oh! Ugh! 513 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:14,540 Where've you been? 514 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,880 You look like a foreigner. 515 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,510 I am a foreigner. 516 00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:21,950 Where'd you go? 517 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,800 Here and there. 518 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,990 Working for Wolsey now, I hear. 519 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,110 I'm a lawyer. 520 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:33,990 Lawyer? 521 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:36,230 You were always a talker. 522 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,220 Slap in the mouth couldn't cure you. 523 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,710 God knows you tried. 524 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:43,550 Law? 525 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,630 If it wasn't for the law, I'd be a lord. 526 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,590 Cromwells had money. 527 00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,190 We had estates. 528 00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:52,070 Thieved off us - 529 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:53,720 by lawyers. 530 00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:58,790 Suppose you don't admit to me, now, do you? 531 00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,440 Suppose you hoped I'd be dead. 532 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,420 Why are you here? 533 00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,940 My wife told me I should come see you. 534 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,070 Well, now you have. 535 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:20,390 Yeah. 536 00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:48,320 What is it? 537 00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,320 Master, I have a question to put to you. 538 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,070 My father is dead and you... 539 00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,040 You are my father now. 540 00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:05,620 So, shall I change my name to yours? 541 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:11,910 Your father? 542 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:17,150 Every day I light a candle for him. 543 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,840 Does that comfort you? 544 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:26,790 I don't know. 545 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,510 Well, this... 546 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:38,780 This comforts me. 547 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,540 Richard Cromwell. 548 00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,300 Thank you. 549 00:43:49,720 --> 00:43:52,590 ~ If... ~ Go, go on, get out. Get out. 550 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:09,870 Ugh! 551 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,150 HE HEAVES 552 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,280 Agh! Oh! 553 00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:17,950 Now, get up! 554 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:19,510 Get up! 555 00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:23,390 Come on, boy! Let me see you stand on your feet! 556 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,110 Get up! 557 00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:26,910 ~ Agh! ~ Get up! 558 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,480 Get...up! 559 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:35,110 You'll hear the King's reception of me was cool. 560 00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,360 It's only partly true. 561 00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,230 Still, my mission could not be described 562 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,430 as an over-whelming success. 563 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:43,990 The cardinals wouldn't meet me. 564 00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:46,790 They said it was too hot to travel south. 565 00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:48,800 So... what next? 566 00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,270 A new plan. A Legatine Court. 567 00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:57,910 We ask the Pope to send his envoy to act in his name 568 00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,550 and rule here in England, 569 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,680 on the validity of the King's marriage to Katherine. 570 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:06,320 Hm? Huh? 571 00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:12,310 Er... 572 00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,960 When you were in France... 573 00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,880 .. my wife and daughters died. 574 00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:24,740 Oh, Tom... 575 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,040 Whom the Lord loveth... 576 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:17,670 Master Cromwell? 577 00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,720 Thomas Cromwell, reading a prayer book? 578 00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,480 Now I know how bad things are. 579 00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:37,620 How is he? 580 00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:40,790 He asks after you... 581 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,200 .. the minute you've gone. 582 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,140 Worries you'll fall in the road. 583 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:57,320 Have you an inventory for York Place, George? 584 00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:00,000 What? 585 00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:03,780 York Place. I'll take it to her. 586 00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:06,750 To the Lady Anne? 587 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:08,200 Mm-hmm. 588 00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,840 COURT MUSIC PLAYS 589 00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:08,030 Well, Mark? 590 00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,220 You're hard at study. 591 00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:12,510 How are you? 592 00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:17,110 It must feel strange, being back at York Place - 593 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,350 with the world so altered? 594 00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:20,680 No. 595 00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,710 You don't miss My Lord Cardinal? 596 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:25,900 No. 597 00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,910 Well, you might not think of us, Mark, but... 598 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:32,830 we think of you. 599 00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:37,590 Pourquoi! Don't let him out! 600 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,060 Lady Anne. 601 00:49:06,240 --> 00:49:08,180 Vous etes gentil. 602 00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:12,230 Allors... 603 00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:14,590 Master... 604 00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:16,040 Cremuel? 605 00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,720 You have your inventories? 606 00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:43,510 Thank you for this. 607 00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,910 Since My Lord Cardinal's reduction, 608 00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:49,160 have you seen much progress in your cause? 609 00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:55,000 He's the only man in England who can obtain for you what you need. 610 00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:05,540 Very well. 611 00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:08,230 Make his case. You have five minutes. 612 00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:11,280 Otherwise, I can see you're really busy. 613 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,590 The Cardinal's the only man who can deliver an annulment from the Pope. 614 00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:24,110 He's the only man who can deliver the King's conscience - 615 00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:25,790 and deliver it clean. 616 00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:27,470 If the King wants it - 617 00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:29,470 and according to you, the Cardinal, 618 00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:32,110 formerly the chief subject of the kingdom, wants it... 619 00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,870 Then I must say, Master Cremuel - 620 00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,310 it's all taking a marvellous long while to come to pass. 621 00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:40,160 And she's not getting any younger. 622 00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:44,110 No-one is more distressed than the Cardinal 623 00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,070 that the King cannot have his heart's desire, 624 00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:48,230 which is ever the Cardinal's desire too. 625 00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,150 He knows that all the King's subjects 626 00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:54,830 ~ repose their hopes in you, for an heir to the throne... ~ Very nice. 627 00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,280 Very nice, Master Cremuel. 628 00:50:58,080 --> 00:50:59,820 But try again. 629 00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:02,830 One thing. 630 00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,630 One simple thing we asked of the Cardinal - 631 00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:07,710 ~ and he would not. ~ You know it wasn't simple. 632 00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,630 Well, perhaps I am a simple person. 633 00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:12,900 Do you feel I am? 634 00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:16,240 You may be. I hardly know you. 635 00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:26,920 You may go. 636 00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:51,350 Lady Mary. 637 00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:54,070 God, I thought she would slap you. 638 00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:55,870 My sister likes a good fight. 639 00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:57,070 Come again. 640 00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:58,390 I can't wait! 641 00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:00,270 Your sister can, I think. 642 00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,720 Oh, she knows how to wait. 643 00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:04,940 So I hear. 644 00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:08,910 They say she and the King... 645 00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:11,430 .. still haven't. It's true. 646 00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,670 She lets him pull down her shift and kiss her breasts. 647 00:52:16,720 --> 00:52:19,320 Good man, if he can find them. 648 00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:22,950 Lady Mary, Lady Anne wants you. 649 00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:24,940 Oh, by the saints! 650 00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,760 I need a seat in Parliament again. 651 00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:48,240 Why? 652 00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:52,390 Because if I'm not there to speak for the Cardinal, 653 00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:54,380 they'll kill him. 654 00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,590 Cromwell, I am content you are a burgess in the Parliament. 655 00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:40,750 My Lord. 656 00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:44,200 I spoke to the King for you and he is also content. 657 00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:48,310 You will take his instructions in the Commons - and mine. 658 00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,150 Will they be the same, My Lord? 659 00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:52,720 God damn it, Cromwell... 660 00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,870 Why are you such a... 661 00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:58,320 person? 662 00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:02,460 It's not as if you can afford to be. 663 00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,160 Smile away! 664 00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,310 The King will grant you an audience, 665 00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:14,750 but he is preparing a quarrel against you, master. 666 00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,200 Oh, yes! 667 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,630 He has a long memory and well remembers 668 00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:23,470 when you were a burgess in the Parliament before this - 669 00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:26,030 and how you spoke against his war. 670 00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:28,750 I hope he doesn't think still of invading France. 671 00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:31,900 God damn you! What Englishman doesn't? 672 00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:34,260 We own France! 673 00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,160 We have a right to take back our own! 674 00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:49,790 Mind you... 675 00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:51,550 You're right. 676 00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:53,710 We can't win. 677 00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:56,230 But we have to fight anyway. 678 00:54:56,720 --> 00:54:58,750 That was what was wrong with Wolsey - 679 00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:01,270 always at the treaty table. 680 00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,550 How can a butcher's son understand... 681 00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:07,140 La gloire? 682 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:10,310 Are you a butcher's son? 683 00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:12,230 Blacksmith's. 684 00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:14,030 Are you really? 685 00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:15,190 Shoe a horse? 686 00:55:15,240 --> 00:55:18,110 If I were put to it - I was a soldier, myself. 687 00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:19,630 Were you? 688 00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:22,270 Were you? 689 00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:28,160 Not with any English army, I'll be bound. 690 00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:34,510 I knew there was something about you that I didn't like, 691 00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,430 but I couldn't put my finger on it. 692 00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:39,990 Where were you? 693 00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:41,350 Garigliano. 694 00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:42,390 With? 695 00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,390 ~ The French. ~ Huh! 696 00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:46,910 ~ Wrong side, lad. ~ I noticed. 697 00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:49,030 Longbow-man? 698 00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:51,790 Now and then. Bit on the short side. 699 00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:53,470 Me too. 700 00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:55,830 The King can draw a bow. 701 00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:57,310 Very nice. 702 00:55:57,360 --> 00:55:59,030 Got the arm. 703 00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:06,950 My Lord, 704 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:10,270 Esher is not suitable for My Lord Cardinal. 705 00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:14,120 He's willing to travel to his palace at Winchester. 706 00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,230 Oh, I bet he is. 707 00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:18,310 Nice and close to the King! 708 00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:20,870 Don't take us for fools. 709 00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,230 Tell your cardinal that he had his last chance, with his court, 710 00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,750 here in this very building! 711 00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:29,830 Tell him to go north. 712 00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:31,350 He's not ready to go north. 713 00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:33,340 I want him north. 714 00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,960 Tell him, Norfolk wants him on the road and away from here... 715 00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:41,500 .. and tell him... 716 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:44,710 .. if he doesn't, 717 00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:46,950 I'll come to him 718 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:49,110 and I'll tear him with my teeth. 719 00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,990 My Lord, may I substitute the word "bite" for "tear"? 720 00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:54,440 Substitute nothing, you... 721 00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:58,140 .. you nobody. 722 00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:18,190 For 20 years, 723 00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:20,710 I have been your true wife. 724 00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,680 And by me, you have had many children... 725 00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:28,510 .. although it pleased God to call them from this world - 726 00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:31,030 which was no fault of mine. 727 00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:34,630 And when you had me first - 728 00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,910 as God is my witness, I was a true maid, 729 00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:40,100 without touch of man. 730 00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:44,230 MURMURING 731 00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:47,510 And whether this is true or no, 732 00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:49,900 I put to your conscience. 733 00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:52,600 MURMURING 734 00:57:56,400 --> 00:58:00,150 On Prince Arthur's wedding night, myself and the Earl of Oxford 735 00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:02,870 took the prince to Queen Katherine's chambers 736 00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:06,270 and we were there when he climbed into bed beside her. 737 00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,950 Next morning, he comes out again, says he's thirsty 738 00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:12,200 and asks for some ale, because, he said... 739 00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:14,870 "Last night I was in Spain!" 740 00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,550 The Queen was Spanish, you see? 741 00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:36,590 It would be a poor sort of bridegroom 742 00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:38,510 who'd come out in the morning and say, 743 00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:41,360 "Good day, masters. Nothing done!" 744 00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:45,950 He was 15, he was boasting. 745 00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:49,550 I believe Katherine. 746 00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:52,200 Believe nobody. 747 00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:57,950 You're late, Stephen. They're almost done for the day. 748 00:58:58,000 --> 00:58:59,940 It doesn't matter. 749 00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:02,880 Why doesn't it matter? 750 00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:06,190 News from one of my men in Rome. 751 00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:10,740 Pope Clement is preparing to sign a treaty with the Emperor. 752 00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:12,830 Oh... 753 00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:15,350 Your boy doesn't understand. 754 00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,790 The Emperor won't take kindly to the Pope helping 755 00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:21,840 to have his aunt cast off the throne. 756 00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:26,030 I don't think your papal envoy in there 757 00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:29,430 is likely to give the King what he wants, do you? 758 00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:31,510 And when he doesn't, 759 00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:33,830 Wolsey will be finished. 760 00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:38,100 And then I'll feel sorry for you. 761 00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:40,380 Except you won't. 762 00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:43,600 Except I won't. 763 01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:26,540 Cromwell? How's your fat priest? 764 01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:41,870 How is...? 765 01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:45,820 He cannot be well till he has Your Majesty's favour. 766 01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,750 The list of charges against him grows every day. 767 01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:51,750 Saving Your Majesty, there's an answer to each one 768 01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:54,740 and given a hearing, we'd make them. 769 01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:57,710 Not today. 770 01:00:57,760 --> 01:00:59,390 Suffolk wants to go hunting. 771 01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:03,390 We usually say, we gentlemen, that the hunt prepares us for war. 772 01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:05,830 Which brings us to a sticky point, Master Cromwell. 773 01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:07,750 It does, indeed. 774 01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:16,670 You said, in Parliament, in a speech, some six years ago, 775 01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:18,190 that I could not afford a war. 776 01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:20,030 Wars are not affordable things. 777 01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:21,990 When I went into France, 778 01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:25,070 I captured the town of Therouanne, which you called... 779 01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:28,110 ~ A dog-hole, Majesty. ~ How could you say so? 780 01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:29,710 Er... I've been there. 781 01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:32,630 So have I - at the head of an army! 782 01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:36,750 You told me I could not lead my own troops! 783 01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:38,950 You told me if I was taken prisoner, 784 01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:41,870 the ransom would bankrupt the country! So, what do you want? 785 01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:44,630 You want a king to huddle indoors, like a sick girl? 786 01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:47,780 That would be ideal, for fiscal purposes. 787 01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:58,920 A strong man acts within that which constrains him. 788 01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:02,590 What constrains me? 789 01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:04,550 Distance. 790 01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:07,550 When Your Majesty's ancestors fought in France, 791 01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:09,510 they held whole provinces. 792 01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:12,030 From there, they could supply, they could provision. 793 01:02:12,080 --> 01:02:13,790 Now we have only Calais, 794 01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:17,040 how can we support an army in the interior? 795 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:19,310 So next time we go into France, 796 01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:20,630 we'll need a sea coast. 797 01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:23,350 Of course - Normandy, Brittany. 798 01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:29,430 Master Cromwell, 799 01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:31,680 your reputation is bad. 800 01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:38,760 You don't defend yourself? 801 01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:42,880 Your Majesty can form your own opinions. 802 01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:45,040 I can. 803 01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:48,560 I will. 804 01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:21,520 Are we to paint out the Cardinal's coat of arms? 805 01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:23,200 No. 806 01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:26,160 Paint it again. 807 01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:28,320 Paint it brighter.