- Queen Elizabeth: Why would God take him from us?
- King Henry Tudor: He sends us another. Please... try and eat something before we leave.
- King Henry Tudor: Everywhere, there's talk. Outside, the people talk of our demise. Inside, they talk of enemies. In France, mercenaries are being gathered against us as we speak. What did Maggie Pole say to you? Did she speak of her Plantagenet cousins?
- Queen Elizabeth: She still refuses to attend my confinement. Is it all my fault? Is there a curse on us, and am I to blame?
- [she cries]
- King Henry Tudor: Shush. Just be quiet. All right. Come, come, come.
- [he hugs her]
- King Henry Tudor: No, no, no, no. Shush. Come. No. No. No, God loves us. God loves us... as we loved Arthur.
- Margaret Beaufort: King James of Scotland has settled his headquarters on the borders at Ladykirk, where he's just built a beautiful church. Ah, come now. He's an educated man. He speaks several languages.
- Meg Tudor: Well, then, I wish him the plague in all of them.
- Margaret Beaufort: My dear child, that is how every woman feels about her husband at first. You know, I was married twelwe years old. I'd only had one monthly course, just one, before I was with child. And that child was your father. You must do your duty, just as I did, for your father, for me, for poor, dear Arthur. You must wed to keep the country safe.
- Meg Tudor: I will see my baby brother born. No one will deny me that.
- Margaret Beaufort: [she hears bird] Oh, what is that infernal noise?
- King Henry Tudor: Fresh air is tonic for us both.
- Queen Elizabeth: My last look at the world before so long in darknes.
- King Henry Tudor: Your confinement will pass swiftly, and then you will be back into my arms with our newborn son.
- Queen Elizabeth: My mother said that I should guard my heart, that Arthur didn't belong to me, he belonged to the throne.
- King Henry Tudor: He sits beside a greater throne now.
- Queen Elizabeth: She lost two sons, both destined to be kings. So many destinies cut short. Henry, was it worth it? Did so many people have to die so that you could hold the throne?
- King Henry Tudor: We've had fifteen years of peace, and I would do it all again for England and for you. We have much to be grateful for. Three children grown, one more soon to be with us, an alliance sealed with Scotland.
- Queen Elizabeth: And our love all these years.
- [they kiss]
- King Henry Tudor: Hold that to your heart. It will keep you strong.
- Queen Elizabeth: You look thin. Are you eating?
- Prince Harry Tudor: I'm always eating. You know that.
- Queen Elizabeth: You are one of those for whom food and good wine do not alter girth. Lucky fella.
- Queen Elizabeth: Ooh. I have a cramp.
- King Henry Tudor: Should I call the physician?
- Queen Elizabeth: Mm.
- Prince Harry Tudor: Father. Lady Mother, are you well?
- King Henry Tudor: The child is heavy, nothing more.
- Queen Elizabeth: What is it, Harry?
- Prince Harry Tudor: I would like your blessing to be wed. As Prince of Wales, my match must be in service of our country.
- King Henry Tudor: Well, who would you have, Harry?
- Prince Harry Tudor: Princess Catherine. She's not with chikd, and the alliance must be...
- Queen Elizabeth: Harry, you must wed a maid. You know that.
- Prince Harry Tudor: She didn't lie with Arthur so she is intact. Arthur couldn't do his duty by her. Father I would like to marry her. England is in turmoil, and this will see of any challengers to the throne.
- King Henry Tudor: You and your sense of duty warms me.
- Prince Harry Tudor: But papal dispensation is required, I know. But I believe the Pope will give it in the circumstances.
- King Henry Tudor: We shall speak more fully about this as we-
- [Lizzie winches]
- Prince Harry Tudor: Lady Mother?
- King Henry Tudor: Lizzie?
- Queen Elizabeth: The child is coming early. Henry!
- King Henry Tudor: Are you certain?
- Margaret Beaufort: Stoke the fire.
- King Henry Tudor: [carries Lizzie] Quickly. Help us, please.
- Meg Tudor: Grandmother, is everything all right?
- Margaret Beaufort: [to Lizzie] Shush, come on. You've done this before.
- Meg Tudor: Is it always like this?
- Margaret Beaufort: Henry, go.
- Queen Elizabeth: No! Henry, stay with me.
- King Henry Tudor: I am here, my love. I'm here.
- Margaret Beaufort: Henry, it is not right...
- King Henry Tudor: I'm staying!
- Margaret Beaufort: [Lizzie screams] Unlace her.
- Nurse: Very good, my lady.
- Meg Tudor: Father, what's happening?
- [Henry helps to unlace]
- Meg Tudor: Father?
- Margaret Beaufort: The ropes?
- Nurse: Yes, here.
- King Henry Tudor: Where is her physician?
- Meg Tudor: Aunt Maggie.
- Maggie Pole: Dear cousin, I'm here.
- Queen Elizabeth: No. Why is she here?
- King Henry Tudor: You asked for her, my love.
- Queen Elizabeth: She hates me! She will ill-wish my child! Would you take this son away from me as well?
- Maggie Pole: No, Lizzie.
- Meg Tudor: Please, don't...
- Margaret Beaufort: Stay back.
- Queen Elizabeth: Will that be enough for you, Maggie Pole, two sons for one brother?
- Maggie Pole: Two brothers, Lizzie, yours and mine.
- Queen Elizabeth: Get out! Get out!
- King Henry Tudor: Go! Go back to Stourton. She doesn't want you here. Go.
- [Lizzie wails]
- King Henry Tudor: No, Lizzie, Lizzie, now, now. Now...
- Meg Tudor: It's going to be all right, Mother. Mother.
- Margaret Beaufort: Bring the child to me. Here. Yes.
- Queen Elizabeth: What is it? Is it healthy? Is it breathing?
- Meg Tudor: It's a girl, Mother.
- Margaret Beaufort: [murmurs] Baby child.
- Queen Elizabeth: She's dead, isn't she? She's dead.
- [Henry kiss her head]
- King Henry Tudor: I am so sorry.
- Queen Elizabeth: I want to hold her.
- King Henry Tudor: Shh.
- [Margaret gives baby to Lizzie]
- King Henry Tudor: [she holds her]
- [they cry]
- King Henry Tudor: [Margaret takes baby]
- [Henry kisses Lizzie's head and holds her]
- Queen Elizabeth: I will be with Arthur before night falls.
- Meg Tudor: No, Mother.
- [cries]
- Queen Elizabeth: I have to take our baby girl to Heaven and reunite with Arthur and see my brothers.
- King Henry Tudor: Do not talk like this, Lizzie.
- Queen Elizabeth: Tell Maggie... Tell her I'm sorry.
- King Henry Tudor: No. No, I am the king, and I command it.
- [he kisses]
- King Henry Tudor: You will be well and live a long and happy life with me, Lizzie.
- [Lizzie wails]
- King Henry Tudor: Meg, Meg, go fetch your brother and sister. Go now.
- [he kisses]
- King Henry Tudor: [holds her hand and kisses, cries] There has never been another for me. You are my one love, Lizzie.
- Queen Elizabeth: He cannot marry her.
- King Henry Tudor: What?
- Queen Elizabeth: If Harry marries her, the Tudor line ends. No more boys. No kings. No kings. He cannot... He cannot...
- King Henry Tudor: Stop now. Hush now. You are delirious, my love.
- [Lizzie whispers to his ear]
- King Henry Tudor: What? Why would you say that? Why would you say such a thing?
- [cries]
- Queen Elizabeth: Please, promise me... or the shadow that hangs over us will cover us all in darkness. Mother.
- [dies]
- King Henry Tudor: Lizzie? Lizzie? Lizzie.
- [cries]
- Meg Tudor: Father.
- [sees Lizzie and sobs]
- Meg Tudor: Mother!
- De Fuensalida: My lady, the King's mother, a day so... a tragic day.
- Margaret Beaufort: Yes. And I hope you bring happier news, Ambassador. The unpaid half of Catherine's dowry, perhaps?
- De Fuensalida: Oh, uh, no, my lady. Uh, I come to tell you that, Catherin e, Princess of Wales...
- Margaret Beaufort: "Dowager Princess of Wales." We say, "dowager," for widow.
- De Fuensalida: She thanks you for the beautiful litter, but she prefer to arrive, um... in another way.
- Margaret Beaufort: And how exactly does she prefer to arrive? In a gilded chariot drawn by the horses of St. Mark's?
- Prince Harry Tudor: Princess Catherine. Your loss has endeared you to the people. They share your grief.
- Catherine of Aragon: They didn't know him.
- Prince Harry Tudor: My own grief is, defiled with guilt. I wasn't very kind to my brother. Princess Catherine, may I lead you in?
- Margaret Beaufort: [Lina and Rosa keen] What in heaven's name are they doing?
- De Fuensalida: They are keening, my lady. This is tradition in Spain.
- Margaret Beaufort: We're not in Spain. They must stop.
- Queen Elizabeth: No. Let them wail.
- Margaret Beaufort: You prefer a mule to a litter made especially for you?
- Lina de Cardonnes: A mule was good enough for the mother of our Lord, my lady.
- Margaret Beaufort: Is this your way of sending us a message? Are you to be a mother? Your condition is an affair of state, and our agreement...
- Catherine of Aragon: My condition is... unclear.
- Margaret Beaufort: Ergo, so is your standing in this court. You are no longer Princess of Wales. But, if you're carrying a son, you will be lady mother of the king, just like me.
- Catherine of Aragon: God willing.
- Thomas Wolsey: The people are afraid. They say the sweating sickness that took Prince Arthur is back to end the Tudor rule.
- Margaret Beaufort: How much longer will they feast upon that?
- Thomas Wolsey: Until the line of succession is clear, my lady.
- King Henry Tudor: Spain insists we pay the widow's jointure, a third share of Arthur's lands promised in the marrige contract, and we must return the dowry.
- Margaret Beaufort: The boy is barely in his grace, and all they can think about is gold.
- King Henry Tudor: Unless that girl is carrying an heir, our alliance is in shreds, and every York who ever had a claim will be raising men against me.
- Margaret Beaufort: I'll hasten Meg's marriage to Scotland. That will keep one hostile camp at bay, at least.
- Rosa de Vargas: People speak of the color in her cheeks. They say she is glowing.
- Lina de Cardonnes: She always glows.
- Rosa de Vargas: We should start sewing now, little hats and vests for the baby.
- Lina de Cardonnes: Rosa, she will tell us when she knows herself.
- Queen Elizabeth: I never would have allowed Arthur to roam free around Ludlow if I knew there was an outbreak of the sweat.
- Maggie Pole: I didn't "let him" do anything. He was a man grown with a wife.
- Queen Elizabeth: You sent your own children away to protect them.
- Maggie Pole: After Arthur fell ill.
- Queen Elizabeth: How fortuitous.
- Maggie Pole: This is your foul harvest. Don't try to lay it at my doorstep.
- Lina de Cardonnes: You've had your courses for days, but you do not tell anyone. I don't understand.
- Catherine of Aragon: My mother writes that I must return to Spain. Tell me, Lina, what will happen to you if we did? To Rosa or any of my household?
- Lina de Cardonnes: I have...
- Catherine of Aragon: It will be a modest life, not the one your parents planned for you.
- Lina de Cardonnes: Plans must change sometimes.
- Catherine of Aragon: Arthur dreamed that England might be ruled, as in Camelot.
- Lina de Cardonnes: It was a beautiful dream, for you to be the queen, for us to marry nobles, but now we are awake.
- Catherine of Aragon: I am a Spanish princess, sent by God to marry the future king of England and bring peace, and that's what I shall do. God would have me wed Prince Harry.
- Lina de Cardonnes: But you are his brother's widow. It is impossible. It is forbidden.
- Catherine of Aragon: Not if... Not if I'm a virgin, if my marriage wasn't... It was not consummated.
- Lina de Cardonnes: But it was.
- Catherine of Aragon: But think, Lina. Did you see us? Was anyone in that chamber except Arthur and myself?
- Lina de Cardonnes: Forgive me, highness, but you were heard, not just by me, but by Lady Pole.
- Catherine of Aragon: And what did you and Lady Pole hear? Some noises of pleasure. I did try to please him, but we did not lie together. I won't be passed around Europe like a collection plate, handed off to France or Austria. No. I came here to forge an alliance with England, and that is what I'll do. Only then can I protect my household. Don't you see? There is no going back for any of us.
- Lina de Cardonnes: Do you even know if he wishes it? Do you wish it?
- Maggie Pole: I cannot stay here with the queen. I will take the children home.
- Sir Richard Pole: Maggie, you must make peace. You know our children have been interviewed by Wolsey?
- Maggie Pole: What?
- Sir Richard Pole: He asked if we'd had any visitors at Stourton, any cousins from abroad, what the talk is at our table, what banners we keep in the house, and whether you write letters.
- Maggie Pole: We've done nothing. They are children.
- Sir Richard Pole: And so was Teddy, and that didn't save him. Make your peace. There is nothing more dangerous than a grieving monarch. Henry feels God has crossed him, so he looks for others that do the same. A snake bites not because it's been stepped on, but because it might be.
- Prince Harry Tudor: Princess Summertime. You're the only sunshine round here. Bit soft, really, so... Don't tell Charlie.
- Catherine of Aragon: I was hoping I might see you. I wanted you to have something of Arthur's.
- Prince Harry Tudor: It's fine work. Thank you.
- Catherine of Aragon: My mother herself never uses a crossbow. She cannot bolt it.
- Prince Harry Tudor: I should expect not. She's just a woman.
- Catherine of Aragon: She cannot bolt it on horseback, and she likes to ride into battle.
- Prince Harry Tudor: What?
- Catherine of Aragon: My mother fought a battle while I was in her womb.
- Prince Harry Tudor: Wild women in your country. They wail in public, and they fight in battle? It's unnatural. My lady grandmother says that the wise woman finds strength within her God-given role.
- Catherine of Aragon: My mother's role is God-given. She's anointed by the pope. Her weapon is her horse. He's an Andalusian stallion, 16 hands with white socks. he can break a man's neck with one kick.
- Prince Harry Tudor: I want one. I'd ride it straight into France.
- Catherine of Aragon: My mother is also skillful with a sword, and she taught me well.
- Margaret Beaufort: This sword is blunt.
- Prince Harry Tudor: They both are. We wouldn't want you cutting yourself.
- Catherine of Aragon: Oh, I could still hurt you with this. You may have swords and spears, but you can conquer nothing without mosquetes.
- Prince Harry Tudor: Mosquetes?
- Catherine of Aragon: And cannons.
- Prince Harry Tudor: Well, we have cannons. Have cannons.
- Catherine of Aragon: The city wallls of Granada crumbled under cannon fire. The Moorish sultan wept as he left.
- Prince Harry Tudor: Weeping like a woman for what he couldn't defend like a man.
- Catherine of Aragon: Weeping like a Moor who sees he is not fighting on the side of God.
- Prince Harry Tudor: What, have you had enough, Princess Summertime?
- Catherine of Aragon: You fight almost like a real soldier.
- Prince Harry Tudor: I am every inch the soldier... And commander. And I have my own idead about our military forces. I'm going to have a foundry that makes impenetrable armor.
- Catherine of Aragon: Oh, all armor has weak spots. Here. Here. Here.
- Margaret Beaufort: What this is display? You dare swordplay with the Tudor heir?
- Catherine of Aragon: Eh, is that...
- Prince Harry Tudor: Uh... I think she's talking about me.
- Margaret Beaufort: I mean both of you.
- Prince Harry Tudor: Well, it was only in fun.
- Margaret Beaufort: You are not to blame. It's natural for a young man to caper. You, put that down, and come with me. And would somebody take this thing to the menagerie, where it belongs? Come along.
- Margaret Beaufort: In England, widows don't handle swords, much less a widow carrying a prince in her womb. You do know, I presume, the basic signs if you're with child?
- Catherine of Aragon: Oh, yes, my lady. The... The belly swells like a great piel de sapo, the melon.
- Margaret Beaufort: No. The early signs, disagreeable stomach, tender breasts.
- Catherine of Aragon: My stomach is often against me, as I fast on Wednesdays, and my bosom is always tender.
- Margaret Beaufort: I'm trying to help you, child. I must know if you have bled since Arthur's death. Surely we should have your news by now.
- Catherine of Aragon: When my brother died, I didn't bleed for fourt months, so it's hard for me to know.
- Margaret Beaufort: I hoped you'd be like your mother, wise and brave as a man, but now I see you're your father's daughter, as tricky as a fox.
- Catherine of Aragon: I have no talent for tricks, and I have no news for you.
- Catherine of Aragon: Where were you?
- Lina de Cardonnes: I... Taking Dominus to the tower.
- Catherine of Aragon: You said before that Lady Pole believes our marriage was a... a true one.
- Lina de Cardonnes: Yes.
- Catherine of Aragon: Then she needs to understand she is mistaken.
- Lina de Cardonnes: I have no power to make her doubt her own mind.
- Catherine of Aragon: She cannot contradict me if I am to marry Prince Harry.
- Lina de Cardonnes: But did Harry speak of marriage?
- Catherine of Aragon: He likes me. He wrote me thosa love letters.
- Lina de Cardonnes: Well, once you're sure the match is in the prince's pleasure, it will be time to speak to Lady Pole. If you speak too soon, you may make waves against yourself.
- Catherine of Aragon: Ourselves.
- Lina de Cardonnes: Ourselves.
- Prince Harry Tudor: Hello again. I hope my lady grandmother didn't speak too harshly to you. She's not used to, well, girls like you.
- Catherine of Aragon: I do not grieve as they expect, and then I feel that I am wrong for being as I am.
- Prince Harry Tudor: I feel the same. I'll teach you how to play my grandmother, but you will teach me...
- Catherine of Aragon: Sword fighting?
- Prince Harry Tudor: No. I am much better at that than you, and I always will be. No, um, you will teach me... I'll think of something.
- Catherine of Aragon: I will sleep. You may tell me in the morning.
- Margaret Beaufort: I knew Arthur's death would affect you the most, darling boy. The soul of a poet is easily bruised, but it will heal with time. You will make an excellent Prince of Wales. And you have another brother on the way. Does that not soothe you a little? Does that cheer you, hmm?
- Prince Harry Tudor: Catherine. Did you know her mother has a horse that can kill a man with a single kick? Break his neck clean.
- Princess Mary: [opens pomegrante] There. Look. See?
- Princess Mary: So many little seeds.
- Catherine of Aragon: They grew in the garden of paradise. God spread the seeds all over the Earth. You must eat all of them, because you never know which one came from paradise.
- Meg Tudor: Well, you can be sure one thing, that none of them came from Scotland, which is far from paradise.
- Catherine of Aragon: Come. Let's play hide-and-seek.
- Princess Mary: One, two, three...
- Oviedo: I like here.
- Lina de Cardonnes: In England or this tavern?
- Oviedo: Here, tavern.
- Lina de Cardonnes: Such a strange country. And they lock up their feelings, but mix freely with each other in the taverns.
- Oviedo: The Moor, too, can be free here.
- Lina de Cardonnes: Well, the Moors are free in Spain. Not to worship, but to live, at least.
- Oviedo: I speak to men of ships. They talk of la Inquisicion. Moors who would not be Christian, they leave Spain or they die. A horrible death.
- Lina de Cardonnes: What do you mean?
- Oviedo: The Inquisitors, they kill the Muslims, men, women, children. I have no news from my family, but I think I can never go back. Not now, never.
- Lina de Cardonnes: You could convert. My parents did.
- Oviedo: Lina, you no hear me. The inquisidores no care. You look like Moor, like me, you go back, you die. We make lives here now.
- Lina de Cardonnes: You sound like the Infanta.
- Oviedo: The Infanta will stay?
- Lina de Cardonnes: No. Nothing is certain. Nothing.
- Oviedo: [holds her hand] One thing is certain... for me.
- Princess Mary: Where are you?
- Meg Tudor: For heaven's sake, Mary, she's right there.
- Princess Mary: Found you! Again!
- Queen Elizabeth: That's enough now, Mary. Grace, please put her to bed.
- Prince Harry Tudor: Hello.
- Catherine of Aragon: I was at prayer.
- Prince Harry Tudor: And I'll wager that you were praying for a boy.
- Catherine of Aragon: But I am always praying for a boy, our blessed Lord, Jesus Christ. Today, I watched a flock of birds flying home in a giant V shape in the sky, swifts. They migrate here from Spain to mate and I must follow them.
- Prince Harry Tudor: I don't want you to go.
- Catherine of Aragon: My mother is already planning my next marriage, though in God's eyes it will be my first marriage.
- Prince Harry Tudor: Your first? How so?
- Catherine of Aragon: I- I won't speak against your late brother.
- Prince Harry Tudor: What do you mean? Did... Wait. Did he do something to you?
- Catherine of Aragon: No. Arthur didn't do anything at all. Because he... Because he couldn't.
- Prince Harry Tudor: Oh, poor old Arthur. I always thought he was a rose petal.
- Catherine of Aragon: No, I do not want to shame him.
- Prince Harry Tudor: No, no, you haven't and you're not.
- Catherine of Aragon: It's not his fault. I simply wanted you to know before I journey back to Spain.
- Prince Harry Tudor: But don't you see? If you are still a maid, then, Catherine, I can be your husband. You may marry the prince that you wrote love letters to all along. Will you have me?
- Catherine of Aragon: I... Harry, I...
- Prince Harry Tudor: No, Catherine, I will raise you up, you... you and all of England. You will be my princess and... and my queen.
- Catherine of Aragon: Harry, is it possible?
- Prince Harry Tudor: I will tell my father that he must get permission from the Pope, and then we will be married.
- Catherine of Aragon: He wants to marry me. He will go to ask the King, and if he agrees it, I must bring over Maggie Pole.
- Lina de Cardonnes: If Harry is for you, she cannot stand against you.
- Catherine of Aragon: No, the King would need permission from the Pope. It will take time for a letter to reach Rome, and if she should speak against me in that time, then I would be undone. This is the only way you'll make a marriage to a nobleman, as your parents wished for you. We must do this for all our household.
- Catherine of Aragon: Do you think he's asked his father yet? What if he does not agree?
- Rosa de Vargas: Highness. A message from the prince.
- Catherine of Aragon: [reads] He says his father will agree it.
- Catherine of Aragon: Lady Pole.
- Maggie Pole: Princess Catherine.
- Catherine of Aragon: I just wanted to thank you for all your kindness at Ludlow.
- Maggie Pole: Arthur was like a son to me. I would have done anything for him.
- Catherine of Aragon: And Arthur was like a husband to me.
- Maggie Pole: He was a husband to you.
- Catherine of Aragon: Not... Not a true husband. It is a tragedy but our marriage was never consummated.
- Maggie Pole: I heard you in your bridal chamber. Your own lady heard you.
- Catherine of Aragon: We made sounds of pleasure, yes, to cover our embarrassment. But I am as I was the day I landed here in England.
- Maggie Pole: What are you playing at? Arthur himself told me you lay together.
- Catherine of Aragon: Of course he did. We agreed that we would. We hoped that things would change and, in time, he would be able... I ask you to accept my word, accept it and support it if asked to do so.
- Maggie Pole: Who would ask such a thing?
- Catherine of Aragon: The King, his mother.
- Maggie Pole: Oh, no. Please tell me you're not planning what I think you are.
- Catherine of Aragon: Harry and I wish to be married.
- Maggie Pole: So you've lost your husband, but not your ambition. I warned you against that.
- Catherine of Aragon: But I will remain here in this country and fulfill God's destiny for me. And the family may inquire about my first marriage.
- Maggie Pole: This family don't inquire. They extract the answer they want. And if the truth is asked of me, my answer will support whatever keeps my conscience and my head attached to my neck. How else do you imagine I've survived this long in this vipers' nest?