"His Majesty, the King." "Previously.." "It is settled." "We are to war with France." "Now," "I can go play." " Sir Thomas More." " Thomas." "Your Majesty." "You didn't say much in counsel last night." " About what?" " Going to war with France." "As a humanist, I have an abhorrence of war." "As a king, I'm forced to disagree." " Now, there is someone I have to try." " A hundred crowns you don't succeed." "Done." "I'm making you Duke." "Duke of Suffolk." " How does that please Your Grace?" " Celebrate!" "He has no right to any of this." "I'm a direct descendant of Edward II." "This is my crown!" "Hold Your Grace." "Your Grace's arrested on suspicion of treason." "I have no heir." "The Tudor Dynasty." "All my father's work finished, and it's my fault!" "Henry, will you not visit my bedchamber, as you used to?" "Things are not well between us." "His Majesty and I." "I think sometimes he'll ask me for a divorce." "A divorce?" "That's impossible." "Is it?" "His Majesty is tiring of your sister." "When she was his mistress, all our fortunes were made." "They say that all his liaisons are soon over." "He blows hot." "He blows cold." "Perhaps, you could imagine a way to keep his interest more." "prolonged?" "to play his passions." " Who are you?" " Anne Boleyn." "Mr. Wyatt, were you in love with Anne Boleyn?" "Of course I loved her, but from a distance." "Never if you value your life, speak of me to others, do you understand?" "You must know that I desire you with all my heart." "It is your duty to use his love to our advantage." "No, not like this." "Seduce me." "I know what you're doing." "But do not think to take the King away." "When we're married," "I'll deliver you a son." "Everything within my power to give you to you, it's yours, just ask." "I want a divorce, and you will get one for me." "A divorce?" "I don't think that English people would ever forgive him." "As far as I'm concerned, our marriage is at an end." "Soon he will see what you really are, and he will tire of you." "And what if he does not?" "If she gets her way, she'll set our whole country in a roar." "I have summoned a conclave of the cardinals, to make a final judgment on Your Majesty's annulment." "Make sure they come to the right decision." "In this case, Eminence, your reach has exceeded your grasp." "What if someone is deliberately stalling?" "Delaying things, making excuses." "You've gone cold on this divorce." "Perhaps, you've never believed in the first place." "You lied to me, pretending to be on my side." "Majesty!" "If you are not for me now, then you are against me." "Wolsey, sir, in the name of the King, you're arrested by order of the King and charged with high treason. / No!" "You know, I don't wanna be chancellor." "You will do as I commend!" "You think Mr. Cromwell is a great man?" "No, I think he's a coming man." "As your Majesty well knows, Kings are set above the law." "They're answerable to God alone, who anointed them." "Thank you, Mr. Cromwell." "I shall denounce the Pope as a heretic and marry whom I please." "If you want the world to know that the King of England is incapable of keeping his word, then you have to." "I am merely Your Majesty's humble servant." "I swear to you now, everything will be different." "To hell!" "I am the King of England!" "If lion knows his own strength, no man could control him." "And so it Begins..." "London 1532" " Your Grace." " Lord Thomas." "Ambassador Chapuys." "I thought you had abandoned us." "It's true." "I did, or tried to." "In our conscience, I could never abandon Her Majesty." "She's the most gracious and wonderful woman in the world, and the sadest." "I agree with you." "So does the Emperor." "He has written this letter of an encouragement and support, for your efforts on her behalf." "I beg you not to deliver it to me." "Although I've given more than sufficient proof of my loyalty to the king..." "I must do nothing to provoke suspicions." "Consider the times we live in." "I don't want to be deprived of the liberty, which allows me to speak boldly in private." "about those matters which concern your master and the queen." "I understand." "You need to say no more." " Thank you, Mr. Cromwell." " Your Majesty." "Sir Thomas More." "Cromwell." "Sir Thomas." "Your Majesty." "I must tell you." "I've received a petition from the members of the House of Commons complaining of the cruel behavior and abuses of the prelates and the clergy." "Thomas.." "people are asking for freedom from clerical rule." "Your Majesty knows... very well that I've always condemned the abuses of the clergy." "When they have been brought to light." "As your chancellor," "I have worked hard to eliminate them and purify our Holy Church." "But.." "You know where I stand." "You've always known." "I cannot condone this.." "new fangled vision of private belief and personal grace." "For me, the church is the permanent and living sign of God's presence." "It is a visible, palpable community." "Not just a few breathrens gathered in secret rooms." "Then, you'll speak against me." "My loyalty and love for Your Majesty is so great that I'll never say a word against you in public." "So, help me, God." "Arise for the King!" " Majesty." " Majesty." "My Lord, Your Graces" "We are come here among you to hear your response to the charges and responsibilities laid against you." "You're generally charged with supporting the authority of the late Cardinal Wolsey, and the Bishop of Rome, against that of your own king and country." "Some here among you may suppose I seek personal advantage." "It is not so." "As your king, I'm commission to restore right order on Earth." "and assert the immunities and princely liberties." "of our realm and crown." "This is my sacred duty." "Seal before God, and by solemn oath at my coronation." "What is your conclusion, Archbishop Warham?" "Your Majesty, before I deliver it, I give way to His Grace, the Most Reverend Bishop Fisher," "The Bishop of Rochester." "My Lords, we are asked to admit His Majesty as Supreme Head of the Church in England." "Unfortunately, we cannot grant this to the king without abandoning our unity with the sea of Rome." "If we are to renounce the unity of the Christian world, and leap out of Peter's ship, then we shall be drown in the waves of all heresies, sects, schisms and divisions." "I say to you that the acceptance of regal supremacy over our Holy Church would represent a tearing a thunder, of the seamless coat of Christ." "Your Grace!" "We'll hear your judgment." "I'll put this proposal to Congregation that Your Majesty has a new title." "supreme head of the Church and clergy of England, but I had the caveat." "as far, as the law of Christ allows," "Who is in favor?" "Very well." "(in Latin) whoever remained silent." "So, they're assumed to be agreed." "Thank you, Your Grace." "Rome" " Cardinal Campeggio!" " Holy Father." "Sit down, Cardinal Campeggio." "I know you're a martyr to gout." "And my feet are killing me too." "What'd you want to see me about?" "We have received 2 new letters regarding to King of England, the Great Matter." "Oh, that again." "What do they say?" "Well, the first is from the King himself, urging the curia to make a final and favorable decision, on his noun and for the sake of peace in England." "He uses a salmon temperate language of Holiness, complaining that never was there any prince handled by a Pope" ""as Your Holiness has treated us."" "He meant my predecessor and frankly, he has a point." "Clemente was a terrible procrastinator." "Although it was very wrong for some people to dig up the dead body and stabbed it in the street, I can well understand that feelings." "He was never popular." "Requiescat in pace." "And the second letter?" "From the Emperor on behalf of his aunt," "Catherine, the unhappy queen, urging you to prevent the annulment, and ex-communicate the King." "It is true, we must come to a judgment." "On the other hand, to protect the interest of the Church, we should try not to antagonize one par above the other, after all, they have soldiers and guns while as we must make do with beauty and truth." "What about this girl, this putain, the King's whore?" "Anne Boleyn." "Yes, why doesn't someone just get rid of her?" "No." "Don't get up." "Stay like that." "You're so very beautiful, so very desirable." "I have to possess you utterly." "I can't wait." "Oh, my love." "Just a little longer, and then.." "I'm made the head of the Church of England." "Is it true?" "Then I'm so.. glad." "At last, you'll have your right, and can do as your will." "I'm glad to have Cromwell refurbish some of the apartments in the Tower." "Every Queen of England stays there before the coronation." "Papa." "What's wrong?" "Don't you want to celebrate?" "It's far too early for that." "The bishops are not really defeated." "By default, they voted to make the King head of the Church, but only as far, as the law of Christ allows." "You don't have to be a clever lawyer to know that the law of Christ may be used to invalidate the vote itself." "Then it was all for nothing." "No, not for nothing." "The principle has now been effectively conceeded by most of them." "As George told me, their resistance and recalcitrance really stand from only one man." " That bloody Bishop Fisher." " Fisher." " Sir?" " Ah, Mr. Cranmer!" "I'm so sorry to be late, Mr. Cranmer." "It's completely unforgivable." "Nonsense, we haven't yet begun to dine." "It's good to see you." " Mr. Boleyn" " Mr. Wyatt, this is Mr. Cranmer." "Mr. Cranmer, you are a man of the cloth, I believe." " And are you not a poet, Mr. Wyatt?" " That's the least of my sins." "You may take one of my confession after suffer." "I wouldn't if I were you." "It'll turn your head wired." "We were discussing before you arrived, the progress of the Congregation of Bishops, which was called to decide upon the King's supremacy." "His majesty has wisely decided to appoint George Boleyn here to negotiate with Their Graces." "I found most of them accommodating." "Of course, there're a few stubborn exceptions." " Bishop Fisher, I assume." " True." "May I ask who else?" "The archbishop himself." "Warren, after years of being perfectly pliable, he's suddenly become rather intransigent." "It's because he's old, and consequently, he's closer to his maker, to whom in due course he must explain himself?" "Well, I'm sure that there'll be a simple matter of him to explain how he helped liberate his church from superstition, religious falsehoods and clerical greed." "Mr. Rouss." "Yes, sir." "A cook by trade." "Yes, sir." "You understand what we expect of you?" "I do, yes." "This is for your trouble." "If you betray us," "I'll destroy your entire family." "Majesty, this is Mr. Cranmar, of whom I have often spoken." "to ask Mr. Cranmer who first spoke the fact that" "Your Majesty's great matter was a theological issue and not a legal one." "Mr. Cranmer." "I have desire to meet you almost above any person now living." "You're most welcome here at court." " Majesty, I.." " It's funny." "Some of the greatest and most celebrated minds in my kingdom, sweated and struggled over an issue which you, an obcure cleric, if you forgive me, was able to resolve with perfect simplicity and a clarity of mind which.." "put them all to shame." "Majesty, I.." "Um.." "I.." "Mr. Cranmer, His Majesty has decided to appoint you his personal chaplain." "I.. ah.." "You must thank His Majesty." "Majesty." "You are welcome here, Mr. Cranmer." " Mr. Cromwell." " Majesty." "Well done, Mr. Cranmer, well done." "So you married your ward?" "What's her name?" "Catherine Brook." "Catherine..." "Why her?" "I love and admire Miss Brooke." "And my young son needs a mother." "How old is she?" "Seventeen." "Some mother." "Poor Catherine." "You're incapable of fidelity, Charles, you always have been." "This time is different." "How different?" "I don't know." "I just feel it." "And its not just because she's beautiful." "It is a marriage of true souls." "I'm sure you can understand that." "Oh, sun, go away." "Leave us to our own devices." "I love you, Anne Boleyn." "I always will." "Always." "How could you say that, Thomas?" "No unfortune brings what time changes." "Time won't change me," "or this." "Thomas." "My Lady Anne." "You are to be congratulated for reaching so high." "Thank you, Thomas." "I shall never forget that we were once true friends." "Oh, I wish I could forget." "But I see you are raised, too." "Well, it is a.. sometimes diplomat, thanks to the patronage of Mr. Cromwell," "We poets and painters,sometimes have our uses." "There is someone here I should like you to meet." "Lady Anne Boleyn, this is Mark Smithen, dancing master, singer, musician, and a general all round genius." "Mr. Smithen." "He likes to be called just plain Mark." "How could he possibly be called plain?" "My lady, it's a great pleasure." " You play the violin?" " Indeed." "Play me something." "Of course." "Will you show me?" "I wanted to thank Your Grace for your speech to congregation." "It was well said." " and very brave." " I spoke only truth." "I believe that the caveat, so far is the law of Christ allows, does indeed invalidated the whole bill." "How can the law of Christ permit a layman, even a king, to be head of the Church?" "Boy, a little for me." "I must ask you, Sir Thomas," "If you still have in mind to resign your office.." "After the voet, Your Grace, I must confess I was sorely tempted." "But on reflection," "I'm content to stay and fight for Christiadom." "Oh, this is excellent news." "As indeed, is the turning again of the archibishop." "I thank God that his conscience has finally driven him to condemn the King's nullity suit." "And he has stated his intention to... oppose the legislation," "which might be injurious to the Church." "Get a doctor." "Call a doctor, quick!" "Help!" "Please help!" "Oh, god, god.." "Four men died of their pains." "Bishop Fisher survived them because he ate so little of the soup." "It's very unfortunate, Sir Thomas." "It's more than unfortunate, Your Majesty." "Fisher's cook has been arrested, but I must tell you that.." "that rumors abound us to the identity of those who plotted against him." "Who?" "Wilshire's been named." " Boleyn?" " Yes." "And... well, some people even blame the Lady Anne." "Also people would blame her for everything!" "They'll blame her if it rains, or if the rains fell." "They'll blame her for the baroness of the queen, and for the fact that I love her." "They'll blame her for the wind that destroys our crops, and the storms that sink our ships." "It's all the fault of the Lady Anne." "What about you, Sir Thomas?" "Do you blame her?" "Do you think she'd try to poison Bishop Fisher?" " Henry.." " Oh the time for "Henry" is over!" "Whoever was to blame.." "the cook, Rouss, tried blatantly and almost successfully, to poison one of Your Majesty's great public servants, the bishop of our Holy Church, as well as me." "Now, if Your Majesty were to turn a blind eye to a few things." "everyone would be forced to assume that the attempted murders were done with your blessing." "My lord, Boleyn." "Mr. Rouss, we can go over and over this all day, so one more time," "who gave you the poison?" "Mr. Rouss, it is inconceivable that you should suddenly take it upon yourself to murder your master and his household." "after serving him so diligently these past four years." "Who gave you the poison?" "Sir, I have three daughters." "What does that mean?" "I want them to find good husbands, but that takes money." "We can pay you for your information." "No, sir." "Payment is already made." "You can't set on it." "You're a fool, and you will die for it." "You, hold a moment." "Where were you taking this linen?" " To the Queen's Majesty." " Why?" "To make shirts for His Majesty." "She always does that." "She still makes his shirts?" "Yes." "Yes, Miss Anne." " Sweetheart." " How could you?" " What?" " Your shirts!" "She still makes your shirts!" "How could you let her?" "I haven't even thought about it." "You told me there was nothing intimate between you anymore." "There isn't." "What intimate." "They're just shirts for god's sake." "No, they're not just shirts." "They're you and me." "They're you and her!" " I don't understand." " Then you ought to." "It's so hard when we're to be married, but she's still here!" "You can't have three people in a marriage, why can't you see that?" "And why can't you understand that I have more things to think about than my shirts!" "The King has agreed to a new and harsh treatment of poisoners." "They would be boiled alive." "He's wise to have dealt so severely in this case." "But he cannot avoid some suspicions." "At least against the lady and her father." "We're all in the hands of God." "But I worry that while I lie here uselessly." "The King might proceed with his divorce, since he has given himself the power." "I was told that at the last counsel, the King became angry." "and demanded to know what would happen if he went ahead anyway and marry to Anne without Pope's permission?" " That.. what did they say?" " Only Boleyn supported him, not even his friend, Brandon." "Thank god." "Catherine!" "Husband." "How are you feeling?" "What?" "They told me you've been suffering from toothache which I know is a terrible pain and someone even said you have a touch of gout." "Of course, I don't have gout." "I don't know why you even listen to such stupid rumors." "Because I care for you." "Catherine." "You're gonna have to stop making my shirts." "I thought you liked the shirts I made for you." "I see you're wearing one." " Henry." " What now?" "Our daughter Mary has.." "has been unwell." "She has not kept any food down for eight days now." "Do you not think we should visit her?" "You can go and visit the princess if you like, and you can stay there." "Even not for our daughter, not for anyone would I dream of leaving you." "You know my rightful place is by your side." "I can sign myself to God's mercy." "Bless you, sir." "Tell my girls I died easily, and with no pain." "Head first?" "Or wherever it comes?" "Sit." "Your wife looks very beautiful, seem very happy together." "Yes, we are." "Happy marriage is devoutely something to be wished for." "Talking of which, I want you to do something for me." "Your Grace." "I need to speak to Your Majesty alone." "The King has sent you?" "at this hour, why?" "The King asks you to be sensible." "withdraw your appeal to Rome, and entrust your affairs to his hands." "And he promises to be more than generous." "As you know, the parliament is about to make him supreme in all matters spiritual, as well as temporal." "No." "Only the Pope has God's power here on earth, and is the image of eternal truth." " Yes, but the King.." " Your Grace," "I love and have loved His Majesty as much as any woman can love a man." "But I would not have wanted him company as his wife, one moment against the voice of my conscience." "I am his true wife." "Go to Rome if you want, and argue it there with lots of important men, instead of here, it's just one poor woman." "What did she say?" "She said that she'll obey Your Majesty in everything." "Serve her obedience to two higher powers." "Which two higher powers?" "The Pope and the Emperor?" "No." "God and her conscience." "Chapuys." "Majesty." "You can tell your master." "Actually, you can tell anyone you like." "I'll never agree to be judged by the Pope in this matter, and I don't care if Figavus tries to excommunicate me." "He can do what he likes in Rome, I'll do what I like here." "Majesty." "And by the way, welcome back to court." "Majesty." "How was the Queen?" "She was beautiful." "She's like a thing of the other world to watch that courage ." "I remember you once told me that.." "you might sometimes have to make me feel sad, even if you didn't mean to." "Are you really going to make me sad?" "No." "I swear to all that is holy." "All things worthy and good." "That to you, I'll always be true, never changing." "I wouldn't blame you if you don't believe me." "Do you believe me?" "Majesty." " You're sent for me?" " Anne." "How should you like to go hunting tomorrow?" "If that is what Your Majesty desires." "We may be away for a while, visit people, stay with them." "Majesty, what is this all about?" "And when we return, we shall be alone." "Alone?" "You and I, here," "No third person." "Do you mean it?" "I've already given instructions for Catherine to leave." "Oh, my god." "Are you the most happy?" "Husband, what is it?" " I saw it." " What?" " What did you see?" " I've known for a long time..." "I knew Lutherans tends to false prophets." "And so many signs.." "I still don't understand." "What is it you've seen?" "The Beast." "The Antichrist." "He's near at hand, Alice." " You remember to pet him to drive?" " Yes, Madam." "Beautiful morning for a ride." "Beautiful." "Be very careful with it, John, on your own." "Let's go." "Move on." "My Lady, Mr. Secretary Cromwell is here to see you." "Madam." "His Majesty commands that you be gone from this place within the month and settle at his house in More." "He did not even say good-bye." "You are free, of course, to take with you your attendance and servants." "Wherever I go," "I remain his wife, and I'll pray for him." "There's ah.. a further matter." "His Majesty wishes that you return to him the official jewels of the Queens of England." "No!" "I'll not give up what is rightfully mine to adorn a woman who is the scandal of Christiandom." "Bless Your Majesty." "Your Majesty." "Your Majesty." "God bless Your Majesty." "God bless you." "Thank you." " God bless Your Majesty!" " Thank all of you." "Blessed Lady." "Queen of Hearts." "There will be even greater crowds than these to welcome you.." "when you return to London." "Yes?" "Come." "Well?" "Majesty, I'm asked to pass on a message of farewell from the Queen." "She regrets that you did not wish her goodbye, and she inquires after Your Majesty's health." "The Queen!" "I do not want any of her goodbyes, and I do not wish to offer her consolation!" "I do not care whether she asks after my health or not." "Let her stop this, and mind her own business!" " Do you understand me!" " Yes, Your Majesty." "Get out!" "I'm sorry." "Don't apologize." "How could it have been different?" "And yet everything is beautiful." "Don't you think?" "Everything is beautiful?" "Yes." "Everything is beautiful." "She's a witch, who deserves no other fate than to be dispatched to hell." "And you will assassinate?" "The Lady Anne?" "Being a close servant to the King." "I'm in a position to do so." "She seduced and bewitched him." "Consider his betraying his lawful wife and the Holy Church." "We must not stay any longer, but our prayers and hopes go with you."