"Educating Philip" "Years later..." "Your Reverence, my loyal Tavera, another anniversary has passed since Isabella left us." "But there is not an hour when I do not remember her." "Days go darkly and my shadow follows me everywhere." "After the misfortune in Algiers I am going back to Spain, my home." "I would like to meet you before I arrive at Court because there are several issues I wish to discuss." "Your Reverence." "How is His Majesty?" "He pretends to be as hard as the stone of a cathedral but, inside, he is a window made of shards." "Ever since he lost his wife he lost the way as well." "Follow me." "Your Majesty, His Reverence is here." " Your Reverence." " Your Majesty, you don't know how glad I am that you are coming back." "Everything is ready to welcome you." "The losers are not welcomed joyfully." "Neither prizes nor medals should mask our defeat." "We must not forget what happened in Algiers." "It will be as you say." "I have seen death pass very close." "I feel my hour will come soon." "That will be decided by the Almighty." "You should banish such dark thoughts." "I will." "For only one reason:" "my son." "How is Philip?" "Healthy and strong." "Without traces of illness, if that is what you are afraid of." "And his education?" "Does he study?" "Talk without mysteries." "The Prince is intelligent but studying tires him." "He doesn't have a taste for languages; doesn't like riding a horse; and doesn't show interest in state affairs." "Is there something he does well, perhaps?" "He is a sensible youg man who shows good talent for the horticulture." "The horticulture?" "Do you really find pleasure, Your Highness, in the care of those plants?" "It is not pleasure, Monsignor Granvela." "It is admiration." "And I don't take care of them." "They give me as much as I give them." "These plants have traveled from the Indies, defying climate, man and God." "They deserve all our respect." "If you continue such reasonings you will make botany a heresy." "When I am with my plants, it is the only time when I have time for myself." "With them, I can rest after Latin, mathematics, history..." "And Cardinal Tavera, who slept in my chambers until yesterday." "Look, Granvela." "Have you seen such beauty?" " Your sister asks for me, Your Highness." " Accept this plant, Doña Isabel." "They say it was born from a young man's chest who died of lovesickness." "You are very nice." "I feel flattered but I cannot accept it." "Are you afraid I ask you something in return?" " Your Highness, you are very..." " Very young for you?" "Just because I have not been with a woman doesn't mean I don't know what a woman needs." "Don't let the land dry." "Water it abundantly." "This Castilian climate is very dry for its flowers." "Are you listening to me, Your Highness?" "To be honest, I am hearing you, but I am not listening." "It is good that you have learned the name of the plants in Latin." "Your father is going to return." "He left the order..." "My father is not here." "He never is!" "Just like you now;" "you are absent." " I cannot stop thinking about her." " And you don't lack motives." "But you are the Crown Prince." "I am afraid your feelings for that lady are useless." "We become infatuated with what we don't possess." "There is no woman without charm." "You will learn it soon." "But none is worth so much that you lose your head." "You are more adept in women than I am, Monsignor." "However, it is obvious that I know more about love." "My lord, we would need more time to gather the army you ask for." "There could be no delay." "Get it!" "It is now or never." "Charles doesn't expect it." "The defeat in Algiers has decimated his forces." " Besides, Suleiman is by our side." " Father, is it worth it?" "We will lose thousands of men and it is very little we are going to gain." "Listen to your son." "He is talking with the head and not with the heart." "It is the opportunity to settle this, once and for all!" "Don't you understand?" "Understand what?" "That you are two malignant old men, killing yourselves with stick-blows?" " Do you dare to...?" " My love for you and France is above your obsessions." "My hour is close." "And I must not die in peace if I have not beaten Charles." "There will be war!" "Even if I have to empty the treasury a thousand times!" "I will march on the front of my armies." "You will se your orders fulfilled but you will not fight." "What do you have to demonstrate to be worthy of, my lord?" "I will not go but you neither." "You will stay in the palace." "I have already lost a son." "I cannot lose another." "Father..." " Your Majesty." " Get up, my daughters." "Mary..." "You are a woman now." "And you, Joanna, need very little." "What is it?" "Are you not happy for my return?" "It is just..." "I didn't remember your face." "I know it well how much sadness that feeling provokes." "Where is Philip?" "Why has he not come to welcome me?" "Your Majesty, your son has gone to find a few books." "He takes his education more and more seriously." "Thank you for the loyalty you have for the Prince, Monsignor, but don't offend me with palavers." "I want him to come back immediately!" "So you see the bridge?" "My great grandfather Ferdinand arrived on that with his retinue when he came to get to know Isabella." "They fell in love at first sight." "Am I a nuisance to you?" "No." "You are speaking and speaking..." "I am afraid it is just a game for you." " A game?" " A pastime, like your plants." "You don't know me yet." "I don't have pastime." "You are the Prince." "Sooner or later, you will get bored of me." "You take many things for greanted, ma'am." "And what if I begin to need you as you say?" "What would happen then?" "YOu fear such a thing would happen?" "Do you consider it possible, then?" "Your Highness!" "Your father demands your presence immediately." "I thought you would not arrive until this afternoon." "Your Highness, it is afternoon now." "Your Majesty, forgive my delay." "I have come as soon as I learned about your presence." "Come closer, Philip." " Father, you are..." " Older." "And tired." "I know." "You, however, seem to be full of energy." "Or, at least, that is how I was told." "A king has to have eyes and ears in every corner of the court." " Nothing irreparable has happened, father." " Neither will it happen." "You may not see that woman again." "Why?" "You are my heir." "If I have to explain you it, it is that your education doesn't give the wanted fruit." "You have been my model." "I know whose son I am and I know who I have to be." "And I do nothing you didn't at my age." "If you compare me with my great grandfather Ferdinand, my grandfather Philip or simply with yourself," " I have a reserved life." " How dare you?" "When you arrived at these lands, Doña Germaine helped you fit in." " His Highness didn't want to say..." " I know it very well what I wanted to say." " Have you not made me study history, perhaps?" " Enough!" "You have already spoken too much." "Leave, everyone!" "You don't, Tavera." "Stay." "Try to understand." "The lack of his mother..." "I entrusted you with my son's education." "I left the most precious thing I have in your hands." "And what do you give me back?" " An insolent one!" " Your Majesty, I have worked with might and main," " neglecting other issues." " Now, there will be no more classes of music, neither of Latin, nor of anything!" "His preceptors will abandon their tasks." "Do you want me to be the only one who assumes the teaching of the Prince?" "No." "You will also be freed from that burden." "This way you will not have to neglect other issues." " Who will educate your son?" " I will!" " I will his only one tutor." " You are never in Castile." "I will stay here until I make him a man and a king." "Leave." "The King has forbidden me to see you." "And this is how you obey him?" " Am I hurting you?" " No..." "No." "No." "Go on." "Go on." "Go on..." "We sailed on more than 300 ships, including galleys and warships." "Arriving at Algiers, the enemy troops and the storm impeded us to attack on the place we planned before." "We had to find a safe place here." "What was the relation of the forces?" "We were 30 000." "They, only 8000, including Turks, Saracens and Moors." "The Spaniards, in vanguard." "The Duke of Alba led the German troops with me here, in the middle." "In a few days, we captured the besieged city, with only 300 losses in our lines." "One more day and it would have been ours." "We waited for the galleys to arrive on the sea in order to close the circle." "But they didn't arrive." "The storm destroyed the fleet on the coast." "More than 150 ships sank." "Shattered on the rocks." "We lost supply of food..." "All." "Why did we fail, son?" "Where was the mistake?" "I don't find it in the strategy, father." "But in the person." "You should not set sail to pay tribute to the Empress." "That was your fault." "Your Majesty." "Your Highness." "I am bringing bad news from France." " We will continue later." " As you wishes." "Talk." "I thought the lessons would not end until the sun goes down." "State affairs have intervened." "My studies will have to wait." "Would you mind if I deprived you of such a lovely company?" "I have done some grafts on some fruit trees I would like to showto your lady." "Our father would not approve." "Do you want to make me accomplice in your disobedience, perhaps?" "I do." "Because I know that you love me well." "And that you are discreet." "And have a good heart." "You should be more careful." "The Court abounds in foulmouthed people." "And in ill-disposed ones as well." "The French troops have invaded Nice in les than one night." "Bastard!" "He takes advantage of the low moral after what happened in Algiers." "While we decide, I ahve ordered my men to go and defend the position." "Annul that order!" "The city has already fallen and we would just sacrifice lives if we tried to win it back." "Nice is just a stage on the way." "If not a distraction." "Francis wants to recover Milan." "He doesn't renounce his obsessions either." "Then, let us concetrate on defending Milan." "Your Majesty, we are not prepared for another war." "Should I let the King of France get my domains, one by one?" "You lack allies, govern a hypothecated kingdom, and the money from the Indies vanishes as soon as it arrives." "There is a way to solve our financing necessities and the Prince's education as well." "If I could stop the time..." "You are a dreamer." "Maybe." "I would like to stay with you." "Without aging..." "Without becoming sad and stern like my father." "That is exactly what he wishes." " Maybe he is just afraid." " Afraid?" "Of me?" "Of my ambition to inherit what is his?" "Afraid of what will wait for you when he is no longer here." "Mabye he just tries to protect you." "In his way." "Maybe." "But he wants to fix it in days what he has not done in years." "And he makes himself unbearable to me." "He has never dedicated time to me and now that he does..." "I take to be harrassed instead of being thankful." "Because I don't know how to do so." "We are so different!" "Less than you think." "That is why you collide." "You are like..." "Like two clouds, full of rain in a huge storm." "You always see beyond the things before your eyes." "I love you." "Philip is a man now." "And the time has come when he should leave the child life behind." "Because of this, and because of the great respect I have for you I ask you the hand of your daughter Manuela, with the intention of strengthening even more our alliance." "So much time without news from your brother." "And now, he wants to take my daughter from me." "Does it annoy you that he wants to make her queen?" "Once again, the only thing he is interested in is our money." "Yes." "To fight against the ally of the Turks." "And, welcome as the dowry was, there was never a woman more loved than your sister Isabella." "We have to help Charles." "For Portugal's sake." "What will become of us if the one who allies with the infidels out of greediness wins?" " Our kingdom is neutral." " We are family." "Spain and Portugal are twin lands." "We cannot remain on the margin." "We have the money." "And he has the reasons." "I have to think it over calmly." "I know you, Friar Bartolomé, and I know His Majestyt." "Allow me an advice." "Hold your vehemence back and watch over your tone." "Thank you for giving me audience, Your Majesty." "Thank the Empress in your prayers." "Because it was she who paid attention to your demands." "Tell me, what do you want?" "It is my obligation to tell you about the horrors which are committed in your name." "In my name?" "Are you not responsible on the highest level for the things that happen there?" "Get to the point." "The Pope was willing to issue a bull in which it was said that the Indians are God's subjects." " Free, just like you and me." " I know it." "It is also where my wife intervened, may she be in glory." "Her disappointment will be huge in the heaven if she sees what a game was made of that bull in New Spainban." "Indians keep on dying, exhausted by the works they are subjected to or they are forced by whips in the encomenderos' hands." "But..." "Castile will keep looking the other way while ships arrive with gold." "Have you done such a long journey to offend me?" "I just report an infamy." "And I beg you to end it!" "Your Majesty..." "It is our duty as Christians to ban those estates and free the Indians." "Does your conscience have to bear so many lost souls?" "Cortés warned me about you." "You are a leery and scheming man." "Pay attention to the man you consider appropriate." "I will keep persisting in the salvation of the innocent ones." "Because that is the Lord's intention." "Don't let him step through that door once again!" "Your Majesty..." "Headstrong as the friar is, his cause is just." "You too, my friend?" "Summon Cortés." "I want to talk to him as soon as possible." "Read it." ""A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies"." "By Friar Bartolomé de las Casas." "After Atahualpa gave the Spaniards more than 2 million of gold, having given them all the land, they burned the same Atahualpa." " I affirm that, before my eyes, I have..." " ... seen Spaniards cut hands, ears and noses of Indian men and women, without purpose, just because they wished to do so, in so many places and spots that it would be long to tell." " But what is this?" " Not more than a fragment of the things Friar Bartolomé wrote, that he himself has spread." "It has fallen into my hands, too." " Who else has read it?" " Very few people," " so far." " You have to impede him to publish" " a report like this about the conquest." " Of course!" " The scandal would be...!" " Is it the only thing that troubles you?" "Do the things the document suggests not horrify you?" "What we have done to those poor creatures deserted by the Crown?" "This man stretches the truth for his trim." "For his own benefit!" " This takes his credit away." " Only your eyes is what you know, but the rest of the world will find it good!" "Your Majesty, whether he exaggerates or no, de las Casas tells the truth." "The truth, my lord, is that only I and men like me brought civilization to places where only barbarism had existed!" "For greater glory of the Crown and the Christendom." "Enough, Don Hernán." "Tank you for enlightening me." "Always at your service." "Do you know what I thought when I saw our ships sink before Algiers?" "That I had overshot the mark and that God had fallen out with me." "That He was no longer by my side." "He prefered the victory of the infidels than that of an arrogant man." "Maybe he punishes the sins committed in my name on the other side of the ocean." "The baseness of an excessive eagerness." "Have the black friar come here." "The encomiendas will keep beeing canceled." "There will be neither cause nor motive to make the Indians become slaves." "Your Majesty, you have demonstrated that you are the leader the Christendom deserves on both sides of the ocean." "Although Castile has promulgated these New Laws, do understand that this writing of yours..." "My testimony didn't have other intention than to touch the reader." "If I had known that it would be examined by such regal eyes..." "Don't take me for a fool." "You sent it aroundin order to achieve your goals at the expense of avoiding a scandal." " The war is just if the goal is noble." " The manuscript has already achieved its aim." "So I ask you to destroy it, for everyone's sake." "Should it not be told, perhaps, what has happened there?" "Tell me only one empire, noble as it is, that has not drawn blood of the defeated ones." "You have to know that the bishopric of Cuzco has been given to you, too." "Friar Bartolomé, the Emperor is being very generous with you." "It would be good to leave immediately." "Your Majesty, I don't want to offend you but I cannot accept." "As you must know, Peru is very far from the place where I do my tasks and..." "Which would be the suitable diocese for you?" "From the bishopric of Chiapas, I could better look after the fulfillment of these New Laws." "Alright." " As to the manuscript..." " Your Majesty, destroying it, it would not be good for anything, because I will never forget what I saw and heard." "Your devotion in the defense of the Indians honours you, but you owe loyalty and obedience to the Crown." "Don't forget that." "Portugal has replied." "Let Tavera and Granvela come." "And order that they bring my lunch." "Portugal accepts the engagement." "The dowry will be 300 000 ducats." "Now you have the money for your war." " Are you not happy?" " No war is motive for happiness." " I give you that." " I would be good to redo the bonds with England." "I will write to Henry." "We will leave for Milan as soon as possible." " I will lead the troops myself." " You?" "First you send your son's tutors away, and now you abandon what you have started?" "Are you questioning my decision, Your Reverence?" "I just wonder what the Prince will think." "Philip should not know." "No one will tell him a word neither about his wedding, nor about my leaving." "I will do it myself when I see fit." "Of course, Your Majesty." "Now, let us concentrate on defeating Francis." "I would like to see myself on the battlefield." "I remember her every day, too." "When I last see you so silent you warned me that my mother was going to die." "There are great news concerning you." "You are going to marry your cousin Maria Manuela." " You cannot ask me that." " I am not asking." "I am letting you know." "You postponed your wedding for years." "No matter how everybody insisted." "I reigned and knew my place." "being married, you will finally abandon that life dedicated to flowers and your lover." "If I have to marry I will." "But don't say it is for my sake." "My cousin's dowry will finance the war." "So don't take me for a simpleton." "You are right." "You deserve to be treated as an adult." "I don't know how much time I have left, Philip." "And it is much power you have to receive." "I need to know that you will be prepared." "When the moment comes, trust no one." "No one?" " Not even our counsellors?" " No one, son." "Neither Alba, nor Granvela nor Tavera." "All will want something from you." "All, without exception." "As to your wife, a king also has to be a good husband." "Restrain your impulses." "Don't insult her." "You will have to moderate the pleasures." "Sleep with your woman becasue it is necessary, but remember that it is wrong to do it too much." "Are you not exaggerating, perhaps?" "It was the excessive love that killed your mother." "7 pregnancies were tempting fate too much." "I will pay respect to your advices." "I promise." "Are you ill, perhaps?" "I am leaving for the war." "Maybe we will not see each other again." "Are you abandoning me again?" "I am giving you the opportunity to prove that you are worthy of receiving my legacy." "You will be regent during my absence." "Now I understand it all." "Son!" "Help Philip in the regency." "Obey his commands but keep me informed of everything." "I will." "Your Reverence." "I am sorry for having been unjust with you." " You have done a good job with my son." " Only time will tell, Your Majesty." "Your Majesty, we have to leave now or night will reach us before we had planned." " Remember, son." " I know." "I should trust no one." "Not even my own father." "He should not leave him alone again." "Did you want to see me?" "I am going to marry." "Did you know?" "No." "The Inftanta of Portugal." "My cousin Maria Manuela." "Congratulations." "This day had to come." "It did." "Now I have to focus on my duties as regent." "And I, on occupying my place by your sister Mary." "No more explication is needed." "Isabel." "You have given me the happiest moments of my life." "But time cannot be stopped." "Charles will lead his troops personally." " Do you want me to keep my seat?" " You promised you would not fight." "And you, to obey your king!" "Do you think I don't notice how you look at me?" "Everyone!" "Like at an old man, at the evening of his life." "Even poor!" "Like at a walking dead." "I prefer dying on horse before staying here to watch this interminable funeral." "I had the hope that you would find peace and repose in Castile." "No." "I will not rest until my work concludes." "I suppose I should felicitate you on your appointment, Monsignor." "As to those New Laws, don't expect they would be welcomed." " It is the King's word." " Yes..." "But that comes from very far away." "Don't worry." "We will observe the law." "And we will comply with the Crown." "We will find the way to provide them with riches, just like so far." "Near Paris..." "My lord, how is your gout?" "The Englishman gives us his support." "That eases any kind of pain." "Well, wait and hear what I am coming to tell you." "Francis has encamped one and a half miles away from here." "He wants to surprise us." "Prepare my horse." " I refuse!" " Don't be stubborn, Your Highness." "We are not going to fight more battles." "You have to leave immediately." " Never!" " Our position has been given away!" " Charles is coming, in greater number than we have." " Well, I will face him, damn it!" "Listen to me carefully!" "Everything is lost." "Leave, as soon as possible." "You cannot be taken prisoner again." "I came here for the victory." "I will not go like a frightened old woman." "And my duty is to keep you safe!" "If you don't mount that horse I swear I will obligate you myself." "Don't stop till Paris!" "Father!" "We have organized a ball and the venison has been prepared as you like it." " What are we celebrating?" " The end of the war." "And that you have come back in one piece." "My defeat." "Nobody has lost this war since no one has won it." "Negotiate;" "the Emperor will cede." "If you wanted to increase my shame you have succeeded." "I am retiring in my chambers." "No one should disturb me." "The entire square will be covered with standards." "The craftsmen will build a triumphal arch." "The most splendid wedding of the history of Spain." "Leave that to the chroniclers, Granvela." "What is she like?" "I understand she is a good Christian." "Your Reverence, you know it is not what I am asking you." "I don't know the Infanta personally." "I can tell you what they say about her." "Please." "I am going to marry her and I have not even seen her portrait." "I have heard that she is taller than, or as tall as, her mother, your aunt Catherine." "Very pretty, friendly, dresses well, and without a spot on her face." "Could you be more exact?" "They say she is an angel." "Infanta." "Your Reverence." "Say that you know where your brother is." "Calm down." "He has not escaped if that is what you are afraid of." "Your Highness!" "The Infanta Doña Maria Manuela." "Infanta, let me introduce your cousin and future husband, the Prince Don Philip." "It is a pleasure to meet you." "I hope you had a good travel." "It is a long journey." "The longing to get to know you made it shorter." "And it has been really worth it." "However, your silence is telling me that I have disappointed you." "Why should it be that way?" "We had time so that the imagination flies." "And it doesn't stop being odd, marrying a stranger." "Do you not agree?" "In fact, it is as you say so." "I, for example, believed you taller." "It matters a little what we thought." "It has already been decided for us." "I do." "I do." "Amen." "I am glad to see you again in more joyful circumstances." "I am saying the same." "May God let the Prince find in his wife the happiness his father found in the Empress." "May God want it so, since he took her from us." "But you have not come here just to express such good wishes." "I have not, indeed." "As you know, my conquests were left behind, and the officials of the Crown endeavour to administer them." "And do you not feel proud?" " Relieved, perhaps?" " I have other jobs to do." "Because I have to look after my businesses here and in New Spain." " Which are not a few." "Neither are they ruinous, as I understand." " Fortunately." "But the New Laws approved by the Emperor before his departure can ruin some." "They will not deprive you of a warm meal." "Don't worry." "But it will save many people from a life of suffering." "How differently people understand here how much happens on the other side of the seas!" "Believe if I say that the many who have forged a future there will not let themselves be damaged by some laws made in the comfort of the Court." "My friend, not everyone is like you." "No." "There are people who are harder to comport with." "Warn the Emperor and let him prepare his answer." "And that should be convincing because Castile without the Indies will see its purse as dwindled as mine." "Do you think they could go so far?" "There are plenty of rude people and their behaviour is no less rude." "Tell him it." "He will hear you with better mood than me." "So many prepared me for this day and they avoided to tell me the best." "As a child, I heard you had a delicate health." "But, actually, you are very vigorous." "My father believes we should maintain a regimen of moderated meetings." "I am your wife." "My duty is to give you some healthy and strong sons." "If I am not going to have you always at my disposal, then let me enjoy you tonight until I am sated." "Isabel." " Isabel!" " What are you doing here?" "This is you wedding night." "You should be with..." "With the woman I love." "I have missed you so much." "I could not stop thinking of you." "The Princess loves you." "I have seen it in her eyes." "And in mine?" "What have you seen?" "She gave herself to you in love." "Is it not enough for you?" "No." "I want it all." "I want you." "I love you." "Behave when the Emperor comes." "Please." "Why be polite with someone who has no consideration for us?" "He has put his son on the throne of Spain." "But he forgot about you and me." "Be patient." "We have just won a war." "You will see there is recompense for everyone." "Who knows?" "Maybe the Duchy of Milan will be yours." "Congratulations, brother." "Finally, this war comes to an end." "God is by our side again." "What are you going to do now that you defeated your eternal enemy?" "Will you rest, finally?" "At the moment, I will wait for Francis to assume the defeat, agree to an agreement and respect it." "Do you remember my son Maximilian?" "Of course." "Though it would have been impossible for me to recognize you." "Whose is this wonderful voice?" "Her name is Barbara Blomberg." "Your Majesty, I hope you liked it." "For a man who comes back from a war, your singing has been the closest to the sky." "Seeing the Emperor so close impresses more than watching him on paintings and tapestries." "One doesn't age on pictures." "Your Majesty, there are many who require your presence." "I suppose this negotiation is not important enough for the King of France to assist in person." "His Highness's health has impeded him to come." "But he must have given you power to cede the Duchy of Burgundy." "As long as you renounce the Duchy of Milan." "I see this negotiation is going to linger." "Lord Constable, I have come to sign a permanent peace." "If you are entrusted with the same mission, we will come to an agreement." "Where are these men going?" "To mines, to the fields..." "Where they are needed." "Where there were Indians before." "You have saved the Indians from their tasks, but the Crown doesn't renounce the fruit of these lands." "He bought them in Africa and this is their job." "Negros were born to serve." "To be slaves." "That is how God wanted." "Or do you think that they are also like you or like me?" "This is ignominy!" "Infamy!" "This is what you have provoked!" "No." "And thousand times no." "Peace everywhere and for all men regardless of race." "Only one God exits for all the people, Indians, Pagans, Greeks or Barbarians." "I thought the Negros were more resistant than the Indians and I saw thousands die in the streets." "I have been wrong!" "Lord, forgive me." "Forgive me, Lord." "Transmit my respects to your lord." "I hope he will recover soon." "I will let him know it." "The entire kingdom pray for that." "In the end, neither will you recover Burgundy nor will Francis get Milan." " This war has not been good for anything." " Just like most of them." "You close a long chapter." "What are you going to do with the things you gained?" "I have to think it over." "At least, you must know who will be the next Duke of Milan." "Milan will be for Prince Philip." "A worthy title for an emperor's son, don't you think?" " What do you want?" " He has given absolutely nothing to us!" " You said..." " Calm down!" "Everything will be his son's!" "Even the Duchy of Milan!" "One humiliation after the other!" "You get into a scrape, behaving this way." "You think the same, you just don't dare to ope your mouth!" "Say it is not true!" "Say it, father!" "Crawl before him if you are so loyal!" "But you will not get anything!" "Not even the crumbs that fall from the tablecloth!" "And my nephew Maximilian?" "I could barely see him." "He didn't feel well." "Neither do I." "The dinner has sat upon me." "Forgive him." "He has drunk too much." "I will go with him." "It is difficult to approach you." "Always surrounded by your people." "And so alone at the same time." "So alone?" "Alone and sad, if you permit." "You are the most powerful man in the Christendom." "Why this sorrow?" "Because I loved much and I lost it all." "All?" "Let me cast doubts on that." "And ease your thirst." "No matter how much you fill my cup, my soul will still be empty." "Let me alleviate your wound." "Let me try it." "You will not find better comfort in other hands." "You would waste your time." "There is nothing to do." "There is always something to do." "Let me take you to a more private place." " Where have you brought me?" " To the best corner of your empire." "You talked about a private place." "We are not alone, not precisely." "Don't pay attention." "Imagine that it is just you and me." "Listen to me, only me." "I..." " You have got confused." " There is no possible mistake." "You are a man." "But I have not been with a woman for years." "I will refresh your memory, Your Majesty." "Where are you going, Your Majesty?" " I have to leave here." " Don't go..." "Stay for a little while." "You don't understand." "You cannot understand." "I understand perfectly, my lord." "You are broken." "Your wound have not healed." "Neither will they heal." "Charles!" "No." "I am Philip." "Your grandson." "But how time has passed!" "Let me introduce your granddaughter Manuela." "Catherine's daughter." "And, now, my wife." "You don't take after your mother at all." " Where is my son Charles?" " In Flanders." "He has just won the war against the French." "He doesn't come to visit me anymore." "We wanted to present ourselves before you before Manuela's state impedes it." "I had six children with my husband." "All reached adulthood and only Isabella has died yet." "Take it." "May God take pity on you, my child." "Be strong, Princess." "Just a little more." "He is pulling me apart." "He is pulling me apart inside." "It is a boy." "Seems to be healthy." "And the Princess?" "She has lost much blood." "Maybe she will not survive this night." "Look at your son." "It seemed he would not want to come into this world, but here he is." "How are you, Your Highness?" "Are you not going to call me by my name, not even now?" "How short everything has been, Philip!" "Don't say that." " There is still hope." " No..." "I see it on everybody's face." "My journey is ending here." "I have complied." "I have given you a son." "And now," "I am starting another journey." "Philip..." "I know you have not loved me, but you have been attentive and polite with me." "Thank you for that." "Forgive me." "Please." "Forgive me." "And now, if you don't mind, I would like to stay alone for a while with the child." "You should visit His Reverence." "As soon as possible." "God cannot take you." "Not yet." "Your father is a man trapped in his fears." "You should decide who deserves your trust." "You are stronger than you think." "What have you done, you fool?" "What you should have done a long time ago!" "What have you offered to the German princes so that they rebel against the Emperor?" " What did you tell them?" " That you are the past and I am the future!" "How is it possible that the German princes rebel against me?" "Can I never live in peace?" "It is certain that the war is a fact." " Do you have anything to do with it?" " How can you even think about it?" "I am by your side!" "Decide what you want to see in me: an ally or a traitor!" "I have to write to Philip." "We need money in order to face the rebels." "Next time..." "Bring Frederick of Saxony to me." "You have taken the robe of the Society of Jesus." "Why do you give him the regency if you don't want him to govern?" "You will be with me come what may." "I summoned Maximilian but I am afraid Ferdinand doesn't pay attention to my petition." "Who is with me?" "I will do the impossible to save us." "Your Majesty, there are no obedience in those lands for the laws of the Crown." "It doesn't benefit us in anything if our subjects rebel against us." "Mühlberg didn't serve as deterrent." "The Protestants rebels again." "Let time decide if France has to continue the fight... or no." "What kind of joke is this?" "This letter has come from the Indies." "My moment has come!" "I ask you to clear the way." "I don't doubt your esteem towards me." "But I do doubt your loyalty towards the King." "We cannot finish with the imperial army." "But we can finish with the man they fight for." "No sovereign has ever united under his command domains so vast and diverse." "What are you going to do with Maximilian?" "You and I share the doubtful honor of having been the Emperor's prisoners." "Then, let us help each other relieve us of his yoke." "My strength wanes day after day." "And, since we are all mortals," "I have to leave my things done and well done." "And my father?" " Don't do it, Your Highness." " He is my father!" "He is the Emperor!" "For the Emperor!"