"At the end of the 16th century England and Scotland were separate kingdoms." "Maria Stewart, the queen of Scotland, had spent her childhood in France and had just returned to her homeland after her parents' death, in order to ascend the Scottish throne." "Queen Elisabeth of England pursued Maria Stewart with jealousy and hate." "She tried to incite the Scottish people to revolt against their lawful ruler." "Finally she gold hold of Maria and imprisoned her in England." "A black stone, a white stone... life's chain must be like this." "Sometimes serious, sometimes playful finally one arrives at the destination, a black stone," "a white stone life's chain must be like this." "Yesterday in luck, today in distress, tomorrow freedom or death?" "But my girl, everything will turn out alright." "Tomorrow the court will pass judgment upon you." "Yes, and tomorrow Elisabeth will open our door." "I wrote to her." "She'll believe your letter." "From now on, double the guard." "Tomorrow the Crown Court will sit in session." "Again?" "For the last time" "My lords... her majesty the queen regrets not having been able to attend the court's last session" "she is too distressed" "In the name of her majesty, the Queen of England" "The accused Maria Stewart, former queen of Scotland, has again addressed a letter to her majesty from Fotheringhay castle." "Ever since the accused has ascended the Scottish throne her plume has scratched the paper far too often in accomplished style and with surprising frankness these letters are known to the English supreme Crown Court they prove the accused's guilt in having caused her royal husband's death" "her adultery with the murderer Lord Bothwell and her conspiracy against the English crown" "in many letters the accused has expressed the wish to justify herself in front of her majesty" "Her majesty regrets, but she is tied up with matters of state so she cannot grant that favor." "Therefore her majesty has forwarded this letter also to the crown court, unopened." "wishing that it may be the last put this in the box with the other letters." "I don't believe it." "But I know, your majesty." "or you have a better messenger than the English guard?" "My heart speaks of freedom." "the judgment has been passed!" "without Elisabeth but on her orders" "She'll come." "I'm innocent." "Or don't you believe me, captain?" "I do, Maria." "I believe you." "I have seen you, and I believed you." "You must flee." "I'll take you from the castle." "We'll flee together." "We want to live." "Live." "And here there is nothing but death." "Let it be, captain." "There won't be any escape." "They can take away my crown, but not the right" "I'll wait for Elisabeth." "Her majesty's government is deeply concerned with the accused's fate." "However, her majesty's government is determined to obey her traditional politics' rules to serve the European moral and to strengthen the kingdom's power." "The supreme Crown Court rules" "The supreme court of the English Crown condemns Maria Stewart, former queen of Scotland to death by beheading." "Her majesty, Elisabeth queen of England has confirmed the Supreme Crown court's judgment" "The execution will take place tomorrow morning in the upper hall of Fotheringhay castle" "Elisabeth allows a queen to be beheaded?" "like a criminal?" "like an enemy to England" "I am not England's enemy." "The accusation is false." "Elisabeth has lied." "The queen of England has lied." "I am without guilt." "I can't die." "Holy mother of God" "I am not England's enemy." "Always I have lived for Scotland" "Always I have followed my heart my heart" "it slept when I went to France as a child it slept, when I took farewell from France" "but when I saw Scotland again as her queen" "then it awoke" "When Maria entered Scotland she encountered hate and repulsal everywhere." "She wanted to conquer the peoples' heart with love, but the resistance of the Scottish nobility, the fanatic struggles within the medieval church and the English queen's hostility prevented her." "God bless you." "General Ruthven, commander of the castle's guards." "Is this a castle or a prison, general?" "A fortress." "I am Jacob." "My brother?" "Scotland's regent, till now." "And from today, my friend." "Scotland's nobility, Scotland's lords" "Yes, I know." "Scotland does not love me." "But I love Scotland." "the dark mountains." "the wide valleys the voices from the forests and the wind on the sea" "it is our country can't we love it together?" "down with your head, on your knees" "you don't, my lord?" "for no woman, madam." "not even for the queen?" "Scotland is a hard country, a country for men." "and men do not serve a woman" "France is a woman's country, madam." "they will kneel for you there, even if you don't wear a crown." "Return to France, madam you will be received with pleasure." "I am staying, my lord." "Then you'll have to fight." "With you?" "What kind of a man are you?" "Lord Bothwell." "The queen has no use for your service, Lord Bothwell." " Go." " Madam." "Johanna Gordon" "The last of the Gordon's, your majesty." "I know." "The Gordons have suffered much from the Stewarts." "Death and pains and a law court full of blood." "My father was very hard." "and without mercy three brothers he took from you" "Forget it, Johanna" "You've lived with the dead long enough, you live with me." "There was poison in the wine." "So much blood between you and me." " Oh my God." " It's worse than I thought." "What was the matter with Johanna?" "Nothing." "Scotland will spit out that queen who has a strange language and a strange religion spit her out like leprosy and the plague." "but she has a pretty face." "Yes." "The devil gave her a smooth face." "but her heart is a snakes' nest." "Listen, you citizens of Edinburgh, listen to John Knox hear God's friend, the Lord's just scribe" "John Knox brought the true reformed faith to Scotland" "And what will Maria bring us?" "Look, mirrors for vanity tissues for whoring lutes for dance and debauchery kneeling chairs for the devil may the devil fetch the queen of Scotland but we need a leader" "Lord Jacob was a good regent to us, when Maria was still in France a good regent, he provided for everything thank God, fattening our cows you think of your cows" "I think of Scotland what will become of it if we overthrow the queen?" "unrest in the land, and danger on the borders no, my lords, I am not Maria's friend no, but her bother, you both have the same bad blood" "her brother, yes we have the same father but my mother's blood makes me part of the people" "I have served this country without wearing a crown and I will force even Maria to serve Scotland she is our queen she ought to learn to be our queen" "Your majesty, it is time, the crown council," "The lords must be waiting." "I want to serve you, your majesty." "Take this necklace." "All the Scottish kings have worn it at the crown council." "This will make you very beautiful, Maria." "the governing will take care of itself." "I thank you, Johanna." "We shall love each other." "Come with me, Riccio." "The queen had ordered the lords to appear at the crown council." "They won't come." "I hereby open the crown council." "Begin, Riccio." " The queen of Scotland wishes...." " You're Italian?" "Yes my lord, from Bologna." "I would have stayed there, the climate is much better than ours here." "The secretary has my confidence." "Go on, Riccio." "The queen of Scotland wished to ensure for her people the freedom of religion for both confessions the abolition of serfdom, law courts of justice, and a... why, your majesty?" "I have been told you know how to sing romantic songs and play the French lute." "I can see that's true." "But in Scotland the people wants to speak its own language." "The Scottish lords have brought misfortune upon my people." "And you bring them bliss?" "my people need neither a woman nor a little scribe" " Lord Jacob!" " This poem can't be put to music anyway" "We are not in France, Maria." "In Scotland, the people wants to feel the master." "He doesn't understand me." "You don't need him, madam." "You'll govern without the lords." "madam." "How dare you?" "I beg your pardon, madam, I know I'm intruding, you're in the crown council, aren't you?" "Nobody there?" "The lords didn't come?" "That's not nice, one shouldn't keep a beautiful woman waiting." "You are talking to the queen!" "Unfortunately." "You have such beautiful hair, madam." "Such a pity that it's pressed down by a crown." "I have forbidden you to appear at court." "I have ordered you to stay away." "and now you're here uncouth, arrogant, insolent" "why don't you answer?" "answer me!" "You're the only woman created by God courageous, strong and bold to possess you, to make love to you" "Guard!" "Put Lord Bothwell under arrest." "he has insulted the queen." "it's a pleasure to be the prisoner of a beautiful woman" "I could love her... if I didn't have to hate her." "She is proud." "And far-seeing, she sees as far as the English crown." "Today she is queen of Scotland, maybe tomorrow she wants to be queen of England." "it is madness, but France would applaud, and the pope would bless it." "The Scottish lords had promised to protect the queen." "An expensive promise, your majesty, it had cost England a lot of money." "Those Scots, they take the fee and refuse to job." "Indeed, your majesty." "Ours hopes, that Scotland will chase that Stewart woman out of the country, have failed." "A pity." "The queen of Scotland has grown up in France." "This makes our continental politics more difficult." "The queen is catholic." "This spoils our business with Spain and Rome." "Your majesty must decide." "Decide what?" "The queen's heavy cavalry can be in Edinburgh in ten days." "You are very nervous, general." "I am worried, your majesty." "What is of use to England, that is right." "and what harms England, is wrong?" "One should only shake the tree when the fruit is ripe." "And Scotland has a late harvest." "I forgot, prince Henry Darnley will move to the Scottish court at my orders." "Of what use can he be to us?" "Prince Henry is a Scot." "But he is sworn to me." "And he'll present our bill to those Scottish lords." "And then Scotland will fight, general." "Against Maria, and for Elisabeth!" "I admire you, your majesty." "And when is prince Henry to leave?" "He's already on his way." "Maria, he's coming." "on a white horse." "preceded by twenty horsemen, and a band playing" "Prince Henry Darnley." "Peer of England, Earl of Scotland." "about to be received by her majesty." "The queen will receive you, prince Henry." "charming." "the real reason of my visit are you, my friend." "I'll just call on the queen, but otherwise.." "we all know, the true rulers of Scotland are the lords." "even Elisabeth knows this." "so, one hears Maria is beautiful?" "interesting" "I always thought the men in Scotland like to drink and die early, and the women bear children and wear their clothes buttoned up to the neck." "By the way, Elisabeth gave me some gifts to distribute among the lords." "generous gifts that's most generous, prince Henry but this is the way to the queen" "excuse me, aren't you of royal blood too?" "according to my sister, I'm not." " such a pity, but she must know I'm sure." " Yes." "did you see him?" "how does he look?" "like a god, a god filled with music." "even without a beard?" "Now girls, where is the god?" "Even more beautiful than I thought." "How beautiful you are, madam." "More beautiful than Elisabeth?" "Elisabeth?" "interesting" "The queen of England doesn't love me." "And still, she sends me one of her best friends." "You realize, prince Henry, how pleased I am." "I left England, your majesty, for good, honestly." "interesting." "At this court there's only room for Scotland's friend, prince Henry." "I thank you for your visit." "When will you be leaving?" "I am staying." "I'll take charge of my Scottish properties, your majesty." "I am offering you my services... and my heart." "And what does the queen of England think of this?" "Why?" "I am a Scot." "and I love... whom do you love?" "Scotland, of course." "A lady, my lord." "Lady Johanna!" "Why have you come?" "to see you" "Bothwell behind bars." "I can leave this cell whenever I want, my lady." "you want to escape, baron?" "to come to her, to hunt the queen." "Scotland is unruly and stubborn like a horse, just the rider is missing you have to guide her with whip and spurs." "and with wisdom, my lord." "wisdom?" "yes lady Johanna, you've been very wise, you learned to forget quickly you wanted to kill the queen, today you serve her that's not my kind of business and you'll never bend the knee?" "for her?" "she wrote to me, a beautiful letter, befitting a queen" "I should beg her pardon, kneel before her take it, tell your mistress she should come herself if she wants something from me" "she's to come herself?" "I'll wait, but not for long the queen is very busy, my lord." "she receives prince Henry Darnley" "Darnley?" "that fool!" "he pleases women." "he is beautiful" "The queen of Scotland thanks you, prince Henry." "and she'll await with pleasure the proofs of your friendship." "please take residence in the cavalier's house." "get up, prince Henry." "and old hand like you ?" "your litany poured like honey from your lips" "I don't understand it myself." "I feel like in a dream that woman!" "...we are prepared to show our royal pardon." "We expect however, that you first humbly ask for our forgiveness kneeling in obedience before the queen of Scotland." "Maria" "Have you seen prince Henry too, Johanna?" "he is bright and empty." "One can hardly believe that he is Scottish." "Scots... are different." "like Lord Bothwell hasn't be begged for a pardon yet, your majesty?" "No a Scot" "and who was it now?" "Mary Seaton?" "now you watch out" "now I kiss you who can it be?" "that was Weheister ?" "you see Maria, he loves you love?" "do you already know what love is?" "I want to die for you, your majesty." "When one loves, there is no death." "But you must never love Bothwell, your majesty." "But I may forgive him?" "He insulted you, your majesty." "He has been punished enough." "he's the boldest of them all." "I need him." "Madonna, what are you going to do?" "I don't know yet." "heaven is far away, and empty is the night." "in a dark chamber my heart is awake it sleeps and waits, wondering where the dream may carry it" "do you hear, my heart?" "do you hear, my heart?" "it finds the way by the power of the stars it finds you and happily laughs my heart" "it loves and asks for love to be given" "take away my heart" "How beautiful she sings." "we live in a strange country, Olivier, a land of darkness and of evil hearts." "we are afraid for a friend, and she... she listens to her heart and... heaven is near, night sounds like music in your deepest dream it breaks my heart" "it breaks and waits until God's voice speaks" "Where is your heart?" "Where is your heart?" "Where is your heart?" "Here we must stop, madam." "we've arrived" "spooky forest the witches ride through the air on horseback" " voilà - here?" " yes." "this is a hidden entrance to Lord Bothwell's castle where the lords are plotting against you right now the English government has transmitted her desires to us through prince Henry" "Elisabeth's gifts." "English money is good money how many English pounds does Maria weigh already?" "that's not the point" "Our love for Scotland is greater than our friendship with England, my lords." "If Maria dies without an heir, Scotland will be at England's mercy." "and so will you we set Maria a time limit to govern Scotland as Scotland needs to be governed." "and this time limit?" "you must be grateful to me, madam but yes, you are my friend but you doubt it, don't you?" "like this, always at my side the whole life" "I go alone" "Johanna?" "what do you want of me?" "a contract" "come in" "Lord Bothwell, I have come... how many soldiers do you have?" "why?" "the Gordons have 2.000 they are at my disposal enough to seize power in this country enough to chase the queen" "2.000 soldiers?" "but you swore allegiance to the queen?" "yes, allegiance till death." "I see." "a contract revenge for me, power for you" "I don't make deals with women." "no even with.... your wife?" "what do you mean?" "that I love you" "Johanna!" "the queen has a strange religion, she sows discontent and unrest among the people she has forfeited the right to govern Scotland" "My lords, let's declare war on the queen." "For Scotland, against the queen!" "Lord Jacob?" "in favor" "Lord Arran?" "in favor" "Lord Baldour?" "in favor" "Lord Douglas?" "in favor opposed!" "who opposed?" "the queen" "I find it charming, my lords, that you gather here, three hours away from the capital" "I know, you don't want to distress me" "You have a heart, but so have I." "And my heart drove me to you, my most faithful friends" "Johnny?" "The lords prefer to keep to their own company." "I see high treason is a secret business" "it had been a most instructive visit bon soir you are under arrest, your majesty" "you are in our power guards" "I knew it." "the lords are gentlemen we are men" "I have nothing against men." "I am not even afraid of them." "on the contrary, I find them agreeable, useful and beautiful" "I beg your pardon, my ladies, I intend to woo the queen" "Scotland will be happy, my lord" "I think too, that it'll be a good time for Scotland" "I'll raise horses tall and strong eagles into the compound, bears into the courtyard and a French cook into the kitchen." " my congratulations the king has a lot of projects utter rubbish, you won't leave this room unless you have renounced the power of government" "very well, my lords, I'll renounce the government but I'll give it to another to a king" "and who will it be?" "who will wash the diapers?" "let me think 26 candidates have asked for my hand in marriage" "Would you like to have the Russian Czar, the Spanish infante, the king of Sweden, the German emperor as your king, my lords?" "Scotland needs a Scot." "A Scot?" "Your sword, brother." "I swear to give this country a Scottish king." "I ask you, my lords, to be my guests in Holyrood tomorrow." "You'll meet your king." "I've heard the Scottish nobility stood against their queen." "I have never believed that rumor." "au revoir" "a king, she says?" "who may that be?" "the perfume is French so is her Scottish language" "what a woman!" "quick Riccio, to mor ?" "you want to give him the crown?" "but your majesty!" "where is your master?" "he went out" "I'm sorry he forgot to tell when he'll be back escaped!" "he has an appointment for tonight an appointment?" "he didn't want to keep the bride waiting." "a wedding?" "tonight my lord likes company, your majesty he doesn't like to be alone" "whom does he marry?" "Lady Johanna Gordon." "Johanna" "Johanna Gordon, will you be an obedient wife to James Bothwell?" "Will you hold the bonds of marriage with him faithfully?" "It is God's will." "?" "Bothwell" "Do you want Johanna Gordon.." "Scotland wants it, priest" "So I unite you a bond of the newly reformed dream which has illuminated your country" "You cannot go back, you majesty" "You must give the lords their king, or a crown prince" "Marry?" "You must, madonna, if you want to keep the crown." "a Scot, because you have sworn to it." "one who can be easily managed because he loves you" " Henry?" " Yes, don't you realize, he'll be king in name only." "he'll never be a king the power will remain with you, you majesty, with me at your side" "Scotland will be at peace, we will be safe" "Henry Darnley" "duty is holier than love it's a matter of the crown it's not about your heart" "very well, Riccio" "I'll do my duty you can arrange the marriage" "but it's Bothwell she loves" "King Henry, what's the meaning of that?" "The end of the queen" "She was cleverer than we were if that's your opinion look at the boy, how his pants fit him" "How do you like emeralds, Lord Jacob?" "just stones, your majesty don't say that" "stones mirror life they make you rich or poor" "You don't like riches?" "I didn't come to sell you Scotland, but to ask for your help, your majesty" "Maria treats Scotland like a child playing with dolls" "King Henry is a fool" "Riccio governs, the queen's confidant, a stranger, a catholic but Scotland must remain Scotland, your majesty" "I think I'll stick to pearls don't you think?" "the pearls are very precious but not precious enough to be able to wear this medallion" "I don't like small children" "This boy will one day be king of Scotland" "Henry's child?" "Henry's." "Who cheated you." "and Maria's child she has a child" "a child" "?" "and I am without an heir?" "I govern and she loves" "?" "Sir John will travel to Scotland" "You shall be granted your wish, Riccio shall disappear" "The queen supports him" "Then it must be the king who will undo him" "Henry is very much in love with Maria." "I know!" "love can turn quickly to hate" "I know that." "he makes fists, Maria he'll be powerful one day" "he'll have a big heart fetch him to me" "just cry as much as you like it will make you strong and cry loud" "you have to want it a bonnie lad, if he were a girl he would be like his father" "like him most beautiful queen Maria I never had such lovely days" " what's going on there?" " something funny, your majesty come to me folks, listen and watch what may happen to a married couple" "beatings are given to the lazy one, lazy in bed or lazy on the throne" "I have to govern the whole day and you go out riding all you think about are horses" "you're a pretty stupid guy don't laugh, fool o Henry, Henry what a shame" "I'll throw you out of the bed laughing at the king, I'll teach you laughing!" "Edinburgh's new law regarding public roads, the mayor objects" " You too?" " No madonna." "The king has sold to Lord Douglas the Kildarn meadow." "What was the price?" "13 crowns canceled" "is that all?" "anything else?" "look Maria, it's spring, the first warm day of the year spring you should go to the country, your majesty" "and who will take care of the state business?" "the queen and her secretary interesting you are joking, meanwhile the king is being ridiculed by the people" "and what's that?" "the new coins, your majesty minted without my portrait?" "the queen governs Scotland yes I know" "councils take place without me documents are signed without my name am I the king or am I not?" "you're the queen's husband and your son's father, Maria, you seem to have forgotten you never think about me, everything else is more important to you, this and this and that" "why do you look at me like this?" "it's the same eyes, the same front, the same mouth of course Maria, I've remained the same yes, the same, always the same you haven't become a king, you haven't become a man, you've remained a boy" "beautiful, empty and vain but still the queen of Scotland had desired me and I'm ashamed" "so bashful all at once, your majesty?" "I see one closes the door before one's husband and one dictates letters to the secretary a nice secretary nice letters and well sealed please" "the queen has work to do" "a rare guest" " Alois in the bathhouse?" " I don't bathe, I only watch." "that's important too there's plenty to see pretty girls and noble gentlemen" "where are the lords?" "a visitor from England it's an honour to have Elisabeth's new envoy among us" "let's drink to England's health" "don't you want to join us, it's very relaxing may I help your lordship undressing?" "no thank you, bathing doesn't agree with me what about making love?" "no thank you, it excites me too much" "and besides that, how do you like it here?" "I can't understand how people of good breeding can find any pleasure in bathing why not?" "even the king visits here today the king?" "I don't know any king." "he's a lackey you don't understand it." "he's a cavalier a clothes' lackey, changes his suits six times a day and your lord doesn't get out of his armour for six weeks that's right, he fights every hour with every stupid knave" "the gentlemen seem to be quite at home here it makes the time pass, sir" "I know, my lords it is the queen's intention to exclude the Scottish gentlemen from the state's business" "Scotland is being governed by an Italian musician by David Riccio" "I didn't know that you were so musical, my lords we won't dance to his tune much longer" "Her English majesty abhors any kind of violence" "England has always been on the side of the moral unless it is true that Maria and Riccio are having... how?" "Maria and Riccio?" "if that were true?" "it is true however, that her majesty queen Elisabeth is distressed by the morals at the Scottish court very distressed" "I believe the gentlemen could earn the queen's gratitude you see?" "goodbye" "the queen and her secretary?" "he's pretty enough for it that would be a reason to do away with the Italian" "Around the window blows the wind, he watches the harbor" "get onto the ship, my child you must sleep, sleep" "stars shed a strange light and the silence hums darkness falls on your face when the song is ended" "go to sleep, go to sleep go quietly to sleep" "Riccio the letters for France, you majesty" "you sang, madonna, it was like a dream" "you ought to go to sleep" "sleep?" "I write letters for the Scottish crown but I only see the queen's eyes" "I only hear the queen's voice, like a dark melody a new poem, Riccio?" "I don't like it, it doesn't rhyme" "I have sung, I wrote poems, and nothing has remained but you are here, Maria you are the life life?" "doesn't it pass us all by?" "and we watch it go by?" "one can catch it no, no!" "we must wait till life comes to us it will haunt us at its own hour" "I am pleased, my people are having fun." "they drink, they make love it loves its king, your majesty do you love me, Jane?" "yes since when?" "since I've known you why?" "you are beautiful so young did you never laugh at me?" "no, never so I can be loved" "we are happy to see you here, your majesty" "I am feeling ill, my lords" "I feel hot and cold you must have a bath, Henry, that will do you good it'll do you good, your majesty, to sweat out the poison you have to swallow daily." " You're my friend." "you all are my friends, my only friends" "I thank you, you mean well" "I know how to appreciate friendship friends are good, your majesty in the inn" "but not in the bedroom what do you mean?" "just some talk, nothing else the people say there is one mandolin too many in the castle" "you mean Riccio?" "Wasn't it Riccio, your majesty, who advised her the marriage?" "it couldn't be fast enough for him" "when was the child born anyway?" "interesting" "I say, these Italians... they are so passionate" "damn!" "he'll pay for this he's to die tonight, my lord are you sure?" "I have wet Nelson's tongue" "Riccio won't be singing for long now." "the lords have conspired, including the king the queen?" "she won't be asked" "you must ride, Bothwell this is our hour yes yes, but I'll take a long time to return you'll never return, Bothwell" "I know it go, power awaits you you spoke of nothing else the night you possessed me you've never stopped dreaming about it even in your sleep you spoke of it when I lay beside you and during the day you are full of unrest" "go!" "take hold of the power!" "you are free!" "you let me go, Johanna?" "but you love me" "I have never loved you formerly you played at love, today you play at hate" "I don't believe you the horsemen are in saddle, my lord" "farewell" "yes Bothwell, yes" "I love you" "Love is a beloved guest tralalala it touches you at once, tralalala" "today leave it be, soon it'll come again it passes like the wind" "like empty wind a bravo to the poetess" "and a bravissimo to the composer" "he sings his last love song he'd better pray" "once a strange guest comes to you" "whom you haven't invited" "No Maria, that's too sad only gay guests come to visit us" "yes you are right we'll be gay tonight" "Riccio, let's hear the bagpipe song" "so be glad about any guest tralalala" "you have invited today" "Henry!" "Madam this is the queen's table where the secretary sits, the husband may sit as well" "I'm holding you, you feel how strong I am" " Maria!" " go it's your fault" " it's your fault, you've loved him, you've betrayed me - no!" "where is he?" "but the lords have said so the lords have lied." "you've held my hands, you are the murderer" "Henry shall pay for this, a king too has only one head where is he?" "he is dead, your majesty" "I didn't want that, I didn't want that" "you have ordered Riccio's death and you charged us to execute it they lie, Maria" "I wanted to remove him from you, but no murder, no murder" "all the gates are taken, the courtyard is filled with my horsemen" "I have the power now, my lords and you are to obey" "queen" "you are in danger, your majesty you must leave the castle at once" "you must stay, I'll protect you with my life" "to this place?" "you know this hall, your majesty you've won a victory in this castle once before" "where is your wife?" "at Gordon castle, your majesty she isn't here?" "I wanted to spare you meeting her again she is a Gordon" "I've left her" "I am cold the queen's apartments are upstairs" "are you feeling better?" "would you like some?" "no" "I hope you'll have a good rest, your majesty" "good night" "shall we sing, Maria?" "shall I dance?" "call Olivier, he shall wake with me tonight" "Ollie!" "close the door" "the door doesn't close, your majesty" "please go, my lord the queen needs rest, she sleeps" "I have come to speak with you, your majesty alone" "go, Olivier" "I don't want to hear it!" "be silent prince Henry has betrayed me and you have failed, sir John" "Bothwell's coup ought never to have succeeded" "I thought Bothwell was the Scottish queen's enemy but the queen seems to have bewitched him so it is amazing, your majesty" "you've seen the Queen of Scotland?" "yes, your majesty did you see her well?" "yes your majesty oh, that well... she's beautiful?" "she's smaller than I am?" "taller, your majesty so too tall!" "no you are stupid, sir John, and for this sin there is no mercy in England but I am innocent, your majesty" "Bothwell has loved the queen of Scotland and the queen loves him too" "you won't be in any trouble, sir John, an empty head rolls off easily general" "love!" "love!" "love!" "Lord Chancellor the situation is difficult, your majesty for the first time, Scotland is ruled by a strong hand the nobility is loyal to Bothwell and Henry?" "he's fled we must use him your majesty, you've banished prince Henry but he'll hate Bothwell" "I'll pardon Henry, Lord Chancellor and I'll promise him an army if he will fight Bothwell but then you'll make prince Henry powerful he who lets himself helped by England, he dies!" "the king is expecting you" "he is very ill" "Lord Jacob, your majesty" "your majesty?" "Lord Jacob" "I've come from London, I bring you greetings from Elisabeth" "I am ill, Lord Jacob a pity now that the English government wants to put an army at your disposal if you fight against Bothwell" "5.000 men and what'll happen to Maria?" "Lord Bothwell protects her and she likes it" "You lie!" "Think carefully before you speak of Maria!" ""The queen is a whore, the queen has an affair with Riccio..."" ""the queen has given birth to an Italian child... lies, all lies, Maria is without guilt!" "and I will not tolerate that anything will happen to her lots of things have happened to her go away, Lord Jacob" "I am ill, but I'm not a fool" "I know what you want" "Riccio's head" "Maria's head and then mine and at last the crown for yourself phui" "old fool" "winter has come time passes like in a dream" "for how long will Lord Bothwell be away?" "10 days" "and no news don't be sad, Maria, he'll come back but I'm not sad, May, I'm happy" "you are happy, your majesty?" "you write letters and receive no answer you dream and are afraid to wake up you believe Bothwell is a god, a devil, that's what he is!" "and you are a child foolish and stupid and watchful" "where do you think Lord Bothwell is now?" "in Edinburgh that's what he said but he lied where else can he be?" "with his wife" " is the master in the castle?" " no your majesty, Lord Bothwell is in Edinburgh you see, Olivier, it's all untrue you are very quick in believing" "let me in your majesty" "Johanna Gordon you must be looking for my husband he'll regret to have missed you, he was here till yesterday" "is he often here?" "Certainly, as often as his duties permit." "his duties?" "his duties at your side, your majesty he likes to talk about it with you?" "yes. he's such a tender husband" "I hope you haven't come to complain about him come with me, your majesty, we are leaving no. you've ridden a long way you won't refuse a drink in your welcome" "a cup of wine why do you torture me, Johanna?" "let me have him." "I love him." "and I expect a child by him" "I didn't know that forgive me, Johanna" "The Bothwell's wives have learned to let their husbands run free he has cheated on me often, but he always returns to me every time he's a cavalier full of consideration for his wife never has he brought a mistress into my home" "only once, but that doesn't count a scullery maid." "I drove her out with a whip" "it is snowing the snow falls on us and covers everything what had been your guilt and my disgrace is it a disgrace to love me?" "do you love her?" "whom?" "Johanna, your wife why do you think of her, forget her never shall I forget what she told me" "you've seen her?" "yes, I've visited her what did you want there?" "to be certain whether you cheat on me with other women so what?" "I am certain and with whom do I cheat on you?" "with your wife don't you have a husband?" "I have, but I left him" "I forgot him you mustn't forget him he remains a danger for our love and for the country he tells stories about a queen who cheated on the king with the secretary that's not true!" "and about a child with musician's blood, conceived in a strange bed he denies the child?" "yes he wants to take away the crown, your crown, Maria he wants to take away his honour, your honour and Scotland's honour and the world will believe it and that'll be the end, our end too" "he has to be watched" "he is ill he lies in bed in Glasgow" "I had a house built for him, just outsides the walls of Edinburgh he needs the silence" "someone must fetch him who?" "someone whom he trust, whom he still loves you!" "never!" "you want his death go" "fetch him" "your face looks terrible." "you've come, Maria" "I knew it couldn't be finished with us my poor friend don't look at me" "I have become ugly you won't be able to love me any more" "it's smallpox" "does it hurt?" "it's not the illness, Maria it's the fear" "fear of what?" "of death they want to kill me" "who?" "the lords they're after me, they stick their heads through the window, they're grinning at me they spit into my plates, they laugh at me" ""the king" they laugh" ""the king, betrayed"" "yes, you lay in his bed, with the Italian, I know it" "No, Henry!" "You did, and you laughed at me, both of you day and night this laughter rings in my ears, it never stops" "not even now?" "now it's silent now everything is silent" "stay with me, Maria" "you are good you are without lie" "kiss me, Maria" "kiss me" "your kiss how cool your lips are" "sleep now sleep" "it's good for you" "Around the window blows the wind when you wake in the evening" "step onto the ship my child you must sleep" "sleep you've sang this song often for our child" "how is James?" "he is well. he is your son, your son and he'll be king of Scotland one day and king of England" "James the First little James he likes to laugh, and the heaven looks out of his eyes when he laughs and his face is soft and white like blossoms" "The doctors say I'll get a new skin, as beautiful and smooth as it used to be" "I want to fetch you to Edinburgh home" "there stood a silent house on the moon where happiness had never lived in there he lies in sickness, the poor husband who can neither live nor love" "and the house near the wall has a black face, and the snow covers it like a blanket but we are lucky, we live in the light, we laugh at the curse" "let's not think about it, let's not feel offended no one will disturb our peace, close your eyes let's not think about it, let's not feel offended no one will disturb our peace, close your eyes" "Scotland's nobles greet their queen they are ready to serve the crown" "Scotland thanks your majesty, because you have brought back the king to the capital so that the crown prince should not be infected, we were forced to give shelter to his majesty outside Edinburgh's walls" "this house oppresses me like a coffin we hope that his majesty will soon be delivered from his suffering there stood a knight in front of the house he carried the wife's heart outside a proud heart, in love and blind" "she leaves the husband, she leaves the child the knight in front of the house has a black face, and the snow covers him like a blanket but we are lucky, we live in the light, we laugh at the curse" "let's not think about it, let's not feel offended no one will disturb our peace, close your eyes let's not think about it, let's not feel offended no one will disturb our peace, close your eyes" "nothing should happen to him" "Henry must live!" "long may he live" "I am suffocating" "I must go to the king" "Maria" "your majesty play with us we play blindfold the wife stood at the roadside" "caught in the wild dream the knight laughs, the husband perishes wake up, so that the soul may not die and happiness is depraved and covers its face and the snow covers it like a blanket but we are lucky, we live in the light, we laugh at the curse" "let's not think about it, let's not feel offended no one will disturb our peace, close your eyes" "and the house near the wall has a bloody face the heart turns silent and the dream breaks." "don't cry, my queen don't cry, my sweet queen" "I am with you, I, Olivier" "I'll never leave you, don't cry" "you are free, Maria free for myself you are guilty, and so am I" "let go of hands, Olivier, you must not kiss them, they are covered with blood and all the bells are ringing for my disgrace anything else, madam?" "shall we make politics by the book of prayers?" "all life is murder, all happiness is murder and for every happiness there is a final jugdment here, you execute me" "kill him!" "ah, Bothwell" "I am tired to death" "you see the queen in mourning, my lords she is aggrieved, our devoted friend, the Scottish king, perfidiously murdered." "all Scotland demands a trial but the murderer holds the people in his power" "the queen of England laments Maria's fate she'll help her" "Lord Chancellor" "we have decided" "the government of the English crown rules that imbued with the holy intention not to withhold England's aid to a people under oppression the English crown will dispatch an army to Scotland under its protection order will be restored and the murder of King Henry atoned" "General your majesty you'll fight against rebels not against the crown" "It would be painful to me if any harm would come to the Scottish queen" "Scribe, write down this" "Maria, my beloved sister with deep concern I have heard of your distress" "I offer you shelter and security in England to you and to your son but the Scottish queen is not in distress, your majesty" "you'll only deliver this letter, Lord Jacob, when the time has come." "You love Scotland, my lord?" "I'll give Scotland back to you." "be a strong regent your majesty" "your majesty will reinstate Lord Jacob?" "I've promised" "Scotland shall remain Scotland?" "I have promised to Lord Jacob that he will become Scotland's regent." "whether he will remain regent... let's prepare ourselves for Maria's arrival, Lord Chancellor" "that visit will be permanent" "?" "endowed with power of attorney" "Lord Bothwell's former marriage was not a valid marriage in church since it had been entered in heretic belief but you are willing, in obedience with the only blessed catholic church to enter in marriage and we expect from this bond" "blessings and good tidings for the country she marries a murderer" "and the pope covers the deed with his cloak the king's blood is still steaming before us" "May his death by explosion precede us like a pillar of flame" "the cross" "you swear by the almighty God to lead this country back to the true faith by all means the church deems necessary" "we swear" "force in your entrance down with idolatry and fornication" "God protects us and England's pious majesty" "the guards have surrendered" "if you permit, your majesty, my wedding present" " Johanna - the love letters you wrote to my husband" "I only kept them safe the murderer and the whore" "make way, Lord Jacob, you stand before the king before the king's murderer, Lord Bothwell" "no more blood, Jacob!" "he who hits him, hits me the queen has forfeited the right to the Scottish crown by murdering the Scottish kind and whoring with his murderer." "In the name of Scotland and the minor king James" "I demand either Lord Bothwell renounces all rights acquired through his marriage with the queen leaves this country of his free will" " I'll stay with you." " yes, yes." " Or?" "or Lord Bothwell will be tried together with the queen." "I see" "give me the casket no" "Elisabeth is willing to give shelter to you and to your son in England" "we'll stay together, you and I" "I don't think so, milady" "I prefer to leave you in the care of the queen of England life on the throne, that would have been fun you and me" "dying on the scaffold won't renew any love" "you are leaving me with regrets, madam" "I am sorry but we'll meet again" "let me pass" "I want to go to my child" "arrest him he betrayed the queen" "bind him" "Maria" "?" "the horse, Lord Bothwell" "Johanna" "I pity her." "So do I." "But I had to take her boy." "He mustn't fall into England's hands." "He's Scotland's heir." "Olivier?" "my boy forgive me, your majesty" "I couldn't save the casket." "it doesn't matter ?" "you were true" "take these to the English queen it is the proof of Maria's guilt" "you have loved me very much you're the only one yes, my sweet queen" "I thank you, Olivier" "In her desperation Maria trusted Elisabeth's promise to give her shelter." "But the English queen broke her word and, after years of imprisonment she let the shameful judgment be executed." "Don't cry, my dear there is no death we will be free again, and pure but you are without guilt before the judges, yes, but not before God my heart had seduced me, I only followed my heart" "and life ran through my hands like a dream so much blood has been shed around me" "Riccio and Olivier and Henry's death I caused myself" "today I atone my former debts before I die" "I thank you, my dear" "Take this cross and don't forget... take this ring, endless is the light and it lights us, like gold" "like Him" "and you" "I can give you no ring no necklace" "only the heart and your love and your mouth" "come" "in the name of her majesty, the queen of England kings are victorious in life hearts in eternity" "transcribed and translated by serdar002"