"Previously..." "Charles!" "My hands..." "I barely have strength in my hands." "The time is over for your mother but not for you." "What is dead cannot revive." "You will become related to the Crown of France with a signature." "And the world will know that there is no tyrant who subjects the Holy Father." " With this ring, I make you my wife." " In England there is no queen except me!" "Look my in the eyes..." "and call me a bastard." "Rome will not support you to recover Milan." "Pope Clement is dead." "Please entrust someone else with the governance of Flanders." "Such a high duty cannot remain in the hands of someone as weak as me." "You will leave the Court this very day." "Excommunicated?" "The divorce relieved me of two yokes." "So much gold has come from Peru that Cortés's is alms next to it." "Prove me that the King has made New Spain a viceroyalty and made you a viceroy!" "The Ottomans has taken Tunisia." "I have to liberate it or my Italian domains will be condemned to perdition." "I want to hear your proteges." "Those who say there is another way of talking to God." "You asked me to gather them so that you could kill them as you please!" "I saved you." "God has condemned us because we allied with heretics." "You will do it in the Court." "The heir has to be there in absence of the King." "My boy!" "How could he look me in the eyes and lie to me?" "I will never forgive him this betrayal." "About love and death" "Your Majesty, it is a girl." "Completely healthy." "An infanta." "The great victory that God gave us in Tunisia gladdens the Christendom." "And offends the King of France, clearly, because he has initiated act of war, invading Savoy, and threatens Milan." "As if it were not enough, we found these letters in Tunisia, which were sent by the said king to Barbarossa, giving him words of great friendship, and which can be seen by anyone who would like to." "The King obliges the war with all these." "Unless, as a knight, he prefers to fight with my person, anywhere he wants and anyhow he wants, or retreats kindly out of the taken land in a term of 20 days." "If he doesn't, it will be inevitable that we start to drag our brains." "And it it has to be so, I invoke God, the Pope, and the entire world against France!" "And, with this, I end up saying one and three times, that I want peace!" "That I want peace." "That I want peace." "You knew it and you did nothing." "If Francis deals with the enemy of the Christendom your enemy as well." "You cannot ignore it." " You have to help me against him." " I will not favour one against the other." "You have to stop your rivalry." "Negotiate about the peace." "It is the only way you will both get my support." "I will not let him gain his ends." "If the King of France wants war he will have it." "Hear the Emperor's duel: "That I want peace, that I want peace..." "That I want peace."" "Henry, son, tell me what we have to do." "The Emperor's victory in Tunisia will bring him allies." "I would try to negotiate a good peace." " What did the Pope say?" " He didn't give his support to the Emperor." "Then, war will follow." " Friar Bartolomé, how glad I am of your return!" " I am applying to you, looking for joustice." "You are the viceroy." "How do you permit that a man lives as slave of another if it is an injustice that insults God?" "Show me a slave who is not a slave fairly and squarely and he will be set free immediately." "I know that Cortés explores new lands with your help." "Do you want to exploit its riches with the sacrifice of Indians without rights?" "Nothing is done against the law." "You know well that an Indian in an estate is not a slave." "In Spain, some people affirm that parrots and Indians are of the same nature." "You know them, so what do you think?" "For me, an Indian will always be as I am told they must be." "I believe I was wring when I came to you, searching for justice." "I will have to get it from higher ranks." "You will not find here an authority above mine." "There is a king in Spain." "Pope in Rome." "It is him who has to settle this question once and for all." "That is right." "Go and see him if you want to." "Because while His Holiness says nothing there will keep being estates, distribution of Indians, and satisfied and loyal colonists." "You, my Empress, who unites the Christian woman's goodness and the just ruler's fairness in one heart," "you can intercede before His Holiness and find solution for such a big problem." "Tell me, Your Reverence." "We should not let the state affairs continue to be amassed." "I have to report you serious matters but... before that..." "I have to talk to you about a much more important thing." " Is it the Emperor?" "Has anything happened to him?" " No." "It is about you, Your Majesty." "You must avoid becoming pregnant again or you would be in most grave danger." "Don't be afraid..." "I have not had better pregnancy." "And the labour..." "It is sure." "If you dont If you don't back down, you will die in childbirth." "The repouted convert Villalobos's opinion has joined Doctor Alfaro's." "Your body is exhausted." "If..." "If that is what you wish, I will talk to the Emperor when he comes back." "No!" "I will see the way." "Now give me news." "Any news about the campaign against France?" "Barbarossa responded to the conquest of Tunisia, devastating Mahón." "He caused great damage to the islands." "I cannot tell you that the war against France goes as expected." "We are failing these kingdoms once more." "They will not forgive us." "The coward Francis does not fight a battle." "Provence is a devastated land where my men find neither food nor enemy." "They die like flies because of dysentery." "But, despite these misfortunes, my heart appears to be enthusiastic." "God had blessed us with a daughter again." "You do not know how much I long for getting to know her." "Going back to the sweet arms of the family and home." "I am glad I see you so grown up." "You will be a man soon." " Your Reverence." " Your Majesty." "Mother." "Dear daughter!" "I have to speak with you." "Any of my soldiers will be received better than their Emperor." " Did you expect sweet words of welcome, perhaps?" " Which man doesn't expect them after the fight?" "Maybe because they didn't leave with deceits like an evildoer does." " I come back and I don't recognize you." " You left one day and didn't come back." "If, at least, you had gone to Algiers, as it was expected from you." "But your vanity and your fatuous dream about glory took you to Tunisia." "Risking your life!" "Leaving family and kingdoms defenseless." "You are speaking of me like of a villein, and I didn't do work of such, but of an emperor." "You lied to me!" "You abandoned me!" "Pregnant, alone again." " In charge of all." " I did what I had to do." "Hearing you, it would seem that you would act in the same way if you had occasion." "Do not entertain the slightest doubts!" "Children, it is time to set off." "Your father has to rest and we have to return to Court." "Your Highness." "You need your wife as much as she needs you." "These kingdoms need the two of you." "United." "She is close." "Don't let that distance grow so big that you will not be capable of getting through it." "Your Majesty!" "We were waiting for you impatiently." " There are many affairs to clear up." " I have to talk to the Empress." "Your Excellence." "I ask your forgiveness." "I should not have left like that." "It was unbecoming for the love and respect I feel for you." "But Our Lord made us monarchs." "You have your obligations." "I also have to fulfill mine." "You, as woman;" "I, as man." "I would have preferred not to risk my life." "But it was what God demanded me." "And I owe to him." "I have missed you so much!" "Go." "Are you rejecting me?" "Please go." "Your Reverence, I need confession." " How can God put me to the test this way?" " Only He could answer you." "I owe my husband and these kingdoms, and He asks me not to fulfill my obligations to none of the." "Before anything or anyone, you owe God." "And why did he make me queen if I cannot secure the succession?" " And what if something happens to the Prince?" " God will look after him." " But the Emperor has to know what is going on." " I have tried but I cannot." " You just have to make up your mind and speak." " I am so afraid..." "He is the most christian and most loving husband but..." "I am afraid of keeping away from him." "I fear he would look for what I cannot give him, and I end up losing him forever." "You have to trust His Majesty." "And say goodbye to those happy days which seems to be even happier when I know they must not come back?" "It is God's will!" "You would commit a grave sin if you risked your life because of your fears." "You have only one way." "Resign yourself and trust the Lord." "Don Hernán Cortés!" " You are coming back, finally." " My friend!" "I have much to tell you." "But I would like to see the Viceroy before." " It is precisely him who sent me to see you." " Are you on good terms with him?" "You left and I stayed here." "And my experience, with me." "He asks for my help when he needs it." "The Viceroy is intelligent." "I would have done nothing else." "Even if it is a barren land, now it is a known coast, finally." "So shows the map what I could draw." "Despite the success that mapping this coast supposes, without spices or gold, we have to consider the expedition a failure." "I would agree with you if I had not brought important news." "When I returned, some natives gave me news about some cities in the North." " Fabricated in stone and filled with gold." " And did you give credit?" "They described what they saw with their own eyes and all the reports coincided." "My lord, I am convinced they are the seven cities of Cibola." "It is possible that all those are not more than legend." "If we had not believed in the incredible, none of us would be here now." "My good Don Hernán, it is not the time of investing money in adventure that chase fancies or give as little fruit as this you are returning from." "You should go to your lands and make a good life there." "I will not be the one who turns his back on the fortune." "Don't be stubborn." "The times of conquest have to make place for times of good administration of the conquered lands." "The rights of exploration are mine." "And if you are too blind to see the opportunity I am offering you, I will find money somewhere else." " My lady, your husband is ill." " Thank you for informing me because no one did." "Do you not want to go and see him?" "His favourite will take care of him with the usual devotion." "I understand your anger but..." "You despise the opportunity of winning the King over and occupying your place as wife and queen." " Let me go, please." " Listen to me!" "I am no one in this court!" "I have been reminded in every hour of every day I have spent here." "I ask your forgiveness, Your Highness." "In my name and in the name of the entire kingdom." "France's illness unfolds in the King's illness." "Because the war with the Empire bankrupts us." "You are the Emperor's sister." "Promote his understanding with my father." "Only the peace with your brother would save the kingdom." "And you." "Go on with what you have to do." "No doubt, you are my good samaritan." "Friar Bartolomé de las Casas asks for my intercession before the Pope." " What kind of matter makes him do this?" " The Indians' nature and their freedom." "My grandmother was very clear in her testament." "They are subjects of Castile." "But, during these 30 years, nothing has been observed of the few laws." "It is a rather complicated issue and still disputed." "Half words don't work with such important affairs." "I am going to write to His Holiness." " Your Majesty!" "The Prince is captive of a high fever." " Call the Emperor." "Your sister, Mary, fears that the war with France may affect Flanders and asks for money to reinforce the borders." " What do we have?" " Much debt and little money." "And Francis could attack Flandes as much as Roussillon, Navarre, Naples or any of our borders." "It would be useless to try to forestall without resources to defend all!" "My lord, your kingdoms need peace." " We have seen that it is impossible to defeat France." " If I could once I can again!" " Your Majesty!" " Not now!" "They have to draw his blood again to bring the fever down." "Maybe he will not live through this night." "Son!" "God is bringing you back to us!" "Philip, son!" "You, my lady, have made me a coward." "Because I have not known fear of the Turks or the French." "Only of thinking that I was losing you." "Every instant without you, having you so close, has been..." "It has been worse than hell." "Let us swear that it will never happen to us again." "Without you by my side, life makes no sense." "I have to tell you something important." "I have to confess" "a big sin." "I love you!" "I love you more than my life!" "I love you above the love for my children, for these kingdoms..." "Above all things there are in this world." "May God forgive me." "We need money so that we don't lose the war with France." "Your Majesty, there is none." "And what arrives is already engaged." "Well, you will have to find!" "Your Majesty!" "An emissary has arrived from His Holiness with great urgency." "I, Paul III, utmost pontiff, I let you know the grave moment the Christendom lives." "The Great Turk has devastated the coasts of Italy, taking advantage of our weakness." "Since those who should defend it most of all, insist on destroying one another, and wrecking our civilization so." "What will be the next blow of the infidels?" "Rome, perhaps?" "Or will Christians be our executioners again?" "You, my lords, who pride yourselves on the titles of Catholic King and Most Christian King, you are responsible." "And do expect that neither God  nor history will forgive you if you don't look for the end of our misfortune." "I order and call you to find peace or, at least, a truce as long as necessary, and which lets the Christendom go united against the infidels and procure its salvation." " Harsh words." " And right ones." "Because, no doubt, the situation is grave." "My lord, you raised your voice before the Pope, demanding peace." "You cannot renounce it now." "Maybe this attack of the Turks comes in a good moment." "Let us wait and see what Francis says." "Speak without fear." "Only my family is here." "Pay attention to His Holiness's words." "The kingdom is close to bankruptcy, and continuing the war against the Emperor would be a barren sacrifice." "We beat him in Provence." "Your Highness, what we did was not fighting a battle, leaving only scorched land behind us." "You cannot deny the Pope your help." "The hostilities against the Emperor must cease before." "Listen to your son." "The peace is necessary." "I will accept a truce." "In the meanwhile, we will recover." "There will be time to talk about peace." "Then, there is no doubt." "Am I pregnant?" "You are, Your Majesty." "Go, please." "My lady." "You are coming in good time because I have to tell you something very important." "I have to leave immediatley." "Francis answered to the Pope, accepting a truce." "Are leaving us again?" "Now?" "Is there anything more important than stopping the war with France?" "Swear that you will come back as soon as possible." "Nothing will separate me from you a minute more than necessary." "No..." "There will be no meeting with the Emperor." "He will not see me in this guise!" "Why don't you help me?" "Are you piqued because I left without you?" "Could you have left, having got such a beating?" "It has nothing to do with that." "I have already told you." "Cibola is a fantasy." "But dreams move the men, Juan!" "Tell me: if we found an empire here and Pizarro found another in the South, why should not we expect an unknown one in the North?" "You have not found money for your expedition, have you?" "Neither my credit nor my word is wirth as much as before." "You are wrong if you think that I am the man who can convince the Viceroy." "You always make yourself less." "Your Highness." "Go away!" "Let me do it." " What does your bonnet?" " It will grow." "You are an admirable woman." "And you are an admired king." "You have to go and meet the Emperor because your kingdom demands you it." "Besides, you can get a peace that can give you what you desires the most." " What do you mean?" " Milan." "Your brother knows this wish very well." "That is why he would never agree to satisfy it." " Let me try it." " My lady..." "Let me accompany you." "It has to surprise no one that I want to hug my brother." "Even if the Emperor listens to you, he would never give up the Duchy in return for anything." " Everything has a price." " And what is yours?" "Having a child with you." "Cortés needs your support to start his expedition." " He believes I can convince you." " And why don't you try?" "Because I don't belive in the venture." "And you don't believe in Cortés." "It is worth to take the risk." "It is not a delirium, calculate the profit in money." "In merit." "Don't believe that Cortés is going to share the glory." "He will not have to." "It is completely unthinkable that he goes to the expedition." " We all know that his time is over." " The right of expedition is his." "If he doesn't go, he will not let anyone go." " Let him think that he will command." " Do you want to deceive him this way?" "The important thing is that we avoid that he keeps looking for money, because if he succeeds, we could lose our opportnity." "Aigues-Mortes, France" "The pain of the journey has been worth it just for seeing you." "Make our joy our vassals' joy as well." "Thus it will last when we go back to our kingdoms." "Do you know the prayer that can make such a miracle?" "You are coming to agree to a truce;" "go having achieved a permanent peace." "If your husband wants peace and has fair demand, we will have peace." "He wants it." "And he is willing to give you it if you give him Milan." "Go." "You are Queen of France and I cannot blame you for working against my interests." "Listen to me." "I have come to this point and you don't have to lose anything." "You expect the King not to stand in the way of your plans." "And what if, instead of that, you get his support and his galleys join against the infidels?" "Is it not the step you long for after Tunisia?" "Is Milan not worth such a victory, perhaps?" "I already signed agreements with your husband." "He didn't keep them." "What did he get with the treaty?" "Only that you gave up Burgundy which was already his." "That and a wife." "Who, for being forced upon him, he decided not to touch." "I live with the fear that my destiny will be the same as our aunt Catherine's." "You have to help me." "Come to terms." "You will get your crusade and I will get a child with our blood amongst the princes of France." "Are you sick, Your Majesty?" " Bring the physician!" " Don't trouble." "There is no reason for worry." "Listen, noble lords!" "Turn the concern of your face into joy." "The heart of a new child of the Emperor's beats in my belly." "Let me go alone." "Now I don't need company." " Your Majesty!" "You are defying God!" " In order to ensure the succession of so many kingdoms." " I warned you!" " Enough!" "You said God would take care of son, and he almost took him away." "Do you not see a warning in that?" "And what if you die during childbirth?" "What will have the kingdom gained then?" "An infante." "My life is in Our Lord's hands because I only follow his will." " His will or yours?" " As you prefer!" "Because you should respect both." "I will pray for you." "No one must know a word about this." "And, less than anyone, the Emperor." "Leave us alone." "Because we have to talk like brother to brother." " We have aged, Emperor." " And it should have made us wiser." "Aforetime, if I had seen you like now, in my kingdom, at my mercy, I would have had you caught." "You would have suffer the humiliation and torment you gave me and my sons." "Nor would I do the things today I did in those days." " Then yes, we are wiser." " And, no doubt, older." " Do you see the agreemnet possible?" " DO you see it possible to keep it?" "If it includes Milan and doesn't attack against the interests of France, you can count on it." "If we contracted my daughter Mary's marriage with your son Charles, her dowry could be Milan." "Neither for you nor for me." "but it will by your dynasty that can boast of the duchy." " There will be peace, then." " Peace obliges." "And it is not easy for me to forget your former treaties with the infidels." "France will help His Holiness." "You have my word." "Are you ready to go till the end?" "To Constantinople?" "Will part of that glory go to France?" "You and I will go to that crusade hand in hand." "Then, either I will enter Constantinople or Suleiman will enter Paris." "Crusaders, fighting together for the Christendom." "Granada..." "What would I give to go back." "One day I will go back." "And you will come with me." "Of course, the palace the Emperor wishes to build in the Alhambra is a superb project." "Should the squares and courts not be like they have always been?" "Square?" "A circular court is a new thing but not something inadequate." "Do you believe it wise to spend the money so missed, creating beatiful works that will outlive us?" " Magnificent works give account of a magnificent reign." " That would be your father's answer." "The prince follows the path marked by the Emperor in everything." "He will be as good king as His Majesty." "I hope he can be as good king without exposing himself to die in battle." "Will you think of it, Your Highness?" "Your Majesty, it is as normal that a queen fears for her husband's fortune as that he defends the security of his kingdom with arms." "Do you belive that we live a life without dangers while you fight in your wars?" "Well, do know..." "I would fight in ten battles before giving birth one single time." "Have you waited for my return to give me such happy news?" "God blesses us, Isabella." "Now everything is possible." "Francis and I will conclude the crusade by taking Constantinople." "Your Majesty, if we lack the means to defend the borders, where are we going to get what is necessary for such an expensive venture?" "Always money and more money." "We will ask help of our noblea." "They will not deny themselves the glory of contributing to such a great occasion." "We all have to make sacrifices." "And you, too." "And what if they take you prisoner or you die?" "What will become of the Christendom, left defenseless?" "What will become of all of us?" "As monarchs, we owe to our obligations." "These were your words." "I just ask you to think it well over what you have to pay attention to before making a decision." "It is made." "Isabella..." "Isabella, trust me." "Having the Turks defeated, I swear everything will be defferent." "So, Indians are people and the Pope decides to make it clear just before my expiedition departs!" "You tell me: what would have become of the conqest of these lands with this bull?" "With these hindrances!" "Superfluous questions are not good for anything." "This bull is a reality and you have to reckon with it." "This document has not been received." "Your conscience may consent to defraud Cortés, but it will not let you disobey the Pope." "My conscience is disposed to let me anyting in order to achieve what I pursue." "Don't worry." "This bull will be known." "But it has to wait for the opportune moment." " There is something I need to tell you." " I don't want to hear it." "You have changed the conqueror spirit to the courtier's." "And now you have another master." "Is that what you think after..." "so many years of friendship." "I cannot trust you now." "I cannot even consider you one of my people." "In fact, nothing unites us now." "I will soon leave for the glory." "Don't expect to come." "You are the only one who is responsible for your fate." "It was a mistake to come to see you." "We can hear your respiration, we can desroy your kingdom." "Don't make my empire your enemy." "Suleiman is not willing to that we forget the favours we got." " Did you not expect it?" " I did..." "But I didn't expect his dagger to be so close to my neck." " Your Highness." " I would like to ask you if you have noticed" " any change in your state." " When I become pregnant you will be the first to know." "I would like you to forward a message to the Emperor." "We will not participate in his crusade against the Turks." "What happened?" "The Emperor gave you his word and you know he will keep it." "Let him learn it from you and, this way, he will appreciate your gesture." "Do you give up Milan?" "All have been a dream." "For you..." "and for me." "So many years without knowing each other and now we see each other here." "And how do you feel, being finally in front of the..." ""tyrant"?" "Pleased, partly, because I see you know my work." "And defrauded as well, because this way I have made just a few nicks on you." "I have never appreciated the lies." "And an exaggerated truth resides in it." "The Crown entrusted me with defending the Indians." "And it gave me only one weapon for that: my pen." "I have probably made more Christians in these lands than you have!" "At what cost?" "You have massacred and destroyed countless people just to get riches!" "Sometimes, ten deaths can save thousand souls!" "This is what you don't understand!" "Souls you enslave in estates then, offending God by doing so!" " God?" "We will never agree!" " Never!" "I hope the Viceroy has decided to take sides." "Either you win or I do." "Why have you provoked such an unwanted meeting?" "Both of you have to know something very important." "The Pope has given the bull you asked for." "Indians and Spaniards, we are equal before God and the Crown." "It changes the expedition we are setting." " The expedition has already left for its destination." " You have deceived us...!" "This time, I am going to travel to Spain." "And I swear I will come back with laws that nobody can evade!" "You have disobeyed the Crown..." "You know I am the only one who has right to explore those landst." "Go and defend your right there." "I can do nothing more for you here." "You knew it!" "You are a traitor!" "That is what you have become!" "There cannot be betrayal between two people who are not united by anything." "That is what you said." "Or is the true betrayal not it those words?" "Blame your arrogance for this misfortune." "I will defend my right before the Emperor and I will come back!" "Then we will see each other and I will put each of you in your place!" "Mendoza beat you." "He removed you." "You will not come back." "I mixed my blood with this land to build this city up." "To create everything you see." "You can be sure, one day I will be the one who sees you go." "I will come back!" "That I should abandon my plans of war and stay in these kingdoms and save the costs of my household?" "What kind of joke is this?" "My lord, this is the reply of the assembly of nobles to your request for money for the crusade." "I offer them glory and they turn their back on me." "We warned you about their dicontent and you didn't listen to us." "Now that Francis is with me I will not back out." " A message from Queen Eleanor." " Read it!" "Stop your preparations because now you cannot count on France's help." "The King himself, my husband asked me to inform you of his decision." "Well, I will go alone!" " Your Majesty!" " Leave me." "Your Majesty, listen to me." "Please." "How dare you?" "You will have to hear me, whether you want it or no." "I would give all that I possess jsut to be capable of going back in time and avoid this torment." "Why did you not stop me?" "Because I did not have the courage." "Only my wish to ensure the succession of these kingdoms pushed you to take this risk." "Forgive me." "That wish was also mine." "And other fears joined it." " What could you be afraid of?" " Having already lived your last caress." "Never again feeling your body in mine." "How could I bear it, loving you so much?" "Now, only one thing matters in this world." "You." "I need you close to me." "So that your security encourage mine." "All will be right." "When it passes, I swear that nothing will be able to separate us." "Can you not sleep either?" "Drink beer." "Sit with me." "There is not so many occasions when the two of us can meet alone." "Years ago, I decided to remove you from your mother's side." "Now I want to ask you quite the opposite." "Is she going to die?" "Do you know, then, what danger she is in?" "How could you say nothing to me?" " She wanted neither of us to know." " But she told you." "No." "I heard what I should not have." "I could not betray her." "You have courage because you were loyal to your mother, keeping this anguish only to you." "It is my fault." "If I were stronger..." "If the fever had not assailed me and you had not feared my death..." "Be quiet!" "I have prayed everyday so that God would take me away instead of her." "There is no one to blame!" "God disposes." "Do you believe I would not prefer that He would take me instead of her?" " But you are the Emperor." " And you... are my heir in these kingdoms." "You have a large reponsibility on your shoulders now." "You have to be strong to bear whatever God decides." " Trust me." "I am not a child anyomre." " You are not." "Now you are my greatest help." "Your Majesty!" "The Empress's labour has started too early!" "She wants to talk to you." " Forgive me..." "Forgive me." " What are you saying?" " Don't go now." "Don't go." " Nothing will take me away from you." "I am so afraid..." "I am so afraid..." "No!" "No, no..." "I don't want to stop seeing you." "I don't want to stop seeing you." "Your Highness." "You can wait in your chambers." "No." "Is there no telling?" "None, yet." "Your Highness..." "You must be strong." "The Empress has asked for the extreme unction." "Go and find the infantas." "Come closer, my children." "Let your embrace be my last joy in this world." "I place all my hope in you." "Be strong, and take care of your father." "If you give him love you will be giving it to me as well." "I love you so much..." "Out." "everyone." "My love..." "It is impossible to escape the fate." "I have prayed to God so many times not to be surprised by death when you are away." "I have to tell you something." " If you remarry..." " Be quiet." " For God's sake, please!" " You owe to these kingdoms." "Never." "Do you think my love will die with you?" "I swear before God that I will never remarry, and nothing and nobody will be able to break my word." "Not even you yourself." "I have loved your stubbornness, too." "Embrace me." "Let me feel your warmth." "My life..." "My love." "I love you so much!" "So much..." "No..." " Your Majesty." " I am leaving Court." "Make sure you do everything here what is necessary." "Don't ask me more than I can give." "Every minute I spend next to her body I only think about what to do to follow her." "God is the only one who can help me." "I cannot swear this is the Empress." "But I do swear that this is her corpse we have here." "And I also swear I will never serve a master again who can die." "Monastery of Santa María de Sisla, Toledo" "Next time..." "It is now or never." "Charles doesn't expect it." "The defeat in Algiers has decimated his forces." "I have seen death pass very close." "I feel my hour will come soon." "The Prince is intelligent..." "and doesn't show interest in state affairs." "Do you remember my son Maximilian?" "Too much time without news from your brother and now, he wants to take my daughter from me." " Your father is going to return." "He left the order..." " My father is not here." "He never is!" " Are you happy for my return?" " I didn't remember your face." "Milan will be for Prince Philip." "A worthy title for an emperor's son, don't you think?" "The encomiendas will keep beeing canceled." "I had the hope that you would find peace and repose in Castile." "No." "I will not rest until my work concludes." "I am going to get married." "You may not see that woman again." "Do you want onyl me to assume the teaching of the Prince?" "You will also be freed from that burden." "The many who have forged a future there will not let themselves be damaged by some laws made in the comfort of the Court." "I should not trust anyone." "Not even my own father." "Why be polite with someone who has no consideration for us?" "He has put his son on the throne of Spain!" " Francis wants to recover Milan!" " I will march on the front of my armies." "You are the Prince." "Sooner or later, you will get bored of me." "There was never a woman more loved than your sister Isabella." " Where have you brought me?" " To the best corner of your empire."