0:00:02 > 0:00:04You're too long in Brittany, Henry Tudor.
0:00:04 > 0:00:06I can only beat what you put in front of me, Uncle.
0:00:06 > 0:00:08HE GROANS AND COUGHS
0:00:08 > 0:00:10The King is dead.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12We must be ready to raise an army.
0:00:12 > 0:00:15I will work with all of you to put Prince Edward on the throne.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18We're to escort the King to the Tower for his protection.
0:00:18 > 0:00:20Secure the Prince's safety.
0:00:20 > 0:00:22How dare he terrorise my sons?!
0:00:22 > 0:00:24We're going into sanctuary.
0:00:24 > 0:00:26What's stopping him from snatching my other son?
0:00:26 > 0:00:29Prince Richard must flee secretly to Flanders.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31We must find a boy that's the very image of you.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36If you didn't think it was safe for Prince Richard to go to the Tower,
0:00:36 > 0:00:39then you must believe Edward's at risk, too.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41Why did he want both sons?
0:00:41 > 0:00:44He knows that if you have the heirs, you hold all the power.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47How can you crown a boy who'd grow up to be your enemy?
0:00:47 > 0:00:51Name yourself King. It is the safest option now.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54I'm Doctor Lewis, Lady Margaret Stanley's physician.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plans to make himself King.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Parliament declared your marriage to Edward of York invalid
0:00:59 > 0:01:00and your sons as bastards.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02Lady Margaret, I need your help.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04We must free Prince Edward from the Tower.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08We're working with her to get the Princes out of the Tower.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09Is Buckingham with us?
0:01:09 > 0:01:12As much as he ever will be. His claim's as strong as your son's.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Well, then, Henry must strengthen his claim, marry well.
0:01:15 > 0:01:16Princess Elizabeth.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20Your ambition will be the death of the boys.
0:01:20 > 0:01:24I will restore your good names and get my boys back.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26I will not stop until it's done.
0:02:10 > 0:02:15My affinity, my kin, my loyal men at arms.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18I am the rightful King.
0:02:19 > 0:02:25You are guardians of my kingdom, the men whom I rely on.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29Sir Robert Brackenbury,
0:02:29 > 0:02:32now Constable of the Tower.
0:02:41 > 0:02:46Harry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham...
0:02:49 > 0:02:51..Lord Chamberlain of England.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Lord Thomas Stanley,
0:03:09 > 0:03:13Lord High Constable of England.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18And in place of Anthony Rivers...
0:03:21 > 0:03:22..the Order of the Garter.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35- ALL:- I swear my fealty to God
0:03:35 > 0:03:36and King Richard.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44I'm grateful for your loyalty.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56They will be loyal to us, Richard.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00You are the rightful King now and England will grow to love you.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02London is against me still.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04They will come around.
0:04:04 > 0:04:08The North is loyal and soon the South will follow.
0:04:08 > 0:04:14And when the time is right, we will invest our boy as Prince of Wales
0:04:14 > 0:04:17and England will blossom in your York sun again.
0:04:17 > 0:04:18Thank you, Anne.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Nobody wanted a Rivers boy on the throne whose mother would
0:04:23 > 0:04:25tear England apart.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29BELLS TOLL
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Your Grace, no-one ever mentions the boys in the Tower
0:04:39 > 0:04:40or their mother.
0:04:40 > 0:04:45They may not mention them. It does not mean they are forgotten.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48BELLS TOLL
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Do they think that if they ring the bells for days on end,
0:04:58 > 0:05:01it will make his coronation less a sin?
0:05:02 > 0:05:03England will not accept it.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07They love Edward's boys
0:05:07 > 0:05:10and Richard is a fool to think he can usurp Prince Edward!
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Do you still have no word from Prince Richard?
0:05:14 > 0:05:15The letter may have gone astray.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20Or perhaps we have sent him to his death.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23- Elizabeth!- Maybe we shall all die, now my father's gone.
0:05:25 > 0:05:29Maybe he and Richard Grey and Uncle Anthony were just the first.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31No-one else will die, Elizabeth!
0:05:51 > 0:05:55I've had word from Buckingham. He's, um...
0:05:57 > 0:06:01He's told me what his terms are for joining us against the King.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08I'll tell Elizabeth and we'll mount our attack on the Tower.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Does she trust you?
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Yes. Once you've rescued her boys, she'll rise with us against Richard.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19Those boys are still a problem, though.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Richard naming them as bastards made no difference.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26- The people still support them.- I know. Anne and Richard know it, too.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31But perhaps that might provide us with a solution.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Lady Anne.
0:06:49 > 0:06:50Sir Robert.
0:06:53 > 0:06:54I did not think to see you here.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57We are shortly on our royal progress,
0:06:57 > 0:07:00but I should like to have sight of those boys before I go.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20What will happen to them, Your Grace...
0:07:21 > 0:07:23..now that both of them are here?
0:07:24 > 0:07:27They can be neither boys nor men because just by living,
0:07:27 > 0:07:28they are a threat to us.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33We hoped by declaring their illegitimacy, that they
0:07:33 > 0:07:35would lose their power, but people still support them.
0:07:37 > 0:07:38Would you wish them killed?
0:07:40 > 0:07:44I can't wish it - not a pair of innocent boys.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47You are too tender-hearted, then...
0:07:49 > 0:07:51..because boys become men...
0:07:53 > 0:07:56..and even boys can be a cause that men will kill for.
0:07:59 > 0:08:00Then, I do wish it,
0:08:00 > 0:08:03else how will the King and I ever be safe?
0:08:22 > 0:08:24..Nomine Patris...
0:08:25 > 0:08:27..Spiritus Sancti...
0:08:27 > 0:08:29I've received a message from KING Richard
0:08:29 > 0:08:32that if we were to leave sanctuary and go live at Grafton,
0:08:32 > 0:08:34then, my boys would be returned to me.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36He says he would have peace now.
0:08:36 > 0:08:37Do you trust him?
0:08:37 > 0:08:39Of course I don't trust him!
0:08:39 > 0:08:42He killed my son and my brother Anthony!
0:08:43 > 0:08:46My boys must be released to me before I leave here.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49Take care, Your Grace.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Lady Margaret fears the King would play you false.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54She says the Duke of Buckingham believes it, too,
0:08:54 > 0:08:57and that he is so aggrieved, he is ready to turn against King Richard.
0:08:59 > 0:09:00Buckingham will turn?
0:09:00 > 0:09:03As evidence of his good faith, he will storm the Tower with you
0:09:03 > 0:09:04to free the Princes.
0:09:08 > 0:09:13And what is Buckingham's price, hmm, for betraying his dearest friend?
0:09:13 > 0:09:16The Duke asks that his eldest daughter should marry your son,
0:09:16 > 0:09:19Prince Edward, and that he himself be named Regent
0:09:19 > 0:09:21until the young King is of age.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25And no doubt she wants her exiled son,
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Henry Tudor, returned to England.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30And Princess Elizabeth's hand in marriage to Henry,
0:09:30 > 0:09:33and that Henry is named heir after your Prince Edward.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38It means your daughter could be Queen,
0:09:38 > 0:09:41and Lady Margaret says that such a marriage would unite
0:09:41 > 0:09:43the Houses of York and Lancaster and end these wars.
0:09:52 > 0:09:53Tell them I will accept,
0:09:53 > 0:09:56but my boys must be rescued straight away,
0:09:56 > 0:09:59and my Grey son, Thomas, he will join the raid to see that all goes well.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04Send this note to him to come to see me.
0:10:08 > 0:10:09Your Grace.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37'Dear Henry and Jasper, I greet you well.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42'I've much news.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44'We are to free Elizabeth's boys from the Tower
0:10:44 > 0:10:47'and then she will bring her army against Richard.
0:10:47 > 0:10:48'You must make ready.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53'Whoever wins must find you landed in force, Lancaster rising,
0:10:53 > 0:10:56'and a second battle to fight against your fresh troops.'
0:10:59 > 0:11:01My Lord?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03As you were, gentlemen.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09'I think this is our moment.'
0:11:28 > 0:11:31I have selected the men who will join in the attack on the Tower.
0:11:33 > 0:11:34I have to know your will.
0:11:41 > 0:11:42My will is God's will.
0:11:45 > 0:11:49When they break down the door of the Princes' room,
0:11:49 > 0:11:52is it your will or God's will
0:11:52 > 0:11:56that they slice their little heads off there and then?
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Elizabeth's own son, Thomas Grey, will be there,
0:12:05 > 0:12:06as will her man, Sir John.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08Kill them all.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13This is YOUR plan to put YOUR son on the throne.
0:12:13 > 0:12:17If the Princes are dead, then he is two steps closer.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19The people will not choose Henry over them.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24I brought the little one to life myself.
0:12:25 > 0:12:30War is hard. What are your commands, my Lady?
0:12:33 > 0:12:38You would have me order the deaths of two boys, only nine and 12?
0:12:38 > 0:12:39HE LAUGHS
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Well, say the word and we will rescue them
0:12:41 > 0:12:43from their wicked uncle and free the Queen, too.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48Would you like the royal family of York restored,
0:12:48 > 0:12:50with a little Prince Edward on the throne?
0:12:50 > 0:12:54- Stop it.- Well, then, you must choose! Save or slaughter?
0:12:57 > 0:12:58Hmm?
0:13:01 > 0:13:07Which is it to be? Save or slaughter?
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Obviously, the men must kill them.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Father, the men are waiting.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Do you know your orders?
0:13:31 > 0:13:32Yes, Lord Stanley.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36I must join the King.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39Wait until the men have reached the gate, then send the letter.
0:13:39 > 0:13:40What letter?
0:13:40 > 0:13:43To Sir Robert Brackenbury at the Tower, warning him of the attack.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46- Warning him?- So we are seen to be on Richard's side if it goes wrong.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49Father.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54It won't go wrong!
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Stanley?
0:14:09 > 0:14:10(Oh, Thomas!)
0:14:15 > 0:14:18- How do I fare as a fisherman, Mother?- It's so good to see you.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23Sir John. Thank you.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25I have been in mourning for the King, your Grace,
0:14:25 > 0:14:28and aggrieved at your boys being taken from you.
0:14:31 > 0:14:35You will watch them on the raid, won't you? Buckingham and Stanley.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37Both are on the King's royal progress.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39The King trusts no-one so he's taken them with him.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41It's their men we're meeting.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43At least it shows he has no true supporters.
0:14:43 > 0:14:44Mother?
0:14:44 > 0:14:47If Henry Tudor and Buckingham are really on our side, we cannot fail.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Richard will not stand a chance against us all united.
0:14:49 > 0:14:50Just bring my boy to me.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Be ready to leave when we send word.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58Thomas? John? Take care.
0:14:58 > 0:14:59Your Grace.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Your Grace.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36- Close the gate!- Thomas, quickly! - Intruders in the camp!
0:15:38 > 0:15:39Secure the door!
0:15:42 > 0:15:44- Edward!- Thomas!
0:15:44 > 0:15:46Edward, you must be brave!
0:15:50 > 0:15:51We're coming for you!
0:15:53 > 0:15:55You must be brave and wait!
0:15:55 > 0:15:56Be brave and wait!
0:15:59 > 0:16:01LOUD KNOCKING
0:16:07 > 0:16:08Shh!
0:16:15 > 0:16:18Thomas. Sir John. Why...?
0:16:18 > 0:16:19We failed.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26The boys were better guarded than we thought.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28The man who should have let us in was cut down.
0:16:28 > 0:16:29You didn't even get inside?
0:16:29 > 0:16:31We tried to ram the door
0:16:31 > 0:16:34but the guards came from the courtyard and we had to fight them.
0:16:34 > 0:16:39We heard doors slamming and shouting as the boys were taken further in,
0:16:39 > 0:16:42but once we were discovered, there was no chance we could get to them.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44I shouted to my brother, "You must be brave and wait!
0:16:44 > 0:16:47"We are coming for you!" He did not answer.
0:16:49 > 0:16:50My boy!
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Thomas, you're hurt.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58We must call all-out uprising.
0:16:59 > 0:17:00We must hope for a quick defeat
0:17:00 > 0:17:03so we can reach the boys before they come to any harm.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06I'll write to Lady Margaret and tell her to raise Buckingham.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10And do you trust your newfound friends, Mother...
0:17:11 > 0:17:15..who suddenly flock to rescue the boys and yet don't quite succeed?
0:17:15 > 0:17:19Because all of them feast quite merrily at Uncle Richard's table.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21I cannot choose my allies, Elizabeth.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25And to save my son, I would plot with the Devil himself!
0:17:27 > 0:17:29I think that you already have.
0:17:52 > 0:17:53Richard, what is it?
0:17:54 > 0:17:56The Rivers have attacked the Tower...
0:17:58 > 0:18:00..the moment we're in the North and miles away!
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Sir Robert Brackenbury has written to me.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08She did not get the Princes out?
0:18:08 > 0:18:09They're not Princes any more!
0:18:11 > 0:18:12I'm sorry.
0:18:13 > 0:18:14Your Grace?
0:18:14 > 0:18:19Your son, Lord Strange, he found out and sent a warning.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21It came too late but I am grateful to him.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26You must punish those concerned and show no mercy.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29The boys are safe under lock and key.
0:18:29 > 0:18:33It is HER and no-one else. Of course it is!
0:18:33 > 0:18:36But how does she still have men she can command?
0:18:36 > 0:18:38The boys command them by their very living.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46We must have our boy invested Prince of Wales.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49We'll do it here in York, then there can be no question
0:18:49 > 0:18:50who is next in line for the throne.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07Why could we not reach them?
0:19:12 > 0:19:13You want the boys to live?
0:19:23 > 0:19:29I am your obedient daughter, so if it is your will that they should
0:19:29 > 0:19:34take the throne and not my son, then you need to give me a sign.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41You need to give me a sign right now!
0:20:24 > 0:20:25They botched it, then.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30If my son hadn't sent his warning letter,
0:20:30 > 0:20:33Richard may well have pointed his finger at me.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36How do I know it wasn't your son's letter that caused us to fail?
0:20:37 > 0:20:40Richard plans to move the Princes to the North.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Once he does, we'll never get to him.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44- So you need a new plan quickly. - I have a plan!
0:20:44 > 0:20:46I just don't care to share it with you
0:20:46 > 0:20:47in case you send any more letters.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49I risked my neck leaving the King's side to see
0:20:49 > 0:20:52if this thing can be salvaged. Do not exclude me now!
0:21:01 > 0:21:06I'm meeting Buckingham. He has access to the Tower.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17You are older than I am, and therefore wiser,
0:21:17 > 0:21:20and I...I trust your holy judgment.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Do you think we must try again to free the Princes
0:21:26 > 0:21:28and restore them to their state?
0:21:28 > 0:21:30If they were legitimate, then of course.
0:21:32 > 0:21:33But Richard says they're not,
0:21:33 > 0:21:36so perhaps you'd risk everything just for a witch's sons.
0:21:36 > 0:21:37Perhaps we might.
0:21:39 > 0:21:40I do fear for their lives, though.
0:21:42 > 0:21:43Richard will surely want them out of the way
0:21:43 > 0:21:46now our plot to free them came so close.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48You don't think he would murder them?
0:21:48 > 0:21:49God forbid.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Though if he did, it would mean the end of the Rivers line.
0:21:54 > 0:21:59That would serve her right! That witch, Elizabeth,
0:21:59 > 0:22:01who made me marry her yokel sister!
0:22:03 > 0:22:07Or if someone else were to kill them in Richard's name,
0:22:07 > 0:22:10then who would doubt it was really Richard's doing?
0:22:10 > 0:22:12And you, of course, have access to the Tower.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17And the rebellion that overthrew him
0:22:17 > 0:22:20would leave the throne open to someone...
0:22:22 > 0:22:23..new.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28But, of course, you mean your own boy, Henry Tudor.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31- Henry is direct Lancastrian heir. It is his birthright.- Humph!
0:22:31 > 0:22:34We should continue as planned - you, my son
0:22:34 > 0:22:37and Elizabeth, working together to overthrow Richard.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39Only, what SHE doesn't know is that when he's defeated,
0:22:39 > 0:22:41we'll put MY son on the throne, not hers.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46And if, God forbid,
0:22:46 > 0:22:49your Henry should fall in battle?
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Then, you would be King,
0:22:54 > 0:22:56as you would if he should die without issue.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59But if he should live, then you will have his gratitude
0:22:59 > 0:23:01and any price you name.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07Will you take my fealty to your son?
0:23:18 > 0:23:23I swear my fealty to God and to King Henry Tudor!
0:23:25 > 0:23:28On behalf of my son, Henry Tudor,
0:23:28 > 0:23:32the rightful King of England, I accept your fealty.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36Let us overthrow Richard and his Standard of the Boar
0:23:36 > 0:23:38and bring joy back to England.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Shall I really be King one day, Father?
0:23:44 > 0:23:48Yes, Edward. You will be King of England.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50I don't want to be King if you will die.
0:23:56 > 0:24:00I won't die for a very long time. I promise.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03And I always keep my word, don't I?
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Richard, Edward. It is time.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19'My beautiful boy.'
0:24:20 > 0:24:21Brave as your father.
0:24:23 > 0:24:24He'd be so proud of you.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28I will raise an army in Flanders, like him,
0:24:28 > 0:24:30and come back to avenge Richard.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47SHAKES LETTER
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Thomas sends word that no-one has seen our brother
0:24:50 > 0:24:53or the changeling since the raid.
0:24:53 > 0:24:58Our letters are returned to us with the seals not even broken!
0:24:58 > 0:25:02And now Richard has made his own son Prince of Wales.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04And that usurper will die for it!
0:25:08 > 0:25:11Haven't enough died, Mother?
0:25:11 > 0:25:13It is his birthright, Elizabeth, the throne of England!
0:25:13 > 0:25:17And this is my LIFE and my sisters'!
0:25:17 > 0:25:18Lizzie, don't!
0:25:18 > 0:25:22You coop us up here like rats while all you do all day is plot revenge!
0:25:22 > 0:25:23Elizabeth!
0:25:23 > 0:25:27You want the throne, but do you even have a boy to put on it?
0:25:32 > 0:25:33No.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20Queen Elizabeth? Your Grace?
0:26:25 > 0:26:26Thomas!
0:26:29 > 0:26:31With love from Flanders.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38SHE LAUGHS
0:26:39 > 0:26:43Richard! He's safe! My Prince Richard!
0:26:48 > 0:26:50'My dear Jasper and Henry.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53'Our London house is now the secret headquarters of our rebellion.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58'Dr Lewis goes between Elizabeth and myself almost daily
0:26:58 > 0:27:01'as she, in turn, draws out those men still loyal to the York Princes
0:27:01 > 0:27:03'and signs them to our rebellion.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08'My spies report that Buckingham's men are secretly arming,
0:27:08 > 0:27:11'as he promised, and will meet you when you land in Wales.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15'He and Elizabeth think that you will land your men in Tenby to
0:27:15 > 0:27:19'join them. They do not know you will be off the coast, waiting
0:27:19 > 0:27:23'until their battle with Richard is over so you can defeat the victor.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35'Only Richard, far away in the North, has no notion of the plans
0:27:35 > 0:27:38'that are forming at the very heart of his own capital.
0:27:40 > 0:27:45'And when the time comes, he'll have no idea what hit him.'
0:27:47 > 0:27:49What's wrong, my love?
0:27:49 > 0:27:53I thought once the boys were disinherited, we would be safe,
0:27:53 > 0:27:57but Henry Tudor is betrothed to Princess Elizabeth, our niece.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59How do you know?
0:27:59 > 0:28:01Lord Stanley told me.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03I fear I must reprimand my wife.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06I thought she'd respond to my authority but...
0:28:06 > 0:28:07The Tudors and Elizabeth are in alliance?
0:28:07 > 0:28:09They're planning a rebellion.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12I must insist the Duke of Brittany hands Henry Tudor over
0:28:12 > 0:28:14before he can attack.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18Thank you for your loyalty, Lord Stanley.
0:28:18 > 0:28:19Your Grace.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22Your Grace.
0:28:29 > 0:28:33Richard, Lord Stanley would let you lock up his own wife!
0:28:33 > 0:28:35How do you know you can trust him?
0:28:35 > 0:28:39He says he's loyal to me. That's the thing with Stanley.
0:28:39 > 0:28:43No-one ever really knows whose side he's on.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45You must arrest Lady Margaret. She has betrayed us!
0:28:45 > 0:28:47Don't tell me what to do!
0:28:49 > 0:28:51I have enough enemies as it is.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54I cannot arrest a woman who is notorious for her piety
0:28:54 > 0:28:57or I'll create a dozen more!
0:28:57 > 0:29:00Richard, you must not let this come between us.
0:29:02 > 0:29:04We stand together and then we are strong.
0:29:06 > 0:29:07I know. I'm sorry.
0:29:09 > 0:29:13I will intercept her letters. I will set my spies on her.
0:29:13 > 0:29:15We will learn more that way.
0:29:15 > 0:29:17And if Brittany won't hand Tudor over?
0:29:19 > 0:29:22He will invade and I must prepare for war.
0:30:15 > 0:30:16Margaret.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18Margaret!
0:30:19 > 0:30:22I can't stay long. The King trusts no-one any more.
0:30:22 > 0:30:24He knows there's a rebellion in the making and he suspects you,
0:30:24 > 0:30:25and therefore me as well.
0:30:25 > 0:30:29So tell me quickly, are the Princes dead?
0:30:31 > 0:30:33Yes.
0:30:33 > 0:30:34Have you seen the bodies?
0:30:36 > 0:30:38Of course I have not!
0:30:38 > 0:30:40How do you know they're dead?
0:30:40 > 0:30:43Because the Duke and I agreed it!
0:30:43 > 0:30:47How do you know he hasn't lied to you and he holds them somewhere safe?
0:30:47 > 0:30:49What would he have to gain from that?
0:30:49 > 0:30:51He wants them gone as much as we do.
0:30:56 > 0:30:58So you'd better be loyal.
0:30:59 > 0:31:01You'd better fight for Henry.
0:31:10 > 0:31:12It is Buckingham!
0:31:13 > 0:31:18My own true friend who is behind the rebellion of Margaret Stanley's!
0:31:18 > 0:31:20I've intercepted her letters.
0:31:20 > 0:31:21Richard!
0:31:25 > 0:31:26- Leave!- Your Grace.
0:31:34 > 0:31:36A man with the best cause to be true,
0:31:36 > 0:31:39I have given him everything he's ever asked for.
0:31:39 > 0:31:42And never was a traitor better treated.
0:31:44 > 0:31:47And now he is joining Elizabeth and Henry Tudor,
0:31:47 > 0:31:50who is mustering to sail from Brittany.
0:31:51 > 0:31:55Buckingham is false. Lady Margaret too.
0:31:55 > 0:31:58Elizabeth we expect, but all of them together...
0:31:59 > 0:32:01Now I must postpone my Parliament.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05Just when I'd called for it and prepared.
0:32:05 > 0:32:09I just want to show England what a king I can be
0:32:09 > 0:32:11and how I planned to serve them.
0:32:11 > 0:32:14And you will still show them. You'll defeat this uprising.
0:32:14 > 0:32:17That is not even the worst of it.
0:32:17 > 0:32:20What? What is it?
0:32:20 > 0:32:22Buckingham is spreading a rumour
0:32:22 > 0:32:25that the Princes in the Tower are dead.
0:32:25 > 0:32:26What?
0:32:27 > 0:32:29By my hand.
0:32:31 > 0:32:34It is all over the city.
0:32:34 > 0:32:35But why would they say that?
0:32:37 > 0:32:41Because Buckingham slanders me to win men to his cause.
0:32:44 > 0:32:45And ARE they dead?
0:32:46 > 0:32:47It's not true.
0:32:49 > 0:32:51You know I have not harmed them.
0:32:54 > 0:32:55You know I would never do that.
0:32:57 > 0:32:59Would someone else have done it?
0:33:02 > 0:33:04They will be safely in the Tower.
0:33:06 > 0:33:08I have written to Sir Robert to be sure.
0:33:16 > 0:33:18But now I must prepare for war.
0:33:39 > 0:33:41Sir John.
0:33:44 > 0:33:47I offer you my sympathy, your Grace.
0:33:47 > 0:33:51We prayed for the Princes, and we hoped to rescue them in time.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54We are more sorry for your loss than I can say.
0:33:56 > 0:33:57My loss?
0:33:59 > 0:34:01What?
0:34:01 > 0:34:02God spare me.
0:34:03 > 0:34:07Don't say you didn't know, and I've just told you like a fool?
0:34:07 > 0:34:12Are you saying that my son, Prince Edward, has been executed?
0:34:14 > 0:34:16All I've heard is dead.
0:34:16 > 0:34:17No. No.
0:34:19 > 0:34:22Forgive me for being the one to tell you.
0:34:22 > 0:34:24All we wanted was to know your wishes now.
0:34:24 > 0:34:27He has not been executed. No.
0:34:27 > 0:34:28Not publicly.
0:34:30 > 0:34:32We were just told the Princes had been put to death,
0:34:32 > 0:34:37God save them, and the rebellion would go on against Richard,
0:34:37 > 0:34:40but now we would put Henry Tudor on the throne.
0:34:40 > 0:34:42Margaret Beaufort's boy?
0:34:42 > 0:34:44We mustered for your cause, your Grace.
0:34:44 > 0:34:46Who told you they were dead?
0:34:46 > 0:34:47A man of Buckingham's.
0:34:47 > 0:34:50The false King had ordered their deaths in secret.
0:34:52 > 0:34:53Listen to me.
0:34:56 > 0:34:59Go back to Kent and tell your men to rise up.
0:35:00 > 0:35:03Tell them to destroy this false King Richard
0:35:03 > 0:35:06and to take vengeance for me and my poor boys.
0:35:48 > 0:35:50Buckingham and Tudor are to meet in Wales.
0:35:50 > 0:35:53They will cross the River Severn to invade.
0:35:53 > 0:35:55I must cut them off and rout them there.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58May I give you a wife's blessing?
0:36:05 > 0:36:08Come back to me, my Richard.
0:36:08 > 0:36:10My love.
0:36:20 > 0:36:23There's a rumour that my boys are dead.
0:36:23 > 0:36:25The Duke of Buckingham is saying it.
0:36:26 > 0:36:28I fear, your Grace, it is more than just a rumour.
0:36:30 > 0:36:33The false King Richard has killed his nephews to secure his throne.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37At least my Richard is safe, though.
0:36:37 > 0:36:39He's safe?
0:36:39 > 0:36:41They are both safe, please God.
0:36:43 > 0:36:46But they haven't been seen since the Tower attack.
0:36:46 > 0:36:48The Duke and Lady Margaret both believe
0:36:48 > 0:36:49that Richard had them killed.
0:36:51 > 0:36:53But why would Buckingham tell the men
0:36:53 > 0:36:55in the very moment we muster them to free my boys
0:36:55 > 0:36:57that our cause is already lost?
0:36:57 > 0:37:00So that everyone knows it was the false King Richard who gave
0:37:00 > 0:37:03- the order. That he's to blame. - But who would doubt it was Richard?
0:37:03 > 0:37:05No-one would doubt it, of course.
0:37:12 > 0:37:13Your Grace...
0:37:15 > 0:37:18..what did you mean when you said, "At least my son Richard is safe"?
0:37:22 > 0:37:25Doctor, if you had two rare jewels and you feared thieves,
0:37:25 > 0:37:28would you put both of them in the same box?
0:37:28 > 0:37:31- Richard was not in the Tower?- Hush!
0:37:31 > 0:37:33But two boys were killed in their beds!
0:37:35 > 0:37:37In their beds?
0:37:37 > 0:37:38Were they?
0:37:40 > 0:37:41You know that for sure now?
0:37:43 > 0:37:45How do you know it?
0:37:45 > 0:37:47- Please!- How are you suddenly so very sure?- Your Grace, I...
0:37:47 > 0:37:50If you had the slightest hand in this, then you will go to hell
0:37:50 > 0:37:51and so will Lady Margaret!
0:37:54 > 0:37:56Mother, what's happened?
0:37:56 > 0:37:58Elizabeth?
0:37:58 > 0:38:01Have you heard the river singing, as it did when Anthony
0:38:01 > 0:38:03and your brother Richard Grey died?
0:38:03 > 0:38:05Not like that night.
0:38:05 > 0:38:07But you hear something?
0:38:08 > 0:38:10Faintly.
0:38:10 > 0:38:12Like a lullaby. Don't you?
0:38:16 > 0:38:17No.
0:38:20 > 0:38:23They're saying that your brother Prince Edward is dead.
0:38:28 > 0:38:30No. No.
0:38:30 > 0:38:33- Mother... - Lizzie, I think I was mistaken,
0:38:33 > 0:38:35and that the people who I thought were on our side
0:38:35 > 0:38:37are our bitterest enemies.
0:38:39 > 0:38:41And all our safety now depends on Buckingham
0:38:41 > 0:38:44and Henry Tudor losing this battle.
0:38:45 > 0:38:48I thought King Richard was our enemy
0:38:48 > 0:38:51and that's why we rose up with them against him?
0:38:51 > 0:38:54Richard stole the crown
0:38:54 > 0:38:57but I think it was Buckingham and Lady Margaret who killed my boy.
0:38:59 > 0:39:01I must write to my son and Sir John
0:39:01 > 0:39:04and tell them that we are changing sides
0:39:04 > 0:39:08and that they now must turn against Tudor and Buckingham.
0:39:18 > 0:39:20Elizabeth summoned me to sanctuary tonight.
0:39:20 > 0:39:22She begged me to tell her that the Princes are not dead.
0:39:22 > 0:39:23I didn't know what you would have me say
0:39:23 > 0:39:25so I told her what everyone is whispering,
0:39:25 > 0:39:27that Richard had them killed.
0:39:27 > 0:39:30But, Lady Margaret, she said something else.
0:39:32 > 0:39:33Tell me.
0:39:33 > 0:39:36She said, "At least my Richard is safe."
0:39:37 > 0:39:40Prince Richard, how can he be?
0:39:40 > 0:39:42She looked at me in the most determined manner and she said,
0:39:42 > 0:39:46"Doctor, if you had two rare jewels, would you put them in the same box?"
0:39:48 > 0:39:50She would say nothing more.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52She became most angry and I took my leave.
0:39:54 > 0:39:56Lady Margaret, is it true?
0:39:58 > 0:39:59Are the boys both dead?
0:40:04 > 0:40:06They are like all of us, in the hands of God.
0:40:09 > 0:40:10Goodnight.
0:40:12 > 0:40:13Lady Margaret?
0:40:36 > 0:40:38Mother?
0:40:38 > 0:40:40- I can't sleep.- Nor I.
0:40:42 > 0:40:45Where are they meeting? Buckingham and Tudor?
0:40:46 > 0:40:49In Wales, to cross the river.
0:40:53 > 0:40:55Then, we must do something.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01I wish that it would rain.
0:41:05 > 0:41:06Let it rain.
0:41:20 > 0:41:24THUNDER RUMBLES
0:41:34 > 0:41:36You must not worry about your father.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40He will be home soon and we'll all be safe again.
0:41:41 > 0:41:44Buckingham's army will wait in Wales for Henry Tudor.
0:41:51 > 0:41:54HORSE WHINNIES
0:41:55 > 0:42:00Lady Margaret will know that her son cannot set sail in this.
0:42:00 > 0:42:03Not if it's this bad over the Channel.
0:42:03 > 0:42:04And it will be.
0:42:15 > 0:42:165,000 mercenaries.
0:42:18 > 0:42:22A force that cannot fail against whoever wins the first battle.
0:42:24 > 0:42:26Except we cannot even get there for the rain.
0:42:33 > 0:42:35'My dearest Anne.
0:42:35 > 0:42:38'I am in hell.
0:42:38 > 0:42:41'Our march is slower than torture,
0:42:41 > 0:42:43'the horses chest-deep in the mud,
0:42:43 > 0:42:45'and half the bridges are washed away
0:42:45 > 0:42:48'so we have to go for miles to find a ford.
0:42:49 > 0:42:51'My men march with their heads down.
0:42:53 > 0:42:56'When we rest, we can't light fires, as everything is soaked.'
0:43:00 > 0:43:02THUNDER RUMBLES
0:43:02 > 0:43:05Buckingham will give up his wait for Tudor.
0:43:07 > 0:43:10He will be forced to fight Richard on his own.
0:43:20 > 0:43:24'Buckingham's life will shrink to a long march in the rain.'
0:43:27 > 0:43:29'He will pray God for a miracle.'
0:43:30 > 0:43:31But not in this rain.
0:43:33 > 0:43:34'There are no miracles.
0:43:35 > 0:43:39'And God is raging at what they have done to my poor boy.'
0:43:44 > 0:43:45'Lady Margaret.
0:43:47 > 0:43:51'Your son has not arrived to join me, and most of my men have fled.
0:43:53 > 0:43:57'I cannot win against Richard with these numbers, and he knows it,
0:43:57 > 0:43:59'and is hunting me.
0:44:03 > 0:44:07'When I am routed, he will build a scaffold for all the traitors,
0:44:07 > 0:44:11'and he will search the Tower for the Princes.'
0:44:12 > 0:44:13Edward?
0:44:13 > 0:44:14Richard?
0:44:17 > 0:44:20Guard! Quickly, man, open the door!
0:44:22 > 0:44:23Your Grace.
0:45:23 > 0:45:26SHE LAUGHS
0:45:40 > 0:45:41Richard?
0:45:41 > 0:45:43What are you doing?
0:45:43 > 0:45:45You must sentence the traitors.
0:45:45 > 0:45:48They are gone. They've just vanished.
0:45:48 > 0:45:51It'll be that witch! She will have spirited them away.
0:45:51 > 0:45:53That is why you must drag her out of sanctuary and punish her!
0:45:53 > 0:45:56I've searched every room and stairwell.
0:45:56 > 0:45:58Where can they be?
0:45:58 > 0:46:00Richard, please!
0:46:00 > 0:46:03Name the traitors and call your Parliament!
0:46:03 > 0:46:06It's what you've always wanted!
0:46:06 > 0:46:09Do the good for England you've dreamed of and then we can be happy.
0:46:12 > 0:46:14The guards said they put the boys to bed one night,
0:46:14 > 0:46:16and in the morning they were gone.
0:46:16 > 0:46:18Sir Robert Brackenbury raised the alarm.
0:46:18 > 0:46:20Sir Robert?
0:46:21 > 0:46:23What did Sir Robert say of it?
0:46:25 > 0:46:26That he was sorry.
0:46:29 > 0:46:30He is sorry.
0:46:32 > 0:46:33So, where are they?
0:46:35 > 0:46:37Then it must be Buckingham.
0:46:39 > 0:46:41Surely it must. Who else could it be?
0:46:45 > 0:46:47Will you ask him...
0:46:47 > 0:46:49if he has killed them?
0:46:50 > 0:46:52I will execute Buckingham
0:46:52 > 0:46:56for ruining my good name and my peace.
0:47:48 > 0:47:49He knows.
0:47:51 > 0:47:53Richard knows you've been working with the Queen.
0:47:55 > 0:47:56You're guilty of treason...
0:47:58 > 0:47:59..punishable by death.
0:48:03 > 0:48:05If...if he thinks that you're faithful?
0:48:05 > 0:48:06I AM faithful.
0:48:06 > 0:48:10While you were betraying him, I was at his side.
0:48:10 > 0:48:11Richard's shocked!
0:48:13 > 0:48:15He feels you're as faithless as your kinsman Buckingham.
0:48:15 > 0:48:16He's been executed.
0:48:22 > 0:48:23What do I do? I...
0:48:24 > 0:48:28I cou... I cou... I cou... I could, I could run away?
0:48:28 > 0:48:30I could go to Brittany? I have...I have my money chest.
0:48:30 > 0:48:33But I've been nominated as your jailer.
0:48:33 > 0:48:35Richard's decided that all your lands
0:48:35 > 0:48:37and your wealth will come to me.
0:48:37 > 0:48:40My men are in your chambers now removing your goods
0:48:40 > 0:48:41and your money chest.
0:48:41 > 0:48:43And your wine.
0:48:43 > 0:48:45You are robbing me?!
0:48:47 > 0:48:50You led me to the plot to rob me!
0:48:50 > 0:48:53You'll be under house arrest at my country house at Bletsoe.
0:48:53 > 0:48:56Your servants will be dismissed, you will not meet with anyone.
0:48:56 > 0:48:59You betrayed me to get my fortune.
0:49:00 > 0:49:03No, Margaret. I've saved you from a traitor's death.
0:49:04 > 0:49:08And I'm still in place to hear of Richard's plans against your son.
0:49:08 > 0:49:10You signed his death warrant with your failure.
0:49:10 > 0:49:14You can write to him, but all your letters should come through me.
0:49:14 > 0:49:17I must have the appearance of controlling you completely.
0:49:17 > 0:49:19The "appearance"?!
0:49:22 > 0:49:25You'll give the appearance of being on both sides!
0:49:27 > 0:49:29Always.
0:49:44 > 0:49:47Sister, let me in.
0:49:47 > 0:49:48You're not my brother!
0:49:48 > 0:49:50I am the King.
0:49:50 > 0:49:51Not to me.
0:49:51 > 0:49:54Let me in, Elizabeth, for all our sakes.
0:50:15 > 0:50:16Tell me, please.
0:50:17 > 0:50:20Do you have your son Edward and his brother somewhere safe?
0:50:21 > 0:50:23They're not in the Tower?
0:50:23 > 0:50:29In God's name, if you have, I swear I will not hunt them.
0:50:29 > 0:50:30Just tell me that they are safe.
0:50:30 > 0:50:32No.
0:50:33 > 0:50:34No.
0:50:42 > 0:50:46Everyone is saying they are dead and that I did it.
0:50:48 > 0:50:49And did you?
0:50:52 > 0:50:55Think, Elizabeth.
0:50:55 > 0:50:59When we killed King Henry, we had his body shown to the people.
0:50:59 > 0:51:04The whole point was to tell the world that his line had ended.
0:51:07 > 0:51:09If I killed your sons...
0:51:10 > 0:51:12..I would have done the same.
0:51:17 > 0:51:19I am sorry for your loss.
0:51:21 > 0:51:24You have nothing to gain now by staying in sanctuary.
0:51:26 > 0:51:30I'll make you an agreement and promise for your safety
0:51:30 > 0:51:32and that of your girls, if you come out.
0:51:32 > 0:51:35- I shall go home? - Be under house arrest.
0:51:35 > 0:51:38I cannot trust you not to come against me.
0:51:39 > 0:51:41I cannot trust anyone, anywhere.
0:51:54 > 0:51:58You have grown beautiful, Elizabeth.
0:51:58 > 0:52:00Lizzie, Cecily, leave us.
0:52:06 > 0:52:10People are saying that I killed your brothers...
0:52:13 > 0:52:16..but I want you to know that I am innocent.
0:52:18 > 0:52:19You have my word.
0:52:26 > 0:52:28Whoever killed my sons, I will curse them.
0:52:30 > 0:52:33We will both curse them...
0:52:34 > 0:52:37..down the years, until all their sons die out.
0:52:39 > 0:52:41Take care.
0:52:42 > 0:52:44Your curses last too long...
0:52:45 > 0:52:48..and may turn on someone you love.
0:53:05 > 0:53:07Bless me, Father, for I have...
0:53:09 > 0:53:11I do not know what I have done!
0:53:13 > 0:53:15I'm afraid I have done something.
0:53:16 > 0:53:18I...
0:53:18 > 0:53:21I said things to someone...
0:53:22 > 0:53:25..and what if he has acted upon them?
0:53:27 > 0:53:30What if I killed two little boys?
0:53:51 > 0:53:53What should I do?
0:53:53 > 0:53:56Read it aloud. Melusina will take the curse and see it's done.
0:54:02 > 0:54:04Our boy Edward was in the Tower.
0:54:06 > 0:54:09But he is gone and we think he is murdered.
0:54:12 > 0:54:15- BOTH:- We come to you, Lady Mother,
0:54:15 > 0:54:18and we put into your depths this curse -
0:54:18 > 0:54:21whoever took our firstborn son,
0:54:21 > 0:54:24you will take his firstborn son from him,
0:54:24 > 0:54:27and his grandsons too,
0:54:27 > 0:54:30and his firstborn boys all down his line.
0:54:30 > 0:54:35And we will know the murderer by the workings of our curse.
0:54:37 > 0:54:39Burn it.
0:55:04 > 0:55:06Lizzie come, come.
0:55:19 > 0:55:21Richard, what are you doing?
0:55:22 > 0:55:25Parliament is waiting for you, my love.
0:55:26 > 0:55:28Elizabeth doesn't have the boys.
0:55:30 > 0:55:33She doesn't know where they are.
0:55:33 > 0:55:34You have seen her?
0:55:35 > 0:55:37I had to know.
0:55:37 > 0:55:39I had to ask her.
0:55:39 > 0:55:41What did she say?
0:55:42 > 0:55:46She said she would curse whoever killed them.
0:55:46 > 0:55:48- She cursed us?- Not us!
0:55:50 > 0:55:51I did not order their deaths.
0:55:54 > 0:55:55How could you think that of me?
0:56:05 > 0:56:08I've said Elizabeth can come out of sanctuary.
0:56:11 > 0:56:12What?
0:56:12 > 0:56:15She will go to Grafton under house arrest.
0:56:16 > 0:56:19The older girls will come to court.
0:56:20 > 0:56:24I want to keep Princess Elizabeth close to me.
0:56:24 > 0:56:26What are you doing?
0:56:26 > 0:56:27They are witches!
0:56:27 > 0:56:31She rose against you and only God's rain saved you.
0:56:31 > 0:56:32Please, Richard!
0:56:33 > 0:56:34Richard?
0:56:36 > 0:56:38What is happening to us?
0:57:00 > 0:57:03Thomas Grey sends his love from Brittany.
0:57:03 > 0:57:05He's fled to safety at Henry Tudor's court.
0:57:06 > 0:57:08Lucky him!
0:57:11 > 0:57:13Well, I take it I no longer need to marry Tudor?
0:57:14 > 0:57:18Now we think his mother killed my brother Edward.
0:57:18 > 0:57:22I've written to Lady Margaret that your betrothal still stands.
0:57:22 > 0:57:24Wha... What?
0:57:24 > 0:57:25- Mother...- Lizzie, it was you
0:57:25 > 0:57:28who told me you foresaw you would be Queen.
0:57:29 > 0:57:31I said that I feared it!
0:57:31 > 0:57:33Not that I wanted it!
0:57:33 > 0:57:36Henry Tudor could be killed the moment he sets foot in England.
0:57:36 > 0:57:38But he will come.
0:57:38 > 0:57:40He has his army and he will not waste it.
0:57:40 > 0:57:42He will try again for the throne of England
0:57:42 > 0:57:46and we have not sacrificed this much to step aside if he should win.
0:57:47 > 0:57:49I will not marry him, mother.
0:57:52 > 0:57:53No matter what you say.
0:57:59 > 0:58:01Fortune will send me someone else.
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