0:02:06 > 0:02:08COURTIERS CHATTER
0:02:15 > 0:02:17STAFF BANGS
0:02:17 > 0:02:21The most high and mighty sovereign Elizabeth.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24By the grace of God, Queen of England!
0:02:24 > 0:02:27FANFARE PLAYS
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Randolph!
0:02:34 > 0:02:38You'll never lie in the law if you're glued to the floor. Get out!
0:02:47 > 0:02:50- Has something upset Your Majesty? - Throckmorton, tell them!
0:02:50 > 0:02:56Mary Stuart has sailed from France for Scotland.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00What are we to do?
0:03:00 > 0:03:04- Did Your Majesty grant her England's safe conduct of the sea?- No!
0:03:04 > 0:03:07She defied my ambassador, and me.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Refused to acknowledge I am the rightful queen of England.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14Now she shows her true colours!
0:03:17 > 0:03:20Suppose she lands. What then?
0:03:20 > 0:03:24Her presence in Scotland will endanger Your Majesty's throne.
0:03:24 > 0:03:28She is the legitimate heir of Henry VII.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32Her claims to succeed Your Majesty must be acknowledged.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Not by me. Never.
0:03:34 > 0:03:39I should fail in my duty to Your Majesty if I did not state facts.
0:03:39 > 0:03:46We must face the fact that in the eyes of Europe you are a pretender to the throne of England.
0:03:46 > 0:03:51Because the marriage of your father, Henry VIII, to your mother,
0:03:51 > 0:03:55Anne Boleyn, is deemed invalid.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58They call me illegitimate. Go on.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00That being faced,
0:04:00 > 0:04:05Mary Stuart must not be allowed to land in Scotland.
0:04:05 > 0:04:09She will use that throne as a stepping stone to yours.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12She must be seized at sea!
0:04:12 > 0:04:17By English ships? But that would offend France, offend all Europe.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21Have I no captain who can raise a black flag on occasion?
0:04:21 > 0:04:25They do it often enough when I forbid it!
0:04:33 > 0:04:37- What happened, Randolph?- Hawkins! - What did she say?
0:05:56 > 0:05:58O, Heavenly Father,
0:05:58 > 0:06:02I give Thee thanks for the security of this voyage,
0:06:02 > 0:06:06which has brought us safely to my native land.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09Counsel my heart,
0:06:09 > 0:06:13guide my steps in this land of my birth
0:06:13 > 0:06:16that I may rule with piety
0:06:16 > 0:06:18and wisdom.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39The Queen is coming! Queen Mary!
0:06:40 > 0:06:43The Queen is coming! The Queen is coming!
0:06:50 > 0:06:53COURTIERS ARGUE
0:06:56 > 0:06:59DOG BARKS
0:06:59 > 0:07:02COURTIERS SHOUT AT ONCE
0:07:02 > 0:07:04DOG BARKS
0:07:04 > 0:07:06ARGUMENT CONTINUES
0:07:14 > 0:07:20ARGUMENT CEASES My Lord. Your sister Mary is on her way to Edinburgh.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22You're daft, man!
0:07:22 > 0:07:27I've seen her. She landed at Leith. She'll be here any moment!
0:07:29 > 0:07:31COURTIERS LAUGH
0:07:34 > 0:07:38Your regency's over, Moray. You'll step down now.
0:07:38 > 0:07:43Aye! No longer you rule Scotland! THEY JEER
0:07:43 > 0:07:48My lords! We'd, er, better go down and meet her.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51No. You'll wait here.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54You've gathered here to welcome her.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Understand?
0:08:00 > 0:08:07Another thing. Remember you lords are the real power of Scotland. You can afford to hold your tongues.
0:08:07 > 0:08:13Leave all speech to Lethington. Especially you, Ruthven and Morton.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Your Majesty.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10James. James Stuart.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13- SHE LAUGHS - I would have known you anywhere.
0:09:14 > 0:09:19And I you, my dear...sister. Welcome home.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Welcome to Scotland, Mary.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Thank you, James.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28Frankly, I was worried. Thank heaven you crossed the sea safely.
0:09:28 > 0:09:34Oh, none too safely. We were pursued. They captured the ship that carried our horses.
0:09:34 > 0:09:39Hence that ridiculous horse not a triumphant homecoming!
0:09:39 > 0:09:42Pursued at sea? By freebooters?
0:09:42 > 0:09:45A freebooter. With a skirt, I dare say.
0:09:47 > 0:09:52The lords of Scotland are waiting to greet you in the Great Hall.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Will you see them now?
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Oh, I did so want to look my best after all these years.
0:10:03 > 0:10:07Remember the old days at Inchmaholme?
0:10:07 > 0:10:10I was a spoiled little girl and you seemed such a man.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13You'll never know how I admired you.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16You haven't changed at all.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48Thank you for the welcome you have given me, my lords.
0:10:48 > 0:10:54I have been 13 years away. It is not of my own choice that I went,
0:10:54 > 0:10:57but it is of my own choice that I have returned.
0:10:57 > 0:11:01You will find me young perhaps, inexperienced,
0:11:01 > 0:11:06but with the support of all of you, and with the Earl of Moray at my side,
0:11:06 > 0:11:10I shall rule fairly and justly.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30Thank you, Your Gracious Majesty.
0:11:30 > 0:11:36The name of Stuart, of your father, is loved and honoured in Scotland.
0:11:36 > 0:11:37One moment, Lethington!
0:11:37 > 0:11:42Can't we welcome Her Majesty without the presence of foreigners?
0:11:44 > 0:11:46No, David.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Rizzio is my secretary.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52He will remain.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Continue, Lethington.
0:11:54 > 0:11:59- No affront is intended, Your Majesty. - I understand.
0:11:59 > 0:12:03On behalf of these lords and nobles of your kingdom,
0:12:03 > 0:12:07I wish to assure you of our unwavering loyalty.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11Differences we may have...
0:12:12 > 0:12:16..but they shall not divide us.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Differences? What differences?
0:12:20 > 0:12:24Oh, nothing that cannot be resolved, Your Majesty.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27What differences, m'lord?
0:12:27 > 0:12:30Lethington meant nothing of importance, dear sister.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32What did he mean, James?
0:12:34 > 0:12:38He was mindful of your...religion.
0:12:40 > 0:12:44You call that nothing of importance?
0:12:44 > 0:12:46It's your religion, too, James.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Please try to understand.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52Conditions are changing. The old faith is passing.
0:12:52 > 0:12:57- This is John Knox's day in Scotland. - And you've gone over to his side?
0:12:57 > 0:13:02- I've only followed my conscience. - I hope you have one, James.
0:13:02 > 0:13:07I had your interests at stake. I was regent, I had to protect your throne.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09By attacking what I hold most dear?
0:13:09 > 0:13:13By befriending Knox. Do you realise the power he holds?
0:13:13 > 0:13:19- If you want the people behind you, do as Moray has done. - There's Elizabeth.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24- Where is Elizabeth? - Born in the old faith like yourself.
0:13:24 > 0:13:29- But she gets off a ship when it sinks.- I don't like your tone.
0:13:29 > 0:13:35My religion is no garment to be put on and off with the weather.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39I shall worship as I please and hope for all to do so in Scotland.
0:13:39 > 0:13:44- Good for you, lassie.- You're from the north. Are you a turncoat?
0:13:44 > 0:13:48No, and I'll defend to the death your right to worship as you wish.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Thank you, Huntly.
0:13:53 > 0:13:58And now let that be an end of this unimportant matter.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03Is there anything else on your minds, m'lords?
0:14:03 > 0:14:07- We're here to speak about your marriage.- Ruthven!
0:14:07 > 0:14:12- Go on, Lethington!- We hesitated to mention this, Your Majesty,
0:14:12 > 0:14:17- but now you have returned. - Why mince words, Lethington?
0:14:18 > 0:14:21The king of France died when I was 18.
0:14:21 > 0:14:26Naturally, I'm free to marry again. If I choose to.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29We realise the matter is delicate, Your Majesty.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33- I'm glad you realise that. - It is of grave importance.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37If you made a foreign alliance what would happen here?
0:14:37 > 0:14:44Until you are married to a loyal Scot whom we can trust, Scotland will be unsettled.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48All we wish is to see you safe on your throne.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52It's true. Until men know what alliance you will make,
0:14:52 > 0:14:56the clans will sleep with their swords in their hands.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59- You've decided on my husband? - Aye.- One of you?
0:14:59 > 0:15:01COURTIERS: No!
0:15:01 > 0:15:05- We've considered your welfare in choosing him.- Choosing whom?
0:15:05 > 0:15:10Lord Darnley. A Stuart. The heir after you to the throne of England.
0:15:10 > 0:15:15You said you would never give up your claim to the succession.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Marry Darnley and strengthen it.
0:15:18 > 0:15:24Of course, I can't give myself out to be a virgin queen,
0:15:24 > 0:15:26like our cousin Elizabeth.
0:15:27 > 0:15:31But suppose I don't choose to marry at all?
0:15:31 > 0:15:35Then you'll do as you please, and I'm behind you, lassie.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Thank you, Huntly.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39I see I have one friend here.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45- Where is the Earl of Bothwell? - MEN LAUGH
0:15:45 > 0:15:49- You laugh, Morton?- No offence... - It concerns the Earl of Bothwell?
0:15:49 > 0:15:53Something he said about Your Majesty, yes.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56And what did he say?
0:15:58 > 0:16:04Bothwell said you and Elizabeth rolled together wouldn't make you an honest woman.
0:16:06 > 0:16:10And do my lords allow my name to be slandered?
0:16:10 > 0:16:15Your Majesty, there's no love lost between us and Bothwell.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19- Take no account of that speech. - I shall take account of it.
0:16:19 > 0:16:24I shall take account of the veiled insults which have been slung at me.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28I realise now what kind of support I may expect from you,
0:16:28 > 0:16:34- even from my half-brother.- My dear sister...- I know where I stand.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Go ahead. Form your council. Do as you wish.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39I'll have no hand in it.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42I have never done anything of my own wish.
0:16:42 > 0:16:47The ambition of other men carried me to France as a child
0:16:47 > 0:16:51and married me to a dying boy who became king of France.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53I wasn't asked. But I'm through.
0:16:53 > 0:16:58I'm going to live my own life, do as I say. I refuse to marry.
0:16:58 > 0:17:03I love no-one, I shall marry no-one. I'm going to begin to be myself,
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Mary Stuart!
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Oh!
0:17:44 > 0:17:50- She sits on the throne only so long as we maintain her there.- Softly!
0:17:50 > 0:17:53We'll stand for only so much of this.
0:17:53 > 0:17:57She'll sit on the throne only as long as we keep her there.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00She's our queen and she'll remain our queen!
0:18:01 > 0:18:05- I'll back you in that. - And I'll go with you.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08Stop this! There'll be no throne,
0:18:08 > 0:18:10no Scotland, if we fall out.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13- Who's going to keep her in hand? - I will.
0:18:13 > 0:18:17Have you picked yourself to be prime minister, Moray?
0:18:17 > 0:18:21Aye. With Lethington as secretary of state, what have you to fear?
0:18:21 > 0:18:23I'll serve her faithfully.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Aye, as long as it serves your own purposes.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28But who's to look after us?
0:18:28 > 0:18:30I will.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32I promise you.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Madonna.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40PEOPLE SING OUTSIDE
0:18:47 > 0:18:51# We hail frae the burns and the hills and the glens
0:18:51 > 0:18:55# When the fight for the queen goes on
0:18:55 > 0:19:00# And there I'll a-wend for her loyalty unbent
0:19:00 > 0:19:04# Whether victory or death may befall
0:19:04 > 0:19:09# Though the road be lang and drear The pibroch's ringing clear
0:19:09 > 0:19:13# With the spur of the Stuarts off to war
0:19:13 > 0:19:18# We will fight for our queen She's the fairest ever seen
0:19:18 > 0:19:22# So the Scots may be free as of yore
0:19:22 > 0:19:27# For chains shall not bind us Nor English yokes of yore
0:19:27 > 0:19:33# Then free Scotland for evermore. #
0:19:37 > 0:19:43And a while ago, I wanted to run away. It all seemed so hateful.
0:19:43 > 0:19:48- SINGING CONTINUES - But now, I'll find a way to win.
0:19:49 > 0:19:54# Though the road be lang and drear The pibroch bright and clear
0:19:54 > 0:20:01# Wi' the spur of the Stuarts off to war
0:20:01 > 0:20:06# Och, our land fresh and fair
0:20:06 > 0:20:10# Pine and heather fill the air
0:20:10 > 0:20:18# Bonny land that our forefathers bore
0:20:18 > 0:20:23# Our queen we'll defend
0:20:23 > 0:20:27# Stuarts' cause will never end
0:20:27 > 0:20:38# Till we free Scotland for evermore
0:20:38 > 0:20:43# We will fight for our queen She's the fairest ever seen
0:20:43 > 0:20:47WOMEN: # Ah
0:20:47 > 0:20:54# For chains shall not bind us Nor English yokes of yore
0:20:54 > 0:20:56# Let us free... #
0:20:56 > 0:21:01Singing, dancing, drinking, and all the vile and evil uses of the flesh,
0:21:01 > 0:21:05they run before this Jezebel of France
0:21:05 > 0:21:07like a foul air.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10Aye, she's the Stuart on her father's side.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14But who was her mother? Who was her mother?
0:21:14 > 0:21:18French Mary of Guise.
0:21:18 > 0:21:23She was regent when George Bishop was burned alive for heresy.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25And what was his heresy?
0:21:25 > 0:21:29Preaching the reformed religion.
0:21:29 > 0:21:34Teaching me, John Knox, the wisdom and the glory of God.
0:21:34 > 0:21:39Aye, and the flames that consumed my teacher
0:21:39 > 0:21:43burnt deep into this heart.
0:21:44 > 0:21:48Did Mary return to Scotland while she sat on the throne of France?
0:21:48 > 0:21:54No! She was lost in luxury and the sinful joys of the flesh
0:21:54 > 0:21:59and now now! when faith has cut her down from that throne of sin,
0:21:59 > 0:22:02she remembers another gem in her crown,
0:22:02 > 0:22:05the gem she was born with Scotland.
0:22:05 > 0:22:10The time has come for all men to choose between the kith of Scotland
0:22:10 > 0:22:13and this Jezebel of France!
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Master Knox!
0:22:17 > 0:22:22We Scots know who fought for the mother.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Aye, and we Scots remember who fought against her.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29Mock me as you will. You can never silence my tongue.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32I'm no such fool, Master Knox.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35You can't silence 10,000 trumpets.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39But I can match you with a better tune, and from a better bag o' wind.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42I shall say what I have come to say.
0:22:42 > 0:22:46And neither rank nor station shall avail mine enemies.
0:22:46 > 0:22:51- WHISTLES, DRUMS AND BAGPIPES START - My people, have we not had enough
0:22:51 > 0:22:53of the Guises and their followers?
0:22:53 > 0:22:57Aye, let them stick to their warmer climates...
0:22:57 > 0:23:03BAGPIPES PLAY
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Back, back I say!
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Stop! Stop!
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Stop!
0:23:10 > 0:23:16Stop, I say! Stop or I shall bring down the curse of God upon you!
0:23:16 > 0:23:20BAGPIPES PLAY
0:23:38 > 0:23:42Stop, or I shall bring down the curse of God upon you!
0:23:52 > 0:23:54Stop!
0:23:54 > 0:23:56MUSIC STOPS
0:24:03 > 0:24:07Your Majesty, may I rid your presence of this old goat?
0:24:07 > 0:24:10I wish to speak to this gentleman.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Won't you come inside, Master Knox?
0:24:16 > 0:24:18Is there anything to fear?
0:24:31 > 0:24:36Look at me, Master Knox. Can you believe I am as wicked as you say?
0:24:36 > 0:24:40Do you not bring back the old faith we cast out of Scotland?
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Is it a crime to be steadfast in faith?
0:24:43 > 0:24:48- There is only one true faith, and that I preach.- Preach your faith.
0:24:48 > 0:24:54- Let me practise mine. - Can I forget whose daughter...? - I am the daughter of Mary of Guise.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56I keep my mother's religion.
0:24:56 > 0:25:00I'll respect your own and give you as much freedom as I demand.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03They told me you spoke fairly.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05Can't you also be tolerant?
0:25:05 > 0:25:08I want to be loved by my people. I need their support.
0:25:08 > 0:25:12- Your support, your friendship. - You heard my words in the courtyard.
0:25:12 > 0:25:18I heard words another sovereign would call treason, that they would punish as my mother did.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21I called you Jezebel of France.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23And I'll call it ya again.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26I believe in your sincerity, Master Knox.
0:25:27 > 0:25:31I only ask you to believe in mine. Can't we be friends?
0:25:31 > 0:25:34I have said what I came to say.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37But you no longer mean it. You...
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Well, blast his insolence!
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Damn, he ought to be hung!
0:25:47 > 0:25:51- It will take more than love to rule this land.- I didn't ask you.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54Good. Good, you've got a temper.
0:25:54 > 0:26:00- But don't curb it, Your Majesty. May it... - Are you captain of the guards?
0:26:00 > 0:26:04- I only arrived tonight.- Then do me the favour to leave again
0:26:04 > 0:26:08- and not return until you've turned to good.- That will be never.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11I'm too late. Moray has told you about me.
0:26:11 > 0:26:16- About you? You pride yourself.- Aye.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20- It's a way I have, Mary Stuart. - Erm, who are you?
0:26:20 > 0:26:24- You heard the pipers. You remember my clan?- Which clan?
0:26:24 > 0:26:28When you hear those pipes, you know Bothwells are about.
0:26:28 > 0:26:32- You are the Earl of Bothwell. - At Your Majesty's service.
0:26:32 > 0:26:38Did you say that Elizabeth Tudor and I rolled together wouldn't make an honest woman?
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Not at all.
0:26:40 > 0:26:44I said the two of you together wouldn't make a PROPER woman.
0:26:44 > 0:26:50But that was years ago when I saw you in France. Just a skinny little girl.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52I wouldn't say it now.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00You're a very outspoken man, my Lord Bothwell.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03That's one privilege I'll retain.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07You don't want flattery. I've confessed. Forgive me.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11Well, you did fight in defence of my mother. I thank you for that.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Don't thank me. It was a pleasure.
0:27:15 > 0:27:21I have found many enemies here. Have I also found a friend?
0:27:21 > 0:27:25You'll only find out who's your friend in Scotland
0:27:25 > 0:27:27by putting him to the test.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31Tonight I need loyal backing more than my mother did.
0:27:31 > 0:27:37Hearing Moray and the lords were here to welcome you I rode over from the border.
0:27:37 > 0:27:42- To stand with them against me? - Where are they?
0:27:43 > 0:27:47They are forming my council in the hall.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00DOGS BARK
0:28:00 > 0:28:02MEN SHOUT
0:28:11 > 0:28:13CRASH ECHOES
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Bothwell! Where have you been?
0:28:15 > 0:28:20Down near the border, Morton, hanging a few of your clansmen.
0:28:21 > 0:28:27- Well, have you divided the spoils? - We're forming Her Majesty's council.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29Moray as prime minister, I fancy.
0:28:29 > 0:28:34- Naturally. - You, Morton, as secretary of state.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37- Or is it Ruthven? - No, Lethington.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40- MEN: Aye, Lethington. - Oh, indeed.
0:28:40 > 0:28:44- Who's to be the Queen's lieutenant general?- That's for me!
0:28:44 > 0:28:48- COURTIERS SHOUT AT ONCE - You're all wrong, gentlemen.
0:28:48 > 0:28:52I've decided to take charge of Her Majesty's armed forces.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55- We will not allow it.- Too late.
0:28:55 > 0:28:58I've just accepted the appointment.
0:28:58 > 0:29:02- From whom? - From Her Majesty, the Queen.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05BOTHWELL LAUGHS
0:29:16 > 0:29:23- Did you say Lord Randolph is expected to return from Scotland? - I did, Your Majesty.
0:29:26 > 0:29:28I wonder what's keeping him.
0:29:28 > 0:29:31Some pretty face, I daresay.
0:29:32 > 0:29:36Are you growing jealous of Randolph, Leicester?
0:29:36 > 0:29:42Your Majesty, more and more you're giving your important commissions to Lord Randolph.
0:29:42 > 0:29:46- There was a time when I basked... - Don't say that!
0:29:46 > 0:29:48Reminds me of a fish.
0:29:49 > 0:29:56Your Majesty, you know my feelings. You must realise how they're torn when you avert your gaze.
0:29:56 > 0:29:58Your Majesty.
0:29:58 > 0:30:00I beg you on my knees.
0:30:02 > 0:30:05Lord Randolph, ambassador to Scotland.
0:30:14 > 0:30:15Get out!
0:30:20 > 0:30:24Did you convey my greetings to Mary Stuart?
0:30:24 > 0:30:28Tell her how I rejoice at her safe return from France?
0:30:28 > 0:30:30Most ardently, Your Majesty.
0:30:30 > 0:30:34Ardently? Hmm. I begin to understand your dallying.
0:30:34 > 0:30:38I've heard of her enchantment.
0:30:38 > 0:30:43Tell me, is she as pretty as they say?
0:30:49 > 0:30:51You may see for yourself.
0:30:51 > 0:30:55She sent you this token of her love.
0:31:16 > 0:31:20Girl, not a queen.
0:31:24 > 0:31:28Tell me what's she like?
0:31:28 > 0:31:30Most charming, Your Majesty.
0:31:30 > 0:31:32Already she has many suitors.
0:31:32 > 0:31:36- Chief among them is Lord Darnley. - Darnley?!
0:31:36 > 0:31:39Another thorn in my crown.
0:31:39 > 0:31:42A weakling. A drunkard.
0:31:44 > 0:31:47Stands next to my throne.
0:31:48 > 0:31:53As for her, I'd be in double jeopardy if she married him.
0:31:53 > 0:31:57Your Majesty, the Earl of Bothwell removes that danger.
0:31:57 > 0:32:02He leads her troops like a hurricane. He's restored order in the North.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05It's plain to see he's in love with her.
0:32:05 > 0:32:09Could I sleep, with Bothwell on the throne beside her?
0:32:09 > 0:32:11She's a creature of love!
0:32:11 > 0:32:16Your fears are unfounded. She wins men to her side in gentle ways.
0:32:16 > 0:32:20Aye, and I see she has won our Randolph among others.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22You shall go north no more!
0:32:22 > 0:32:28- Your Majesty... - Throckmorton, you're a cold fish! You shall be my ambassador.
0:32:28 > 0:32:33- Your Majesty, I'm simply giving you my report...- Leave us!
0:32:34 > 0:32:39And take care, or your heart will fall off your sleeve.
0:32:45 > 0:32:48Darnley, Bothwell...
0:32:50 > 0:32:53Am I never to have peace?
0:32:53 > 0:32:55She must be defeated!
0:32:55 > 0:33:00- How?- Declare war. Unite Scotland with England.- War?!
0:33:00 > 0:33:02Is that all you men know?
0:33:03 > 0:33:07Unite Scotland against England, you mean.
0:33:08 > 0:33:14- Unite Scotland under Mary Stuart. - But how else is she to be defeated?
0:33:22 > 0:33:26You know what it is to be born illegitimate?
0:33:27 > 0:33:29And have royal blood in your veins?
0:33:30 > 0:33:34That one word standing between you and the throne.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38How it makes ambition burn.
0:33:40 > 0:33:43Who ruled Scotland before she returned?
0:33:43 > 0:33:46Who wants to rule again?
0:33:46 > 0:33:52- The Earl of Moray.- You shall ride north tonight as my ambassador...
0:33:53 > 0:33:55..and get in touch with Moray.
0:34:05 > 0:34:10So Lord Bothwell has put down a rebellion on the border.
0:34:11 > 0:34:13Has he, er, returned yet?
0:34:13 > 0:34:16- Not yet, madame.- Why that tone?
0:34:17 > 0:34:20I no longer have your confidence.
0:34:20 > 0:34:22That's not true.
0:34:22 > 0:34:26- You must secure your throne by marrying.- You don't like Bothwell.
0:34:26 > 0:34:33- He is a good lieutenant general. - His religion rules him out? - All he believes in is this.
0:34:33 > 0:34:37It's done more for me than your talk about marriage!
0:34:37 > 0:34:39I'm sorry, David.
0:34:39 > 0:34:41I try only to serve you faithfully.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44You're as fanatical as John Knox.
0:34:44 > 0:34:49I often wonder which you love the most, myself or my religion.
0:34:49 > 0:34:51I would never betray either.
0:34:51 > 0:34:54You imply that I would?
0:34:54 > 0:34:57You are the sole defender of our faith here.
0:34:57 > 0:35:00What becomes of that if you marry a heretic?
0:35:00 > 0:35:05- Meaning Bothwell?- Even Lord Darnley is 100 times a better choice!
0:35:05 > 0:35:07At least he's of the faith.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10Why must I marry at all?
0:35:10 > 0:35:14To have an heir. To be true to your blood.
0:35:14 > 0:35:17To escape the tyranny of these lords.
0:35:17 > 0:35:21You're a worse tyrant than they are in their disloyalty.
0:35:21 > 0:35:25I have never urged Your Majesty to marry a Scot.
0:35:25 > 0:35:30- Marry in Europe, where your destiny is.- My destiny is here.
0:35:30 > 0:35:32In Scotland.
0:35:32 > 0:35:35Whom would you have me marry?
0:35:35 > 0:35:41Look at these marriage proposals. First and foremost, Don Carlos of Spain.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43Onions.
0:35:43 > 0:35:49- The Archduke of Austria is not so good a match but he is eager to marry you.- Beer.
0:35:49 > 0:35:52- The King of Sweden.- But his ears.
0:35:52 > 0:35:56- Don't forget the King Of Denmark. - Would Scotland ever be quiet?
0:35:56 > 0:35:58I assure you, he's a peaceable man.
0:35:58 > 0:36:00But they say he snores.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03The Duke of Anjou. Prince Conrad.
0:36:03 > 0:36:06The Duke of Milan! Of Orleans!
0:36:07 > 0:36:11HE SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:36:16 > 0:36:18LAUGHTER
0:36:18 > 0:36:21Oh, no! Oh, David! David!
0:36:21 > 0:36:23SHE LAUGHS
0:36:23 > 0:36:24Oh!
0:36:24 > 0:36:27I'm sorry.
0:36:27 > 0:36:29I didn't mean to make fun of you.
0:36:29 > 0:36:32Oh...I know you're right.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35I can't put it off any longer.
0:36:35 > 0:36:39- But I vow I'll not marry in Europe...- Marry Lord Darnley, then.
0:36:39 > 0:36:41There is no-one else.
0:36:41 > 0:36:44Marry him, madam, I beg you.
0:36:47 > 0:36:49Very well, David.
0:36:51 > 0:36:53You're not serious?
0:36:55 > 0:36:57Oh, yes, I am.
0:36:59 > 0:37:01Now it's...
0:37:01 > 0:37:03over,
0:37:03 > 0:37:05finished.
0:37:05 > 0:37:08I...know it had to be, really.
0:37:08 > 0:37:12Go, summon Darnley. I'll tell him at once.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14(No...)
0:37:14 > 0:37:16(No, David.)
0:37:16 > 0:37:19BAGPIPES PLAY
0:37:19 > 0:37:22BAGPIPES AND MARCHING DRUMBEAT
0:38:22 > 0:38:24Lord Darnley!
0:38:31 > 0:38:34Ah, the four pretty wenches!
0:38:34 > 0:38:38Five, my lord, now that you're here.
0:38:38 > 0:38:41Oh, I say! You call me pretty?
0:38:41 > 0:38:44Well, as I always say, my dear,
0:38:44 > 0:38:48the fairest flower in Scotland grows on the highest bough.
0:38:48 > 0:38:49Lord!
0:38:49 > 0:38:53I've waited all day. Am I never to see Her Majesty?
0:38:53 > 0:38:55You'll see her when she wishes.
0:38:55 > 0:38:58Ah! The four protective angels!
0:38:58 > 0:39:02Aha, it's Darnley. Still hanging around, eh?
0:39:02 > 0:39:08- Where's Her Majesty? - With the English ambassador. Strict orders not to be disturbed.
0:39:08 > 0:39:14Shake your finger at me, Snub Nose, and I'll spank you where you belong.
0:39:19 > 0:39:25I am left out in the cold too, Bothwell, and these lasses have no time for plain Scotsmen.
0:39:25 > 0:39:30- How long am I to be kept waiting? - You would think he owned the place!
0:39:30 > 0:39:34If I did, there'd be no Lord Throckmorton around.
0:39:34 > 0:39:38Oh, I forgot, Darnley, he's a friend of yours.
0:39:38 > 0:39:43I hear he will back your claim to England if you leave Scotland.
0:39:43 > 0:39:45Jealous, Bothwell?
0:39:45 > 0:39:49On the contrary. I think it's a first-rate idea.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54I shall wait for Her Majesty below.
0:39:55 > 0:39:57Don't go on my account.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00I'm not going on your account, sir.
0:40:00 > 0:40:02WOMEN GIGGLE
0:40:02 > 0:40:06I suppose you laugh at me too behind my back.
0:40:06 > 0:40:11- It's not safe to laugh at barbarians. - I'll put you over my knee.
0:40:11 > 0:40:13- My Lord. - Tell Her Majesty I want to see her.
0:40:13 > 0:40:17A man like that won't take no for an answer.
0:40:17 > 0:40:21- Someday YOU'LL meet a man who won't take no for an answer.- And?
0:40:21 > 0:40:24- And I'll be the godfather. - WOMEN GIGGLE
0:40:24 > 0:40:29- Now will you tell the Queen? - No, I won't!- Then here I stay.
0:40:34 > 0:40:38For one hour, Lord Throckmorton, you've talked in circles.
0:40:38 > 0:40:42- I don't know what Elizabeth wants. - Do I not speak fluently?
0:40:42 > 0:40:46- Too fluently. You conceal your purpose.- Your Majesty.
0:40:46 > 0:40:50You speak of Elizabeth's friendship. I too give her my friendship.
0:40:50 > 0:40:55We're rulers in adjoining countries. We're related by blood ties.
0:40:55 > 0:40:58There's every reason for friendship based on understanding.
0:40:58 > 0:41:02But how can there be understanding without frankness?
0:41:02 > 0:41:06Be frank, what is it Elizabeth wants?
0:41:06 > 0:41:10Marry the man she chooses and she will recognise you as her heir.
0:41:10 > 0:41:15My succession was ordained by circumstances out of her control.
0:41:16 > 0:41:19I don't need her acknowledgement.
0:41:19 > 0:41:25If you married a man of her choosing, it would indicate no threat to her throne.
0:41:25 > 0:41:27She has someone in mind?
0:41:27 > 0:41:32- She did mention a name, Your Majesty. - Who?- The Earl of Leicester.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35She named him?
0:41:35 > 0:41:39She had the temerity to name the Earl of Leicester?
0:41:39 > 0:41:42No-one stands higher in her esteem.
0:41:42 > 0:41:46She's shown that, she's flaunted him before all England.
0:41:46 > 0:41:50Her favourite, and now she wants to cast him off on me,
0:41:50 > 0:41:52make me a laughing stock!
0:41:52 > 0:41:56You told me what is in her mind, let me tell you the rest.
0:41:56 > 0:42:00Elizabeth has never taken a step that wasn't political.
0:42:00 > 0:42:03She's afraid I will marry the man she fears,
0:42:03 > 0:42:07the next heir after me to her throne Lord Darnley.
0:42:07 > 0:42:12- That is imagination.- I do not like to play politics but now I shall.
0:42:12 > 0:42:17There is no other course I can follow and keep faith with my faith
0:42:17 > 0:42:19and with the name I bear.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22Now I know what I shall do.
0:42:22 > 0:42:26Your Majesty, I beg of you not to be rash.
0:42:26 > 0:42:29Leave me. Go back to Elizabeth.
0:42:30 > 0:42:33Tell her what I have said.
0:42:48 > 0:42:50David,
0:42:50 > 0:42:52go and find Lord Darnley.
0:43:08 > 0:43:11Have you seen Lord Darnley?
0:43:12 > 0:43:17- Why?- Her Majesty wishes to see him...privately.
0:43:27 > 0:43:31A room's a room and a door's a door, I've been waiting for hours.
0:43:31 > 0:43:33Are you a man or a storm?
0:43:33 > 0:43:37- When my girl won't see me, then I'm a storm.- Your girl?
0:43:37 > 0:43:41You want me to bow and scrape? I'm a soldier, I love you.
0:43:41 > 0:43:45You take everything by storm. You forget I'm your Queen.
0:43:45 > 0:43:50Have I ever forgotten that? But don't forget that you're a woman.
0:43:50 > 0:43:52Now you're going to listen to me.
0:43:52 > 0:43:56You've known I loved you from the moment I met you.
0:43:56 > 0:43:59I command you to leave me.
0:43:59 > 0:44:03What's come over you, Mary? You say you're a queen, be one.
0:44:03 > 0:44:06Have mercy on me! Leave me, please.
0:44:06 > 0:44:08- While you marry someone else?- Yes.
0:44:08 > 0:44:12- I'm in no mood for joking. - I'm going to marry Darnley.
0:44:12 > 0:44:15- You're what?!- Marry Lord Darnley.
0:44:16 > 0:44:20- You're out of your mind.- Let me go. - You can't do it!
0:44:20 > 0:44:23- I'll never let you go. - You have no right.
0:44:23 > 0:44:27- I have a right. I know days when you told me you cared.- No.
0:44:27 > 0:44:30- Aye, with your eyes and actions.- No.
0:44:30 > 0:44:33- You can't lie to me. - I'm marrying Darnley.
0:44:33 > 0:44:35But Darnley
0:44:35 > 0:44:37why didn't you pick a man?
0:44:39 > 0:44:42Tell me that you love him, Mary.
0:44:42 > 0:44:45Aye. You can't do it.
0:44:45 > 0:44:47I can.
0:44:47 > 0:44:49I do.
0:44:50 > 0:44:55- Will you learn this is MY kingdom? - Yours for how long?
0:44:55 > 0:44:58- You think I can't rule without you? - Try it.
0:44:58 > 0:45:02- You can't leave. - You've seen the last of me.
0:45:02 > 0:45:06- I won't give you leave.- I don't need your leave. I'm just going.
0:45:08 > 0:45:10DOOR SLAMS
0:45:25 > 0:45:28Lord Darnley, Your Majesty.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44Lord Darnley,
0:45:45 > 0:45:49you have asked my hand in marriage.
0:45:50 > 0:45:54- I have decided to grant it. - Your Majesty!
0:45:54 > 0:45:58I had hardly hoped, I hadn't dared!
0:45:58 > 0:46:01Oh, I'll love you, keep you, defend you.
0:46:01 > 0:46:04We shall face troubled times.
0:46:04 > 0:46:08This is some dream, a jest, it can't be true.
0:46:08 > 0:46:11And yet...
0:46:11 > 0:46:13it is true.
0:46:16 > 0:46:20I never dreamed... I'm to hold you in my arms.
0:46:22 > 0:46:25They say a kiss seals the bargain.
0:46:59 > 0:47:02James, they're waiting for you to say it.
0:47:08 > 0:47:13We're troubled by your apparent lack of confidence in this council.
0:47:13 > 0:47:15Apparent?
0:47:15 > 0:47:19Why not say "obvious" and be frank?
0:47:19 > 0:47:23It's our duty to shape your policies and for you to accept them.
0:47:23 > 0:47:28Instead of which you constantly take the advice of your secretary.
0:47:28 > 0:47:30Oh, I begin to see.
0:47:30 > 0:47:33You want me to get rid of David.
0:47:33 > 0:47:35Aye, send him back where he belongs.
0:47:38 > 0:47:42- Well, I shan't. - You'd better think twice about that.
0:47:43 > 0:47:46Are you giving me orders?
0:47:46 > 0:47:48No, no, Ruthven only meant to say...
0:47:48 > 0:47:52I know what Ruthven means to say that I'm a fool.
0:47:52 > 0:47:56Though he never dares put it quite that boldly.
0:47:56 > 0:47:59Well, I have been a fool.
0:47:59 > 0:48:03I lost Bothwell, who held you all in check.
0:48:04 > 0:48:09I thought I was ruling Scotland, but it was his strength behind me.
0:48:09 > 0:48:11But I still have David.
0:48:11 > 0:48:15You can't take Scotland for yourselves while he is by my side.
0:48:15 > 0:48:19- I shall never let him go. - You may be sorry.
0:48:19 > 0:48:25Ruthven, you may be sorry for that tongue. I've won my people to me.
0:48:25 > 0:48:27You all know it and fear it.
0:48:35 > 0:48:40Sit down, my lords, sit down. It's only your King.
0:48:53 > 0:48:58Always holding council, eh, Moray? Always talking, talking.
0:48:58 > 0:49:02- You're late. - Oh, I don't take orders any more.
0:49:02 > 0:49:04I'm king now.
0:49:09 > 0:49:12Even if someone doesn't seem to know it.
0:49:15 > 0:49:18You never can count on a woman.
0:49:18 > 0:49:22Marry one and she turns to ice.
0:49:22 > 0:49:23Pah!
0:49:23 > 0:49:26They're all alike, even the Queen.
0:49:28 > 0:49:30Can't stand the sight of me.
0:49:31 > 0:49:34Say you're drunk when you need a kiss or two.
0:49:37 > 0:49:39Would you believe it, Moray?
0:49:41 > 0:49:43They lock doors at night...
0:49:46 > 0:49:49..all the while thinking of someone else.
0:49:49 > 0:49:53Some fellow who's gone to France, perhaps.
0:50:22 > 0:50:24Mary!
0:50:29 > 0:50:33Where's the Queen? Open that door! Open that door!
0:50:55 > 0:50:57Well, Moray?
0:51:05 > 0:51:07MEN WHISPER
0:51:18 > 0:51:20Would Your Majesty sign these now?
0:51:20 > 0:51:23- Where's my wife? - Alone, with her ladies.
0:51:23 > 0:51:26But you have access to her, eh?
0:51:26 > 0:51:29Will you sign these, Your Majesty?
0:51:29 > 0:51:31Later, later!
0:51:42 > 0:51:45Now you know.
0:51:45 > 0:51:48- If I thought... - Open your eyes, man.
0:51:48 > 0:51:52Who else is with her all the time, day and night, alone?
0:51:52 > 0:51:56Regain her favour, be King in fact as well as name,
0:51:56 > 0:51:58show her you don't lack courage.
0:51:58 > 0:52:03Who said I lack courage?! How dare you address me?
0:52:13 > 0:52:17Eight of the clock and all is well.
0:52:17 > 0:52:20DRUMS BEAT
0:52:20 > 0:52:23The Queen's Guard.
0:52:23 > 0:52:25All's well.
0:52:27 > 0:52:32# My heart is in the north
0:52:32 > 0:52:37# And my heart is in the south
0:52:39 > 0:52:45# False I pledged with my hand
0:52:45 > 0:52:51# False I kissed with my mouth
0:52:51 > 0:52:57# With hand caught to hand
0:52:57 > 0:53:03# And the rain driving blind
0:53:03 > 0:53:09# As the new years are driven
0:53:09 > 0:53:15# Old loves are not mine
0:53:17 > 0:53:23# As the new years are driven
0:53:23 > 0:53:31# Old loves are not mine. #
0:53:36 > 0:53:38What is that song, David?
0:53:41 > 0:53:43It's a song I...I made up.
0:53:43 > 0:53:47He's always making up some nonsense about love.
0:53:47 > 0:53:50Aren't you in love, Beaton?
0:53:50 > 0:53:53Just a soldier, not a penny to his name.
0:53:53 > 0:53:56Why don't you marry him?
0:53:56 > 0:53:58- And live on air?- On anything.
0:54:04 > 0:54:07What do you see in the fire, David?
0:54:07 > 0:54:09The sunshine of Italy?
0:54:10 > 0:54:13You want to go home, don't you?
0:54:16 > 0:54:20You're my only friend and they're driving you away.
0:54:21 > 0:54:25I want you to go, David, for your own sake.
0:54:27 > 0:54:31Though I don't know what we'll do without you.
0:54:31 > 0:54:35My lady, why don't you recall the Earl of Bothwell?
0:54:38 > 0:54:41Let's have no more talk of Bothwell.
0:54:41 > 0:54:43SHOUTING
0:55:12 > 0:55:15DAVID PLAYS MANDOLIN
0:55:15 > 0:55:19# Here he plays The land's sunny and fair
0:55:19 > 0:55:21# Where you laugh and sing your legs off... #
0:55:28 > 0:55:31- You look surprised, my dear. - I wish to be alone.
0:55:38 > 0:55:40Alone?
0:55:45 > 0:55:47WOMEN GASP
0:55:47 > 0:55:52- Ruthven, what are you doing here? - Ask your husband.- Do you know?
0:55:59 > 0:56:01Madonna!
0:56:01 > 0:56:03Let me go! Get out!
0:56:03 > 0:56:06We intend no harm to no-one but that traitor.
0:56:06 > 0:56:09- My only friend. - Aye, too good a friend.
0:56:09 > 0:56:15Get out! If you lay one hand on Rizzio, I'll see you all destroyed.
0:56:15 > 0:56:18When Scotland finds out we've killed a rogue in your bedroom...
0:56:18 > 0:56:24If David's done anything wrong I'll deliver him up for fair trial but not to assassins!
0:56:24 > 0:56:27WOMAN SCREAMS
0:56:27 > 0:56:30WOMEN SCREAM
0:56:35 > 0:56:38David! David!
0:56:38 > 0:56:40Oh, no!
0:56:40 > 0:56:43WOMEN SCREAM
0:56:50 > 0:56:52My lords, my lords...
0:56:52 > 0:56:55justice...justice!
0:57:02 > 0:57:04I'm so tired.
0:57:19 > 0:57:24You've not only murdered poor David, you've ruined me, ruined yourself,
0:57:24 > 0:57:28thrown a doubt on the child I'm going to have, your child.
0:57:28 > 0:57:30I only wanted my rights.
0:57:30 > 0:57:35God forgive you. I shan't, nor forgive myself for marrying you.
0:57:43 > 0:57:45Am I to follow David?
0:57:45 > 0:57:48There's no fear if you do as we say.
0:57:48 > 0:57:52So long as I'm their prisoner and my husband backs them up.
0:57:52 > 0:57:55I'm an unfaithful wife and the people will shun me.
0:57:55 > 0:57:59Enough! Before we go further, you'll sign this
0:57:59 > 0:58:02- a full pardon for all of us. - Never!- Sign it!
0:58:02 > 0:58:05- Ruthven!- She's better off dead if she doesn't sign it.
0:58:05 > 0:58:09If she got away without signing it we'd be done for.
0:58:09 > 0:58:12This proves her guilt. Sign it!
0:58:13 > 0:58:15WOMEN SCREAM
0:58:33 > 0:58:35Sign it.
0:58:37 > 0:58:42Madam, Bothwell's returned to Edinburgh. He's marching here.
0:58:45 > 0:58:49- How many men has he got? - A handful.- Let him come.
0:58:49 > 0:58:52- He'll raise the country against us. - He won't have a chance.
0:58:52 > 0:58:56We'll post ourselves in the courtyard.
0:58:56 > 0:58:58Wait, I'll sign your pardon.
0:58:58 > 0:59:03Aye, you'll sign it with Bothwell in danger. Darnley, you stay here.
0:59:07 > 0:59:09Guards!
0:59:39 > 0:59:42Don't you see what you've done?
0:59:42 > 0:59:45They'll kill Bothwell as they killed David.
0:59:45 > 0:59:47You're only their shield.
0:59:47 > 0:59:51How long will they tolerate you when I'm out of the way?
0:59:51 > 0:59:53Why did you do it?
0:59:53 > 0:59:55I wanted to win you back.
0:59:55 > 1:00:02You're blind. They had to have you in their scheme to prove their lie that I dishonoured you.
1:00:02 > 1:00:05Once they've had me down before the people,
1:00:05 > 1:00:08what use will they have for you then?
1:00:08 > 1:00:11How long will you keep your crown?
1:00:12 > 1:00:14You'll be a prisoner as I am now.
1:00:14 > 1:00:19You'll only be King as long as I'm Queen.
1:00:20 > 1:00:24- You still have a chance to save yourself, to save us both.- How?
1:00:24 > 1:00:28- Help me escape before they kill Bothwell.- They'd kill me.
1:00:28 > 1:00:32Not if you're with me. They'd flee and you'd be safe.
1:00:32 > 1:00:34- With you, Mary?- Yes, with me.
1:00:34 > 1:00:39- You'd forgive me, you wouldn't leave me?- I swear I'll never leave you.
1:00:40 > 1:00:42Madam!
1:00:52 > 1:00:57Her Majesty has retired to her bedroom. Stand guard there.
1:01:08 > 1:01:10BAGPIPES AND DRUMS
1:01:35 > 1:01:39- Get Bothwell! - SOLDIERS SHOUT
1:01:39 > 1:01:41- Get Bothwell!- Get Bothwell!
1:01:45 > 1:01:47FAINT BAGPIPES
1:01:50 > 1:01:53- Get her!- Aye, the Queen.
1:01:56 > 1:01:58SOLDIERS SHOUT
1:02:04 > 1:02:06SHOUTING
1:02:14 > 1:02:17- Where's the Queen? - In her bedroom, my lord.
1:02:26 > 1:02:30- Where's Darnley? - With the Queen, my lord.
1:02:33 > 1:02:35Will Huntley and his clan join them?
1:02:35 > 1:02:40Aye, they'll have 10,000 at their backs before morning.
1:02:40 > 1:02:42I'm getting out of Scotland.
1:02:42 > 1:02:44- We're done for, Ruthven.- Aye.
1:02:44 > 1:02:48Never mind her, but if I lay my hands on Darnley...
1:02:48 > 1:02:51- It's every man for himself. - Get out while there's time.
1:02:54 > 1:02:56FAINT BAGPIPES
1:03:01 > 1:03:04BAGPIPES DRAW NEARER
1:03:07 > 1:03:10SOLDIERS SHOUT
1:03:34 > 1:03:37MUSIC
1:04:13 > 1:04:15HE WHISPERS
1:04:15 > 1:04:17No!
1:04:17 > 1:04:19MUSIC STOPS
1:04:50 > 1:04:53Mary Stuart has a son.
1:04:54 > 1:04:58And I am only of barren stock.
1:05:03 > 1:05:05Where's Moray?
1:05:05 > 1:05:08Banished, with the other lords who murdered David Rizzio.
1:05:08 > 1:05:10I've failed.
1:05:15 > 1:05:17Failed.
1:05:22 > 1:05:27EXCITED CHATTER No, I'll not let you hold the baby!
1:05:27 > 1:05:29CHATTER
1:05:29 > 1:05:33BABY WAILS No, that's quite enough!
1:05:33 > 1:05:36BABY WAILS
1:05:38 > 1:05:42- Careful now. Careful, my lady. - Jamie, Jamie...
1:05:42 > 1:05:45Keep your hand on his wee bottom.
1:05:45 > 1:05:50Haivers, he's a lord, that boy. The best man in Scotland, if you ask me.
1:05:50 > 1:05:53He's a bubbly jock, he is.
1:05:53 > 1:05:56He ought to be tucked up in bed.
1:05:56 > 1:06:00But, being this is his birthday, he's got to see his mother first.
1:06:00 > 1:06:05Och, och, if we don't spoil the bairn, it's a wonder!
1:06:05 > 1:06:09He'll grow up into a big man and take care of me when I'm old.
1:06:09 > 1:06:13She's not much older now than the wee man himself!
1:06:13 > 1:06:16- HE COUGHS - Oh!
1:06:26 > 1:06:28Happy birthday!
1:06:32 > 1:06:35Your Majesty,
1:06:35 > 1:06:37here's a present for him.
1:06:37 > 1:06:40Hoot, man, what would he do with a claymore?
1:06:40 > 1:06:44Wait till he grows up. He'll need it.
1:06:44 > 1:06:48- It was your father's, ma'am.- My father?- I brought it from Inverness.
1:06:48 > 1:06:51Aye, he's a Stuart.
1:06:51 > 1:06:52Aye.
1:06:52 > 1:06:55I hope you won't need it, Jamie.
1:07:01 > 1:07:04His Majesty...the King.
1:07:06 > 1:07:09JAMIE WAILS
1:07:09 > 1:07:13What a charming family scene!
1:07:13 > 1:07:15We were admiring your son.
1:07:15 > 1:07:18Oh, were you, Bothwell?
1:07:18 > 1:07:22Yes. He's a year old today. That's why you came back from Glasgow.
1:07:22 > 1:07:24JAMIE WAILS
1:07:33 > 1:07:36Yes, my lady.
1:07:36 > 1:07:39JAMIE WAILS
1:07:39 > 1:07:42I'll put him to bed, sir.
1:07:42 > 1:07:44JAMIE WAILS
1:07:49 > 1:07:56- Afraid my presence will contaminate him?!- You know that's not true. Why have you come back?
1:07:58 > 1:08:01Has Ruthven returned to Scotland?
1:08:01 > 1:08:04- He wouldn't dare. - With any luck you'd find him.
1:08:04 > 1:08:08You'd like me out of the way too! You want them all back!
1:08:08 > 1:08:13- You're not yourself.- Aren't your ruffians in Scotland, secretly?- No.
1:08:13 > 1:08:16Don't tell me! You know all about it.
1:08:16 > 1:08:22- You too, Bothwell!- Henry, you're overwrought. You need sleep.- Sleep?
1:08:22 > 1:08:25- Not here.- What do you mean?
1:08:26 > 1:08:28I'll not tell you.
1:08:28 > 1:08:33You won't trick me again. I'm going to leave Scotland.
1:08:33 > 1:08:38- You can't. You'll forget who you are. - What do I care for an empty title?
1:08:38 > 1:08:41It's my life! My life, I tell you!
1:08:42 > 1:08:44They were my friends.
1:08:44 > 1:08:47Moray and Ruthven.
1:08:48 > 1:08:51You tricked me.
1:08:51 > 1:08:53Turned them against me.
1:08:53 > 1:08:57You've never forgiven, never forgotten about Rizzio.
1:08:57 > 1:09:00- I kept my word. - You've never loved me?
1:09:00 > 1:09:06I love your son. Think of him. You can't desert your own son.
1:09:06 > 1:09:08I'll disown him!
1:09:09 > 1:09:13- I'll deny I'm his father! - Your Majesty!
1:09:13 > 1:09:16Try and make him King of Scotland and England THEN!
1:09:27 > 1:09:29He doesn't mean it.
1:09:29 > 1:09:31He can't.
1:09:35 > 1:09:37I've...
1:09:37 > 1:09:40I've kept my word with him.
1:09:43 > 1:09:50I've endured every...insult, every humiliation.
1:09:54 > 1:09:56I've done everything but...
1:10:00 > 1:10:02..love him.
1:10:04 > 1:10:06I've tried but I...
1:10:07 > 1:10:09I cannot.
1:10:09 > 1:10:11- I cannot.- Mary...
1:10:13 > 1:10:16All I ask is to serve you,
1:10:16 > 1:10:18be at your side.
1:10:23 > 1:10:26Talk to me about Inverness.
1:10:26 > 1:10:31Talk to me about something. I have to hear somebody talk.
1:10:45 > 1:10:52Ten o'clock...and all's well!
1:10:52 > 1:10:56All's well!
1:10:59 > 1:11:02SCRATCHING IN DISTANCE
1:11:13 > 1:11:15CLATTERING IN DISTANCE
1:11:17 > 1:11:19Be gone, quickly!
1:11:57 > 1:12:00All my people!
1:12:00 > 1:12:02A king of Scotland
1:12:02 > 1:12:04cries out from his grave
1:12:04 > 1:12:08for revenge against his murderer!
1:12:11 > 1:12:15And is the assassin's name not known?!
1:12:15 > 1:12:20Those who were banished have told me his name!
1:12:20 > 1:12:22Aye!
1:12:22 > 1:12:26Who was it that coveted the hand of the queen?
1:12:26 > 1:12:30Bothwell's his name! Bothwell!
1:12:32 > 1:12:34Hear, all ye people...
1:12:35 > 1:12:38..the prayer of that infant prince,
1:12:38 > 1:12:42the child of him who is slain.
1:12:42 > 1:12:47Judge! And avenge my cause...
1:12:49 > 1:12:52..O Lord.
1:13:22 > 1:13:24You're my prisoners, Huntly!
1:13:24 > 1:13:27- Shall I fight, lassie? - I want no bloodshed.
1:13:27 > 1:13:30Where are you taking us?
1:13:30 > 1:13:33Er...Dunbar Castle, Your Majesty.
1:13:59 > 1:14:01Well, Huntly?
1:14:01 > 1:14:03Man, do you think I'm blind?
1:14:03 > 1:14:09- How so?- This abduction, as you call it.- That's my worry.- No, 'tis hers.
1:14:09 > 1:14:14If you cannae pull the wool over my eyes, how can you fool all Scotland?
1:14:14 > 1:14:17I'll take care of myself! And Mary.
1:14:19 > 1:14:25- Scotland cannot blame her if I marry her against her will.- Marry?
1:14:25 > 1:14:28- Aye. Why not?- You're mad!
1:14:28 > 1:14:30You're both mad!
1:14:30 > 1:14:34I'd rather be dead, lassie, than see this night come.
1:14:34 > 1:14:38You're Queen of Scotland and you let the woman in you blind your senses!
1:14:38 > 1:14:44He's not even of our faith. You've always stood by that until now.
1:14:44 > 1:14:49If you go on with this make-believe there's nought but disaster ahead.
1:14:49 > 1:14:51She has nothing to do with it!
1:14:51 > 1:14:56Draw your sword against me. I'll not draw mine against any friend.
1:14:56 > 1:14:58You are no friend.
1:15:05 > 1:15:07Here you are. Take this.
1:15:07 > 1:15:11Turn it on yourself if what you speak is true.
1:15:11 > 1:15:13There's honour in that escape.
1:15:14 > 1:15:19You may go back to Edinburgh, stir up the clans against us!
1:15:19 > 1:15:25They'll do that themselves. You put yourselves in Moray's power again!
1:15:25 > 1:15:32Three of the clock and all's well!
1:15:45 > 1:15:47Are you afraid, my Mary?
1:15:47 > 1:15:49No.
1:15:49 > 1:15:52- I'll send you back with Huntly.- Why?
1:15:52 > 1:15:57From the very beginning I've always belonged to you. I knew it.
1:16:14 > 1:16:17How vast the night is!
1:16:17 > 1:16:22- How bright and wonderful! I've never seen it like this.- Nor I.
1:16:24 > 1:16:26Look there!
1:16:26 > 1:16:28Make a wish!
1:16:28 > 1:16:30I have.
1:16:31 > 1:16:35They say there's a star for each of us.
1:16:35 > 1:16:39I used to imagine that when I was born God put a dark star in the sky.
1:16:39 > 1:16:43A star nobody could ever see, not even me.
1:16:43 > 1:16:47And then one night I'd see a flash of light and I'd see my star,
1:16:47 > 1:16:51but it would be falling and I'd be gone.
1:16:51 > 1:16:54Mary...
1:16:54 > 1:16:56dark or bright,
1:16:56 > 1:16:59I'll always follow your star, Mary.
1:16:59 > 1:17:04It was dark because I... I didn't really exist at all.
1:17:04 > 1:17:08I was a dream and I was the one who was dreaming it too.
1:17:08 > 1:17:10That's absurd, isn't it?
1:17:12 > 1:17:17- Perhaps I didn't really exist until I met you.- Aye.
1:17:18 > 1:17:22There was a memory of being a child in a country like this.
1:17:22 > 1:17:28And then they told me my father was dead, and I cried.
1:17:29 > 1:17:33And they told me that I was Queen of Scotland.
1:17:33 > 1:17:36It didn't mean as much to me as my dolls.
1:17:36 > 1:17:42And then I was very important not to myself but to grown-up people.
1:17:42 > 1:17:46And then one day I caught a glimpse of my star.
1:17:46 > 1:17:49They took me away at night on a ship.
1:17:49 > 1:17:54It was all so strange the sea vast, like this.
1:17:54 > 1:17:57The world seemed enormous.
1:17:57 > 1:18:01Then we came to another land and they told me it was France.
1:18:01 > 1:18:05Everything different. People singing, laughing.
1:18:05 > 1:18:08They were all happier. I learned to love it all.
1:18:08 > 1:18:13After a while I began to think I had only dreamed Scotland,
1:18:13 > 1:18:17that I'd go on forever, playing in the garden, learning French,
1:18:17 > 1:18:19studying, hearing music,
1:18:19 > 1:18:24talking to four wise old men who were my uncles.
1:18:26 > 1:18:31Erm...one of them was the Cardinal of Lorraine. I liked him best.
1:18:31 > 1:18:36He told me I would marry the son of the King of France when I grew up.
1:18:36 > 1:18:39It seemed silly. He was just a boy.
1:18:39 > 1:18:43We used to fight, then I'd chase him and he'd run away.
1:18:43 > 1:18:47Aye. I was in France when you married him. I've never forgotten.
1:18:47 > 1:18:51The pomp and ceremony. The crowd before the cathedral.
1:18:51 > 1:18:54The pages carrying your train.
1:18:54 > 1:18:58And you weren't old enough to be out of short dresses!
1:18:58 > 1:19:00I was 16.
1:19:00 > 1:19:03It was just an arrangement.
1:19:04 > 1:19:09And then...one day his father was killed in the tournament.
1:19:09 > 1:19:12Everyone made a great fuss over me.
1:19:13 > 1:19:16And I was Queen of France.
1:19:16 > 1:19:19But, before I could realise it all,
1:19:19 > 1:19:22he died too, poor boy.
1:19:22 > 1:19:25And then I was queen no longer.
1:19:26 > 1:19:31And then I came back to my old dream...to Scotland.
1:19:37 > 1:19:40I was never in love.
1:19:40 > 1:19:42You know that.
1:19:48 > 1:19:51Ego coniungo vos in matrimonium.
1:19:51 > 1:19:56In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti,
1:19:56 > 1:19:59amen.
1:19:59 > 1:20:01ORGAN PLAYS
1:20:30 > 1:20:34So, she summons all Scotland to take up arms for her?
1:20:34 > 1:20:41- Will they come?- Only a rabble of must troopers from the border, where Bothwell's strength lies.
1:20:41 > 1:20:45Mercenaries! They won't stand up and fight.
1:20:45 > 1:20:48- Where's the child? - Abducted by Moray.
1:20:48 > 1:20:50They'll not harm her son.
1:20:50 > 1:20:55Moray's strength depends on making him king and ruling as regent.
1:20:56 > 1:21:00The lords have won most of Scotland to their cause
1:21:00 > 1:21:05by convincing Knox that Bothwell and the Queen murdered Darnley.
1:21:05 > 1:21:07Knox thunders it into the people.
1:21:07 > 1:21:14And, after all, what greater proof of their guilty love than this reckless marriage?
1:21:14 > 1:21:16SHE LAUGHS
1:21:16 > 1:21:20And I believed I'd failed!
1:21:20 > 1:21:24We shall soon know, Your Majesty. The lords are marching on Edinburgh.
1:21:24 > 1:21:28They outnumber Bothwell's defenders five to one.
1:21:52 > 1:21:55Open the gates for the host of the righteous!
1:21:57 > 1:22:02O, my people, into what pit of abomination have you fallen?
1:22:02 > 1:22:05'Tis not the true valour of Scotland that ye follow
1:22:05 > 1:22:09but the blood-red valour of murder and treason!
1:22:09 > 1:22:15Remember, a king of Scotland cries out from his grave to be avenged!
1:22:15 > 1:22:17CHEERING
1:22:17 > 1:22:21Bothwell! Will you defend a guilty queen?
1:22:21 > 1:22:26Open the gates for the host of the righteous!
1:22:26 > 1:22:29Open the gates!
1:22:32 > 1:22:35Are you afraid, Mary?
1:22:36 > 1:22:39Yes. Terribly, terribly.
1:22:39 > 1:22:42Ah, that's not my Mary.
1:22:42 > 1:22:44I'm only afraid for you.
1:22:44 > 1:22:47Then you're not afraid at all!
1:22:48 > 1:22:51DRUMBEAT By your troth!
1:23:11 > 1:23:16Bowing comes with a bad grace from traitors.
1:23:16 > 1:23:19We are not in arms against you, my sister,
1:23:19 > 1:23:21only him!
1:23:21 > 1:23:25Before you state your conditions, Moray,
1:23:25 > 1:23:27I'll state mine.
1:23:28 > 1:23:32We'll decide the issue by single combat between you and me.
1:23:32 > 1:23:37Or anyone else you and the other traitors wish to appoint.
1:23:37 > 1:23:39No! They'll trick you.
1:23:39 > 1:23:42Hear Moray's conditions, I beg you, madam.
1:23:42 > 1:23:44I beg you, sir.
1:23:44 > 1:23:47You owe it to the queen.
1:23:49 > 1:23:52Go ahead. What are they?
1:23:52 > 1:23:56First that you leave Scotland forever.
1:23:56 > 1:23:58- No!- What else?
1:23:58 > 1:24:03- The queen bind herself to act only with our consent.- No more?- No more.
1:24:03 > 1:24:05Here are my conditions.
1:24:05 > 1:24:09You've wanted my earldom. Well, you may have it.
1:24:09 > 1:24:12I'll leave Scotland.
1:24:12 > 1:24:17If you'll pledge your word that the Queen's to keep her throne!
1:24:17 > 1:24:22If you break your word or encroach one inch on her sovereignty,
1:24:22 > 1:24:24you'll guard your gates,
1:24:24 > 1:24:26for I'll be back.
1:24:26 > 1:24:31I'll see if your terms are acceptable to my lords.
1:24:41 > 1:24:44Let me live or die at your side.
1:24:44 > 1:24:48- I'm your wife. I love you. - I love you, my Mary.
1:24:48 > 1:24:51I lose nothing. Save your throne.
1:24:51 > 1:24:56What's my throne? I'd put a torch to it for any day I've had with you.
1:24:56 > 1:25:02- They've been so few!- Aye, but wonderful days, 20 wonderful days. Better than a lifetime.
1:25:02 > 1:25:07- Take me with you.- No, you're Queen of Scotland. That's your destiny.
1:25:07 > 1:25:11I'll love you till the day I die. That's mine.
1:25:12 > 1:25:14DRUMBEAT
1:25:17 > 1:25:19Well, Moray?
1:25:19 > 1:25:23The lords of Scotland accept your terms.
1:25:23 > 1:25:25Very well.
1:25:26 > 1:25:30I wouldn't trust Ruthven's pledge, or Morton's,
1:25:30 > 1:25:34but, corrupt as you are, you're a Stuart, a son of a king.
1:25:34 > 1:25:38I'll take your word as a Stuart, but remember, Moray,
1:25:38 > 1:25:43if you break your pledge, if you ever raise your hand against her,
1:25:43 > 1:25:45I'll be back.
1:26:02 > 1:26:05BOTHWELL SHOUTS
1:26:05 > 1:26:08DRUMBEAT AND BAGPIPES
1:27:19 > 1:27:23BAGPIPES AND DRUMS FADE INTO THE DISTANCE
1:27:35 > 1:27:38I'll say it to her milk-white face.
1:27:38 > 1:27:42Cut down the murderess, this contaminator of men!
1:27:42 > 1:27:46If there's to be a council, send out this raving maniac!
1:27:46 > 1:27:50Though you be a queen and have faith in thy gods and idols,
1:27:50 > 1:27:54yet in this night of reckoning they shall not avail thee!
1:27:54 > 1:27:57Moray! I demand his removal!
1:27:59 > 1:28:01Why don't you answer me?
1:28:01 > 1:28:05- You have to leave your palace. - That's but my choice, not yours!
1:28:05 > 1:28:07Not now.
1:28:09 > 1:28:11I'm still your queen.
1:28:11 > 1:28:15You gave your word that I should rule as before.
1:28:15 > 1:28:18That's impossible now.
1:28:22 > 1:28:24Now...
1:28:24 > 1:28:27I see your treachery!
1:28:28 > 1:28:32You not only betray your sovereign,
1:28:32 > 1:28:35you betray yourselves!
1:28:35 > 1:28:37Your own pledge!
1:28:37 > 1:28:43- We defend Scotland! - You may remain here if you sign what we dictate.
1:28:45 > 1:28:47And what do you dictate?
1:28:47 > 1:28:50Your abdication.
1:28:50 > 1:28:54And your consent to have your son crowned king.
1:28:54 > 1:28:56And appoint me regent.
1:28:57 > 1:29:00I refuse.
1:29:00 > 1:29:04- We'll change your mind! - Bothwell will come back!
1:29:04 > 1:29:08- With his army disbanded? - 1,000 crowns on his head?
1:29:08 > 1:29:10So long as I live,
1:29:10 > 1:29:14no power on earth shall take my throne away from me.
1:29:14 > 1:29:16Come lock me up.
1:29:16 > 1:29:20I'll bide my time and wait for Bothwell.
1:29:33 > 1:29:38My Lord Throckmorton, ambassador to Scotland.
1:29:38 > 1:29:40What news from Scotland?
1:29:41 > 1:29:44Bothwell has been defeated.
1:29:44 > 1:29:47- Was he taken? - No, Your Majesty.
1:29:47 > 1:29:52He escaped to Denmark, to raise arms for a final blow against Moray.
1:29:52 > 1:29:55But I have more important news.
1:29:55 > 1:29:59The son of Mary Stuart is king and Moray rules again as regent.
1:29:59 > 1:30:01Then she's abdicated!
1:30:01 > 1:30:06- So Moray claims. - She's still in prison? - At Loch Leven. I've seen her.
1:30:06 > 1:30:11She asks for Your Majesty's support of her cause against the rebels.
1:30:11 > 1:30:14If you favour rebellion in Scotland,
1:30:14 > 1:30:18she says you may eventually see it in England.
1:30:18 > 1:30:20Rebellion.
1:30:20 > 1:30:22How I hate that word.
1:30:22 > 1:30:24Remember, Your Majesty,
1:30:24 > 1:30:29your security depends upon her being behind bars.
1:30:29 > 1:30:32But can I support rebellion,
1:30:32 > 1:30:34so near to my own throne?
1:30:35 > 1:30:37Remember that.
1:30:40 > 1:30:44Neither can I afford to take sides, so long as Bothwell lives.
1:30:44 > 1:30:49If Moray's plans succeed, he will be caged in Denmark for good,
1:30:49 > 1:30:52on some pretext or other.
1:30:52 > 1:30:55Return to Scotland.
1:30:55 > 1:30:59Tell Moray in the eyes of the world he is a rebel, a traitor!
1:30:59 > 1:31:05- I shall oppose him publicly.- Your Majesty...- Support him privately.
1:31:05 > 1:31:08And Mary Stuart?
1:31:15 > 1:31:20Give her this ring, as a token of my friendship and support.
1:31:20 > 1:31:28- But she will ask... - I know. We will put her off. Procrastinate. Months. Years!
1:31:34 > 1:31:38There's security in that.
1:33:16 > 1:33:22I won't say I wasn't frightened, madam, when you come tapping at the door before daylight.
1:33:22 > 1:33:26Come and sit down. It's poor vittles but it's all we've got and you're welcome to it.
1:33:30 > 1:33:31Sit down there.
1:33:35 > 1:33:36I have a little boy like you.
1:33:36 > 1:33:39A feesit anigh chair too?
1:33:39 > 1:33:43He wants to know if he sits in a high chair too.
1:33:43 > 1:33:46Oh, yes, in a very high chair.
1:33:48 > 1:33:54For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful.
1:33:54 > 1:33:56Amen.
1:34:02 > 1:34:04KNOCK ON DOOR
1:34:04 > 1:34:06They're coming for you.
1:34:18 > 1:34:20Your Majesty.
1:34:20 > 1:34:26- Have you come from Elizabeth? - Yes, I have come to conduct you to a place of security.
1:34:26 > 1:34:30I thank Her Majesty. I stand in need of her friendship now.
1:34:38 > 1:34:41Thank you, my kind friend.
1:34:51 > 1:34:55This will be your apartment, Your Majesty.
1:34:55 > 1:34:58Sir Francis Knollys, your host.
1:34:58 > 1:35:02Thank you, thank you. How wonderful to be free again.
1:35:02 > 1:35:05Where is Elizabeth? Can I see her now at last?
1:35:05 > 1:35:08I want to thank her. Where is she?
1:35:11 > 1:35:14I place this lady in your custody, sir.
1:35:14 > 1:35:18Custody? What do you mean?
1:35:20 > 1:35:24England has no jurisdiction over me.
1:35:24 > 1:35:26I asked Elizabeth for refuge.
1:35:26 > 1:35:28She promised it.
1:35:31 > 1:35:34Am I a prisoner?
1:35:38 > 1:35:41I demand an answer!
1:36:19 > 1:36:21WIND HOWLS
1:36:30 > 1:36:32It's only the storm.
1:36:32 > 1:36:34Listen, Donal!
1:36:34 > 1:36:38It's my pipers! They're coming, I tell you!
1:36:38 > 1:36:43- Lie down, please, sir.- No, I won't! They're marching up, man!
1:36:51 > 1:36:55- I thought I heard... - Sir, lie down, please, sir.
1:36:56 > 1:36:58Open up here!
1:36:59 > 1:37:01Open up here! Open up!
1:37:01 > 1:37:03Still out of his mind.
1:37:03 > 1:37:07These Scotsmen have the power of the devil in them.
1:37:07 > 1:37:11Prison fever's a good match for the devil.
1:37:11 > 1:37:13Open up!
1:37:14 > 1:37:16Sir, you're not yourself.
1:37:16 > 1:37:20I'm getting out. I'll get out tonight.
1:37:20 > 1:37:22Tonight! I tell you.
1:37:22 > 1:37:24Ahh!
1:37:24 > 1:37:27- BAGPIPES PLAY - There it is again. Do you hear?
1:37:27 > 1:37:30- What, sir? - The pipes, Donal. Listen.
1:37:32 > 1:37:35Go to England, find her.
1:37:35 > 1:37:38Tell her I'm free, I'll free her, too.
1:37:38 > 1:37:42Tell her she'll hear the pipes when I come.
1:37:42 > 1:37:46Tell her...tell her... tell her my pi...my pipe...
1:37:46 > 1:37:49my pipers are coming.
1:37:50 > 1:37:52Sir? Sir?
1:37:52 > 1:37:55Speak. Speak to Donal, sir.
1:37:55 > 1:38:00Oh, my laddie, my laddie.
1:38:00 > 1:38:02HE SOBS
1:38:06 > 1:38:08What's wrong with him?
1:38:13 > 1:38:16He cannae hurt them now.
1:38:17 > 1:38:20Aye, he spoke true.
1:38:23 > 1:38:25He's free.
1:38:44 > 1:38:46WIND HOWLS
1:38:49 > 1:38:51THUNDER AND LIGHTENING
1:39:16 > 1:39:19Bring in the prisoner!
1:39:55 > 1:39:58Am I to see Elizabeth at last?
1:39:58 > 1:40:02Her Majesty is present symbolically.
1:40:04 > 1:40:07If you will be seated.
1:40:11 > 1:40:13I prefer to stand...
1:40:13 > 1:40:16symbolically.
1:40:16 > 1:40:23- Do you acknowledge the jurisdiction of this court? - Not of this court, nor of Elizabeth.
1:40:23 > 1:40:27No sovereign has been condemned by court of law.
1:40:27 > 1:40:32In Rome, a tetrarch was put to death by a trial.
1:40:32 > 1:40:34There is another precedent
1:40:34 > 1:40:39Licinius, brother-in-law of the Emperor Constantine.
1:40:39 > 1:40:42Not to forget Joanna of Naples.
1:40:42 > 1:40:45You go back 1,500 years,
1:40:45 > 1:40:48go back to Pontius Pilot,
1:40:48 > 1:40:52who condemned to the cross the world's greatest sovereign,
1:40:52 > 1:40:57and remind Elizabeth what happened to the memory of Pontius Pilate.
1:40:57 > 1:41:00Remember that YOU are the accused.
1:41:00 > 1:41:02Accused?
1:41:02 > 1:41:04Of what?
1:41:04 > 1:41:09Attempting to take the life of our sovereign, the Queen of England.
1:41:11 > 1:41:14I have lain in prison ever since I came to this land.
1:41:14 > 1:41:18Even if I had wished it, how could I have made such an attempt?
1:41:18 > 1:41:23Conspiring with English subjects of your religious persuasion,
1:41:23 > 1:41:27to wit, Antony Babington.
1:41:27 > 1:41:33A true friend who thought only to release me from unjust imprisonment.
1:41:33 > 1:41:35Where is he?
1:41:35 > 1:41:37Executed for treason.
1:41:38 > 1:41:40And his friends?
1:41:40 > 1:41:43Executed for treason.
1:41:49 > 1:41:52Poor generous friends.
1:41:56 > 1:41:59The first step to prove me guilty
1:41:59 > 1:42:03is to murder those who would prove me innocent.
1:42:04 > 1:42:09The accused will confine herself to answering questions.
1:42:11 > 1:42:15I am the accuser here, not the accused.
1:42:15 > 1:42:19I accuse Elizabeth of treachery and plotting against my life,
1:42:19 > 1:42:21not I against hers.
1:42:21 > 1:42:27Do you deny secretly communicating with Antony Babington?
1:42:29 > 1:42:34Do you deny that you would try to escape from unjust imprisonment?
1:42:34 > 1:42:39Do you know what it means to be shut up from everything you love?
1:42:41 > 1:42:45From your husband, your son, your own people?
1:42:47 > 1:42:49Confined like an animal...
1:42:50 > 1:42:56..until each day grows so long that it seems a lifetime.
1:42:59 > 1:43:02Yes, I smuggled out letters.
1:43:02 > 1:43:06Isn't it true you approved the plot against our queen?
1:43:07 > 1:43:11As true as to say that you are honest men.
1:43:11 > 1:43:14Isn't this letter in your own handwriting?
1:43:14 > 1:43:20The way you shout tells me even at this distance that it is a forgery.
1:43:20 > 1:43:24Will you confine yourself to answering questions?
1:43:24 > 1:43:27I have heard no questions.
1:43:28 > 1:43:31Only accusations phrased like questions.
1:43:31 > 1:43:35But why prolong this mockery?
1:43:35 > 1:43:41Elizabeth, fearing a plot to take her life and put me on her throne,
1:43:41 > 1:43:46has invented a false plot so that I may be condemned to death.
1:43:46 > 1:43:50But still she fears to spring her trap because of Bothwell.
1:43:52 > 1:43:56She knows he wins support for my cause abroad.
1:43:56 > 1:43:58And when he returns this time,
1:43:58 > 1:44:03he'll carry the field in Scotland and I'll be queen again.
1:44:03 > 1:44:06While he lives, I'll live.
1:44:06 > 1:44:09Bring in the other prisoner.
1:44:22 > 1:44:24Your Majesty.
1:44:24 > 1:44:26Donal.
1:44:26 > 1:44:29I tried my best to reach you, ma'am,
1:44:29 > 1:44:33but I couldn't get past your jailer and I was taken.
1:44:33 > 1:44:37Donal, where is he?
1:44:38 > 1:44:41Where's Bothwell?
1:44:43 > 1:44:45No.
1:44:45 > 1:44:47No.
1:44:49 > 1:44:51Oh.
1:44:51 > 1:44:55He spoke of you at the last, ma'am.
1:44:56 > 1:45:01He said... he said he'd be waiting for ye...
1:45:02 > 1:45:04..with bagpipes playing.
1:45:06 > 1:45:08Oh.
1:45:12 > 1:45:14HE SOBS QUIETLY
1:45:18 > 1:45:20And all the time...
1:45:21 > 1:45:23..you knew.
1:45:29 > 1:45:32Now I see.
1:45:33 > 1:45:36Now I understand.
1:45:39 > 1:45:41Condemn me.
1:45:41 > 1:45:44Kill me.
1:45:46 > 1:45:48I don't care.
1:46:42 > 1:46:47Hail the clock and all's well.
1:46:47 > 1:46:50MEN: All's well.
1:46:51 > 1:46:53SHE MUMBLES A PRAYER
1:47:07 > 1:47:09DOOR BOLTS SLIDE
1:47:50 > 1:47:52Elizabeth.
1:47:53 > 1:47:57I've only seen a poor likeness
1:47:58 > 1:48:01but yes, you are Elizabeth.
1:48:01 > 1:48:03At last.
1:48:03 > 1:48:06Aye.
1:48:07 > 1:48:09A Stuart.
1:48:10 > 1:48:12I see now why men love you.
1:48:12 > 1:48:18Even now, standing where I am, my last night in this world,
1:48:18 > 1:48:22I wouldn't change places with Elizabeth.
1:48:23 > 1:48:28I might have known you'd come and... gloat like this,
1:48:28 > 1:48:31stealthily, under cover of night...
1:48:32 > 1:48:35..as you've done everything to destroy me.
1:48:35 > 1:48:38You've done nothing to destroy me?
1:48:38 > 1:48:41- When was I your enemy?- Always!
1:48:41 > 1:48:44Always your life was a threat to mine.
1:48:44 > 1:48:46How? Why?
1:48:46 > 1:48:49You were born too close to my throne.
1:48:49 > 1:48:52It was you or I.
1:48:53 > 1:48:57A knife planted between my shoulders
1:48:57 > 1:49:00and my kingdom was yours.
1:49:00 > 1:49:02I never wished it.
1:49:02 > 1:49:04But you'd have taken it if it came.
1:49:04 > 1:49:06Ah, yes.
1:49:07 > 1:49:09You're not even a woman.
1:49:10 > 1:49:13I'm a queen.
1:49:16 > 1:49:21You've been a woman. See where it's brought you.
1:49:21 > 1:49:26It has brought me happiness you'll never know, Elizabeth.
1:49:26 > 1:49:31I wouldn't give up the memory of one day with Bothwell
1:49:31 > 1:49:33for a century of your life.
1:49:33 > 1:49:35What do you know of my life?
1:49:35 > 1:49:39You were born a queen.
1:49:39 > 1:49:43Honours, thrones, everything fell into your lap.
1:49:43 > 1:49:47What do you know of the struggle for power?
1:49:47 > 1:49:49I started with nothing,
1:49:49 > 1:49:53robbed even of a name, not acknowledged by my father.
1:49:53 > 1:49:58My own mother, yes, Anne Boleyn, was executed.
1:50:00 > 1:50:03And I learned how a woman may be a queen one day
1:50:03 > 1:50:07and stand on the scaffold the next.
1:50:07 > 1:50:11I was sent to the tower by my own sister.
1:50:11 > 1:50:13Oh, I know what prisons are,
1:50:13 > 1:50:17and being threatened month after month with execution.
1:50:19 > 1:50:22I died a thousand times.
1:50:23 > 1:50:27But I fought my way upwards, inch by inch...
1:50:28 > 1:50:30..until I wore the crown.
1:50:31 > 1:50:33I gave my love to no man
1:50:33 > 1:50:37but to my kingdom, to England.
1:50:37 > 1:50:42And you prate to me of love. What do you know of my life?
1:50:42 > 1:50:46I know it's been a failure, a magnificent failure.
1:50:46 > 1:50:49It's you who failed, not I.
1:50:49 > 1:50:52You threw away a kingdom for love.
1:50:52 > 1:50:54For Bothwell.
1:50:55 > 1:50:57Aye.
1:50:57 > 1:51:01And I'd do it again a thousand times.
1:51:03 > 1:51:06You were always afraid of me.
1:51:06 > 1:51:09You're afraid of me still.
1:51:10 > 1:51:14You know my blood will stain you, you'll never wash it off.
1:51:14 > 1:51:17And the pity of it is, Elizabeth...
1:51:19 > 1:51:23..that you and I, we might have been friends.
1:51:24 > 1:51:27Do you think I want your death?
1:51:27 > 1:51:30Mary Stuart, save yourself.
1:51:30 > 1:51:32How?
1:51:32 > 1:51:36Renounce your Stuart claim to my throne, sign your name to it.
1:51:36 > 1:51:40Still driven by fear, fear of me even dead.
1:51:40 > 1:51:43That's why you came here tonight.
1:51:43 > 1:51:46Renounce your claim and live.
1:51:46 > 1:51:49You've always loved power, cherished it fiercely.
1:51:49 > 1:51:53I've loved as a woman loves, lost as a woman loses.
1:51:53 > 1:51:55But still I win.
1:51:55 > 1:51:59You have no heir. My son will inherit your throne.
1:51:59 > 1:52:02My son will rule England.
1:52:02 > 1:52:06Still, still I win!
1:52:30 > 1:52:32SHE SOBS
1:52:52 > 1:52:54DOOR BOLTS SLIDE
1:53:10 > 1:53:12Your Majesty.
1:53:13 > 1:53:14It is time.
1:53:18 > 1:53:20Your Majesty.
1:53:22 > 1:53:24It is time.
1:53:36 > 1:53:38Ev...
1:53:39 > 1:53:43Even as thine arms were spread upon the cross...
1:53:44 > 1:53:47..so receive me into the arms of mercy...
1:53:52 > 1:53:55..and forgive me my sins.
1:54:32 > 1:54:35SHE MUTTERS PRAYER
1:55:28 > 1:55:30THUNDER
1:56:15 > 1:56:18BAGPIPES PLAY