Mary Queen of Scots

397 00:40:42,815 --> 00:40:44,021 Where is this promise? 398 00:40:44,108 --> 00:40:46,599 He would provoke revolt amongst our nobles. 399 00:40:46,945 --> 00:40:50,028 Do you command so little respect you could not discourage them? 400 00:40:50,531 --> 00:40:54,149 We must not delay. You must forbid this marriage. 401 00:40:59,874 --> 00:41:01,785 Is that the top? Aye. 402 00:41:02,752 --> 00:41:05,038 No subject should ride before his queen. 403 00:41:05,338 --> 00:41:06,498 Would he? 404 00:41:41,165 --> 00:41:45,078 How it must feel ruling all that you see. 405 00:41:45,962 --> 00:41:47,668 I am but its servant. 406 00:41:51,551 --> 00:41:53,633 Are you prepared to be its servant? 407 00:41:58,808 --> 00:42:00,298 It is right for the man to ask, no? 408 00:42:01,436 --> 00:42:02,972 Then ask. 409 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:05,890 Uh... 410 00:42:05,982 --> 00:42:09,190 Before god, before all of Scotland, 411 00:42:09,402 --> 00:42:11,438 before all the world... yes. 412 00:42:12,071 --> 00:42:13,902 You'll be my queen? 413 00:42:14,073 --> 00:42:15,153 Yes. 414 00:42:15,241 --> 00:42:16,572 And I your king? 415 00:42:16,951 --> 00:42:18,316 Yes. 416 00:42:19,871 --> 00:42:21,236 And your master? 417 00:42:22,623 --> 00:42:23,829 My husband. 418 00:42:45,146 --> 00:42:46,582 Lord Randolph: England does not consider 419 00:42:46,606 --> 00:42:48,847 lord darnley a suitable husband. 420 00:42:49,233 --> 00:42:52,600 He and his father are english subjects, madam. 421 00:42:52,779 --> 00:42:55,987 If my queen orders their return, they must. 422 00:42:56,074 --> 00:42:58,110 She asked that I marry an english nobleman, 423 00:42:58,201 --> 00:42:59,316 and now she deprives me? 424 00:42:59,410 --> 00:43:02,197 Her wish is that you not marry this particular nobleman. 425 00:43:02,288 --> 00:43:05,088 You may tell your mistress I shall do so, with or without her blessing. 426 00:43:06,626 --> 00:43:10,039 Madam, before you act rashly, please consider... 427 00:43:10,129 --> 00:43:13,337 It is enough my own lords treat me as though I'm but a girl. 428 00:43:13,883 --> 00:43:16,420 I will not be treated as such by Elizabeth. 429 00:43:17,011 --> 00:43:19,218 I will be the woman she is not. 430 00:43:19,514 --> 00:43:22,347 I shall produce an heir, unlike her barren self. 431 00:43:31,067 --> 00:43:33,058 Prepare the ambassador's horse. 432 00:43:44,872 --> 00:43:46,703 Reckless child! 433 00:43:46,791 --> 00:43:51,956 I have worked too long and too hard with too much bloodshed 434 00:43:52,213 --> 00:43:54,704 to secure peace in our land! 435 00:43:54,882 --> 00:43:57,749 Do not let your cursed passion rule you! 436 00:43:58,094 --> 00:44:00,176 "Tis your voice raised, sir. 437 00:44:01,055 --> 00:44:02,591 And you would lower it in my presence. 438 00:44:06,394 --> 00:44:11,809 If my counsel no longer has value then I am obliged to withdraw from court. 439 00:44:12,567 --> 00:44:14,182 If you must. 440 00:44:44,015 --> 00:44:46,677 Cecil: You have neither husband nor children. 441 00:44:47,518 --> 00:44:50,430 And you approach an age whereupon you cannot bear them. 442 00:44:51,147 --> 00:44:54,981 You must confront the truth, madam. Displeasing as it may be. 443 00:44:57,987 --> 00:45:00,228 I have confronted this truth. 444 00:45:04,202 --> 00:45:06,784 You understand that I cannot. 445 00:45:08,164 --> 00:45:09,279 Will not. 446 00:45:12,001 --> 00:45:13,582 And do I understand? 447 00:45:14,795 --> 00:45:16,581 No more than I understand god. 448 00:45:16,672 --> 00:45:18,003 It is my choice. 449 00:45:20,384 --> 00:45:23,126 God would have a woman be a wife and a mother. 450 00:45:23,512 --> 00:45:25,969 So you defy his will. No. 451 00:45:27,767 --> 00:45:29,098 I choose to be a man. 452 00:45:31,771 --> 00:45:33,727 And marriage is dangerous. 453 00:45:35,066 --> 00:45:37,057 Such a man as I might marry, 454 00:45:37,944 --> 00:45:41,027 finding himself disappointed... 455 00:45:41,614 --> 00:45:43,195 He would conspire. 456 00:45:43,282 --> 00:45:45,819 No prince's revenues be so great 457 00:45:46,202 --> 00:45:49,660 that they satisfy the insatiable ambition of men. 458 00:45:50,122 --> 00:45:51,407 This I understand. 459 00:45:51,499 --> 00:45:52,976 Which is why you are the closest thing 460 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,616 I shall ever have to a wife. 461 00:45:56,087 --> 00:45:58,453 I shan't mention your proposal to lord Dudley. 462 00:46:02,718 --> 00:46:04,504 This world is a brutal place. 463 00:46:05,721 --> 00:46:08,929 We men must be wiser, mustn't we? 464 00:46:16,482 --> 00:46:17,688 Tell me what to do. 465 00:46:19,318 --> 00:46:21,934 We must make civil war in Scotland. 466 00:46:22,029 --> 00:46:24,020 You would have me depose a sister monarch? 467 00:46:24,115 --> 00:46:26,948 It is either civil war there, or civil war here. 468 00:46:30,830 --> 00:46:32,695 I want to know nothing of it. 469 00:46:34,667 --> 00:46:36,908 The arrangements shall be mine alone. 47