The Spanish Princess (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 8 - Destiny - full transcript

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

[BELL TOLLING]

[MAN COUGHING]

[COUGHING CONTINUES]

We should ring
the bells in victory.

Every traitor netted overnight
and taken to the Tower.

And Margaret Pole
was found this morning,

so she will be
taken there, too.

[GROANS]

There's a small army
gathering outside, Henry.

You planning to arrest
the whole of London?



The French are
restless in Europe,

and the pope
has fears for Venice.

I am sending men
to Kent,

where the French can
feel us watching them.

And if King Louis
decides to march to us

as well
as south to Venice,

then we will
be ready for him.

You are peaky.

I didn't sleep.

I just need some
spearmint for my chest,

and it will pass.

- Lina.
- So you are back

from your night's work
as a Tudor.

I am a soldier
of the court.



Does Lady Pole
now wear their chains?

She's a traitor.

She plotted
on the king's life.

Lina, the army
marches out to Kent.

In two days,
I go with them

and then perhaps
to war in France.

I only joined this army,

because you said you
would not have me.

We could have had
a different life

if you were
not so proud.

Where have you
taken Lady Pole?

Is she in the Tower?

She is unharmed,

and so are
both her children.

We must go there now.

Of course.

CATHERINE: I must offer
her what aid I can.

Then I will ride
to Hatfield

and hope that I
may see the prince.

[LADY MARGARET MURMURING]

Curiously, I'm warming
to this creature.

It keeps its own counsel,

and it doesn't
suffer patronage.

Does the bird
not cheer you, Henry?

That depends
on how it will taste.

Do you have to walk in here
when I am bathing?

I'm your mother.
I held you

when you were a babe
in swaddling.

- [SCOFFS]
- We should celebrate.

Our enemies at home
are all apprehended,

and I believe I've found
a new wife for you.

Our enemies breed faster
every time we catch one.

They're like rats.

Lizzie told me
if I ruled with fear,

I'd only get dissent
and hatred in retu...

[COUGHING]

[HOARSELY]
She was right.

She and her mother
both had the sight.

And Lizzie said
if Harry married Catherine,

he would never have
a son and heir.

He doesn't know it,
but that's why

I told him
he must marry Eleanor.

[SIGHS]

Well, the wife
I picked for you,

- the Duchess of Savoy...
- [SIGHS]

she's daughter to the
Emperor Maximilian,

so she brings with her
a useful new alliance.

[STRONG COUGH]

What do you say to that?

[COUGHING, CHOKING]

Henry?

[GURGLES]

Don't ignore me.

[WHIMPERING]

Henry.

Henry.

[WEEPING]
Henry.

You're lucky I don't put you
in there with all the men.

Mother!

Henry.

May God save
us all, cousin.

Edmund.

Did they hurt you?

I would have killed
them if I could.

GUARD: Come on.
That's enough.

Come away.

GUARD:
Come on, you.

[DOOR OPENS]

- My lady?
- Come with me.

Come with me.

H-help, uh...
Take his arms.

- What? Is he...
- Uh, help me to move him.

Uh, move...
Move this...

Take him.

[GRUNTS]

[GROANS]

- Oh!
- My lady,

what are we going to do
with the king?

- Take him!
- [GASPING] But...

We'll just take him,
put him onto the...

[GRUNTING]

Yes, yes.

Get his feet
up on the...

I will, uh,
s-summon the royal physician.

No. Eat this.

- No, I ca... I...
- Eat it!

I don't understand.

No, just eat it.

You must get him into his light
shirt, get him into bed.

Uh, His Grace
ate his breakfast,

but his stomach
was upset,

and he...
he needs to rest,

and he must not be
disturbed by anybody.

My lady, the king is dead.

Why would we
not announce it?

[GASPING]

The king is Harry.

[MARGARET MURMURING]

[DOOR OPENS]

You.

Take this.

Dispose of it.

Take this to Prince Harry,
into his hands only.

- My lady.
- He must return at once.

[HORSE GALLOPING]

John.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Sí.

Sí.

Send word for Dudley.

I need to see him here.

[MUTTERING] I will have
that Spanish whore...

And I will write

that Princess Eleanor
must come at once

and wed Prince Harry.

Why are you
still here? Go.

I'll write to Eleanor.

She must come...

CATHERINE:
I spoke to the warden

and told him
God would judge him

if he did not move you
to a better cell.

It will not be
for long, Maggie.

HENRY:
Mother.

Oh, Henry.
Thank God.

Come, Ursula.
Come. Let's see

what we can spy
from this window.

This was Teddy's cell...

12 long years.

Maggie, I give you
my solemn promise

I will see you
freed from here,

and you will have
your Reggie back.

You have no power,
Catherine.

You're at the mercy of that
woman, Lady Margaret.

It was she who locked
my brother in here,

and she murdered
two young boys before him.

They received no mercy,
and nor will we.

There is nothing
you can do.

There is always
something, Maggie.

Ya basta.

Hold fast.

I promise
I will not fail you.

Lina, highness,

I come to tell you I...
I think the king is dead.

Dead?

There was much blood,

and Lady Margaret,
she is like a lion in a cage.

She sends word for Harry
to come to Westminster now.

But, highness, the guards,

they have been told
to throw you from the palace.

It is not safe
for you to return.

Then I will ride to Harry and
intercept him on the road.

There is only one road to
the city from the north.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

- [DOMINUS SQUAWKS]
- Who is it?

Dudley.

I didn't send for you.

Eh, the king
didn't send for you.

My lady,
the king's mother,

sh-should we fetch the...
the king's physician?

Is he unwell?

[EXHALES]

In the name of our Lord,
Jesus Christ,

what has happened here?

The king has taken his
rightful place at God's side.

Now, we must
work quickly.

These ledgers detail
lands and chattels

that the Crown has
seized in lieu of taxes.

But Parliament refused to ratify
that lands could be forfeit.

The landowners can repurchase
their confiscated lands

at the prices
written down.

He doesn't need
to see the prices.

This is against the law.
It... it is thievery.

What were you thinking?

Don't play the innocent,
Wiltshire.

Every member of the privy
council knew that...

Knew the treasury
was short of funds, yes,

and... and I sang
with the chorus,

but this is some secret song
that you both sang.

Did the king know of this?

LADY MARGARET: The issue is
that these must be disposed of.

Prince Harry must be
safely back in the palace

before the country learns
that the king is dead.

If news leaks out,
there could be a rebellion.

He could be
torn apart by a mob.

I must see my grandson
on the throne!

It is the will of God.

I shall take these
to my home

until you instruct me
what to do with them.

What of the king?

LADY MARGARET:
He has been sent for.

No, this king,
our beloved monarch.

He cannot be suffered to languish
in his own bloody bedding.

The king sleeps...

until I say otherwise.

- Sir, please, just a little...
- No.

Go.

Good day.

Nothing good about it,
Saracen.

[SPITS]

I am sorry.

I have asked
too much of you.

At every turn,
you have been loyal to me,

and you are loyal
as a soldier, too, and...

Lina, I may go to war.

When I return...

I ask you this...

that you will pledge
yourself to me

and our new family
ahead of her.

The king is dead.

He is in his bed.

My lady, the council
needs to know

that illegal taxes
have been levied...

The good people
of England

have been overburdened
by taxation.

They have
been sorely used

by the nobility
and the Crown.

But you said the treasury needed
gold and that we were to find it.

Our new king
may not understand

the measures that were
taken by his council.

He may seek
to apportion blame

so that his reign is
not tainted with it.

I always said
these taxes were immoral.

Did you?
Did you whisper it?

I said it loudly.
Maybe you did not listen, Stafford!

No, I rarely listen to what
you have to say, butcher's boy.

You don't even have
the rank to sit amongst us.

I agreed that the
treasury needed aid,

but Parliament
refused to pass

an act where lands and
property could be confiscated,

yet only yesterday I learned
that Dudley and my lady

and perhaps the king
himself defied Parliament

and seized men's homes
and chattels anyway.

- Dudley.
- There were ledgers

in the king's room detailing
hundreds of seized properties.

LADY MARGARET: Dudley
engineered the plan alone.

He and the king
had knowledge of it.

We did not.

The evidence is all
with Dudley, in his house,

so we must move quickly
to convict him.

All of our hands
are clean of this.

Guard.

[HORSES GALLOPING]

Who are they?

Oviedo.

[EXHALES]

God save the king.

What is this?

Your father passed into
God's mercy, Your Grace.

- God save the king.
- God save the king.

- God save the king.
- God save the king.

God save the king.

Charlie, wine.

Yes, Your Grace.

[DISTANT CHATTER]

Dudley!

GUARD:
Keep walking.

DUDLEY:
I have done nothing wrong.

I have known Prince Harry,

our new king,
since he was a boy.

Wait. I must send a message
to Lady Margaret.

This is an error
that can be remedied.

Then Henry is dead.

HENRY:
Will it help us?

I always knew I'd be king,

ever since I was a boy.

Arthur was groomed for it,
but I felt it,

like a silver thread
pulling me towards this day.

Your grandmother
felt that thread, too.

I am the tangled knot
in it.

What a pair
of poets we make.

Though my father never liked
my writing or my songs.

Or your taste in girls.

No.

No, that was
my grandmother.

I am told you are
to marry my niece.

I thought it best to...
to remove myself from court

to pray upon my duty.

In truth, I was...
I was grateful for the peace.

Peace from me?

Peace from my heart.

And is your heart
at peace?

Do you think of me,
or is your heart

now with the
Princess Eleanor?

CATHERINE:
Good day.

Good day, mistress,
my lord.

Wait.

Here. Take this.

Buy ale,
and raise a glass

to the king of England,
and save his soul.

No matter which backside is on the
throne, nothing has changed.

So you are
not for Eleanor?

Harry, I...

Harry,
I need to tell you I love you.

I cannot offer you
the Habsburg empire,

nor the sanction
of your grandmother,

and if I cannot
love you as your wife,

then I will try to
love you as a subject.

But I want to love you
as a wife...

and as the mother
of your heirs...

and as a lover
in your bed.

Harry, tell me
what my fate shall be.

I am not Harry anymore.

I'm Henry.

You and I, Catherine,
we do not fear the morrow,

but we make it...

as... as man
or king and wife.

I never wanted Eleanor.

I told my father that.
I told your father, too.

I withdrew from the match
two days ago.

I refused her for your sake.

All we need's a letter from the
pope, and then we shall wed.

GUARD:
Dudley, you'll come with us.

DUDLEY:
Good. Yes. Hah.

My lady, the king's mother
will see me now, yes?

This matter can be resolved.

Wait!

My gracious lady!

[WOLSEY RECITING LATIN]

You are devout!

Please don't
let them do this!

I've done
nothing wrong!

My lady!

Please!

- "Edmund Dudley..."
- Christ!

"you stand guilty
of constructive treason,

"a crime of
imprisoning the king,

"insomuch as through
your legislative advice

"to his grace,
King Henry VII,

"you did
ensnare him unwittingly

"to enforce illegal
acts of taxation

"and, in so doing,
did defile the crown

and the holy ordinance of God
under which all kings do serve."

I did your bidding.

I did your bidding!

No! I am
an innocent man!

I took my instruction
from you!

I did it all
for England!

You cannot treat me like
some dog to be put down!

It is un-Christian.

"The detail of your crimes
have been examined

during an extraordinary
session of council."

The sentence of death
has been passed.

God grant you mercy.

Where is my trial?

This is not justice!

Please!

My lady!

No!

God save King Henry!

I am his loyal servant!

God save him!

Aah!

Fuck you all!

Fuck you all in hell!

Aah!

Fuck you all in hell!

[RAVENS SQUAWKING]

The bells will peal
for King Henry's death.

Let it be known
that the traitor

responsible for the
people's yoke of taxation

has been executed.

Long live the king.

ALL:
Long live the king.

Banners will be lowered to
half-station for my father.

Do it now.

Princess Catherine
is to be your queen.

Be sure
the palace knows it.

If it pleases
Your Grace,

I ask that Lady Pole
and her children

be released
from the Tower.

They are
loyal to you.

If my father
had them arrested,

there must
have been a reason.

We will hear mass
for his soul,

and then we will announce
our wedding.

[BELL TOLLING]

Your Grace...

this is a time of great
distress and sadness,

but you should know
of an unseemly justice

that was meted out
as you rode back to London.

Edmund Dudley was
engaged to collect

additional levies
for the crown.

My lady, the king's mo...

Uh, my lady,
the king is here.

It was criminal,
not to mention a stain against the Crown.

[TOLLING CONTINUES]

Lady Grandmother.

Your Grace,
God preserve you.

Your father
has ascended into Heaven

and you
to your rightful throne.

We should speak in private.

I am in vigil
at my father's side.

Princess Eleanor
has been summoned.

Good.

She can attend my wedding
to Princess Catherine.

Harry, you're shocked,
and you're grieving,

but you pledged
to your father

that you would marry Princess
Eleanor for the good of England.

Was it grief...

that led you
to arrest, try,

and behead Edmund Dudley
all in one day?

Oh, no. That's right.

He didn't have a trial.

Your father learned
that Edmund Dudley

had been implementing taxes that
were not agreed by Parliament,

and he gave the order
to arrest him.

No.

My father
was already dead.

You had him arrested...

and then you silenced him
before I could return.

You took it upon yourself
to act as regent.

Why such haste,
Lady Grandmother?

Harry, please.

Be with
your father now.

What was my cousin
Maggie's crime?

Well, she... she was
a traitor to the Crown.

She wrote to Edmund
de la Pool to ask him...

He is her cousin.

You took away
all hope from her.

Her husband dead,
her children starving,

can you be surprised
that she was angry?

If you had had your way,
you would have crushed me, too.

Lady Pole would
never harm you, Harry.

She has been a friend
to me and to you, too.

She's a traitor.

Please, release her
and her children.

If nothing else,

make this your
wedding gift to me.

You cannot marry,
not without a papal dispensation,

and the pope has not seen fit
to grant one for this marriage.

He has refused...

or he is
still deciding?

Send a pardon to the Tower
for Lady Margaret Pole

with my seal on it.

CATHERINE:
I will take it to her.

Thank you,
Your Grace.

[WHISPERING] How did she
find the prince so quickly?

The Moor bowman,
he rode in with them.

[WOMAN SCREAMING]

[SCREAMING]

It works!
The baby comes.

[GROANS]

Henry.

[LAUGHING]

[WEEPING]

[COOING]

[KEYS JANGLING]

I said that I
would free you.

A pardon,
from the new King Henry.

[GASPING]

You may return to court
with all your children.

You will be
looked after.

[SOBBING]

[LAUGHS]

Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.

I must ready
to march out.

The sergeant-at-arms
is generous,

but, uh, soon,
he kick my arse.

[LAUGHS]

- I must go, too.
- Mm.

[ARMOR CLATTERING]

MAN:
Oviedo.

Yes, sir.

LINA:
My Lady?

A prayer book
has been stolen from me.

I believe
this man took it.

- What do you mean?
- Oviedo does not steal.

Please,
search his belongings.

I believe you'll find an
inscription on the facing page.

It is from the pope
himself to me.

Can you explain this?

This is a mistake.
My lady,

you gave this book
to me as a gift.

He showed it
to me.

You're a Saracen and
an enemy of Christ.

Why would I give
God's word to you?

- I steal nothing!
- Watch your tongue.

In English law,
the punishment

for stealing
is to be hanged.

Is that what you wish?

It is the law.
See that it is done.

- All right. Take him.
- No, this is wrong.

LINA:
You can't do this!

- What are you doing?
- My lady,

surely he should be given
the chance to speak.

You have your orders,
Sergeant.

My lady! My lady!

Sergeant,
this is wrong!

I am no thief!

[FADING]
My lady! My lady!

Lady Margaret.

You gave that book of
prayers to him as a gift.

He has been loyal to you.

Perhaps you have forgotten
that you gave it to him.

I'm sure
I could remember...

if only you'd remember
that your Infanta

and Prince Arthur
lay together.

[SCOFFS]
Even now?

Even now, you would
destroy her happiness?

She cannot marry anyway,
not without the pope,

and he is
not forthcoming.

Then why do this,
if they cannot wed?

So you refuse?

Then he will hang.

I will go to Catherine.

She will save him.

Guards!

Let me go to her!

Eject her
from the palace,

and do not let her
back inside.

No. No! Wait!

They lay together.

Your Infanta
is no virgin.

No.

She deceived us to trick
my Harry into marriage.

Please, release him.

Swear on this holy cross.

She lied so she
could wed Prince Harry.

At last,
you tell the truth.

Eject her
from the palace.

No!
You will pardon him!

Did you speak to her?

Oviedo,
she has lost her wits.

I want to be your wife.

Now.

Please, Oviedo.

SERGEANT:
Let her through.

Lina, eh...

You are
everything to me.

We will have
your Muslim service.

No.

We marry Catholic...

for you.

Then both.

Is my lady,
Lina, back yet?

No, my lady.

Would you dress me?

[FOOTSTEPS]

Reggie,
I have come for you.

We can be
a family again,

you and me and
Ursula and Henry.

Please, Reggie,
come with me.

I love you very much.

Look.

Look what
I've brought you.

Please, Reggie.

I am your mother.

I will return tomorrow.

Perhaps
he needs more time.

[JOHN SPEAKING ARABIC]

[SPEAKING LATIN]

I, for one,
question the measures

implemented
by this man, Dudley...

Oh, as I recall,
you were in favor...

Silence!

All of you.

You are like
a room full of bees.

Woolsey,

why don't you buzz
like the rest of them?

Because I know my guilt,
Your Grace.

I knew the levies were
unjust, but I did nothing,

because I wished
to curry favor

with the king
and with his mother.

As we all did.

[DOOR OPENS]

I should hang
the lot of you.

Spoken like
a true king, Harry.

And you should start by casting
out that harlot from the palace.

- Leave.
- Her closest lady

swears on
the holy cross

that her marriage to your
brother was a full one,

consummated daily over
many, many months.

Leave us!

She is no maid.

She is a liar and
a fortune hunter.

She cannot be
your queen.

It is
against God's law.

You brought evil
to this great house

the day
you came here,

but you will not
drag us into ruin.

This is a lie.

Lina did not say this,

because it isn't true.

Where is this woman?

Well, fetch her here,

and have her swear it
on the cross before me.

Bring her to me!

Where is she now?

What have you done to her?

- Uh...
- Guards!

SERGEANT:
I'm sorry...

but it's time to go.

[WEEPING]
No.

Don't take him.

Please.

LINA: No!

Oviedo!

Oviedo! Please!

We'll make it
as quick as we can.

He has done
nothing wrong.

I am a lady of the future
queen of England.

You cannot do this!

Keep her here.

LINA: Pl-please.

Please, no.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Adios, amor de mi vida.

SERGEANT:
Try and make it quick.

No!

I beg you, please!

Please, no!

[GASPING]

Please, no!

[WAILING] No!

[SPEAKING SPANISH]
Oviedo!

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

No!

Stop it!

- Cut him down!
- Do it!

[GASPING]

Oviedo. [CRYING]

What in God's name
happened here?

Who ordered this?!

Oviedo is released.

The Saracen stole
a book of hours from me.

He's a criminal.

Why would he steal a
Catholic book of prayers?

He does not even share your faith.
He is Muslim.

This has no bearing
on what her lady,

Lina de Cardonnes,
confessed to me,

that she lay
with your brother.

I would have thought
it has every bearing.

There's not
an instrument of torture

in the Tower
that could extract

a false confession
any quicker.

There'll be no wedding.

You do not have
the dispensation.

[CHUCKLES]

[GROANING]

I thought
I had lost you.

[SIGHS]

You...[GRUNTS]

You should attend
to the Infanta's wedding.

She cannot wed.

The pope
has not approved it.

- But he has.
- No.

Lady Margaret paid me

to read all the letters
at the ports.

The pope gave his
permission many weeks ago.

I gave these letters
to Lady Margaret.

[SIGHS]

Hey. No crying.

You must go and tell
the Infanta that she may wed.

Lady Grandmother,
the pope has confirmed

that he sent a dispensation
for my wedding.

I must assume
that his first communication

on the subject was lost

- or destroyed.
- I-

CATHERINE: We choose to
have a private wedding

in the Church of the
Observant Friars in Greenwich.

You will not attend.

[GASPS]

Harry, no.

I've been
a mother to you.

I educated you.

I empowered you.

I loved you.

Come, Catherine.

[MURMURING]

[BOYS LAUGH]

[LAUGHTER ECHOING]

[BELLS PEALING]

My queen.

[BELLS PEALING]

LADY MARGARET:
Maid!

I'm thirsty!

Maid!

Maid!

[WHIMPERING]

[BELLS CONTINUING]

Are you a fever?

No. I am here.

To laugh at me.

Well, laugh away.

My children are all here
with me for the wedding,

but Reggie chooses
not to speak.

That is the final gift
you've given me.

Water.

[WHIMPERING]

[WHIMPERS]

I think I know
more of God than you do.

[SIGHS]

Ah.

[GASPS] My Harry.

Harry dresses
for his wedding.

No. The Spanish girl
will destroy us all.

If Harry marries her,

he's cursed,
no boys, no heirs.

It's what his mother
said on her deathbed.

You call my actions evil...

but I'm protecting
my family, my country.

It's a lonely path.

I have to go.

No.

Everything I've built
will be undone.

What have you built,
though?

Hatred and fear.

You are forsaken.

[WHIMPERING]

[SOBBING]

LINA: This arrived
today from Spain.

What is it?

My father says that I should
know who I am marrying.

It wasn't Harry who refused
the match with Eleanor.

It was my father

who withdrew
my niece's hand.

Why would he do that?

Because...

Because my sister
told him

that she herself
had lain with Harry.

[BOYS LAUGHING]

What?

[BOYS LAUGHING]

[GASPS]

What are...

No!

No.

No. [GASPS]

Go away. Go away. Go away.

Jasper.

Take my soul
to the gates of Heaven.

- [WHIMPERING]
- [THUMPING]

Jasper.

[CRYING]

Jasper.

I didn't know.

I didn't know.

Catherine.

I had a letter
from my father.

My sister says...

she says
you lay with her.

What?

Is it true?

Of course it isn't.

Catherine,
why would I have?

I-I walked
through fire for you.

I stood against my father,
risked my throne.

I've said that we should
be crowned together. I...

How could you
believe this of me?

If you believe your father
and your sister over me,

then everyone that stood
against us will have won.

Everything that we fought for will...
will be for nothing.

Then...

you didn't touch
or lie with her?

Of course I didn't.

I'm sorry.

I should have known my
sister would try to hurt me.

Forgive me.

[SIGHS]

[CHUCKLES]

Catherine.

You didn't lie with Arthur
either, did you?

No.

As I have said,

I am a maid.

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

[WOMEN VOCALIZING]