The Virgin Queen

Created by GeoffS

§ My concern is like my shadow §

Quiet lying in the sun

§ Follow me at all times §

§ And fly when I pursue it §

§ I freeze and still I'm always burning §

§ Since I turn my back on myself

§ I love and yet I am forced to hate §

§ I look completely mute, I do not stop talking...

They have summoned the guard!

God, please help us!

God helps those who help themselves, Lettice.

The tide is rising; We must play for time.

Light the candles.

Too gaudy!

If I'm going to live tonight, I should not outshine her.

Too Red!

A gift from the queen herself.

What better choice?

That one.

Lettice!

Remember, child:

Curb your temper,

No matter what she says,

how much you try to provoke.

Stay close, Kat.

§ My concern is like my shadow §

Quiet lying in the sun

§ Follow me at all times §

§ and flies when I pursue it §

Go! Go!

The signal!

Rosary beads! The rosary!

§ A tender love relieves §

My heart and my mind

§ Because I am compassionate and made of icy love §

§ Be more cruel or kinder. §

... of cetero me non peccaturum

Peccandique next times fugiturum. Amen.

Is this how you enter a princess chamber?

You forget yourselves, gentlemen.

The queen will not receive you.

Her order's stand:

You are to be confined in the Tower,

Pending an investigation into the charges against you.

Fetch her things.

I am with her day and night.

She never met this man, Wyatt.

If there was a conspiracy, he did not take part in it!

Then she should have nothing to fear...

Madam.

Quickly.

We must catch the tide.

I will write to her, plead my case.

You will do well not to defy her, my lady.

And you, sir, will do well to remember,

for I too am a king's daughter.

Your Majesty, my dear sister Mary,

I humbly beseech you

to remember your the last promise to me,

That I will not be condemned without proof.

Now under your command, I am be taken to the Tower,

A place more fit for a traitor than to a loyal sister.

"I beg you, let me come to you

" so that you may hear my testimony.

"For I swear before God,

"I have never participated, counseled or consented

in any conspiracy against you. "

Enough!

She has made fools of you.

This is just more of his tricks.

She thinks that if she buys time, he can soften my resolve.

Now the tide is lost.

Mi lord?

There is another tide

at dawn, Majesty... We can....

Transport her in daylight.

So that its followers may abduct her,

Mounting another rebellion in his name?

Must I have to think of everything?

These lines signify what, my lord?

I believe she was afraid

an incriminating postscript might be added.

Dawn tide it must be.

My Lord Gardiner.

It is my wish that you take charge

of her interrogation in the Tower.

Do not fail me again.

Will God punish me as I am now punishing her?

He knows you do it His service, Your Grace,

As he knows all things.

It is not just for your own protection,

but also by that of your husband.

Only by proving his guilt in this Protestant plot

can justice be dispensed

and with it, the threat she poses to you both.

Your father found the strength

to deal with her whore of a mother.

Now you must do the same to deal with her bastard child.

And what if her guilt can not be proved?

To break your silence, you must first break your spirit.

Come on!

Amen.

Sir John Brydges.

He will be your guardian here, my lady.

Shall we?

I pray all...

I pray you to bear witness that I come here, not as a traitor,

But as a true and loyal subject of the queen,

And shall be until my death.

No!

A good pair of lungs on him, those of Mr. Wyatt.

Your castle in Donnington.

In January you proposed to visit there, did you not?

Donnington?

Which county is that?

Berkshire.

I have so many properties!

Thomas Wyatt wrote to you at that time, did he not?

stating his opposition to the queen's marriage,

and his intention to overthrow her government

to put you on the throne.... in her place.

Did he not name Donnington Castle

as the base for his rebellion?

That you meet him there with his supporters?

Had I received any such communication,

I would have alerted my sister... And the Privy Council.

He enlisted the help of France,

Assembled four contingents in as many counties,

number over 2,000 men to march on London.

Only a fool would undertake such a mission

without first gaining

your consent.

Since I am not personally acquainted with Mr. Wyatt,

I have no insight into how his mind works,

foolish or other wise.

Poison was the chosen method

disposing of the queen.

A letter to Wyatt from the French ambassador .

"Death is the only solution

to end the disastrous union with King Philip

and save England from Spanish rule."

Do you deny you share such sentiment?

Like most women, I have no head for politics, sir.

Every Protestant in the land condemned the marriage.

Why should you be the exception?

Wyatt's confession will put an end to it this assembly.

We're looking at days, if not hours.

Go no further than your commission here, Sir John.

In the future we may have to account for

our dealings with her.

John Seymour...

Duke of Northumberland...

scores of them.

Lady Jane Gray.

Anne Boleyn.

Her mother is a subject she does not care to speak of,

much less think of.

One of the queen's ladies sent to serve you.

Or spying on me.

Wyatt's letters, Kat?

Burnt with my own hands.

All of them?

Yes.

Then we are in the hands of God.

Do not...

What...

What I was...

Oh no...

Do not...

Someone...

I must... I must...

I must...

I must... I must...

Like the animals in a menagerie.

Hush.

I never wrote him a letter on that matter or any other.

How do you explain your reply, "I will do what I see cause"?

You're condoning their conspiracy.

Admit it!

Biding your time, waiting to see

if their insurgents were successful!

Since I received no letter on the subject,

it follows that I did not reply to it.

No, you're too artful to reply in writing.

I could neither condone nor condemn

a conspiracy of which I was completely ignorant, sir.

Though it seems that I will be condemned

For the ambition of others...

or their malevolency.

If she will not admit to her treason,

Wyatt must be made to do so.

He denies her collusion,

he denies having ever communicated with her.

Not the rack nor the bribe of a reprieve

can move him otherwise.

The Privy Council will never consent to the trial, Your Grace,

not without his testimony

or her own confession.

To do so, we risk the mob