• 7 months ago
In blood-soaked Tudor England, twice married, accomplished, and educated Katherine Parr (Vikander), reluctantly agrees to become the sixth wife of the tyrannical King Henry VIII (Law). Her consent to marry him carries great personal risk, given that her predecessors are either vanquished, beheaded, or dead. When Henry appoints her as Regent, the nation’s ruler during his absence when he departs to fight overseas, he lays a dangerous path for her. Henry’s courtiers, suspecting she’s sympathetic to radical Protestant beliefs that have taken root in the kingdom and are a threat to their power, scheme against her and cast doubts upon her fidelity to the increasingly ailing and paranoid King. Once Henry returns to England, his courtiers convince him to turn his fury on the nation’s radicals, including Katherine’s childhood friend Anne Askew, who becomes one of the scores of people convicted of treason and burned at the stake. Horrified and privately grieving, Katherine finds herself under ever-increasing scrutiny and suspicion. Knowing that even a whisper of scandal might lead to her downfall, Katherine must unleash her own scheme to fight for survival.
Transcript
00:00 [AUDIO OUT]
00:03 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:06 In a rotten, blood-soaked island kingdom,
00:10 there once was a queen by the name of Catherine Parr.
00:14 She was the sixth wife of the vengeful King Henry VIII.
00:18 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:21 I won't be patron to heretics.
00:23 You will kill me like you did my mother.
00:25 He would never do that to you.
00:26 Do you hear me?
00:29 Five wives who came before her all met untimely ends.
00:34 But Catherine's fate was to change the kingdom forever.
00:37 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:40 [LAUGHTER]
00:44 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:46 We must rise up and take what is ours.
00:50 We found Anne preaching to a large group.
00:53 It is not for those above us to tell us what to believe.
00:57 The way she spoke, it excited me.
01:01 Catherine, I pray no one saw you there that day.
01:05 I believe that I was chosen by God
01:07 to get the king to change his will.
01:09 You have to go.
01:10 If they find you here--
01:12 We would have to have their head cut off.
01:13 I'm sure you would come up with something much more creative.
01:16 Sometimes we think you know us better than we know ourself.
01:22 We trusted you, Catherine.
01:23 When you're flirting with the radicals,
01:25 it could endanger the stability of this realm.
01:29 You know what any harm becomes?
01:31 No.
01:31 You don't want to hurt me.
01:32 No, never.
01:33 [LAUGHTER]
01:35 His confidence in your weakness is what keeps you safe.
01:37 What would you have me do?
01:39 I would have you pull his head from his neck.
01:41 He's demanding evidence against her that she betrayed him.
01:43 Catherine!
01:44 Are you lying?
01:45 Of course I'm not lying.
01:46 Are you a liar?
01:47 Are you a liar?
01:49 What precisely are you implying?
01:50 My conscience is clear.
01:55 God will never have intended for anything
01:57 to stand between him and his people.
01:58 Not a bishop, not a priest, not even a king.
02:00 Then you were bad.
02:03 Is she more vicious than all the others?
02:06 You've been here before.
02:07 You've been here before.
02:09 And we cut you down!
02:11 We cut them down!
02:14 We cut them down!
02:15 Do you believe in hell?
02:20 I think we're both bound for it.
02:23 I'm ready.
02:24 Are you?
02:26 (dramatic music)
02:28 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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