We need to prove that you're not a monster by showing them what you really are, a king.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
TLord Taylor
Earn my respect then, as I earn the respect of my men. In combat!
Duels only lead to dead men, not respect.
He does have his father's history to overcome. You knew that when you chose him.
Chose me like a prized pony.
I do have a first name, you know. It's Henry.
Darnley...
Darnley it is, then.
Mary, if you want something enough, you have to be willing to break the rules.
I've asked my brother James to help train you for your fight with Lord Taylor.
The man who lost to Taylor three times is going to teach me?
Charles will put his weight behind this.
Well, then perhaps I should withhold my news from the huntsman.
And perhaps I shall have your throat slit in your sleep. Or let the villagers do it for me when they come for all of us to root out the beast we have protected.
TLord Taylor
Bastards and cheaters are not welcome on the Scottish throne.
I heard the nobles will support your union with Mary if you fell a brute named Taylor. Lovely country, Scotland.
Are you asking for a divorce?
No.
But you could. You are Protestant.
And you are Catholic. You could never marry again.
Perhaps I've taken all the chances at love that I deserve. I'm sorry that I failed to love you in the way that you deserve. Now that you have found it with another, I won't deny you your happiness. I release you from this marriage.
A royal marriage gives one political clout. I will not be alive forever, and that power, the kind afforded to very few in this very cold world, will protect you and your descendants once I am gone. Do not let Claude go.
And how do we know we can trust you?
Because being married to a woman who is in love with another isn't exactly the ideal union I dreamed of either.
I let you win that race.
How dare you, didn't you notice that I defied the Queen of England for you?!
Oh, you enjoyed it.
I did!
Stop making promises you don't have the power to keep.
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