:07:00
For three years, the rains of England
have rotted our harvest to the ground.
:07:05
Three years of famine
and a depleted treasury.
:07:08
But my Lord of Essex
had the cure for that.
:07:11
Yes, indeed.
:07:13
"Raise me but £50,000, madam,"
says he...
:07:17
..."and I'll sail for Cádiz and fetch you
such a Spanish treasure fleet...
:07:21
...as will make England rich again."
:07:24
So I did.
:07:26
I taxed my already overburdened people.
:07:28
Got him his £50,000.
:07:32
Now, where is my Spanish treasure fleet?
:07:37
Look!
:07:39
He can't answer.
He daren't answer.
:07:42
- Lf Your Majesty will let me tell you.
- Go on, then.
:07:45
Unfortunately, it was you
who called the fleet back...
:07:48
...before my plans
had been carried out.
:07:51
Unfortunately, the Spanish treasure fleet,
with 12 million ducats...
:07:54
...lies beneath the waters of Cádiz Harbor,
sunk by the Spaniards themselves.
:07:59
While Essex, against the advice
of Howard and Raleigh...
:08:03
...gathered fame for himself
by storming the town.
:08:06
There was naught else to be done.
:08:08
- It was for the glory of England.
- For the glory of Essex!
:08:13
Will that put food into the mouths
of my starving people?
:08:16
Can they subsist upon laurel wreaths
from your heroic brow?
:08:21
You think they're displeased with what
I did at Cádiz, madam? Listen.
:08:30
The English people are more
readily pleased than their queen.
:08:33
They cry your name, but what will they say
when I must tax them again...
:08:37
...to pay off the soldiers and the fleet?
:08:40
Is it nothing that 1200 pieces of Spanish
ordnance were sunk in my hollow victory?
:08:44
- And the Spanish fleet totally destroyed?
- Thanks to my Lord Howard and Sir Raleigh.
:08:50
It seems you've no reward for me
as a soldier, madam.
:08:53
That the soldier can endure.
:08:56
But the man had hoped
for a different kind of reception.