Let's begin with the not so devastating stuff. Elizabeth is still being pressured to marry. The Prince of Spain comes to visit her castle, asking for her hand in marriage. She doesn't immediately dismiss him like the rest of the men that have asked. Her regent advises to accept his proposal because if she doesn't, as we found out last episode, Mary will end up marrying him after Francis dies. And if we know anything, Elizabeth is thirsty for power. If she does marry this man she will also rule Spain, and that is too good of a deal to pass up.
But her love, Dudley, asks her not to marry him. Which is pretty rude considering he's already married to someone else. He doesn't want to lose Elizabeth or share her with anyone else. Talk about selfish! Elizabeth takes Dudley's request to heart and decides to not accept his proposal. But then is convinced to hear him out again. She keeps going back and forth with this life changing decision. The decision gets easier when she meets with the Prince and he asks for her to prove her womanhood. Apparently there's a rumor going around that Elizabeth is actually a man. Which is hilarious, and was cleverly spread by Dudley's jealous wife.
Dudley finds out about the rumor and confronts his wife. She doesn't admit it, but Dudley still thinks it's her and he becomes angry. He grabs her and chokes her almost to death. He pulls back just in time and is loathing himself. "What have I become?" He asks himself. His wife convinces him that he needs to leave the Queen because her love is turning him into a horrible person.
After the Prince offends the Queen she finally decides not to marry him. Or any man for that matter. Her regent thinks this is a terrible idea, because in this time period a woman needs a man to rule successfully. But Elizabeth is tired of people telling her what she can't do. She is going to rule alone and will prove to everyone that she can be the best ruler even without a man. Yeah woman power!
Lola and Lord Narcisse are already having marital problems.This comes to no surprise considering Narcisse's background. Lola finds out that one of his lands was given to him only because he forced the owner to sign it away. He tells an angry Lola he only did it so he could have enough land to be on the voting party that decides if Catherine is regent or not. Lola believes him and makes him give the land back. Catherine gets Narcisse alone and tells him she knows that he planted the rat in Lola's bath. And now that he finally has Lola, he will become bored and comes back to Catherine. He denies that this will ever happen but watches Catherine walk away for a second longer then he's supposed to. Poor Lola, she can never get the whole marriage thing right.
Elizabeth isn't the only sneaky Queen. To save her mother from the protestants in Scotland, Francis and Charles order two ships to help open Scotland's supply so they can keep fighting. But the two ships are taken over and they are back to the beginning. Mary then comes up with a brilliant plan to trick the French Ambassador from England. She meets with him in her room, and asks for a truce so her mother can live. But he of course refuses her offer and tells her that England is waiting for Francis to die. Mary angrily leaves the room but cleverly leaves one of her mother's coded letters on her desk. The ambassador steals the coded message and the tool to decode it. He tells Elizabeth about the letter and they send their troops somewhere else to prevent whatever was in the letter. But this was all Mary's plan. She tricked them so that they would remove the troops so they could ultimately cut off England's supply.
Now her mother is safe and sound, but in the end it doesn't matter. She dies anyway in her castle, leaving us wondering what Mary is going to do. Because now she doesn't have her mother taking care of her country which leaves Mary with an even more fragile country.
But Mary has other things to worry about: Francis. Francis was starting to feel better in this episode. Mary brought brought in a physician from Austria who has been helping Francis with this new medicine. Our dreams of Francis being better are crushed when he falls off his horse. He is immediately put to bed and knows that this is his final hours. Noooo!
Mary lays with Francis for his final hours. They talk about having children and how their lives would be. This is the same scene that Nostradamus saw in Season 1. It is so depressing. Francis dies and Mary bursts into tears as her love is taken from her.
But there is hope! Hallelujah! Bash has finally found Daphine, the witch he has been searching for this entire season. He takes her to Francis' chamber, and she brings him back to life, but kills herself in the process. She gave up her life for Francis. Oh. My. God. I can not believe that this happened but I am so happy that Francis isn't dead. I'm hoping this is his final fate and that they don't go with the real story line of the real life character. Because in real life, King Francis does die from an illness.
This episode was a sad one, but had an incredibly surprising ending. Is Francis' health finally safe? I certainly hope so.
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