Not in the eyes of women; not in the eyes of this woman. “You are a monster,” Kwenthrith tells her ally-turned-captor. She turns to Judith for help. She admits that her baby is Daniel’s, and Judith forgives her. Kwenthrith needs help; she must escape this prison King Richard has built for her, with her son Magnus alongside.
Judith goes to King Richard — and he, too, asks for her forgiveness.
Judith: do you still think the moon is a god?
King Richard: you know, of course, about Kwenthrith and my don?
Judith: I also know that you have taken the crown of Mercia from her head.
King Richard: I had no choice, none. No one in Mercia was ever going to accept her as queen again. Even I had wanted to reinstate…
Judith: But you did not want to, did you? You would have worked it out before with
