Ok guys this is a crossover of the 1998 movie Elizabeth and the Tudors. Let's assume and please go along with the historical inaccuracy that Charles Brandon was alive when Elizabeth became Queen and that he was in court as she struggles to stand on her feet. Also, I'm not From the U.K. and English isn't my native language so you will have to forgive any historical or grammatical mistakes.

Chapter 1: In the Council

Elizabeth had been Queen for a few months only and things were really hard on her. France was marching toward the English empire and many doubted Elizabeth's right to the throne. She was often called the bastard queen. Plus the Pope and the Catholics in England were against her, because she was a protestant and she was trying to establish the protestant religion as the basic religion in England. And her denial to marry and produce an heir was against her. Elizabeth had to prove that despite the fact that she was very young and a woman she would be able to rule England.

Elizabeth doubted herself and her abilities and everything she had learned. She struggled in court every day and she was working long hours with her counselors to decide what she should do.

That day she decided to be firm and decisive. To prove that she was the Queen of England. It worked. She was powerful persistent diplomatic she made a few jokes and finally the court voted in her favor. Everything would be perfect if Charles Brandon hadn't smiled when she was speaking. It was a weird smile, like he knew something she ignored. It had stayed on her mind all night long.

Next day the exact same thing happened and Elizabeth started to feel extremely annoyed. She knew Charles Brandon was in the Court a long time and he was very close to her father he was actually married to his sister for a while. She knew he had worked with her grandfather sir Thomas Boleyn and her mother's uncle the duce of Norfolk to bring Woolsey down. Towards her the duce of Suffolk had always been kind and respectful without showing whether he supported her or not.

Elizabeth decided to talk to him about his rather strange behavior. She didn't believe he was mocking her but there was definitely something going on.

The same evening she invited him to have dinner with her. He accepted the invitation graciously but with obvious curiosity as to what the Queen might want him.

"Your Majesty" he bowed respectfully

"Lord Suffolk. Please be sited" Charles obeyed immediately. "I'm sure you are wondering why I invited you here tonight. I have observed that over the last few weeks you seem to smile every time I talk sir. I really don't think you find the matters of the kingdom so amusing and I also wouldn't like to believe you are mocking me. So sir I would appreciate an explanation, which is why I invited you here tonight."

Charles Brandon replied immediately: "Your Majesty I would never mock you. I respect and admire you very much to do so. The reason I smiled is that over the last few weeks you have grown up so much that I feel amazed. You remind me of your father, the way Henry used to talk and everyone just followed his orders. He was firm and decisive and managed to persuade everyone that his opinion was the right one. He had this magic on the way he talked. But you are also a lot like your mother the infamous Anne Boleyn- diplomatic, persistent smart, cultivated and if your Majesty allows the expression a bit stubborn." Elizabeth was stunned. She hadn't expected this. She remembered very little of her parents together, she had very few memories of her mother and had learned to fear her father. She knew better than to go asking questions about her mother, the "whore" as she was so often called especially in a period where her own life wasn't safe. However, something in the face of Charles Brandon made her ask. "Lord Suffolk, would you be so kind as to describe my parents to me?"

"Your Majesty, I would be honored to try, although I don't think I can make them justice. But Your Majesty it is not a happy story. I fear your kind heart may not stand the story of love and betrayal, especially when it concerns your own mother. Are you quite certain you want to hear it?"

"Lord Suffolk, ever since I can remember I was the bastard child and my mother the heretical whore. A mother I can't remember because my father ordered her death because I was a girl. I need to know what happened no matter how cruel it is. I beg of you only one thing my Lord. Please tell me the truth." Elizabeth's eyes were full of tears and her voice broke as she uttered those words.

"My child, I will tell you the truth. But I must ask you to be patient because it is a long story and I'm an old man. I will with your permission go and rest and I will be back tomorrow to start the story." With that Charles Brandon left Elizabeth alone with her thoughts.