The year is 1533, England. 12 year old William Cecil enters the palace for the first time accompanied by his father, the Groom of Robes. But there reigned the tyrannical monarch, Henry VIII. Depressed because of the difference between the court he dreamed off and reality, the boy meets Queen Anne Boleyn that night along with her unborn child... He makes a vow to serve the future "King"... "I will make Elizabeth the Queen."