Right... I shouldn't be ungrateful for that, and I'm not. I was fortunate that he was willing to take me in like a second son.

[A second, less praised son, but still, he did have all of the privileges that came with such a position. He wishes he'd appreciated certain aspects of it more, but he'd gotten carried away by his own jealousy.]

He favored Cecil over me... but he was a good king, regardless. It was as good a life as I could have had, for the most part. I wish... some things had been different. That my father had lived, for one thing...