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The Duke's Regret - He Repented After Abandoning His Wife - FULL | DramaReel
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00:02they say every beautiful story starts the same way a hero saves a damsel and she gives him her
00:08heart forever but my story is not that it was my wedding night to duke kyle blackwood his lips were
00:14just inches from mine about to complete our vows then his servant burst pale and panicked your
00:20grace miss lena has collapsed her father just passed away without a word he abandoned our
00:26wedding and rushed out of the manor into the night from down the hall his voice carried through the
00:30house best physician in london at once lena is weak how can she bear such grief i stood there
00:36looking at the spilled wine the overturned table amanda my mother's maid her eyes were red lady
00:42alara this is too much tonight was your wedding night he left a lady of the realm alone on her
00:50wedding night for a court attack this is a disgrace all high society knew it all the noble world knew
00:56it the great duke of blackwood's heart had long belonged to that courtesan tonight i lived the
01:01truth of it and the truth was worse than any rumor the wedding candles burned through the night the
01:07duke did not come back but the truth is the rumors started long before our wedding duke kyle blackwood
01:15had stepped in to protect a fragile young woman named lena a courtesan who was being harassed by
01:20powerful nobles at the top salons lena was the kind of woman you couldn't look away from slender
01:25seemingly fragile but with a beauty that left every noble in the room speechless a lord tried
01:31to force her into marriage the duke stopped her a hero saves a helpless woman she gives him her heart
01:37an old tale but then the duke said something that surprised everyone i have no duchess so i will not
01:43take a mistress lightly lena deserves better than that she should not be treated that way the queen heard
01:48about it too she worried i would be hurt so before the wedding she called me to the palace
01:53allura you've heard the rumors about blackwood and that corsant if you're not comfortable with
01:58this match i can cancel it i won't blame you my parents and brothers had all died fighting for the
02:04world the queen honored house calloway's sacrifice and took me in she gave me something almost no woman
02:10had ever received she let me inherit the calloway family title she had always been more than fair to
02:15me far more than the crown required but becoming duchess of blackwood was the queen's own command
02:21it couldn't be undone easily so i knelt before her and said what i had to say your majesty i
02:27am not
02:28wronged the duke is one of the most powerful noble of esholy's generation this is exactly the married i
02:34want there's no need to cancel it as for the rumors noble marriages were never about love as long as
02:41he
02:41didn't humiliate me after the wedding i could live with it but i never imagined that the humiliation of
02:46my wedding night was only the beginning
02:50the next morning i went to pay my respects to the duke's mother kyle was already there lena clung to
02:56his side dressed head to toe in black mourning clothes it was a style noble woman almost never wore
03:02its hem barely reaches her thighs she hid behind the duke she swayed like she might collapse at any
03:08moment then right in front of me she sank into a deep curtsy lena greets the duchess last night was
03:13all my fault i ruined your grace's wedding night please punish me however you wish then the duke's
03:18face was caught between guilt and pleading her father just died she has no one now nobles are circling
03:24her trying to force her into marriage she has nowhere to go i thought i could take her as my
03:29mistress
03:29give her a place to belong if you can't accept this i'll send her away at once and you'll never
03:35see her again lena wept in silence she lifted her head her face soft and helpless please your grace
03:41have mercy lena has nowhere else to go if there's no place for me here then lena would rather die
03:48allura the decision is yours
03:53our family is known for kindness and generosities as duchess i trust you choose the true one
04:04i
04:07taking her as a mistress costs you nothing her status will never surpass yours
04:11if i refused i was cruel if i accepted i was a fool the play had been written before i
04:16even walked
04:16through the door my lord saved lena's life lena swore to repay him i am willing to take the
04:22medicine and will never challenge your position allura lena doesn't scheme you don't have to be
04:28so hard on her your grace please my lady can't take that potion she's already carrying the duke's
04:36child help her up at once a woman with child must not perform deep carefuls why didn't you tell me
04:42how long have you been carrying this alone i thought i would quietly end the pregnancy myself
04:46so you wouldn't have to suffer because of me elara even if this child is born it will never surpass
04:52your children but this is kale's blood we cannot abandon it when the child is born it will call you
04:59mother i looked at the three of them watching their tears and performance i smiled if his feelings are
05:05as deep as the rumors say he should make her duchess that would be a love story worth telling for
05:10generations kale relaxed at the first half of my words then the second half hit his face hardened
05:16make her duchess elara lena and i have never what never loved each other or the child she's carrying
05:23isn't yours you once announced i will not take mistresses lightly now i understand what those
05:27words really meant not a mistress just a secret kept in the shadows isn't that right
05:35duchess lena is not that kind of woman lena only only loves him i never asked for more
05:42not even a mistress then that's worse at least a mistress has a title without one what will her
05:49child be when it's born a bastard with no standing in society lena didn't mean whatever you meant i
05:55will give your love exactly what it deserves my lady last night's wedding ceremony was never completed
06:01the duke spent his wedding night with lena all of my attendants saw it every servant in this
06:05manner can testify to it therefore this engagement is void
06:12what do you mean i know last night was my fault but lena's father had just died i had no
06:17choice
06:18this won't happen again we start over i will spend the rest of my life making this up to you
06:23alara
06:24if you dissolve this engagement you are trampling the queen's command
06:27do you understand what that means
06:31pale this engagement was the queen's gift and you buried it on the very first night
06:35abandoning your duchess to comfort a court sir if the queen seeks to punish anyone she will not
06:39punish the orphan daughter of a general that you abandoned you speak to me of duty when you decided
06:43what she needed did you spare even one second to think of me duchess please this is all lena's fault
06:49i will leave the manor right now you will never see me again i will never let the duke fall
06:54into
06:54trouble because of me she stepped closer and lowered her voice so only i could hear lady calloway
07:00he has always chosen me he always will you never had a chance if you leave the queen will punish
07:06the duke please if anyone should go let it be me you really want me to stay then hear this
07:12clearly
07:12if i stay you will never set foot in this manner again not once lena doesn't know what to do
07:20please duchess tell lena she turned to the duke her voice turning small and fragile
07:27kail did lena do something wrong lena only wanted to repay you lena can be a servant lena asks for
07:34nothing only please let lena stay by your side alara let her stay she defers to you in everything
07:43you have my word he still thought he was worth bargaining duke kail my answer stands the
07:50engagement is dissolved from this day forward your life has nothing to do with mine lena clutched her
07:55black mourning dress putting on a pitiful act as she made to turn away if the duchess has no place
08:01for
08:01me then i shall leave there's no need for more words kyle grabbed her arm you're not going anywhere
08:07i am the duke of blackwood everything in this malice is mine to decide he turned to me
08:15i am merely giving her a protected status what noble house in london hasn't taken in a woman in
08:21distress what duchess would make such a scene over this he slowly stood up straight you're nothing more
08:27than an orphan sheltered by royal favor your title was given your status was given step outside this
08:33manor you have nowhere to go do you really believe the queen will go to war with house blackwood over
08:40you he thought he had cornered me he forgot what i was i was the daughter of the callowah hill
08:46line
08:47before full crown ever took me in i was already forged in iron and blood true nobility does not kneel
08:53amanda my voice carried clear and steady through the hall pack our things raise the callowage crest
09:01i lifted my gaze cold and proud we are returning to the calloway estate
09:09the room went silent
09:15this is no retreat it is the beginning of his ruin
09:20the calloway estate had been sealed for over a decade since my father and brothers fell on
09:26colonial battlefields this manner once the very symbol of english martial nobility had been locked
09:32away untouched life left the servants shine the silver candle lips and brass fixtures they
09:38relit the marble hearts in the great hall i personally oversee the restoration of the family library
09:44and the gallery of military honors my father's battle maps his sword his portrait his medals
09:51every detail placed according to the strict customs of victorian nobility i stood at the center of the
09:58great hall looking up at the portraits of my ancestors my spine was straight i had lost an
10:05engagement i had lost the shelter of a husband but i had not lost my blood i had not lost
10:11my honor
10:13on the seventh day after the estate came back to life a carriage bearing the royal crest drew up before
10:19the
10:19gates a royal messenger in red uniform bowed and presented a letter sealed with wax the summons from the
10:27palace had arrived i entered the carpeted audience chamber lowered myself into a graceful curty before
10:35the queen then knelt in silence back straight waiting to be addressed i knelt before her composure
10:42unbroken your majesty the engagement between myself and the duke of blackwood cannot proceed
10:48his heart belongs to another and miss lena is already with child beside me amanda knelt as well tears
10:56streaming down her face as she recounted every detail of the wedding night the queen listened from her
11:01throne her expression growing darker by the moment i knew blackwood was frivolous of heart she said at last
11:10i did not him so bold to abandon a royal engagement on the wedding night itself for a courtesaire
11:20she exhaled slowly her tone softening as she offered a reminder
11:26but illara if you retreat to the calloway estate now london society will talk i lifted my gaze my eyes
11:33were clear my voice was steady
11:35your majesty your majesty the fault was not mine my father and brothers gave their lives for this realm
11:43the honor of house calloway i can uphold it myself the queen was silent for a long moment then something
11:50like approval surfaced in her eyes you are truly your father's daughter strength honor house callaghan will
11:58rise again by your hand with those words the audience this matter of dignity of honor came to its close
12:06and i at last had walked completely out of the cage called marriage three days after my audience at the
12:15palace the queen's royal gifts began arriving at the calloway estate word spread the tide of london society
12:22turned overnight the lords the generals widows the ladies of title those who had kept their distance when
12:29my engagement fell apart now sent their calling cards eager to renew their ties with house calloway
12:36the countess of harwit came herself she took both my hands in hers her voice earnest
12:43elara you carry the spirit of a warrior's daughter you have the crown's favor you deserve nothing less
12:50than the finest this world has to offer blackwood and that quarter set they are but specks of dust in
12:56your
12:56path do not waste a thought on them i received them with poise every gesture impaculate neither pride
13:04nor resentment marved my composure victorian high society does not weep for tears it bows only to
13:11those who hold their honor high and stand with their backs straight i had not cried i had not begged
13:18i had not clung to any man and yet by blood of the calloway line by the trust of the
13:25crown
13:25i had claimed the most honorable place in london society all of this kale blackwood did not yet
13:32know he still believed in his innocence that i was merely smoking that in a few days i would swallow
13:39my pride and come back to blackwood manor he would never know that i had already walked towards something
13:45far freer far brighter far more my own than any duchess's title could ever be
13:53kale had always believed that i was merely throwing a tantrum a bride wronged on her wedding
13:58night nothing more he was certain that in a few days i would swallow my pride return to blackwood
14:04manor not until the crown's gifts arrived at calloway house not until the old allies entitled ladies
14:10began arriving at my door did the truth finally strike him i was never coming back i submitted the
14:16formal dissolution of the engagement to the ecclesiastical court for filing soon after the
14:21queen addressed the matter at court blackwood has set aside the match i arranged for him in favor to a
14:28courtesate i will not force a man to honor what he has already dishonored all of london understood clearly
14:35the queen's displeasure was never with me the disappointment the disdain they belonged to kale
14:40blackwood when word reached blackwood manor hell found himself like a beast caught in a trap
14:45no room to maneuver he had no choice left but to marry the courtesan who carried his child but he
14:50never understood that in the world of victorian nobility no great house would ever accept a
14:55courtesan wearing the blackwood ducal crown he had torn apart the crown's dignity with his own hands
15:00and with those same hands he had thrown his family's honor into the mud the humiliation that
15:06awaited him the mockery had only just begun
15:11in london a noble wedding was never a private matter it was a ceremony of lineage of honor of
15:17the crown's recognition but the wedding of kyle and lena was a laughing gop from the very start on
15:21the day of the ceremony the guests filled the hall yet not a single heart carried genuine well wishes
15:26they had all come to witness how this scandal would unfold let the bride step forward to receive her
15:32vows
15:35suddenly her face changed her stomach turned she could no longer hold it back before the eyes of
15:40every guest lena bent over and vomited onto the ceremonial carpet the air frozen then pandemonium
15:47she's already with a child who the father is only she knows take her away the honor of house blackman
15:56has been dragged through the mud the hasty wedding barely begun ended in contempt and chaos the once
16:01charming duke of blackwood had become overnight the greatest joke in london's movie
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