You know what's best").When she left to prepare dinner, he partially took out his frustrations and anger on the punching bag in his basement where he was working out.Introduction to The Young Empress:In her Prussian bedroom, 7 year-old aristocratic Princess Sophia Augusta Frederica (played by Marlene Dietrich's own daughter, Maria Sieber/Riva), who was being groomed to be a ruling Tsarina in Russia...After he kisses her hand and she calls him: "My, my husband," his eyes are averted to the right.He hesitates - a momentary ethical twinge of conscience knocking at the door.But when he glances down at her intimately-exposed ankles (below he lace hem which is underneath her silk dress), he continues with he seduction in order to sleep with her.After meeting many obstacles and making sacrifices, including her turning down a trip to Paris to marry him, she is diagnosed as terminally ill ("very sick") when she is tested for pregnancy and fertility ("She's dying").The King's only son and heir Theodred was lethally wounded by ambushing Orcs, and the King's nephew Eomer (Karl Urban) was distressed by the killings and wanted to defend the kingdom of Rohan.