The White Princess (TV Mini Series)
Hearts and Minds (2017)
Jodie Comer: Elizabeth of York
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Quotes
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Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Your smile is almost convincing.
Princess Elizabeth : My faces aches from it. And if I have to hear about his years in exile one more time I think that I will choke him with the pheasant legs he has such a taste for. However will I keep it up for eight weeks on Royal Progress?
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Don't be downcast. We shall make it work to our advantage. I just wish I was coming with you.
Margaret Beaufort : Bishop Morton has arrived at court. I wish...
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : My daughter's dress is cutting in and troubling the baby. We will change it in her rooms.
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Henry VII : Are you well?
Princess Elizabeth : My sickness is now almost passed.
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Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Royal Progress is our chance to flush out who is still for York. Our first contact is crucial as we'll know who else supports us.
Princess Elizabeth : The De La Pools are out, they turned their coats so quickly they don't have a spine between them.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : The Staffords have refused to bend their knee to Henry but he knows them all as rebels so we cannot go to them.
Princess Elizabeth : Francis Lovell.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Lovell? I thought he had sworn fealty to Tudor?
Princess Elizabeth : Richard said he was the purest, whitest York in all of England. He said he would trust him with his life. No matter what he said or did to fool his enemies, he was a York right to his core.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Then Lovell is our man. Where can we find him?
Princess Elizabeth : York...
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Princess Elizabeth : Which route will the Progress take? I have old friends I should like to see if we journey close.
Henry VII : Old Yorks?
Princess Elizabeth : Or once were Yorks. But now my house is broken.
Henry VII : Thanks to me.
Princess Elizabeth : If I do not even pay my respects, they will think I am your prisoner. And how would that support your image of two Houses now united by a happy, peaceable marriage?
Henry VII : We will journey via Northampton through to Nottingham and up to Lancaster.
Princess Elizabeth : Not York?
Henry VII : Of course not York. The place is for its namesake, your old House. The last stronghold of traitors has its nest there. Why do you smile?
Princess Elizabeth : Because you lend them greater power if you fear them. What? Three stray Stafford rebels? And all the Tudor guards with you and you fear three beleaguered men without an axe between them? You will turn them into heroes if you fear to venture close.
Princess Elizabeth : Tell me who you wish to visit. The meeting will take place in public and you will say you're happy with your lot.
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Dowager Queen Elizabeth : I shall miss you while you're gone. I will have no one to share my wickedness.
Margaret Beaufort : You look radiant. The child is blooming.
Princess Elizabeth : Thank you, my Lady the King's Mother.
Margaret Beaufort : Which is why you shouldn't travel.
Princess Elizabeth : Oh, I am quite well.
Margaret Beaufort : The war has left its scars on England. And some say sickness comes.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Along the route the Tudor army took, I heard. An army formed of convicts from the filthiest jails in Europe. We should not be surprised.
Margaret Beaufort : I do not think the two things are related, but we should not take a chance with you.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : No, perhaps she's right. I shall go on Progress in your place. I'm York and will do just as well to show England that the Houses live in peace and harmony. Remember Lizzie, "Humble and penitent."
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Princess Elizabeth : It was your mother's idea, of course, to keep me here.
Henry VII : Whatever you may think, she has your best interests at heart.
Princess Elizabeth : Will you at least write to me while you are gone? I will be bored beyond endurance. You may at least send news to entertain me and provide distraction.
Henry VII : As you wish. It will look better in England's eyes in any case, a marriage with true care and love in it.
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Princess Elizabeth : At last! I thought they'd never let you come.
Edward Plantagenet aka Teddy : Yay! Granny Cecil! Will you play a game?
Duchess Cecily : Yes. I cannot stay here with you, Lizzie.
Princess Elizabeth : You can, or I will make them!
Duchess Cecily : No, it's... It's my choice. I'm leaving.
Princess Elizabeth : But you can't...
Duchess Cecily : England is too changed. I never thought I'd say this to you nor to anyone, but I am afraid.
Cecily of York : What of?
Duchess Cecily : They're barbarians. I am so sorry, Lizzie, for your plight. Oh, you are so beautiful. You had such promise.
Princess Elizabeth : And I still do.
Duchess Cecily : Your faith must rest now with your mother. I am going to my daughter's palace in Burgundy. At least there, there will be something to drink.
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Princess Elizabeth : [writes to Henry] Thank you for your letter but you judge me far too harshly. Whatever you may think, I had no knowledge of this threat against your person and no hand in it. If you knew me, then you'd know that this isn't something I would do. However we move through this mess we've made of England, know this, at least, it was not me. And now I know that my mother is imprisoned, I can rest assured that it was not her. So if England comes against you, you must look inside yourself to find the cause. Your wife in London. Lizzie.
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Princess Elizabeth : You cannot leave people dying in the streets when we have a means to help them. I will take whatever punishment you give me.
Henry VII : You make it look so easy. You know just what to do to make them love you.
Princess Elizabeth : You reap that you sow, Henry. You rule with fear and you will only get dissent and hatred in return. You take before a man will give and you will never win him, no matter what he may pretend.
Henry VII : My mother says the opposite.
Princess Elizabeth : Was it her order to lock my cousin in the Tower? Or was it yours?
Henry VII : He is a York boy. They were calling for him, shouting that they would support him over me. What else could I do?
Princess Elizabeth : You know the answer. If you want their love then you should release him. Will you please allow my mother from that room?
Henry VII : I must assume I cannot trust her.
Princess Elizabeth : So I am to be seperated from her?
Henry VII : Do you really think she has your best interests at heart, Lizzie?
Princess Elizabeth : Teddy is no threat to you. You know that in your heart.
Henry VII : Of course he ia a threat. He is beloved. England hates me! You may be assured of that. The only hearts I won on Progress were due to you. They thanked me for your actions. They fell down on their knees and they praised me. I owe you my thanks. If only we could work together, we could be a king for England. But you hate me. And always will.
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Margaret Plantagenet : Did you ask him, Lizzie? Did you ask?
Princess Elizabeth : I'm sorry. He will not release him.
Margaret Plantagenet : Well, may I visit him at least?
Princess Elizabeth : Not yet. It will take time. But, Maggige, I think I have learned a way to work my will on Henry. A way to help us win.
Margaret Plantagenet : I pray that he's a boy. Maybe when you've given Henry a son and heir, he won't fear poor Teddy anymore.
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Princess Elizabeth : Henry? There is something that I would like to. Give me your hand.
[puts his hand on her belly]
Henry VII : [smiles] Kicking.
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Princess Elizabeth : There is no news from anyone? Mother? Henry?
Cecily of York : Perhaps she's not allowed to, Lizzie.
Princess Elizabeth : She would find a way, you know she would.
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Princess Elizabeth : My mother is not with him. She is here. You both knew?
Margaret Plantagenet : There's sickness. It's the reason why we didn't tell you. We didn't want you or the baby getting ill.
Cecily of York : Lizzie, you are not allowed to be out here.
Princess Elizabeth : How bad is it? How bad?
Margaret Plantagenet : People are dying. Everyone's afraid.
Cecily of York : That's why you haven't seen the servant girl. She is dead.
Princess Elizabeth : And, and mother? And the girls?
Cecily of York : They're safe. They're locked up here.
Princess Elizabeth : Has anybody sent help out to the people?
Margaret Plantagenet : Lizzie, where are you going?
Princess Elizabeth : To do what someone should have done already.
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Princess Elizabeth : The people need physicians, food and burials. Unlock the treasure room. Who has the key? Who has the key?
Bishop Morton : I do. As his Grace's Chancellor.
Princess Elizabeth : Then open it.
Bishop Morton : Madam, you risk your child's life and your own by straying from your...
Princess Elizabeth : Kick it down.
Bishop Morton : They will do no such...
Princess Elizabeth : What? You would rather your families die of plague 'cause you were too afraid to take my orders? Break it open!
Bishop Morton : Madam!
Princess Elizabeth : If the king were here he would order the same. Open it.
Bishop Morton : Stop.
Edward Plantagenet aka Teddy : Kick it! Kick it!
Bishop Morton : Stop! This is robbery and treason.
Tudor Guard : Stand back.
Bishop Morton : Stop.
Princess Elizabeth : "Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy."
Bishop Morton : "Thou shalt not steal." And this gold is the King's.
Princess Elizabeth : It is our royal duty to provide. As you well know as you served on my father's council.
Bishop Morton : You are not crowned Queen and have no jurisdiction.
Princess Elizabeth : But unless you plan to hold me down, I shall do it anyway.
[to Maggie]
Princess Elizabeth : Have the guards take this out to the sick. Watch them safely from a distance, but be sure the people get what they need.
Bishop Morton : This wil not go unpunished. There will be repercussions.
Princess Elizabeth : Where is my mother? She is locked in this palace and you will tell me where or I will push this child from my body, right here on the floor, and we will both bleed to death. And it will be on your head.
Bishop Morton : Only a demon would harm a child.
[Lizzie starts to push]
Bishop Morton : You are your mother's daughter. God will judge you for your sin.
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Dowager Queen Elizabeth : There is sickness then. It will play in our favor.
[turns to Cecily]
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Cecily, I think I have caught the sweat.
[Cecily closes the door]
Princess Elizabeth : Favor? People dying? You think that that is good?
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Of course it is. They'll blame the king for bringing it to England. And think it's God's curse for claiming what was never his. And when enough of them have died, the rest will rise up in their grief and overthrow him.
Princess Elizabeth : I sent out food and money. Physicians to attend the sick.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : You did what?
Princess Elizabeth : We are not monsters! You cannot just let people die.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : It is not at our hand. It works to our advantage. Surely you can see that, Lizzie?
Princess Elizabeth : Did you write to Francis Lovell? Order him to kill the king?
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Of course I did. I- Is he dead?
Princess Elizabeth : No, he is not dead. He is alive. How dare you do that? Write to him without my knowledge, and in my name I would imagine!
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : We said that we would come against him, what else did you think that meant?
Princess Elizabeth : That we would contact loyal Yorks who would muster men and mount...
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : A what?
Princess Elizabeth : A... A war! A battle to depose him. Not an assassin in the night!
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Oh, I see. So you would rather that he died in battle, where thousands more will lose their lives beside him, just so you can feel a distance from it?
Princess Elizabeth : No, of course not!
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : What, then?
Princess Elizabeth : He does not have to die at all! We can remove him from the throne and send him back to where he has come from.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Send him back? And he would just obey, go, would he? Find a peasant wife in Flanders, realize that's what he wanted all along. Maybe take up embroidery.
Princess Elizabeth : That is not what I said.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : What, then? Because he will not give up the crown while he is breathing. Even if he wanted to, his mother would not let him. You changed your tune. I thought you wanted him as dead as I do.
Princess Elizabeth : Of course I did. I do. But would you kill a man so easily?
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : A murderer.
Princess Elizabeth : Doesn't that make you a murderer, too?
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Lizzie... You must smelt iron in your blood, if you are to be a queen and lead our house to victory.
Princess Elizabeth : Your moves are far too obvious. He knows already that it was you who sent Lovell in with a knife. You will have us all thrown under lock and key, and how will that help York or victory? And the point is, whatever plan we make to fight him will be up to me. I am the Queen. Or soon will be. Not you.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Well, at least now you're sounding like a queen.