- Queen Charlotte: Hello, my children.
- Prince Adolphus: Mummy, it is so early.
- Prince Augustus: Mother, you cannot summon us this way.
- Prince William: It's not fair. I will not stand for it.
- Prince Edward: Really. We have lives.
- Prince Adolphus: We have business to attend to.
- Queen Charlotte: By business, do you mean fornicating with your mistresses, or do you mean producing more bastards for me to ignore?
- Prince Edward: My word. There are impressionable ladies present.
- Queen Charlotte: Impressionable? Trust me, Edward. No sexual innuendo makes an impression upon your sisters. I wish it did, that they might get ideas to marry and start fornicating.
- Princess Sophia: Mother!
- Queen Charlotte: Perhaps, then, I might have legitimate grandbabies. Instead, virgins to the left of me, whores to the right.
- Queen Charlotte: The only heir to the throne is dead... I am stating facts. The princesses have had no babies. The princes have had a record number of babies. Illegitimate whore babies. We had one heir, one royal, and she is gone.
- Queen Charlotte: This is not a difficult task. Your father and I made 15 royal babies all by ourselves. I do not see why the whole lot of you cannot make just one.
- Adolphus: You give the appearance of a statue.
- Young Queen Charlotte: Statues are works of art. Art is beautiful
- Adolphus: Art can be beautiful to gaze upon. You are ridiculous to the eye.
- Young Queen Charlotte: Is there a point
- Adolphus: You have not moved an inch in six hours
- Young Queen Charlotte: I am wearing Lyonnais silk, encrusted with Indian sapphires, working with overlay of 200-year-old lace. Apparently too much movement can cause the sapphires to shred the lace. If that were not enough, the gown sits atop a bespoke underpinning made of whalebone.
- Adolphus: Whalebone?
- Young Queen Charlotte: Yes. Whalebone, Brother. The bones of whales. Whales died, so I could look like this. All the finest corsets are whalebone. You'd know that if you knew anything. If you ever paid attention you would also know that the problem with whalebone is that it is rather delicate and also very, very sharp. And, of course, I'm in the height of fashion, so this corset is quite snug. So I give the appearance of a statue, ridiculous to the eye, but that is because I cannot move. And because I must arrive on display, I am forced into a ludicrous gown so stylish that if I move too much, I might be sliced and stabbed to death by my undergarments.
- Young Queen Charlotte: Oh, how joyful it is to be a lady.
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