Mary: How dare he? Calls his men lazy while they starve and they grieve. Take his land and be done with it!
Francis: And in doing that I anger every French nobleman two days before they gather here to put the crown on my head. Mother was right about one thing. Narcisse wants revenge for his son's death and withholding grain is how he's getting it.

Narcisse: It's must be hard. Once a Queen, now the Queen Mother. Decorative, like an expensive
vase, yet a great deal more relevant.
Catherine: I'm not the only one. There's a new day coming, and you are on the wrong side.

Don't pretend this is about money. You have all the money you need. You want power.
You want revenge. But how could I possibly help you? I'm irrelevant.

Catherine

Asking you to know your place is like asking the sun not to shine.

Francis

Narcisse: An advisor of my choice or regrettably there is no deal.
Catherine: I shall get my grain elsewhere.
Narcisse: You didn't come here because your heart bleeds for your starving countrymen. What are you hiding?
Catherine: Perhaps I'm hiding a bleeding heart.

Mary, this is not about my vanity, this is about my legitimacy! I am a new King trying to fill
the shoes of a man those people feared. I don't need their fear, but I need their respect. How can I
ask them for it if I can't even get it from you?

Francis

You lie to your guests and then you threaten them with weapons? We will not be treated this way!

Herr Shuller

You have a delicate peace to maintain. That is a King's work. And I have a mess to clean up and that is, if you ask your nobles, a woman's work. But, this time, since I got you into this, I don't mind doing it.

Mary

I was wrong. What I asked of you, the backward step. You must know. I want the same
world as you do, the better one, and the only way to field it is together. We do greater things when we act as one, when we trust each other as equals. This is not a coronation for a King. It is for a King and Queen.

Francis

The choice of a god parent for a royal offspring, even an illegitimate one, is more than an honor. We are speaking about who would raise my grandson in the event that neither Francis nor Lola could. I've offered. And been denied.

Catherine

Francis: You aren't.
Mary: I am! It's been some weeks now but I wanted to be sure and I am sure. I am with child, our child, at last!

Your figure's gonna go to hell anyway so you might as well eat up. You are feeding the future King of France!

Catherine

Reign Quotes

My dear, this was not an act of passion. It was treason.

Queen Catherine

Love is irrelevant to people like us.

Francis