The White Princess Season 1 Episode 7: "Two Kings" Quotes
Lady Margaret [about The Boy]: He is a counterfeit!
Lizzie: Of course he is a counterfeit! You think we do not know that?
Henry: He says himself that I must kill him as a threat, so I will not. I will not be commanded by him. I will parade him. [to Lizzie] Do you agree?
By killing him, The Boy becomes a myth and martyr. His power, ten times greater in the ballads they sing. He must appear the maggot that he is so that Europe will be embarrassed to have had him at their table.
Henry
Maggie [before The Boy is parading through London]: I'll not go.
Lord Pole: You must.
Maggie: No, I must not. I have never joined you for the hunt or any other blood sport, and I will not start with this.
Henry [about The Boy]: He thinks it was a Tudor who killed the boys in the Tower.
Lady Margaret: Then he only shows his ignorance.
Henry: Who could it be if it were not King Richard?
My lady aunt, if I could mount a rescue, my brother would be free.
Maggie
We are none of us fearless, ma fleur tremblante. But we are women, and we do what we must do.
Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy [to Maggie]
Henry: Do you love him?
Lizzie: What?
Henry: The Boy. Do you love him?
Lizzie: Of course I don't. He is my... He is my burden.
Lady Margaret: What do you see? An innocent? Your dear sweet nephew?
Lizzie: Of course not.
Lady Margaret: It is hard I know. But the world in which we move, we cannot see an infant as he is but as he will become.
Men are weak, swayed by beauty. Women must be stronger.
Lady Margaret
I am tired of being a trembling flower and hoping it might make them feel their conscience.
Maggie
Lizzie: You should think about whose side your on.
Maggie: I'm on Arthur's side. And Harry's.
