The White Princess Quotes
It isn't fair that we are not invited to the coronation [whispers] I'm sick to death of being cooped up here.
Cecily
[After Henry and Lizzie have sex]
Elizabeth: Did he force you?
Lizzie [crying]: No! No, he did not take me. He has not won, this moment, he has not won. He will never beat me.
Lizzie [pulls up skirts]: Let's get it over then.
[Henry violates her, thrusting around ten times before groaning]
Lizzie: Are you finished? I barely even noticed.
Henry: I thought about your sister Cecily. It made it quick.
[Lizzie slaps him. Hard.]
Lizzie: Your mother bid you to rape me?!
Henry: It isn't rape; we are to be married.
Lizzie: Only if I will have you!
Henry: You think you have a choice? You think you have free will in this? I am the king and I do not.
Lizzie: Well, if I am a whore, you will not wish to wed me, will you?
Henry: I do not. With all my heart, I don't, but I am told I must for England.
Henry: Perhaps she knows a chaperone is pointless in your case. Foolish to close the stable door when the horse is long since bolted.
Lizzie [alluding to her tryst with Richard III]: But that filly loved her stolen freedom more than you can know. In fact, she spent herself so fully on that gallop that it's memory would sustain her till she died.
Your pledge was to unite the country, which is why you have us on your council. I -- I can only tell you what the others of our house will do, and now they feel, forgive me Your Grace, that you are a Welshman who has lived your life in France and does not even know our customs.
York adviser [to Henry]
Lizzie: Your service as my mother's lady-in-waiting shall never be forgotten, Lady Margaret.
Margaret: The meek shall inherit the earth. So the bible tells us.
[Lizzie rolls her eyes]
