The White Princess (TV Mini Series)

In Bed with the Enemy (2017)

Jodie Comer: Elizabeth of York

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• Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Today, you will marry a king.

  Cecily of York : In a dress fit for a harlot.

  Princess Elizabeth : Today, I am a whore and a martyr, because that is what he has made me.

  Cecily of York : They will simply think it's red for Lancaster and you are being loyal.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Walk through your sorrow, my daughter, and you will end up where you want to be.

  Princess Elizabeth : I will walk through my sorrow and I will smile through my pain. I will pretend to be a dutiful wife, but only to their faces. He is my enemy and so is his mother. I will fight them from within my marriage and they will now even know it. I will plot to bring my brother back, or, if he is gone, another who will kill this monster Henry Tudor. "Humble and penitent" may be damned. "Hidden and patient." That will be my motto.

• Henry VII : My mother has decided on a motto for you.

  Margaret Beaufort : "Humble and penitent." You would do well to abide by it.

  Princess Elizabeth : I pray my brother brings his challenge swiftly so I do not have to marry him.

  Cecily of York : He does not seem to want to marry you.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Of course he wants to marry her. What man wouldn't?

• Henry VII : Your mother should be here to chaperone you.

  Princess Elizabeth : Perhaps she learned her disregard of decency from you.

  Henry VII : Perhaps she knows a chaperone is pointless, in your case. Foolish to close the stable door when the horse has long since bolted.

  Princess Elizabeth : But that filly loved her stolen freedom more than you could know. In fact, she spent herself so fully on her gallop that its memory would sustain her until she died.

  Henry VII : Come with me.

  Princess Elizabeth : What are you- Get off me!

  Henry VII : Come.

  Princess Elizabeth : What are you doing? What are you doing? Unlock the door! So, this is how the King of England behaves towards a lady?

  Henry VII : Towards a whore and you have said yourself that's what you are.

  Princess Elizabeth : Well, if I am a whore, you will not wish to wed me, will you?

  Henry VII : I do not. With all my heart, I don't. But I am told I must for England...

  Princess Elizabeth : For yourself! They will not have you for a king without me.

  Henry VII : My heir must have some York blood in his veins, as well as Tudor. And we will know that you are fertile before you sit on any throne beside me.

  Princess Elizabeth : "We!" Your mother bids you to rape me?

  Henry VII : It isn't rape. We shall be married.

  Princess Elizabeth : Only if I will have you!

  Henry VII : You think you have a choice? You think you have free will in this? I am the king and I do not.

  Princess Elizabeth : Let's get it over then.

  Princess Elizabeth : Have you finished? I barely even noticed.

  Henry VII : I thought about your sister Cecily. It made it quick.

• Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Lizzie?

  Princess Elizabeth : Get out, Cecily. I said get out!

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Take the little ones.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : What is it? What's happened?

  Princess Elizabeth : Oh, Maggie... He is a bad man Maggie. A horrible bad man.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Did he force you...

  Princess Elizabeth : No! No, he did not take me. He has not won this moment. He has not won. He will never beat me.

• Margaret Beaufort : You are lucky in your looks, just like your mother. You will have handsome children. I suppose you are still vain in your appearance though. I wish to speak to you as a friend. We continue to be at odds with one another and... I regret it. I am to be your mother-in-law and you will find when you come to know me that I have great love to give and that I have a talent for loyalty. When I was a little girl I was called upon to give birth to Henry. Now, I knew he would be King of England and I would put him on the throne. When I met you, I knew that you had a destiny to bear his son. That is why I as hard on you, why I was so furious when I saw you straying from your path and fighting against your calling.

  Princess Elizabeth : You think I have a calling?

  Margaret Beaufort : You will be mother to the King of England. A boy who is the red rose and white combined. You will be the peace that ends The Cousins' War. And God himself will call you blessed. You may now go to my son's rooms and do your duty.

• Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Maggie brought this for you. Mandrake. I know two uses for it. One, to poison someone's dreams. The other...

  Princess Elizabeth : To dislodge a baby from my womb. All I have ever wanted, all my life, is to marry a man for love.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : You know, my Lizzie, that girls of your nobility cannot do that.

  Princess Elizabeth : You did.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : I had the good sense to fall in love with the King of England.

  Princess Elizabeth : And so did I. It should be Richard's child in my belly, not this.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : But he is dead. That part of your life is over now, Lizzie. And what is here is Henry Tudor, this child!

  Princess Elizabeth : A creature put inside me by a monster.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : A baby. Your baby. My grandchild.

  Princess Elizabeth : I thought I might outwit him. Make him hope to take another for his bride, instead of me. But now... Well, now I have no choice. Or only one... Because if I do not marry him, yet have his child, I am shamed to everyone, and any other life for me is gone in any case.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : The stable boy brought news from home. Lady Margaret told the soldiers to murder any boy they found there.

  Princess Elizabeth : And did they? Find him?

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : There were no bodies. But neither is he in Tournai. There are never any bodies.

  Princess Elizabeth : Can't you kill them both? Wish a sickness on them so they'd die in awful pain?

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : I cannot do that. I know, my curses. But perhaps, they're just wishful thinking. Perhaps I take good luck and call it magic. My powers cannot be very strong if we find ourselves as we are now, with my son lost again and this before us. Some say that folk are sick along the route the Tudor army took through Wales. Perhaps they'll bring about their own destruction. I know one thing. You cannot blame this baby boy. And if you have him, he will be ours, not Henry Tudor's and we will make him strong and tall and our own rose of York. The choice is yours, my Lizzie. But I will take a piece of this. I have my own use for it.

• Henry VII : You're not afraid? I approach you with a dagger and you do not even flinch?

  Princess Elizabeth : My life is gone, in any case.

  Henry VII : Give me your foot.

  Princess Elizabeth : Ah, ow!

  Henry VII : It's for your reputation. So my son is not a bastard. Sleep.

• Princess Elizabeth : I am Princess Elizabeth of York! I am betrothed to King Henry Tudor and he will kill you if you lay a hand on us.

  Sir William Stanley : King Henry sent us here to fetch you back to London.

  Sir Thomas Stanley : By the hair, if need be. He didn't specify a method.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : There is no need for that. Sir Thomas Stanley.

  Sir Thomas Stanley : Elizabeth Woodville.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Sir William. We will come willingly, of course. We have been waiting to be summoned.

• Princess Elizabeth : So, this is how he treats the woman he expects to make his queen? I thought he would at least show some respect.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : It's intended as a show of strength, but it only goes to show his weakness if he stoops to bully girls.

  Cecily of York : Perhaps the worst is yet to come.

  Princess Elizabeth : What could be worse than killing my poor Richard?

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Lizzie, you must not speak of it. No one must know what has passed between the two of you.

  Princess Elizabeth : Did my brother get away?

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : We must pray to God he will.

• Eliza De La Pool : Dear God, save us. My brothers are all dead and now we shall be next.

  John De La Pool Snr : He dates his kingship from the day before the battle, so we are all names traitors.

  Princess Elizabeth : But he cannot simply...

  Eliza De La Pool : Well, he has. And Parliament has allowed it.

  Duchess Cecily : Or his mother did! That woman's waited half her life to take her vengeance on the House of York.

  Eliza De La Pool : I am so sorry for your sons. The England we once knew is gone, and with it chivalry and honor.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : We are Yorks, Eliza. We do not quake in fear. We must see how this plays out.

  Lord Strange : You will appear before the king.

  Margaret Plantagenet : You must not speak unless I tell you to. Dear Teddy. Now... Hold my hand tightly, now.

• Dowager Queen Elizabeth : These are not the queen's rooms.

  Sir Thomas Stanley : The king's mother, my wife, has those. As First Lady of the Court. I'll bring some ladies to attend you.

  Princess Elizabeth : Perhaps he does not need me as he means to wed his mother.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : He needs you. He based his claim for England on you being by his side. With you, he joins the Houses.

  Princess Elizabeth : And that is what you want for me, even now? I am to be the spoils of war? The wife of a marauding madman whose mother even murdered children just so he could snatch the crown?

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : You knew that you would marry whichever one of them should win. This man is the victor. For now, at least. You are sworn to be his queen and nothing now could change that.

  Cecily of York : Well, unless he does not want her.

• Henry VII : Good day, Princess Elizabeth.

  Margaret Beaufort : You will address the king!

  Princess Elizabeth : Good day, Your Grace.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Some wine, Your Grace? My other daughters: Cecily, Anne, Catherine and Bridget.

  Cecily of York : Your Grace.

  Henry VII : My mother is arranging for your allowance to be paid.

  Princess Elizabeth : Your service as my mother's lady-in-waiting will never be forgotten, Lady Margaret.

  Margaret Beaufort : "The meek shall inherit the Earth." So the Bible tells us.

  Henry VII : Dance for me. No. Princess Cecily. I think, perhaps, you have more grace.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : The girls can dance together.

• Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Parliament have said that he must marry you.

  Princess Elizabeth : I was right then, that he does not want to.

  Cecily of York : How do you know that they have said that?

  Lord Strange : Princess Elizabeth. The king will see you in his private rooms tonight alone.

  Princess Elizabeth : We are not married, I cannot.

  Dowager Queen Elizabeth : My daughter thanks His Grace and is delighted to attend. Go, Lizzie. Perhaps you may yet grow to like him.

• Margaret Beaufort : Henry, a child, my grandson!

  Jasper Tudor : Congratulations, Henry.

  Margaret Beaufort : Oh, God smiles on us. We must praise him with a mass.

  Princess Elizabeth : With a wedding. I will not be dishonored so we must hold a wedding quickly.

  Henry VII : We will arrange it.

  Sir Thomas Stanley : I share your joy, Your Grace.

  Margaret Beaufort : We will name him Arthur and christen him in Winchester. You need do nothing. Except consent. And look delighted. England needs a joyful bride. All else will be arranged by me.

  Princess Elizabeth : No. No, I will choose the dress myself.

  Henry VII : Of course.

• Princess Elizabeth : Maggie, would you do something for me? I cannot go as we are followed by the "ladies." Would you get some herbs for me? For my belly pain.

  Margaret Plantagenet : What kind of pain?

  Princess Elizabeth : It's my monthly course.