- 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.
- Cecily of York: Your Grace? I'm sorry for my sister's rudeness. I hope you see that I am not the same as she is. If you'd like for me to dance for you again or...
- Henry VII: You should show more loyalty to your sister.
- 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.
- Jasper Tudor: King Henry Tudor has ordered the traitors to be brought to London.
- John De La Pool Snr: Traitors?
- Lord Strange: Men who fought against him in the battle.
- John De La Pool Jnr: That doesn't make us traitors! We fought for our king, Richard!
- Jasper Tudor: King Henry has declared his reign began the day before the battle. Those that fought against him are declared traitors.
- Lord Strange: Ah, the Earl of Warwick. The king is waiting for you.
- Margaret Beaufort: This is yours now, Henry. Your kingdom. Your throne.
- Henry VII: Burn them. And ban the snow from falling. I will have nothing white in England. Where are my rooms?
- Margaret Beaufort: The king's rooms, Henry. I have dreamed of this my entire life.
- Henry VII: You always said God had chosen me. You have always known His will.
- Margaret Beaufort: And He will guide you. As will I as I know England. I will take the queen's rooms for myself, through this passageway.
- 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.
- Henry VII: Jasper!
- Jasper Tudor: Welcome to Westminster, eh, Henry?
- Henry VII: Come.
- Margaret Beaufort: Jasper, how are you?
- Jasper Tudor: My Lady Margaret. Who would have thought to find us here like this with Henry on the throne.
- Margaret Beaufort: I did. I always did.
- Jasper Tudor: And your strength kept us through the dark and cold and bad times.
- Sir Thomas Stanley: And now my stepson is king.
- 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: There is to be no welcome for the promised Queen of England? The king has lost his manners?
- Sir Thomas Stanley: He will see you when he's seen the traitors. And others who loved Richard.
- 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: That childless bitch in Burgundy will reap her just desserts. I wonder if they've told her yet her brother's lying dead on Bosworth Field. Scribe. "I, Henry Tudor, King of England, hereby, prohibit any English trade with Burgundy." There. That's for all the times that Yorkist duchess tried to catch me in her trap for Richard's executioner.
- Margaret Beaufort: You must decree the English Lords' reduce their guards, or they will form them into private armies and rise up at every ta you levy.
- Henry VII: Are we certain the York Princes are truly dead? If one of them still lives...
- Margaret Beaufort: They are both dead. It is well known. King Richard killed both rpinces in the Tower. There is nobody for England now but you.
- Henry VII: Step forward. Which one of you is John de la Pole, the Earl of Lincoln? The dead York king named you his heir before the battle. You understand that this has been revoked and you are now heir to nothing?
- Sir Thomas Stanley: Do you understand that?
- John De La Pool Jnr: I pledge by allegiance to you, Your Grace.
- Duchess Cecily: I do not. You are not the king, in law nor in God's eyes. And while you may have killed my son and stolen his crown, you are descended from a servant. And while my grandson may impersonate his fealty, I bow only to God and to my own conscience.
- Eliza De La Pool: Mother. Please...
- Duchess Cecily: Your sister in Burgundy would never stoop so low.
- Henry VII: And she has had her trading licenses revoked so you should shut your mouth!
- Jasper Tudor: You may be glad you are an old woman whose noise is of no consequence to His Grace. You will swear fealty or be thrown into the Tower.
- Duchess Cecily: Jasper Tudor. You would not dare.
- Jasper Tudor: Take her away.
- Duchess Cecily: You can't. You will release me! Let me walk.
- Henry VII: Who are these?
- Lord Strange: Edward and Margaret Plantagenet, son and daughter of George, Duke of Clarence.
- Sir Thomas Stanley: The Earl of Warwick, Your Grace. The last York heir...
- Henry VII: I'm aware.
- Margaret Plantagenet: Your Grace.
- Edward Plantagenet aka Teddy: One day, I'll be king.
- Margaret Plantagenet: He doesn't mean it. Our Uncle Richard once thought Teddy might be king but... well... Teddy isn't. Well, even Richard changed his mind... but he remembers. We are just children.
- Henry VII: Do you swear allegiance to me as your king?
- Margaret Plantagenet: We do.
- Henry VII: And renounce your York claim to the English throne?
- Margaret Plantagenet: Yes. We do not want it. And Teddy doesn't either.
- Henry VII: Then he may say so for himself.
- Margaret Plantagenet: He...
- [whispers to Teddy]
- Margaret Plantagenet: Teddy tell the king that you love him. What did you say to your Uncle Richard?
- Edward Plantagenet aka Teddy: Long live the King!
- Henry VII: Your grandfather's lands of Warwick and Salisbury are confiscated, hereby given to Lord Thomas and Lord William Stanley in reward for their fealty at Bosworth.
- Sir Thomas Stanley: Thank you, Your Grace.
- Jasper Tudor: Take no notice of the dead king's mother. They will all accept you, given time.
- Margaret Beaufort: They will have to. With a York girl by your side.
- Henry VII: A whore who lay with my own enemy before the battle.
- Margaret Beaufort: She has been brought here, Henry.
- Henry VII: Well, what if I don't choose to marry her?
- Jasper Tudor: You made a promise at Rennes Cathedral and raised your army on that pledge.
- Henry VII: There are other York girls, aren't there? Surely any one of them would do as well?
- Jasper Tudor: Meet her, Henry. There's no rush. Steady course.
- Dowager Queen Elizabeth: Lady Margaret.
- Margaret Beaufort: "My Lady, the King's Mother" now. I am called "Your Grace" and I receive a royal bow.
- Dowager Queen Elizabeth: Indeed. And does it bring you the joy you hoped it would?
- Margaret Beaufort: It is God's will. It is God who put my Henry on the throne.
- Dowager Queen Elizabeth: And God who puts my daughter on the other throne beside him.
- Margaret Beaufort: She is not made queen yet. We will call with you this afternoon and if she begs forgiveness for her sins, perhaps, my son will grant it.
- Dowager Queen Elizabeth: Lizzie does not beg for anything. But you may try.
- 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.
- Henry VII: I will not marry her. There are a dozen European princesses all of whom are chaste and would make more obedient wives.
- Sir Thomas Stanley: But none of whom will unite the warring houses.
- Henry VII: The other York girls would. Or Margaret Plantagenet. God knows there's enough of them.
- John De La Pool Jnr: But you promised that you will marry Princess Elizabeth.
- John De La Pool Snr: If you refuse, you will insult her and the Yorks will rise up in her defense.
- Jasper Tudor: The Yorks can still command England, Henry.
- John De La Pool Snr: Your pledge was to unite the country which is why you have us on your council. I can only tell you what the others of our House will do and now they feel... Um, forgive me, Your Grace, that you are a Welshman who's lived your life in France and does not even know our customs. Take another as your mistress. Take anyone you choose. But they insist you marry Princess Elizabeth as you have sworn to do.
- Margaret Beaufort: Henry. I have prayed upon this. Perhaps this is the sacrifice that God would have you make. Jesus suffered in the deser and whenthey crucified him. It is divine to suffer and you have more divinity than any man on Earth. God asks for this, and in return, he gives you England.
- 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.
- Jasper Tudor: We never planned much after the battle. He's overwhelmed, I think.
- Margaret Beaufort: He won the battle. He has the crown.
- Jasper Tudor: And he will keep it. With our help. He wishes us to set about his coronation. He thinks that we should do it now to show England that he is king alone, not joint ruler with the girl.
- Margaret Beaufort: He hasn't mentioned it to me.
- Jasper Tudor: Margaret, in time, he will share all his confidences with you. But it was Henry and I alone for many years. He saw betrayals from all sides from those who claimed to love him and all this is very new.
- Margaret Beaufort: I am his mother. I have given up my life for him.
- Jasper Tudor: And he will learn to trust you.
- Margaret Beaufort: He will only marry her if she conceives a child.
- Jasper Tudor: Well, they are intimate already?
- Margaret Beaufort: We have to know if she's fertile.
- Jasper Tudor: He's bid me search the Tower for the bodies of York princes. While there's no proof that they are dead, rumors persist and fuel rebellions.
- Margaret Beaufort: I will do it. I need to earn his trust.
- 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.