- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Oh, dear. Don't tell me, my wife?
- Princess Margaret: Yes. Your tie.
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Thank you.
- Princess Margaret: It's not easy.
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: I'm a little fed up with her myself, truth be told.
- Princess Margaret: Why? What's she done to you?
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Don't get me started. Is she making life difficult for you and Peter?
- Princess Margaret: Yes, she wants to delay the engagement.
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Well, it serves you right quite frankly. You both seem far too happy and far too in love.
- Princess Margaret: Do we?
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Yes.
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: So, it was your idea, was it? Dispatching me to the penal colonies?
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: If you mean entrusting you to go to Melbourne to open the Olympic Games alone, actually it was Tommy Lascelles.
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Oh, your puppet. I might have guessed.
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: And you ought to be flattered.
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: To be trusted to cut a ribbon?
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: To be given that level of freedom.
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: What freedom? I have no freedom.
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: You have more freedom than any consort in history. And you repay it by scowling and skulking like an adolescent. So go. Have some time in the spotlight, be the main attraction, and enjoy the attention. Hopefully it will do you some good. You might finally be less resentful and more supportive of my daughter in her duty.
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: I'm off.
- Queen Elizabeth II: Where are you going?
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: To meet the president of the Olympic Committee, as instructed. They now suggest I combine opening the games with a Royal Tour, stay away even longer, five months. A long way to go. A long time for a father to be away from his children. But no, if it gives me time to reflect and work out my priorities and to settle, not just in the marriage, but you know, generally, it'll be worth it.
- Queen Elizabeth II: Don't be like that. Everyone's just trying to help.
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Oh, yes, by putting a problem on a boat to Australia and hoping it sorts itself out or better still, sinks.
- Queen Elizabeth II: You know it is possible that you might enjoy it, and thank me.
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Don't dress betrayal up as a favor. Better go. Can't stand around chatting.
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Have you noticed something about our children? They're the wrong way round.
- Queen Elizabeth II: What?
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Well, our daughter's a boy and our son is, God bless him, a girl.
- Queen Elizabeth II: Don't be silly. He's just sensitive.
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Have you seen him fish? A girl.
- Anthony Eden: I discussed the matter this morning with the Attorney General and he advised that there was no easy way around the governing rules of the Royal Marriages Act. Furthermore... several senior members of Cabinet remain violently opposed. Indeed, Lord Salisbury has made it clear that he would resign from Government, rather than submit to what he considers a subversion of the Church's teachings... the Holy Sacrament of Marriage and the decay of moral standards.
- David, Duke of Windsor: I've been hoping to hear from you. I've found myself hovering by the phone for days. Is it about Margaret?
- Queen Elizabeth II: Yes
- David, Duke of Windsor: The French are very much for her. At least Paris is, which is the only France that matters
- Queen Elizabeth II: And are you for her, too?
- David, Duke of Windsor: For Margaret, 'la Marianne,' how can I not be? I share with her the fate of having a great love that captured much of the country's imagination, only to have it forbidden by the establishment. So, naturally, my sympathy is with her.
- Queen Elizabeth II: I see.
- David, Duke of Windsor: But there is also the other great love of my life. The Crown. And protecting that crown. And I imagine you find yourself in a difficult position now. Split down the middle. One half is sister. One half is Queen.
- Queen Elizabeth II: Exactly!
- David, Duke of Windsor: A strange, hybrid creature. Like a sphinx or Gamayun. As I am Ganesha or Minotaur. We are half-people. Ripped from the pages of some bizarre mythology. The two sides within us, human and crown engaged in a fearful civil war, which never ends and which blights our every human transaction as brother, husband, sister, wife, mother. I understand the agony you feel and I am here to tell you, it will never leave you. I will always be half-King. My tragedy is that... I have no Kingdom. You have it. And you must protect it.