The White Princess (TV Mini Series)

In Bed with the Enemy (2017)

Adrian Rawlins: John De La Pool Snr

Quotes 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.