The White Princess (TV Mini Series)

In Bed with the Enemy (2017)

Jacob Collins-Levy: Henry VII

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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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, 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.