The White Princess (TV Mini Series)

Hearts and Minds (2017)

Jacob Collins-Levy: Henry VII

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• Henry VII : Are you well?

  Princess Elizabeth : My sickness is now almost passed.

• Princess Elizabeth : Which route will the Progress take? I have old friends I should like to see if we journey close.

  Henry VII : Old Yorks?

  Princess Elizabeth : Or once were Yorks. But now my house is broken.

  Henry VII : Thanks to me.

  Princess Elizabeth : If I do not even pay my respects, they will think I am your prisoner. And how would that support your image of two Houses now united by a happy, peaceable marriage?

  Henry VII : We will journey via Northampton through to Nottingham and up to Lancaster.

  Princess Elizabeth : Not York?

  Henry VII : Of course not York. The place is for its namesake, your old House. The last stronghold of traitors has its nest there. Why do you smile?

  Princess Elizabeth : Because you lend them greater power if you fear them. What? Three stray Stafford rebels? And all the Tudor guards with you and you fear three beleaguered men without an axe between them? You will turn them into heroes if you fear to venture close.

  Princess Elizabeth : Tell me who you wish to visit. The meeting will take place in public and you will say you're happy with your lot.

• Henry VII : I ride through England, and I do what exactly?

  Margaret Beaufort : You show off your person. Your righteous sovereignty.

  Henry VII : That's it? I just parade?

  Jasper Tudor : The people need to see you with their own eyes.

  Margaret Beaufort : And you must look to them as wealthy and as regal as God made you.

  Sir Thomas Stanley : Which is why your likeness will soon grace every sovereign from the royal mint.

  Margaret Beaufort : This one. And this.

  Henry VII : No. Black. I wish to keep it plain.

  Sir William Stanley : You must wear a sword though.

  Henry VII : I thought this was to win their hearts not threaten them with bloodshed?

  Jasper Tudor : Your subjects are still reeling from the battle and the change of House.

  Sir William Stanley : The wounds of England will take time to heal. There may be skirmishes.

  Margaret Beaufort : The Yorks are routed, Henry. They are gone. There is none to come against you now.

• Jasper Tudor : Two cargo ships in the English Channel have been pirated by Burgundy.

  Margaret Beaufort : Retaliation for the trading rights we made them forfeit.

  Henry VII : How much has the York bitch taken?

  Jasper Tudor : Nothing of concern. Mostly wine imports.

  Henry VII : Jasper? My Progress will travel via York and grant a royal audience there.

  Margaret Beaufort : York? Henry...

  Henry VII : I will not have them thinking I'm afraid.

• Princess Elizabeth : It was your mother's idea, of course, to keep me here.

  Henry VII : Whatever you may think, she has your best interests at heart.

  Princess Elizabeth : Will you at least write to me while you are gone? I will be bored beyond endurance. You may at least send news to entertain me and provide distraction.

  Henry VII : As you wish. It will look better in England's eyes in any case, a marriage with true care and love in it.

• Princess Elizabeth : You cannot leave people dying in the streets when we have a means to help them. I will take whatever punishment you give me.

  Henry VII : You make it look so easy. You know just what to do to make them love you.

  Princess Elizabeth : You reap that you sow, Henry. You rule with fear and you will only get dissent and hatred in return. You take before a man will give and you will never win him, no matter what he may pretend.

  Henry VII : My mother says the opposite.

  Princess Elizabeth : Was it her order to lock my cousin in the Tower? Or was it yours?

  Henry VII : He is a York boy. They were calling for him, shouting that they would support him over me. What else could I do?

  Princess Elizabeth : You know the answer. If you want their love then you should release him. Will you please allow my mother from that room?

  Henry VII : I must assume I cannot trust her.

  Princess Elizabeth : So I am to be seperated from her?

  Henry VII : Do you really think she has your best interests at heart, Lizzie?

  Princess Elizabeth : Teddy is no threat to you. You know that in your heart.

  Henry VII : Of course he ia a threat. He is beloved. England hates me! You may be assured of that. The only hearts I won on Progress were due to you. They thanked me for your actions. They fell down on their knees and they praised me. I owe you my thanks. If only we could work together, we could be a king for England. But you hate me. And always will.

• Princess Elizabeth : Henry? There is something that I would like to. Give me your hand.

  [puts his hand on her belly] 

  Henry VII : [smiles]  Kicking.

• Margaret Beaufort : Henry! Henry, let me see.

  Henry VII : It's nothing.

  Margaret Beaufort : Henry, please, you're bleeding. Let your mother tend...

  Henry VII : What is this sickness you have kept from me? And made me look a fool who does not even know what happens in his own lands.

  Margaret Beaufort : It is nothing. It is normal for this time of year.

  Henry VII : I've barely been out of London for a week and already they're coming for me.

  Margaret Beaufort : A Yorkist rebel we had missed. They will settle. You will see.

  Henry VII : I did not settle. Not for twenty eight long years. I kept on fighting for the throne. And I have no doubt those who hate me and reject my claim will do the same.

  Margaret Beaufort : Jasper has gone after them. He will find them and kill them. We must come down hard on them.

• Henry VII : [writes to Lizzie]  Dear wife. I had imagined I would write of triumph on my Progress, my impressions of my country and my countrymen, but one week out of London, there's a blade stuck in my flesh by a York named Francis Lovell. I imagine I have you to thank for that so you will be irked to hear that despite your best endeavors, your husband and the father of your unborn child still breathes. Your mother's signature is over this with yours and if she were here on Progress with me, I can tell you that she would not be returned to you alive. But happily, my mother had the good sense to leave her locked up here in Westminster.

• Henry VII : How long must I be cooped up here? I should have ridden out with Jasper.

  Margaret Beaufort : Henry, you are the King.

  Henry VII : Is this what it means then, is it? Crouched here in the darkness with my mother like a coward. Tell me, is this how you saw it? When you willed me to be the King of England?

  Margaret Beaufort : If you are dead then you are king of nowhere. Even a mother's love cannot pull you from the grave. Henry, as we are this far in the north, I thought we should make useful politics of it. King James of Scotland needs a wife. We will meet him on the border and offer him Elizabeth. If he accepts then England will be rid of her forever and the Scottish threat against us will be ended.

  Henry VII : Don't think, that if we put Elizabeth in Scotland, she might bring the Scottish Army to attack us, joining with the Northern Lords as they rode down, till we were hopelessly outnumbered, slaughtered and York returned to power, all in a single stroke? If you spent less time flirting with my Uncle Jasper, perhaps you might give better counsel.