The Spanish Princess (TV Series)

The Battle for Harry (2019)

Stephanie Levi-John: Lina de Cardonnes

Quotes 

• Rosa de Vargas : You think he will marry her?

  Lina de Cardonnes : Shh! I've told you not to talk about their marriage until it is official.

  Rosa de Vargas : Lord Stafford says that the prince falls in love with a different girl each week.

  Lina de Cardonnes : Perhaps Lord Stafford speaks about himself.

  Rosa de Vargas : He burns for me.

  Lina de Cardonnes : You said you had given him up, Rosa.

  Rosa de Vargas : I want to, but I don't know how. You are just tied up in a big, fat know, because...

  Lina de Cardonnes : Why is it a fat knot?

  Rosa de Vargas : Whatever it is, you are just tied up in it, because when the Infanta marries Harry, you'll have to wed an ugly Tudor man or lose your place with her.

  Lina de Cardonnes : Oh, so will you, if any of the English lords will still have you.

  Rosa de Vargas : [sees Stafford]  Uh, tell the Infanta I am n an errand.

  Lina de Cardonnes : Rosa!

• Catherine of Aragon : My lady.

  Margaret Beaufort : The King tells me you have some devil's notion that you will wed Prince Harry, which is impossible, as you are his brother's widow.

  Catherine of Aragon : I am a maid. Our marriage was not consumma...

  Margaret Beaufort : Yes, it was. I have eyes and ears all over England. I know if someone sneezes in Dorset or trips in Northumberland. The boy who brought you your firewood in Ludlow, he was mine, as was the girl who scrubbed the floors. Everything that happened there came back to me.

  Catherine of Aragon : Except the things they could not see, unless they see through walls. I admit... there was some acts that we... engaged in for our pleasure. But Arthur couldn't... I am a virgin, as I was when I first came to England.

  Margaret Beaufort : You, do you swim in the same sin as your princess, or will you tell the truth?

  Lina de Cardonnes : It is true, my lady.

  Margaret Beaufort : You were married many months. You ask me to believe that there were no natural acts between man and wife?

  Catherine of Aragon : It saddened both of us.

  Margaret Beaufort : And all the time we wondered if you were with child, you said not a word.

  Catherine of Aragon : I wanted to protect my husband's memory. Then the Queen died, and there was no time for Harry and I to...

  Margaret Beaufort : Oh, get out.

  Catherine of Aragon : [laughs]  Perhaps my lady has forgetten we are within my rooms.

  Margaret Beaufort : Get out. You and your Spanish harem will leave my palace.

  Catherine of Aragon : I am the Dowager Princess of Wales. You cannot simply throw me out.

  Margaret Beaufort : Yes, I can, and have.

  Catherine of Aragon : The King will not allow it.

  Margaret Beaufort : The King is indisposed, and I am regent, which means that from now, I am the King.

• Catherine of Aragon : What have I done? I've put us on the streets. We have nowhere to live.

  Lina de Cardonnes : For now. The King told her you were to marry Harry, which means that he does not oppose it. Lady Margaret's anger is a sign that you are winning. She has drawn her sharpest sword, Highness, and here you are, unbloodied and alive.

  Catherine of Aragon : I cannot ask Prince Harry to speak out for me while he and his father are grieving. It would be unseemly.

  Lina de Cardonnes : Let me ask at court about a place for us to stay.

• Lina de Cardonnes : Lord Thomas.

  Thomas, Earl of Wiltshire : Lady de Cardonnes. How may I be of service?

  Lina de Cardonnes : The Infanta and her retinue wish to find lodgings outside of the palace.

  Thomas, Earl of Wiltshire : Oh, dear. Uh, well, I can inquire about apartments, but I assume you will soon be sailing back to Spain?

  Lina de Cardonnes : We are staying here in London.

  Thomas, Earl of Wiltshire : Ah. Well... in that case, Durham House will suffice. It's on the Strand, owned by the church. Foreign dignitaries have stayed there during visits, so the Infanta will be right at home.