The White Princess Quotes
There's a symmetry to it, don't you think? Then as now, two York boys with a claim to the throne in the one room.
Henry [to Lady Margaret]
She does not come near me! She does not speak to me! She does not speak for me! Nobody listens to her.
Henry [after nearly strangling his mother and throwing her out of his rooms]
Lizzie: You are the king.
Henry: In name only. I was not given the right.
Lizzie: The right is not given, Henry. It is taken. It is taken by blood, by murder. Where is God in that?
Maggie: Summon your men, my Lords. The Duchess is right, the time to strike is now.
Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy: All this time, I thought you were the petite fleur tremblante. But now look at you. A blazing white rose.
The Boy: You have the look of our mother. That doesn't please you?
Lizzie: I loved her very much, but I didn't always like her. I hated her ambition. What it did to us. Nothing else mattered but power.
The Boy: She was a queen.
Lizzie: And look where we are from her ambition. I would like to ask her if it was all worth it.
By killing him, The Boy becomes a myth and martyr. His power, ten times greater in the ballads they sing. He must appear the maggot that he is so that Europe will be embarrassed to have had him at their table.
Henry
Lady Margaret [about The Boy]: He is a counterfeit!
Lizzie: Of course he is a counterfeit! You think we do not know that?
Henry: He says himself that I must kill him as a threat, so I will not. I will not be commanded by him. I will parade him. [to Lizzie] Do you agree?
Maggie [before The Boy is parading through London]: I'll not go.
Lord Pole: You must.
Maggie: No, I must not. I have never joined you for the hunt or any other blood sport, and I will not start with this.
Henry [about The Boy]: He thinks it was a Tudor who killed the boys in the Tower.
Lady Margaret: Then he only shows his ignorance.
Henry: Who could it be if it were not King Richard?
Men are weak, swayed by beauty. Women must be stronger.
Lady Margaret
I am tired of being a trembling flower and hoping it might make them feel their conscience.
Maggie
Lizzie: You should think about whose side your on.
Maggie: I'm on Arthur's side. And Harry's.
