To Play the King (TV Mini Series)

Chapter Six (1993)

Kitty Aldridge: Sarah Harding

Quotes 

• Francis Urquhart : The King is the unknown quantity. I don't know what the man wants. You'd think he'd be happy to wave from the balcony and keep his opinions to himself after all the nonsense his family have got up to. God knows what he thinks he's doing.

  Sarah Harding : Perhaps he's just a man of principle.

  Francis Urquhart : I'm afraid you may be right. But if he pursues the course he's embarked upon he'll destroy himself.

  Sarah Harding : Would you really bring down the monarchy if you could? If you had to.

  Francis Urquhart : Bring down the monarchy? No! The ideal is abhorrent to me. But to force the abdication of a particular King, that has been done before. And if the country's good required it of me, I wouldn't shrink from it.