The Spanish Princess (TV Series)

The Battle for Harry (2019)

Charlotte Hope: Catherine of Aragon

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Quotes 

• Prince Harry Tudor : I don't know how you ever came to England knowing you might never see your mother again. I know it sounds foolish, but I'm afraid that she's... that she's cold down there.

  Catherine of Aragon : In Spain... we have bullfights. We call them "the festival of the brave," because the bull is sacred, a deity. When I was small, there was a bull of such strength and courageous heart that people came from all over Spain to see him. He was called El Rey. The finest matador was picked to fight him, and in the ring, El Rey was gored, once, twice, three times... but he did not go down. The fight continued late into the night, but El Rey wouldn't die. As the sun came up, the matador was so exhausted, he had to be carried out. But El Rey stood there, broken and bleeding, but for six days, he refused to die. On the seventh day, they summoned my mother, and she pardoned him. You are El Rey. You are wounded, but you remain standing.

  Prince Harry Tudor : Yes, I stand... for you.

  Catherine of Aragon : And soon, we will be husband and wife... God willing.

• 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.

• Rosa de Vargas : Highness, they sent you back Dominus, and there is aletter from the King.

  Catherine of Aragon : [she reads]  I am invited to the palace to dine this evening. The King has something to announce.

• Meg Tudor : Do you see now how destinies are only meant for men in England?

  Catherine of Aragon : No, Meg, never think it or believe it, or it will become the truth. You must hold your courage and your strength and fight for what you want. Safe travels north. I hear it's even colder there than here.

  Meg Tudor : It's colder there than everywhere.

  Maggie Pole : Meg, your father has asked me to ready you for your departure.

  Meg Tudor : Did you know that Catherine has been thrown out of the palace by my grandmother?

  Maggie Pole : I'm not sure that's any business of mine. Come.

• Prince Harry Tudor : Good evening, ladies. Forgive me. I... just happened to be passing.

  Catherine of Aragon : You were at court when I was sent away, were you not?

  Prince Harry Tudor : My father didn't want me to make a fuss. Grandmother is a curmudgeon, but, uh, she will come around.

  Catherine of Aragon : This is a curious hour to visit, Your Grace. I was prepating to bathe.

  Prince Harry Tudor : Well, don't let me stop you.

  [he hangs Tudor badge] 

  Prince Harry Tudor : Well, it is cozy here.

  Catherine of Aragon : The furnishings are cheap and shoddy. It is beneath my station. There was a brawl in the street.

  Prince Harry Tudor : Yes, well, it's lively. I got into a scrap just around the corner from here, and when the fellow realized who I was, he, uh... he wet his drawers. You won't be here for long, Catherine.

  Catherine of Aragon : Only for as long as the King wishes to sit in his dark room.

  Prince Harry Tudor : We are all sitting in the dark. All of us must wait.

  Catherine of Aragon : Very well, my lord.

• Prince Harry Tudor : Shh. Wait. There. No, hold back. You'll scare them, and they'll break too soon.

  [she shots the bird] 

  Prince Harry Tudor : That bird was young, easy sport for you. Maybe that's how you prefer it.

  Catherine of Aragon : Not at all. If it doesn't have a full fighting chance, then there is no test of skill.

  Prince Harry Tudor : And you are skilled, aren't you?

  Catherine of Aragon : Should we... Should we ride back?

  Prince Harry Tudor : How are you finding the gelding?

  Catherine of Aragon : He is very fine. I should dearly love a stallion as this.

  Prince Harry Tudor : Oh, you would like him as a gift?

  Catherine of Aragon : It will be a marvelous gift, were you to offer him.

  Prince Harry Tudor : You don't have anywhere to keep him on the Strand, do you? So I suppose that's another target for you to set your sights on. Now we have four birds each.

  Catherine of Aragon : We are equal.

• Queen Isabella : [the letter]  The Pope would have to grant a dispensation if you were to wed Prince Harry. Do you have one? I imagine not. So take your widow's jointure, and return to Spain. By my hand, your mother, the queen.

  Catherine of Aragon : I'm not coming home! That will not be my fate! I will be queen of England!