I'm not your wife. I won't be frightened into your arms by a dead rat or a dead cardinal!
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
A relationship born in deceit often dies there.
How could you do this to me? Marry me off to your rival, your enemy? You know I love you.
I know, and I believe you will be loyal to me until the day you die.
Robert Dudley: Then why?
To save you. Live in France with her, live in Scotland, I don't care, but live.
Despite your heartbreak, I must warn you, I show no mercy.
Impressive. Where did you learn to shoot like that?
My late husband. He thought it was a skill that would serve me well.
Well, King Francis was right. Now that I've seen your abilities with a bow, I certainly won't be crossing you.
It's funny, isn't it? The two of us here, both knowing we've already had our one true love.
I assure you, if your child is still alive, he is no monster. Only a man.
The traitor has been brought home to England, where I have ordered him to be drawn and quartered. That will serve as an example to anyone who dare threaten my reign.
As for Mary Stuart, I am rescinding my offer. I shall never name an heir, unless it is my own child. To name a successor is to place a target on oneself. And so long as I live, I shall be the queen of England. And when I am dead, whoever has the most right shall succeed me.
If you think you are not going to talk, you are mistaken.
The blackmailer lectures me on morality?
[Referring to Gideon Blackburn] I sent him to France to woo Mary. He's more a male prostitute than a master of diplomacy.
From where I sit, which is on the French throne as its regent, I see the Vatican pushing around female monarchs, and I don't appreciate it one bit.
We are no longer lovers, Christophe. Just two people who keep each other's secrets.
Why didn't you tell him those anarchists are the Red Knights?
And remind him we killed the last group of soldiers we couldn't pay?
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