Princess Margaret quotes from The Tudors

Charles Brandon

Your highness must be looking forward with great anticipation to your wedding? I hear the king was a great horseman... in his time. And famous for his beautiful mistresses.

Princess Margaret

Don't tease me. I don't like it.

Charles Brandon

Will you like it when an old man tries to make love to you?

Princess Margaret

Your grace goes too far. Already.

Charles Brandon

Gospel says the truth will make you free.

Princess Margaret

Now you are blasphemous!

King Henry

How dare you look at me! I am your Lord and Master, not your brother! You are both banished from court. You will relinquish your London houses. You will remove yourself from my sight. Do you understand?

Princess Margaret

Yes... Your Majesty.

King Henry

And Margaret...

Princess Margaret

What?

King Henry

I have yet to decide whether to make your bedmate a head shorter.

Margaret, you and I must stay in the king's good graces or we are nothing. Let him marry who he wishes.

Princess Margaret

That was always your philosophy, wasn't it Charles? So very cynical. Is that why you keep company with that devil Boleyn?

Charles Brandon

You liked him enough once, when he helped us back to court... Or were you just being cynical?

Princess Margaret

I didn't see all of his game. Now I do. I despise him.

Charles Brandon

So do I. But I hate Wolsey more. It's a marriage of expedience.

Princess Margaret

Rather like ours.

Charles Brandon

No, I loved you.

Princess Margaret

You don't know the meaning of the word, Charles. You can love, perhaps for a year, a month, a day, even for an hour. And in that hour I do believe you love as well and deeply... as any man. But after that hour, you love not! You love another, and then another. Your love is most generous where it is most hurtful.