Suki Waterhouse: Cecily of York

In Bed with the Enemy

Cecily of York

Dowager Queen Elizabeth: Today, you will marry a king.
Cecily of York: In a dress fit for a harlot.
Princess Elizabeth: Today, I am a whore and a martyr, because that is what he has made me.
Cecily of York: They will simply think it's red for Lancaster and you are being loyal.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth: Walk through your sorrow, my daughter, and you will end up where you want to be.
Princess Elizabeth: I will walk through my sorrow and I will smile through my pain. I will pretend to be a dutiful wife, but only to their faces. He is my enemy and so is his mother. I will fight them from within my marriage and they will not even know it. I will plot to bring my brother back, or, if he is gone, another who will kill this monster Henry Tudor. "Humble and penitent" may be damned. "Hidden and patient." That will be my motto.

Henry VII: My mother has decided on a motto for you.
Margaret Beaufort: "Humble and penitent." You would do well to abide by it.
Princess Elizabeth: I pray my brother brings his challenge swiftly so I do not have to marry him.
Cecily of York: He does not seem to want to marry you.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth: Of course he wants to marry her. What man wouldn't?

Cecily of York: Your Grace? I'm sorry for my sister's rudeness. I hope you see that I am not the same as she is. If you'd like for me to dance for you again or...
Henry VII: You should show more loyalty to your sister.

Dowager Queen Elizabeth: Parliament have said that he must marry you.
Princess Elizabeth: I was right then, that he does not want to.
Cecily of York: How do you know that they have said that?
Lord Strange: Princess Elizabeth. The king will see you in his private rooms tonight alone.
Princess Elizabeth: We are not married, I cannot.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth: My daughter thanks His Grace and is delighted to attend. Go, Lizzie. Perhaps you may yet grow to like him.

Princess Elizabeth: So, this is how he treats the woman he expects to make his queen? I thought he would at least show some respect.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth: It's intended as a show of strength, but it only goes to show his weakness if he stoops to bully girls.
Cecily of York: Perhaps the worst is yet to come.
Princess Elizabeth: What could be worse than killing my poor Richard?
Dowager Queen Elizabeth: Lizzie, you must not speak of it. No one must know what has passed between the two of you.
Princess Elizabeth: Did my brother get away?
Dowager Queen Elizabeth: We must pray to God he will.

Dowager Queen Elizabeth: These are not the queen's rooms.
Sir Thomas Stanley: The king's mother, my wife, has those. As First Lady of the Court. I'll bring some ladies to attend you.
Princess Elizabeth: Perhaps he does not need me as he means to wed his mother.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth: He needs you. He based his claim for England on you being by his side. With you, he joins the Houses.
Princess Elizabeth: And that is what you want for me, even now? I am to be the spoils of war? The wife of a marauding madman whose mother even murdered children just so he could snatch the crown?
Dowager Queen Elizabeth: You knew that you would marry whichever one of them should win. This man is the victor. For now, at least. You are sworn to be his queen and nothing now could change that.
Cecily of York: Well, unless he does not want her.

Henry VII: Good day, Princess Elizabeth.
Margaret Beaufort: You will address the king!
Princess Elizabeth: Good day, Your Grace.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth: Some wine, Your Grace? My other daughters: Cecily, Anne, Catherine and Bridget.
Cecily of York: Your Grace.
Henry VII: My mother is arranging for your allowance to be paid.
Princess Elizabeth: Your service as my mother's lady-in-waiting will never be forgotten, Lady Margaret.
Margaret Beaufort: "The meek shall inherit the Earth." So the Bible tells us.
Henry VII: Dance for me. No. Princess Cecily. I think, perhaps, you have more grace.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth: The girls can dance together.