To Play the King (TV Mini Series)

Chapter Five (1993)

Diane Fletcher: Elizabeth Urquhart

Quotes 

• Elizabeth Urquhart : [Finding her husband absentmindedly remembering the death of Mattie Storin]  Francis?

  Francis Urquhart : A little debris from the past, that's all.

  Elizabeth Urquhart : Past is past, Francis. It's done.

  Francis Urquhart : Yes. She was so long in the air, Elizabeth.

  Elizabeth Urquhart : I know. Everything you've done was for your country's good. You know that. Everything. I admire and believe in you without reserve. You know that too.

  Francis Urquhart : Thank you, Elizabeth.

• [Francis Urquhart arrives at Chequers after a difficult meeting with the King] 

  Francis Urquhart : Oh dear.

  Elizabeth Urquhart : He was difficult, then?

  Francis Urquhart : He was. In fact, I think we have a new Leader of the opposition, Elizabeth.

  Elizabeth Urquhart : Break him, Francis. Bring him down.

  Francis Urquhart : [grimly]  I'll bring the *lot* of them down if I have to.

  Elizabeth Urquhart : Good.