The Spanish Princess (TV Series)

An Audacious Plan (2019)

Laura Carmichael: Maggie Pole

Quotes 

• Meg Tudor : Father?

  Margaret Beaufort : The ropes?

  Nurse : Yes, here.

  King Henry Tudor : Where is her physician?

  Meg Tudor : Aunt Maggie.

  Maggie Pole : Dear cousin, I'm here.

  Queen Elizabeth : No. Why is she here?

  King Henry Tudor : You asked for her, my love.

  Queen Elizabeth : She hates me! She will ill-wish my child! Would you take this son away from me as well?

  Maggie Pole : No, Lizzie.

  Meg Tudor : Please, don't...

  Margaret Beaufort : Stay back.

  Queen Elizabeth : Will that be enough for you, Maggie Pole, two sons for one brother?

  Maggie Pole : Two brothers, Lizzie, yours and mine.

  Queen Elizabeth : Get out! Get out!

  King Henry Tudor : Go! Go back to Stourton. She doesn't want you here. Go.

  [Lizzie wails] 

  King Henry Tudor : No, Lizzie, Lizzie, now, now. Now...

  Meg Tudor : It's going to be all right, Mother. Mother.

• Queen Elizabeth : I never would have allowed Arthur to roam free around Ludlow if I knew there was an outbreak of the sweat.

  Maggie Pole : I didn't "let him" do anything. He was a man grown with a wife.

  Queen Elizabeth : You sent your own children away to protect them.

  Maggie Pole : After Arthur fell ill.

  Queen Elizabeth : How fortuitous.

  Maggie Pole : This is your foul harvest. Don't try to lay it at my doorstep.

• Maggie Pole : I cannot stay here with the queen. I will take the children home.

  Sir Richard Pole : Maggie, you must make peace. You know our children have been interviewed by Wolsey?

  Maggie Pole : What?

  Sir Richard Pole : He asked if we'd had any visitors at Stourton, any cousins from abroad, what the talk is at our table, what banners we keep in the house, and whether you write letters.

  Maggie Pole : We've done nothing. They are children.

  Sir Richard Pole : And so was Teddy, and that didn't save him. Make your peace. There is nothing more dangerous than a grieving monarch. Henry feels God has crossed him, so he looks for others that do the same. A snake bites not because it's been stepped on, but because it might be.

• Catherine of Aragon : Lady Pole.

  Maggie Pole : Princess Catherine.

  Catherine of Aragon : I just wanted to thank you for all your kindness at Ludlow.

  Maggie Pole : Arthur was like a son to me. I would have done anything for him.

  Catherine of Aragon : And Arthur was like a husband to me.

  Maggie Pole : He was a husband to you.

  Catherine of Aragon : Not... Not a true husband. It is a tragedy but our marriage was never consummated.

  Maggie Pole : I heard you in your bridal chamber. Your own lady heard you.

  Catherine of Aragon : We made sounds of pleasure, yes, to cover our embarrassment. But I am as I was the day I landed here in England.

  Maggie Pole : What are you playing at? Arthur himself told me you lay together.

  Catherine of Aragon : Of course he did. We agreed that we would. We hoped that things would change and, in time, he would be able... I ask you to accept my word, accept it and support it if asked to do so.

  Maggie Pole : Who would ask such a thing?

  Catherine of Aragon : The King, his mother.

  Maggie Pole : Oh, no. Please tell me you're not planning what I think you are.

  Catherine of Aragon : Harry and I wish to be married.

  Maggie Pole : So you've lost your husband, but not your ambition. I warned you against that.

  Catherine of Aragon : But I will remain here in this country and fulfill God's destiny for me. And the family may inquire about my first marriage.

  Maggie Pole : This family don't inquire. They extract the answer they want. And if the truth is asked of me, my answer will support whatever keeps my conscience and my head attached to my neck. How else do you imagine I've survived this long in this vipers' nest?