The time has come to be a York [rips letter of peace from Henry Tudor into pieces] and take a stand.

Duchess Cecily

Guard your heart, my Lizzie. The child is not your own. He belongs to the throne.

Elizabeth

Lady Margaret: You are taking counsel...from your wife?
Henry: From somebody who knows the will of England.

Henry: I have commissioned his own badge for him. [unfurls a drawing] The red rose and the white, combined. A sign of our new unity. I'd hoped for your approval.
Lizzie: [scoffs] Our mothers will not give it. I think they like the war between them.

He spent his life in brothels and cowsheds. What would he know of politics?

Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy [about Henry]

I will have faith in God, and God alone. Mortal men must earn it.

Henry

I have no love of war, but I do not like your king.

Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy [to Jasper]

Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy [about Henry]: What does he do to inspire such loyalty?
Jasper: When he has a goal, he does not waiver. He was brave in exile, he is strong. He has greater loyalty than any man I've ever known.
Margaret: Then he would make someone a very fine dog.

I don't think I should like to be queen, the clothes are all too ugly.

Cecily [to Lizzie]

Henry: Everywhere I look around me, nobles conspire against me. Servants slip each other notes. They smile into my face and then behind me draw their knives.
Lizzie: Well, that is what it is to be king.

Maybe you cannot understand, being told your whole life what you are, with never any chance to think about it for yourself.

Henry [to Lizzie]

What have they done to us? We are their creatures.

Lizzie [to Henry, about their mothers]

The White Princess Season 1 Episode 3 Quotes

Guard your heart, my Lizzie. The child is not your own. He belongs to the throne.

Elizabeth

The time has come to be a York [rips letter of peace from Henry Tudor into pieces] and take a stand.

Duchess Cecily