- Catherine Parr: My lord, I do not see your children in court.
- Henry VIII: My children?
- Catherine Parr: They say you have put aside the Lady Mary and the Lady Elizabeth because the sight of them troubles you.
- Henry VIII: They say? Who says?
- Catherine Parr: It is said, my lord.
- Henry VIII: I love my daughters!
- [pauses]
- Henry VIII: I'll bring them back, Kate, if you will mother them.
- Catherine Parr: Sire?
- Henry VIII: Oh, by Our Lady, madam, are we playing tennis? Will you marry me?
- [Catherine is silent]
- Henry VIII: Well, madam, you knew that I would ask you.
- Catherine Parr: Yes, sire.
- Henry VIII: I told Cranmer to prepare you, and the Bishop Winchester.
- Catherine Parr: They prayed with me, sire.
- Henry VIII: Oh, God, did it need praying over?
- Henry VIII: [to Catherine] Your face is as long as a barber's pole and your expression as sour as vinegar.
- Thomas Seymour: [to Queen Catherine Parr, mocking King Henry] Gentle! That mountain of lard and stinking sores.