- Henry VIII: I can bring a hundred learned men to prove that you are not my wife!
- Catherine of Aragon: Bring your hundred learned men! I can bring a thousand learned men from all over Europe to prove that I am you wife, I always have been your wife and I always will be!
- Catherine of Aragon: The marriage between king Henry's brother and myself was never consummated. I came a virgin to king Henry as he to me, and therefore, I am his lawful wife. If I were torn limb from limb for saying so, I would rise from the dead to say it again.
- Henry VIII: I promise you that no one will be unkind to you again. Word of a king.
- Catherine of Aragon: I would rather have word of a Henry.
- Henry VIII: Word of a Henry!
- Eustace Chapuys: When her highness first came to England, it is said that there were great storms all the way. The ship was nearly lost.
- Lady-in-waiting: I know, I was with her.
- Eustace Chapuys: When a storm strikes, it sometimes happens that everyone on board runs about from side to side, trying to save themselves. There is no hand at the wheel. The ship yaws to and fro with every gust and every wave. And then, some hand more determined than the others grips the wheel and turns the ship into the wind and holds it there. Perhaps this course drives it upon the rocks. But though the ship may be broken, some fragments of it remain. Our princess -
- [he looks at the dying woman on the bed]
- Eustace Chapuys: - our queen - when danger threatened, turned her ship's head into the wind, and held it upon the only course she knew - the course of truth. It struck upon the rocks of passion and circumstance, and all aboard perished: herself, the king she loved, her friends, the other woman, the Church - even Spain, perhaps. All perished. But they did not disappear without a trace, as they might otherwise have done. Some spars and timbers of that ship remained to show...
- Lady-in-waiting: To show?
- Eustace Chapuys: That there were human beings there. And that they cared profoundly about the terms on which they lived and died. Europe sundered. A kingdom nearly plunged in revolution. The power of the Catholic Church weakened forever. And yet it was such a little thing. She wouldn't say that she was not married when she was. She would not say it!
- Henry VII: I understand that king Ferdinand has now sent enough money to cover the value of the missing plate
- Don Gutierre: Yes, and he now expects forthwith the public betrothal of prince Henry and princess Catherine.
- Henry VII: I shall of course require a paper renouncing in full the dower rights of the princess.
- Don Gutierre: Dower...
- Henry VII: The land and property she holds as dower princess.
- Don Gutierre: That is out of the question!
- Henry VII: Out of the-- You dare to tell me...
- Don Gutierre: It is a suggestion, which in your position, the king of Aragon would've been ashamed to make!
- Henry VII: Ashamed? The king of Aragon was not ashamed to allow his daughter to live like a pauper in a foreign country!
- Don Gutierre: My king does not keep his money locked up in chests. He gives it to his victorious soldiers. If you'll take my suggestion, you will remember that and be careful how you provoke him.
- Cardinal Campeggio: I know what a faithful servant of the church you have always been. If it pleases you to enter a religious life, the king assures me that all your dower rights would be preserved.
- Catherine of Aragon: Dower rights?
- Cardinal Campeggio: The king is very willing to agree that your daughter shall be granted the right of succession, immediately following his immediate male heirs.
- Catherine of Aragon: My daughter is the only legitimate heir to the throne! For my part, I have no calling to the religious life. While my husband lives, I am his wife, his own true wife. If it were not so, I would have been his whore and my daughter a bastard, and that I will never say.