- King Henry VIII: [Before the hunt] With no man to hold onto how do you plan to stay on your horse?
- Anne Boleyn: [She gets on her own horse] As you do Your Grace, with my thighs.
- Katherine of Aragon: [being led to court; stops in front of Mary and Anne] So, the Boleyn whores. Two former ladies of mine. Hiding in shadows. What did I do to upset you, that you should turn against me like this?
- Anne Boleyn: [nose in the air] You failed to give England an heir.
- Katherine of Aragon: And that upsets you so?
- Anne Boleyn: What upsets the King upsets me.
- Katherine of Aragon: How dare you.
- Lady Elizabeth: Now go to France. The queen of France is sophisticated. Be useful to her, amuse her. She'll admire your spirit. Learn from her. Observe the ladies of the court. See how they achieve what they want from their men, not by stamping their little feet but by allowing the men to believe that they, indeed, are in charge. That is the art of being a woman.
- Mary Boleyn: [as she enters the room] Anne.
- Anne Boleyn: I meant to come sooner. I'm sorry I did not. I've been kept occupied.
- Mary Boleyn: So I hear: amusing the king.
- Anne Boleyn: Only that sister, I assure you; despite his best efforts...
- Mary Boleyn: What, and not yours?
- Anne Boleyn: [is silent for a moment] How is it?
- [glances towards Mary's belly]
- Mary Boleyn: The child is strong, gives me no rest, like his father.
- Anne Boleyn: Do you feel as awful as you look? You know, in France, no woman would allow herself to get in such a state.
- Mary Boleyn: Why did you come Anne, if all you desire is to torment me?
- Anne Boleyn: Perhaps now you know how it feels: to be deceived by your sister.
- Mary Boleyn: I did nothing.
- Anne Boleyn: You stole the king away, and then you betrayed me over Henry Percy!
- Mary Boleyn: If that's what you think fine tell yourself that!
- Anne Boleyn: I did sister, every day and every night I was in exile.
- King's Messenger: [Messenger walks in, holding a gift] A gift, from the king.
- Anne Boleyn: Give it to my sister.
- King's Messenger: It's for you mistress Anne.
- Anne Boleyn: Me? Then send it back! Immediately!
- [looks at Mary]
- Anne Boleyn: How dare he! See? I have your interest at heart.
- Mary Boleyn: Why? Why this cruelty? You know I love him.
- Anne Boleyn: Well perhaps you should stop.
- Lady Elizabeth: When was it that people stopped thinking of ambition as a sin and started thinking of it as a virtue?
- Sir Thomas Boleyn: These rooms, our new position? Does none of my work please you?
- Lady Elizabeth: These gifts, this favor will go as swiftly as it came. These rooms once belonged to the Duke of Buckingham, the King's closest friend. His head now rots on a spike.
- Sir Thomas Boleyn: He committed treason.
- Lady Elizabeth: Treason? What is treason? Anything the king or his lawyers decide it to be. On a whim.
- Jane Parker: Put yourself in the queen's shoes. She knows the only reason the king's asked you here is because he desires you. She's a good woman, trust me.
- King Henry VIII: Anne, have you considered what I've asked? Is there hope?
- Anne Boleyn: How could I ever trust you, when I've seen how you betray first your wife, now my sister?
- Mary Boleyn: [in Henry's bedchamber] So, this is it?... Where the king of England sleeps?
- King Henry VIII: And reads and writes. Finds a few moments each day to himself.
- Mary Boleyn: [nervously] And yet you invite me here?
- King Henry VIII: Because I like you and trust you.
- Mary Boleyn: You hardly know me.
- King Henry VIII: I have lied to a hundred times a day. Petitioned. Lobbied. One learns how to decifer a face.
- [caresses Mary's face]
- King Henry VIII: Yours is as the sun. One shouldn't gaze too long.
- [pauses]
- King Henry VIII: My flattery makes you uncomfortable?... Because compliments in your family are usually for someone else. The elder sister... That's something I understand. What it is to be the second child. Forever in the shadows... I'm making you uncomfortable again.
- [Mary smiles, shaking her head as Henry leans in and kisses her]
- Lady Elizabeth: [after the King marches in, angry] Your Grace.
- King Henry VIII: Your daughter, where is she?
- Lady Elizabeth: [Quietly to her servants] Leave us.
- King Henry VIII: Where is she?
- Lady Elizabeth: Which one?
- [Stares coldly as she walks forward]
- Lady Elizabeth: Your Grace, which one?
- King Henry VIII: I have torn this country apart for you!
- Anne Boleyn: For which you should thank me, not be angry!
- King Henry VIII: Broken with Rome...
- Anne Boleyn: Freed yourself, more like, from the decadence of a corrupt church
- King Henry VIII: Got rid of a good woman in the queen...
- Anne Boleyn: And with Spanish blood shackles you to Rome
- King Henry VIII: Of which I would be excommunicated...
- Anne Boleyn: And instead, become head of a new church! The Church of England!
- King Henry VIII: So forgiveness, you say, makes a man great. What else?
- Anne Boleyn: Generosity. Humility. The ability to recognize his match in others and not be threatened by it.
- Katherine of Aragon: [to the king] I know you, you have decided, but it grieves you. Will you destroy your marriage, your country, your soul before God, on the whim of one girl? Because she denies you? Because she tortures you with her refusal? You think she doesn't know exactly what she's doing? She wants me to step aside. Where is my wise husband? Where is he? You are a king, so be one.
- Lady Elizabeth: My children, my children...
- [Turns around and slaps her husband, then walks towards her brother without any sign of hysteria]
- Lady Elizabeth: Look what you've done.
- King Henry VIII: You believe that? That women can be the match of men?
- Anne Boleyn: It's a question women have asked themselves for some time. But we concede men do have some value. So we accept them as equal.
- Mary Boleyn: How can you show your face in here? My own sister... take care, because he would only do to you what he has done to me
- Anne Boleyn: You should not have given yourself so lightly, these are the consequences.
- Mary Boleyn: I gave myself to a man I loved, and he loved me.
- Anne Boleyn: A man's love is worthless. Our mother's loved, look where it got her, a feeble husband. Love is of no value without power and position. If I gave the king a son, he would not be a bastard.
- Mary Boleyn: [after Anne tells her how to secure her position] What you suggest is treason! He cannot marry you, he has his queen!
- Anne Boleyn: [Smiling coldly] Who cannot produce a male heir
- Mary Boleyn: You've reached too high! As always!
- Anne Boleyn: The king will deal with Catherine, you'll hear about it from where I'm standing. You are to go back to Rocher, isn't that what you've always wanted? A life in the country, alone with your child.
- [She leaves, later, Mary will see her once free-riding sister sitting behind the King on a horse]
- Mary Boleyn: [Refering to the Queen] The crowds are with her.
- Anne Boleyn: [Confidently] The crowds have no vote.
- William Stafford: If you came with me, I would never betray you or take you for granted.
- Mary Boleyn: It's impossible, you know that. My family would never allow it.
- William Stafford: And you would care what they think after everything they've done to you?
- Anne Boleyn: [after getting into an argument with the king] I struck him today, what am I doing? I've destroyed it all on my own! I can't sleep, without sleep I cannot think! It's getting more and more difficult...
- George Boleyn: It's embarrassing.
- Anne Boleyn: Look, she has her eye on you. Sweet Jane Parker would be a match to please our father.
- George Boleyn: Ugh, vile girl, she's the most ambitious little servant in court.
- Anne Boleyn: She can't stop watching.
- [deleted scene]
- William Carey: Have you christened the child?
- Mary Boleyn: Henry.
- William Carey: I see. And is he to take my name or is he to be a Fitzroyal or some other sign that he's a royal bastard?
- Mary Boleyn: He is to be Henry Carey.
- William Carey: [looking up at her] To think, all you needed to say was no.
- William Carey: [begins weeping] Can you forgive me? Although I could never forgive myself.
- [Mary takes his hand and he kisses it]
- Anne Boleyn: You cannot undo what has been done before God. And consummated too!
- Sir Thomas Boleyn: There have been - improper intimacies?
- Anne Boleyn: I have lain with my husband. There's nothing improper about it.
- Anne Boleyn: They say he's with Jane Seymour now. Is it true?
- Mary Boleyn: No.
- Anne Boleyn: Thank you. A generous lie.
- The Duke of Norfolk: You better get used to talking about it, when you sleep with the king it ceases to be a private matter.
- Sir Thomas Boleyn: [regarding the punishment for Anne's secret marriage] You will be sent to France and stay there until you've learned your lesson.
- Anne Boleyn: What? No! Father, please!
- Sir Thomas Boleyn: How can you have done this? You knew full well that Mary's friendship with the king is at an extremely delicate state! Any scandal, any mark upon her name could be fatal!
- The Duke of Norfolk: You will be sent to join the court of the French queen and stay there until your father has forgiven you.
- Anne Boleyn: [crying, runs into the hall where Mary is waiting] You told them didn't you?
- Mary Boleyn: It was for your own good. You never would have gotten away with it. It would have ruined your prospects forever.
- Anne Boleyn: [still crying] Really? For my good? Well, I'll try to remind myself of that while I'm in exile, and you're here in the king's bed, not challenged for our father's affection! That it was for my good and not yours!
- [running down the hall, leaving Mary]
- Mary Boleyn: Anne!
- Anne Boleyn: Masters, I here humbly submit to the law, as the law hath judged me. As for my offenses, God knows them, and I remit them to God, beseeching Him to have mercy on my soul. I beseech Jesus, save my Sovereign and master, the King, the goodliest and gentlest master there ever was.
- [begins crying after seeing Mary read the King's note; takes off her hood, cape and necklace with shaking hands]
- Anne Boleyn: [kneeling] Sweet Jesus, my God, have mercy on me.
- King Henry VIII: [talking in secret] Your sister is gone as you wished. Will you give yourself to me now?
- Anne Boleyn: No. When you are loyal to me above all others.
- King Henry VIII: But I am.
- Anne Boleyn: No. You are loyal to the queen above all others.
- King Henry VIII: I barely see Katherine.
- Anne Boleyn: But she sits on a throne beside you. Your right hand in matters of state.
- King Henry VIII: For appearances' sake only.
- Anne Boleyn: Still, she is your queen. And ever present.
- [pauses]
- Anne Boleyn: I feel her eyes on me. And those of her spies. Look at us. Forever reduced to meeting in secret like this. Speaking in whispers. Hardly conducive to passion.
- King Henry VIII: What would you have me do, then?
- King Henry VIII: [during a supper in the banquet hall, to Anne] What's so amusing?
- Anne Boleyn: I was merely offering my thoughts on the new French king. With such great power, yet such meager authority as a man.
- King Henry VIII: [intrigued] Continue.
- Anne Boleyn: [slowly walking forward] His pettiness is astounding. He will bear a mortal grudge at the mildest of slights. Spoiled cub with a spike in his paw. Riveted with resentment. Unable to forgive or forget. A great king, a great man rises above such things.
- King Henry VIII: And what would you know of great men?
- Anne Boleyn: [never taking her eyes from Henry's] I've read enough books and heard enough talk to believe I'd know one if he were before me.
- King Henry VIII: Then look about you. I am curious. Do you see one here?
- Anne Boleyn: [approaches him, still not looking away] Looking my lord... still looking, my lord.
- [pauses in front of the King]
- Anne Boleyn: Ah! There. Found one.
- King Henry VIII: [laughs to himself as the subjects in the room start to laugh]
- King Henry VIII: Anne!
- Anne Boleyn: Your Grace?
- King Henry VIII: You received my gifts?
- Anne Boleyn: Yes
- King Henry VIII: And? Do they not please you?
- Anne Boleyn: On the contrary, my lord, they please me greatly
- King Henry VIII: Then why do you insult me by returning them?
- Anne Boleyn: Because you insult me by sending them at all!
- The Duke of Norfolk: Damn you! Not a single detail was left to chance! And now the moment of our greatest glory...!
- Anne Boleyn: Glory? What glory? A mistress gave a man a bastard, no more.
- The Duke of Norfolk: A male bastard, a son!
- Anne Boleyn: The queen may yet give birth to a son.
- The Duke of Norfolk: The queen no longer bleeds!
- Anne Boleyn: Can you be sure?
- The Duke of Norfolk: One of her physicians, and the moment this family provides him with a son he turned his back to it on your account! You better have a plan, girl! And that plan better work!
- Anne Boleyn: Or what, uncle?
- Lady Elizabeth: Enough, both of you! And what about Mary, hum? And her child? Or have you forgotten about them already?
- Anne Boleyn: Mary and her bastard child will go back to the country. It is the king's wish... and mine.
- Lady Elizabeth: Very well, and you can be the one to tell her. I think you've earned that privilege.
- King Henry VIII: I would do nothing to hurt any part of you.
- [a grateful Mary kneels down to him, he looks away]
- King Henry VIII: Go
- Sir Thomas Boleyn: Alright, now, open!
- [advising Mary to open her eyes]
- Sir Thomas Boleyn: I am to become an earl, your brother a viscount. In addition, we have received a number of new grants and estates, so are debts are paid and there's more: George, the king will arrange a match between you and Jane Parker.
- George Boleyn: [frantic] I beg you father, no.
- Sir Thomas Boleyn: I thought you had ambitions for this family. The girl is well connected, her fathers' cousin to the king.
- George Boleyn: Must I actually marry her?
- Sir Thomas Boleyn: Of course you must marry her. Have you no pride? Or would you rather leave everything to Mary?
- Katherine of Aragon: [to Anne and Mary] I am Katherine, Queen of England, the King's one true wife and mother of the heir to the throne. Beloved of the people, and beloved of a King you have bewitched.
- Mary Boleyn: Mother, please! Speak to father... Do something... I don't want to go!
- Lady Elizabeth: This is not a request. We have been summoned.
- [gets up and leaves the room]
- Mary Boleyn: [to Anne] Please don't be angry with me... You think I desired to go for this purpose?
- Anne Boleyn: All I know is that a man who didn't know who you were was with you in that room for a half-hour and came out besotted!
- [starts to leave]
- Anne Boleyn: Don't know what you said or did!
- Mary Boleyn: Nothing sister! Except sing your praises and talk about my husband.
- Anne Boleyn: Really? Well, you must show me how you did that sometime!
- [leaves the room]
- Lady Elizabeth: [preparing for the King's arrival] It costs a fortune to get this house ready for a royal visit!
- Anne Boleyn: [in the Tower] You'll look after Elizabeth.
- Mary Boleyn: [embracing Anne] It will never come to that.
- Anne Boleyn: [on Mary's wedding night] You afraid?
- Mary Boleyn: A little.
- Anne Boleyn: I should be able to tell you how it will be tonight; give you advice on what to do. I failed you as an elder sister.
- Mary Boleyn: No one could wish for a better sister.