Queen Catherine of Aragon

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Queen Catherine of Aragon Quotes

	Season 1 / Episode 10: - Episode 10 Queen Catherine of Aragon: I had always thought fancied that the King, after pursuing his course for some time, would turn away, would hear to his conscience and change his purpose, as he has done so often before. I believed with all my heart that he would return to reason, but now, I... Chapuys: Madame, I pray you, don't give way. Queen Catherine of Aragon: No Excellency, I shall never give way.
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - Episode 9 Queen Catherine of Aragon: Have you no kind things to say? King Henry VIII: Kind? Queen Catherine of Aragon: To your wife, the mother of your child. You treat me so unkindly and in public neglect me. King Henry VIII: Katherine, you must accept the inevitable. The weight of academic opinion is against us. We were never legally man and wife. And the court will decide in my favour and if the court does not decide in my favour, I shall denounce the pope as a heretic and marry whom I please.
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - Episode 8 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey: [about her divorce] Your Majesty, I beg that you yield to the King's will. Queen Catherine of Aragon: And what is his will? Cardinal Thomas Wolsey: As His Eminence proposes, that you join a religious community of your choosing and take a vow of perpetual chastity. Queen Catherine of Aragon: [discusted] You speak to me of chastity. Have you not a mistress and two children, Your Eminence?
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - Episode 8 Queen Catherine of Aragon: [to Henry, at the trial] My Lord. Sir. I beseech you, for all the love that has been between us, let me have justice and right. Give me some pity and compassion for I am a poor women in a stranger born out of your dominion. I have no friends here and little council. I flee to you, as head of justice in this realm, I call God and all the world to witness that I have been to you a true, humble and obedient wife, ever comfortable to your will and pleasure. I have loved all those whom you have loved for your sake. Whether or not I had cause, whether they be my friends or enemies. By me you have had many children although it has pleased God to call them from this world. But when you had me at first [loudly] I take God as my judge, I was a true maid without touch of man. And whether or not it be true, I put it to your conscience.
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Episode 7 Queen Catherine of Aragon: [about the plague] And your fear of The Sweat is greater than your infatuation with your mistress? King Henry VIII: [annoyed] Katherine, she is not my mistress. I do not sleep with her. Not whilst you and I are still married.

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