The Spanish Princess (TV Series)

The New World (2019)

Nadia Parkes: Rosa de Vargas

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Quotes 

• De Fuensalida : Your Royal Highness. England.

  Rosa : [sickly]  Lina, let me die.

  Catherine of Aragon : Good. Then please land. Land here.

  De Fuensalida : But the welcome party waits along the coast for us at Southampton.

  Catherine of Aragon : Tell the captain I have ordered it.

• Rosa : Is it always so cold?

• Catherine of Aragon : Does it always rain this much in England, Duke Stafford?

  Edward Stafford : It's Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, and, no, it doesn't. Sometimes it hails or snows or floods. But the sun always comes out in the end. You know, you really should have landed at Southampton. We'll escort you to Dogmersfield, where the king's mother will now greet you. But your beauty does cheer the rainy day, as does your lady. What's your name, Spanish beauty?

  Rosa : I am Rosa de Vargas, senor.

  Catherine of Aragon : My ladies are to marry nobles of the court. They will be chosen by the prince and I for their piety.

  Edward Stafford : For their piety.

  [laughs] 

  Edward Stafford : Well, what a pity I have a wife already.

  Catherine of Aragon : Prince Arthur wrote to me of chivalry and faith. I do not think that England lacks for piety.

  Lina de Cardonnes : Stop looking at him, Rosa.

  Rosa : I am looking at the English trees.

• Catherine of Aragon : He did not know of them, the letters. I was... I shared my heart and passion. I was intimate. Who is it I have written to?

  Rosa : Uh, what is the seal?

  Catherine of Aragon : Tudor rose.

  Rosa : Will the noblemen who court us write love letters to us, too?

  Catherine of Aragon : I imagined that I was in love. Was it all a trick?

  Lina de Cardonnes : And the king said, "What was done to bring you here." What did he mean?