Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story Quotes (TV Series)

Adolphus: You were chosen. This is a great honor.
Young Queen Charlotte: Oh, how difficult was it to be chosen? Someone who can make lots of babies. Someone who can read. Someone with all the social graces. Someone with a royal bloodline. That is all they required. It is not an honor.

Young Queen Charlotte: Why me? He could have anyone! Anyone! And yet they came hunting all the way across the continent for me. There is a reason for that.
Adolphus: Because you are special.
Young Queen Charlotte: Special. I am a stranger to them. They are strangers to us. You cannot think me this ignorant. There is reason they wanted me, a stranger. And it cannot be a good reason.

Adolphus: [to Charlotte] There is no good reason. In fact, the reason might be terrible. I know that no one who looks like you or me has ever married one of these people ever. But I cannot question, because I cannot make an enemy of the most powerful nation on Earth. It is done. So, shut up. Do your duty to our country, and be happy.

Adolphus: [to Charlotte] There are worse fates than marrying the King of England.

Queen Charlotte: [to the doctor] It is treasonous to interrupt my beauty sleep. You’re lucky my face is a rare jewel. If I could still have people beheaded, you would be in the queue.

Lady Whistledown: For the Crown now has a crisis on its hands. A crisis one can only imagine that Queen Charlotte must find galling after ruling over the matchmaking efforts of the ton and the marriage mart with such an iron fist. This author and all of England can only hope that Queen Charlotte finally turns her matchmaking energies onto her own family. After all, her majesty has thirteen children, and now, not a royal heir from any of them. At least, not a legitimate one. It causes one to wonder. Is the queen’s knowledge of how to make a good marriage nothing but talk?

Princess Augusta: [to Charlotte] You have good hips. You will make lots of babies. That is good. That is your job. As many babies as possible for my son.

Young Queen Charlotte: You cannot walk with me?
Young Brimsley: I’m always with you, Your Highness. Five paces behind.

Young Queen Charlotte: Brimsley. Tell me about the King.
Young Brimsley: He is the King, Your Highness.
Young Queen Charlotte: Yes. And?

Young Queen Charlotte: Brimsley, you’ve told me he is the king, he is the ruler, and he is the monarch. Those are all the same things, are they not?
Young Brimsley: They are all facts, Your Highness.

Princess Augusta: A problem is only a problem if the Palace says it is a problem.

Young Queen Charlotte: Is he handsome? Is he kind? Is he funny? Is he warm? Well-read? Artistic? Athletic?
Young Brimsley: We can discuss the order of the matrimonial ceremony, Your Highness.
Young Queen Charlotte: Is he ugly? Perhaps deformed in some way because beauty is inside. Well, it is certainly not inside. But I am a good person and shall overcome.

Young Queen Charlotte: Is he dull? Not very smart? Mentally slow? I can work on those. You can tell me. Is he cruel?

Princess Augusta: You are honored to be Lord and Lady Danbury now. All the members of the ton must be titled.
Young Agatha Danbury: The ton, your Royal Highness?
Princess Augusta: It is time we were united as a society, is it not?

Young Brimsley: There is a problem.
Reynolds: What have you done now, Brimsley?
Young Brimsley: The bride is missing.

Young King George: [as Charlotte is try to climb up the garden wall] I’m curious. What are you doing?
Young Queen Charlotte: Nothing.
Young King George: You’re doing something.
Young Queen Charlotte: I am not.
Young King George: You are.
Young Queen Charlotte: I am not.
Young King George: You are!

Young Queen Charlotte: I think he may be a beast.
Young King George: A beast?
Young Queen Charlotte: Or a troll.
Young King George: Who are we discussing?
Young Queen Charlotte: Well, that isn’t pertinent. None of your business.

Young Queen Charlotte: The King. No one will speak of him. No one. He is clearly a beast or a troll.
Young King George: Understood.

Young King George: One question. You do not like beasts or trolls? What he looks like matters?
Young Queen Charlotte: I do not care what he looks like. What I do not like is not knowing.

Young King George: I have absolutely no intention of helping you.
Young Queen Charlotte: I’m a lady in distress. You refuse to help a lady in distress?
Young King George: I refuse when that lady in distress is trying to go over a wall so that she does not have to marry me.

Young Queen Charlotte: Your Majesty.
Young King George: [as she curtseys, he takes her hand] Not Your Majesty. George. I mean, yes, Your Majesty. But to you, just George.

Young King George: The “King” situation. It towers over us. Accident of birth on my part, but I thought, maybe, perhaps as my wife, you could ignore it, and I could be just George to you. That was, of course, before I found out that you do not want to be married to me.
Young Queen Charlotte: I did not say that.
Young King George: Oh, you did.

Young Queen Charlotte: I do not know you.
Young King George: I do not know you either. Except that you are terrible at climbing a wall.

Young King George: [to Charlotte] You are incomparable. No one told me you’d be this beautiful. You may be too beautiful to marry me. People will talk, given I’m a troll.

Young King George: You do not know me. What do you want to know about me?
Young Queen Charlotte: Well, that is quite… I do not… Everything.

Young King George: [to Charlotte] And I’m very nervous about marrying a girl I’m only just meeting minutes before our wedding. But I cannot show it and climb over a wall, because I am the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and that would cause a scandal. But I promise you, I am neither a troll, nor a beast. Just George.

Adolphus: Charlotte is overjoyed to become…
Young King George: No, she’s still deciding. She might go over the wall instead. Either way, the choice is entirely up to her.

Young Agatha Danbury: [as she sees Charlotte for the first time] The pieces fall into place.

Young Agatha Danbury: Your Majesty. It is an honor. I’m Lady Agatha Danbury. I’m to be on your court.
Young Queen Charlotte: Then we shall be great friends.

Young Queen Charlotte: We are married. Are we not supposed to do what married people do?
Young King George: Are you demanding I perform my marital duty to you?
Young Queen Charlotte: I am not demanding. I’m not even sure what marital duty is. I just know, do we not spend this night together? My governess said that is what happens on our wedding night.

Young Queen Charlotte: George, this is how it is to be? This is our marriage? You there, and me here?
Young King George: Yes.
Young Queen Charlotte: Why?
Young King George: I thought it would… It is easier.
Young Queen Charlotte: For whom?

Young King George: I do not need to do anything. I decide. I have decided. I am your king!
Young Queen Charlotte: My mistake. I thought you were just George. Forgive me, Your Majesty.

Adolphus: We have business to attend to.
Queen Charlotte: By business, do you mean fornicating with your mistresses. Or do you mean producing more b****rds for me to ignore?
Prince Edward: My word. There are impressionable ladies present.
Queen Charlotte: Impressionable? Trust me, Edward. No sexual innuendo makes an impression upon your sisters. I wish it did, that they might get ideas to marry and start fornicating. Perhaps, then, I might have legitimate grandbabies. Instead, virgins to the left of me, whores to the right.

Queen Charlotte: The princesses have had no babies. The princes have had a record number of babies. Illegitimate whore babies. We had one heir, one royal, and she is gone.

Queen Charlotte: It is time to find husbands. It is time to trade in the mistresses for respectable wives. Get started. One of you had better produce the next ruler of the United Kingdom, or your father’s line dies with him. Make me a royal baby.

Queen Charlotte: It is not a difficult task. Your father and I made fifteen royal babies all by ourselves. I do not see why the whole lot of you cannot make just one.

Young Queen Charlotte: I should have gone over the wall.

Young Brimsley: You serve him. You know him. Is there a problem? A deformity? Is there something wrong with his bits?
Reynolds: That is beyond the pale.
Young Brimsley: I am asking. We have a problem.
Reynolds: I believe his bits to be fine. Large. From what I’ve seen, he has large, healthy bits. No deformity.

Reynolds: Do you suppose they’ll spend fifteen minutes together now?
Young Brimsley: Let us hope for twenty.

Young Queen Charlotte: George, I thought you were visiting a brothel.
Young King George: Do you know what that word means?
Young Queen Charlotte: I know what a brothel is. Almost.

Young Queen Charlotte: [to George] I’m saying that it might be better if you were visiting a brothel. I would understand it more. But, no, you prefer stars to my company.

Young Queen Charlotte: [to George] I cannot do whatever I like. The queen is not allowed to go to the modiste, or the galleries, or the ice shops. I cannot make friends. I must hold myself apart. I do not know a single soul here except for you. I’m completely alone, and you prefer the sky to me.

Young King George: I do not want to fight with you.
Young Queen Charlotte: I want to fight with you! Fight with me! Fight for me!

Young Queen Charlotte: Dogs are big and majestic. A Pinscher. A shepherd. A schnauzer. A Dane. That is a deformed bunny.

Young Brimsley: Your Majesty, I am the one person who will never tell you what you are allowed to do. I will, however, always tell you how best to do the things you are not allowed to do.

Young Agatha Danbury: My honeymoon was a disaster. On my wedding night, I did not know what to expect. He was old and impatient. All of it was painful and quite terrifying. It is alright if your wedding night was not perfect or splendid.

Young Agatha Danbury: Your whole position is in danger. The Great Experiment is in danger. My God. You did consummate? You do know what I mean when I say consummate? Perform the marital act?
Young Queen Charlotte: Does it have something to do with this Great Experiment?

Young Queen Charlotte: How many times does he insert it?
Young Agatha Danbury: As many times as necessary, Your Majesty.
Young Queen Charlotte: How long does it take?
Young Agatha Danbury: Sometimes it feels like it takes forever.
Young Queen Charlotte: Will I enjoy it?
Young Agatha Danbury: I never have. But I do not believe I have ever thought of it as something to enjoy. More of a chore.

Young Agatha Danbury: Your Majesty, this is important. You are the first of your kind. You must secure your position.

Young Agatha Danbury: It is a Pomeranian. Your deformed bunny. It is a dog. A very rare and purebred Pomeranian.

Queen Charlotte: You would think I’m sending them to the Tower of London. I’m telling them to marry.
Lady Agatha Danbury: That can be a difficult proposition.
Queen Charlotte: It is simple. Find a titled, appropriate young lady. Marry her. Make babies. It is a ritual as old as England itself. Everyone does it.

Queen Charlotte: You have had two weddings in two years. How do you do it?
Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: Do what?
Queen Charlotte: Get them to want to marry.
Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: Well, it helps if they are in love.

Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: Love solves a plethora of issues.
Queen Charlotte: I’m going to speak plainly because we are all mature women here. My boys are in love. They are in love with commoners. They are in love with Catholics. And they are in love with actresses. And they are in love with women who are already married. Love is not the issue. Love has produced over fifty illegitimate babies for the Crown.

Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: Lady Danbury also has many children. Perhaps she can advise.
Lady Agatha Danbury: My four children have done me the honor of moving many continents away. Besides, marriage is a duty, not a pleasure
Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: But it can be such a pleasure.
Lady Agatha Danbury: Or it can be a painful, lifelong sentence.

Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: Marriage offers so much. Companionship. Tradition. Family. Warmth. And if they take the time to become close, well, a match does not have to start out as love. It can grow. Love can bloom from the thorniest of gardens, can it not?
Lady Agatha Danbury: Blooming love.
Queen Charlotte: Your flower metaphors make me nauseated with their sweetness. But I applaud your point.

Young Brimsley: Well, sir, perhaps it is time you leveled with me. What is wrong with your man? What is keeping him from her bed?
Reynolds: You worry about your own side of the world.

Princess Augusta: I always thought you were a quiet one.
Young Agatha Danbury: I am not quiet. It is simply that my husband is loud.

Young Agatha Danbury: We need to be equal members of the ton.

Young King George: [to Charlotte] I realize you have no reason to like me. You have no reason to trust me. I marry you, and then I disappear into my observatory. And then I come here to dine as if… But if you will give me just one evening of your time. Allow me to show you where my mind has been. It might not make you forgive me, but it might make you hate me a bit less.

Young King George: There is something about the heavens. In this world we live in, where I’m given so much power and attention, it is good to remember I’m a bit of dust. I’m a small dot in the universe. It keeps one humble. Being king is a hazard.

Young King George: My world has been made to revolve around me. And it has made me selfish. I cannot imagine how painful and cruel it must have been to have me ruin your wedding night.
Young Queen Charlotte: It was your wedding night too.
Young King George: I’m so sorry.
Young Queen Charlotte: Yes, well, I do not forgive you. Yet.
Young King George: Yet. Yet is good. Yet is hope.
Young Queen Charlotte: Perhaps.

Young King George: You are breathtaking.
Young Queen Charlotte: It is pretty. But it has a thousand tiny buttons. I’m suddenly concerned that I may have made the wrong choice.
Young King George: I’m very good with buttons.

Young King George: Do you know what happens on our wedding night?
Young Queen Charlotte: Ah, yes. I know everything. I’ve seen drawings, and had a detailed explanation as to what is to occur.
Young King George: Well, that is good to know.
Young Queen Charlotte: I do not like the part where my head hits the wall over and over again. Is there a way to avoid that?
Young King George: Yes, there is a way to avoid that.

Lord Danbury: The king sees me for who I am. My value, my worth. He understands that the old days are over. And that this is a new world. That men are men, regardless from whence they come.
Young Agatha Danbury: Perhaps this is the beginning of a new era.

Young King George: This is none of your business. This is my marriage.
Princess Augusta: Your marriage is Palace business. Your marriage is Parliament business. Your marriage is the business of this country! This cannot go wrong.

Young King George: You told me I had to wed, for the Crown. I did. You told me to charm her to make it easier for the Crown. I have done my best. You told me I could not let her know me because I must protect the secrets of the Crown. I have not. You told me to bed her. I have done so! I understand! It has been abundantly clear since my first breath that I was born for the happiness, or misery of a great nation, and consequently must often act contrary to my passions. I am the picture of duty. The Crown resides within me, embedded like a knife! You do not need to explain it to me, Mother. It is me!

Queen Charlotte: [to her daughters] You are old. Your wombs are likely dry and useless. Spinsters, I shall leave you be, but you could try. Look at me. I am absolutely gorgeous. Style yourselves. A man might wander onto the grounds. A lost hunter or something.
Princess Sophia: Oh, Mother. Could we marry a lost hunter?
Queen Charlotte: Of course not. You are not milkmaids.

Lady Whistledown: Most of the daughters of our own Queen Charlotte and King George are long on the shelf, gathering dust. So many spinsters. So little time. Surely in this season of giving, Her Majesty must be feeling the sting of being a have-not.

Young Queen Charlotte: [referring to George] I hate him. He is infuriating. He is so very polite. It is a lie. He is a lying liar who lies.

Young Agatha Danbury: You shall survive this. As long as you remain steadfast on becoming…
Young Queen Charlotte: Becoming with child. I am steadfast. It is all I do. All we do. Try to fill my womb with a baby.

Young King George: We did agree to even days.
Young Agatha Danbury: We did.
Young King George: The sooner you are with child, the sooner we can cease this performance.
Young Agatha Danbury: Our duty will be done, and I will no longer have to view your face. Are you coming?
Young King George: Yes, because I would very much like to have the opportunity to no longer hear your voice.

Young Queen Charlotte: [referring to George] I hate everything about him. I hate his ridiculous face. I hate his voice. I hate the way that he breathes.

Young Queen Charlotte: Will you please no longer breathe so very loudly?
Young King George: Would you please not talk?

Young King George: Shall I leave?
Young Queen Charlotte: Yes, leave now.
Young King George: [as he turns to leave, she grabs his hand and kisses him] It is an even day.
Young Queen Charlotte: It is.

Young Queen Charlotte: [referring to George] Has it always been his way?
Young Brimsley: For a time, yes.
Young Queen Charlotte: But why? He does not seem shy with people. He has no stutter. His social graces are intact. He has a nice smile. He is tall, and strong, and handsome, and smells like a man.
Young Brimsley: It might have something to do with the doctor.
Young Queen Charlotte: Doctor? What doctor?

Reynolds: You agreed to see nothing.
Young Brimsley: I did not agree.
Reynolds: Your eyes agreed.

Young Queen Charlotte: I have a busy day tomorrow. I am to meet my ladies-in-waiting. After all, I am now, what were those words? Ah, living for the happiness or misery of a great nation.

Lord Danbury: There will be no ball. Trust. They dangle joy in front of me and never let me grasp it.
Young Agatha Danbury: You are every bit as good as they are.

Lady Agatha Danbury: [to Violet, referring to Edmund’s birthday] You may not like today. But trust me. You are most fortunate.

Young King George: It is not an even day.
Young Queen Charlotte: It is not. It is decidedly odd.

Young King George: I told you that I enjoy science. Part of that science is agriculture. I enjoy farming.
Young Queen Charlotte: So King George is Farmer George.
Young King George: Yes. Farmer George. I am Farmer George. These are the hands of a king and a farmer. A farmer king.

Lord Bute: Happy wife, happy life. Unhappy wife, I have lords whining all around me, drinking. No one wants to go home. Government is grinding to a halt.

Young Agatha Danbury: Do you not understand? You are the first of your kind. That opened doors, so we are new. Do you not see us? What you are meant to do for us? I tell you to consummate. I tell you to become with child. I tell you to endure. For a reason. You’re so preoccupied with whether a man likes you. You’re not some simpering girl. You are our queen. Your focus should be your country. Your people. Our side. Why do you not understand that you hold our fates in your hands? Your palace walls are too high, Your Majesty.

Young Queen Charlotte: You live for the happiness and the misery of a great nation. That must be exhausting and lonely. You must feel caged. No wonder you spend so much time in the garden.
Young King George: In the garden, I am a regular man.

Young King George: Do not feel sorry for me. I do not know anything else. I’ve always been this. An exhibit instead of a person.
Young Queen Charlotte: You are a person to me. You can be a person with me.

Young Queen Charlotte: No more even days and odd days.
Young King George: We shall just have days.

Young Queen Charlotte: George, I know you do not owe me anything after how I have behaved. And I know you do not like social events, but I need us to do something.
Young King George: What do you need?
Young Queen Charlotte: Our palace walls are too high.

Lord Ledger: [referring to Vivian] She tried to miss it. But then she received a personal note from His Majesty the King. How could she miss an event the king is planning to attend? Her head would burst into flames. This is the social event of the season. Well done, Lady Danbury. I like you. Let us be friends.

Young Queen Charlotte: Thank you.
Young King George: You never have to thank me. We are a team. Are we not?

Young Queen Charlotte: You can do anything, George.
Young King George: With you by my side, I think I can.

Lady Agatha Danbury: [to Violet] You loved. And in your loving, you go to church to seek solace and connection. In you, Edmund lives on. I loathed. And in my loathing, I fund a school to seek revenge and satisfaction. In me Herman rots. Your heart is full. Mine starves. So when I called you fortunate, it is because you are fortunate.

Brimsley: Your daughters, they are good girls. They love you. And the king, it happened so early. You were so young. If he had died, maybe you would have been hurt, grieved, but eventually, you would have healed and moved on. Instead…
Queen Charlotte: What? Spit it out, Brimsley. Do not become sentimental now.
Brimsley: You are still his queen. Forever frozen. Forever waiting. Your daughters could not leave you here trapped in time.
Queen Charlotte: Go and stand over there and stop talking. Look that way. Not at me.

Young Queen Charlotte: [to George after she finds him outside, naked to praise Venus] Venus is indoors. With you. She is with you.

Doctor Monro: Listen, boy. Remember yourself. You are the king of England. You have thousands prepared to die at a word from you. You have armies, navies at your command. You command an entire kingdom. You can command yourself too.

Young King George: I’m not ready. Not right.
Doctor Monro: I have examined you thoroughly, and you are perfectly right.
Young King George: Do I look perfectly right to you?
Doctor Monro: You are perfectly right.

Reynolds: Does Your Majesty not find the queen attractive?
Young King George: I did not know a woman could be so beautiful.
Reynolds: Perhaps is she dull?
Young King George: She’s terrifyingly clever. That is the problem. If she were ugly, if she were dull, I might feel myself up to the task. Instead, her brilliance shows that, shows the troll I am.

Reynolds: If I may. Your Majesty may only be blinded by that brilliance.
Young King George: Her perfection is matched only by my deformity. She belongs as far from me as she can get.

Young Brimsley: Will he be cross with her?
Reynolds: Absolutely. But she is standing up to him. Perhaps this is good.
Young Brimsley: Perhaps. Perhaps it is bad.

Young King George: Look, I have learned a thing or two about science, and one thing I have learned is this. Scientists keep the best of it to themselves.

Doctor Monro: The problem in your case is clear. You are a king. As such, you are used to the obedience of others. You have not learned to obey. You are used to splendor. Luxury. Comfort. You have never known the salubrious powers of Spartan habits. Simple ways.

Doctor Monro: Above all, you have never learned to submit. Your mind ranges undisciplined. Unbound, it tests the limits of reason. That is the origin of your fits. This is the cure. Submission. If you cannot govern yourself, you’re not fit to govern others. Until then, I shall govern you. Do you understand me, boy? I don’t give a damn who your father was, how many titles you have, or whether you are God’s own representative on Earth. In here, you are just another animal in a cage. And just like an animal, I will break you!

Young King George: Our goal was to restore me to myself. Much more of this, and I will not have a self to return to! Is a broken king really better than a mad one?
Doctor Monro: Simple ways. I do not call it the “terrific method” for nothing. Terror is its very basis!

Young King George: Are you questioning the doctor’s methods, Reynolds? I have my own doubts about them, but I have to try. It’s the only chance I have of being with her.
Reynolds: With respect, Your Majesty is His Majesty. His Majesty can do as he pleases. His Majesty could be with her right now.

Young King George: Why, she’s almost as mad as I am. A woman like that is too dangerous for a man like me.
Reynolds: Or maybe a perfect match.
Young King George: You think?
Reynolds: I think we cannot know until His Majesty spends more time with her.
Young King George: I cannot be with her. But perhaps I could be near her.

Young King George: She’s playing chess with herself. She is mad.
Reynolds: I believe she is lonely, Your Majesty.
Young King George: Lonely? Imagine that. I’ve spent my whole life longing for time to myself.

Reynolds: She is just married, Your Majesty. It is her honeymoon. She may miss her husband.
Young King George: I think I miss her too.

Young King George: [as he steals Monroe’s dog] Fitting present, no? From my cage to hers. I want the queen to know we will not be caged forever.

Doctor Monro: My dog is missing. I arrived in my laboratory this morning to find the cage unlatched, and the stupid beast nowhere to be found.
Young King George: It may be that the beast was not so stupid.

Young Brimsley: We could work together. I could be useful. I am a patriot. I serve the Crown. You cannot take all of this on alone.
Reynolds: You are climbing, Brimsley.
Young Brimsley: I am not.
Reynolds: He is mine. Stay down.

Doctor Monro: Since you moved here, you’ve not been to the chair once. If we do not resume treatment soon, we risk losing everything we have accomplished.
Young King George: We? You and I, Doctor, have accomplished nothing. Anything accomplished for me has been the work of my bride. Her methods have done more for me than you and your chair ever could.

Young King George: I have lived my entire life in terror of acting incorrectly because every incorrect action threatened the ruin of England. That terror nearly broke me. I found places to hide. My farms, my observatory. My madness. I thought that terror was the price of being royal. Now, I have met a woman who is never terrified. Who does as she pleases. Breaks rules, courts scandal. Commits unthinkable impertinences. And she is the most royal person I have ever known.

Young King George: Stay away from her.
Doctor Monro: But Your Majesty, she came to me. Heard the king’s doctor was here and apparently figured that she should not settle for anything less than doctor to the king.
Young King George: But why would she need a doctor?
Doctor Monro: Well, because obviously she is with child. She was not sure, but I am. Congratulations, Your Majesty. A joyous day for England.

Young Queen Charlotte: Has Your Highness tried cutting English mutton with a dull knife?
Princess Augusta: I beg your pardon.
Young Queen Charlotte: The knives at Buckingham House used to be sharp enough. Then one day, they were all dull. It happened to be the day the king joined me there.

Young Queen Charlotte: What I could not convince myself was a coincidence though, was when the library set of Shakespeare was missing King Lear.
Princess Augusta: Forgive me. I am not a Shakespeare enthusiast.
Young Queen Charlotte: The one about the mad king, because the king is mad, and I live in a mad house!

Princess Augusta: The king is not mad! The king is merely exhausted from holding the greatest nation in the world on his shoulders! What could you know about that? The weight of that on a boy. The weight on his mother as she watches her son start to crack. If, God grant, you ever do bear an heir, then you may start to learn, and your first lesson will be this. You would do anything to stop the cracking.

Princess Augusta: You were nothing. You came from nowhere. Now, you sit at the helm of the world. What matter if your husband has his peculiarities?
Young Queen Charlotte: I did not ask to sit at the helm of the world. I did not even ask for a husband! But if I must have one, if I must leave my home, my family, my language, my life, it cannot be for a man I do not know! A man I was not allowed to know. For a lie!

Doctor Monro: [after George overhears Charlotte’s conversation with Augusta] Your Majesty?
Young King George: Strap me back in.

Young Queen Charlotte: [referring to Augusta] Is she still here? She has not fallen down a flight of stairs, or choked on a cube of meat?
Young Brimsley: I am sorry to report that she remains alive and well, Your Majesty.

Young Queen Charlotte: My skin is too light. Paint my skin darker. As it actually is.
Allan Ramsay: Your Majesty.
Princess Augusta: Let me see. No. Paint her skin lighter. Pale. His Majesty wants her to glow.

Young Brimsley: [to Reynolds] Everything is in danger. And you keep secrets.

Coral: Walking, my lady? But where?
Young Agatha Danbury: Just walking.
Coral: What, like some tramp or poet?

Young Agatha Danbury: Rambling? I thought I was walking. What is the distinction?
Lord Ledger: Damned if I know. I just do it often enough I started calling it rambling, so it would sound picturesque instead of insane.

Young Agatha Danbury: Though mine, I would call just a walk though.
Lord Ledger: Why?
Young Agatha Danbury: Because I feel insane.

Prince Edward: Who were they?
Queen Charlotte: Your betrothed.
Prince William: Betrothed? They are strangers.
Queen Charlotte: What of it? They are noble. They are rich. They are connected. They are perfect. And next week, they will be your wives.

Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: It seems my garden is in bloom.
Lady Agatha Danbury: It is winter. The ground is frozen.
Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: My husband and I had a garden. A luscious garden with many varieties of flowers. And when he died, the garden died. And I did not even think of the garden. I did not want the garden. But lately, without warning, the garden has begun to bloom.
Lady Agatha Danbury: The garden?
Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: And now it wants things. Sunlight. Air. Touch.

Lady Agatha Danbury: Your garden is in bloom.
Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: It is blooming out of control.
Lady Agatha Danbury: Oh, Violet.
Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: I am becoming dangerous, Agatha.
Lady Agatha Danbury: I am sure.
Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: I almost asked a footman to lie on top of me today.

Queen Charlotte: I forgot myself. I overstepped. As Prince Regent, the matter rests entirely in the Prince of Wales’s hands. He is acting sovereign and ultimate authority.
Prince Edward: Quite right.
Queen Charlotte: Now, Georgie, be a good boy and approve your brothers marriages.
Prince Regent: I approve.

Adolphus: Your body is not your own. To leave the kingdom now would be treason. King-napping. An act of war, perhaps.
Young Queen Charlotte: I only want to be home. With my own family. With you.
Adolphus: I am not your family now. King George is your family.

Young Agatha Danbury: [referring to her husband] I would not place him in the category of things my life lacks. Do you think me a monster for saying that?
Lord Ledger: No. As that would make us both monsters.

Young Agatha Danbury: Do you think me free? I thought I would be. But only now he is dead. And I am saddled with the burden of what it means to be a woman not tied to a man. I am on my own, but life is out of reach.

Lord Ledger: Rambles are there.
Young Agatha Danbury: Rambles are there.
Lord Ledger: I am there.
Young Agatha Danbury: Are you?
[they lean in close to kiss]

Young Agatha Danbury: I am to be left, what? Penniless? Homeless? What am I to do?
Jasper Jacob: Why, what all impoverished widows do. Seek the kindness of a male relative. Or remarry.

Princess Augusta: [to Charlotte] Dearest. The hard part is done. You have done your duty. You have conceived an heir. Now you are free. As for my son, you never even have to see him again if you do not want. At least until we need another heir.

Young Brimsley: You give me nothing. You tell me nothing but lies. I ask your help, and you refuse to treat me like a partner or an equal.
Reynolds: I cannot help you!

Lady Agatha Danbury: [to Violet] You opened yourself up to show me who you are. That was brave. We mothers, and aunts, and leaders of the ton, we spend our time endlessly matchmaking, talking of wooing. Of love. Of romance. But never for anyone mature enough to truly understand what any of it means. What it is to go without it. What it is to lose it. We are full of gossip and story, but as women, we are never the topics of the conversation. Lady Whistledown never writes of our hearts. We are untold stories. Yesterday, you told me something of your story. And I thank you.

Lady Agatha Danbury: [referring to Charlotte and George] Theirs is a garden always in bloom.
Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: Even now? His Majesty is…
Lady Agatha Danbury: What matters madness when true love flourishes? For them, the weeds are all part of the process.

Lady Agatha Danbury: We all have gardens, Violet. My garden did not die with my husband because it had never been planted. I did not even know I could have a garden. It did not bloom until after he was gone. And when it did, I nurtured it. Fiercely.

Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: I have never once in all my years considered another man. But now, I…
Lady Agatha Danbury: It is alright to want it. Say it.
Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: I want to be gardened. I want to be gardened as much as possible.

Young Agatha Danbury: You are the son of Agatha Danbury, born name Soma, Royal Blood of the Kpa-Mende Bo tribe in Sierra Leone. You come from warriors. We win. Never forget that.

Young Agatha Danbury: Would you care to tell me what troubles you?
Young Queen Charlotte: Very much. But I cannot. All I can say is that I have been lied to and betrayed by everyone in this country but you. You are my only friend.

Young Agatha Danbury: Your Majesty, I am not your friend. I want to be. However, at this moment, I am purely your subject. And I have been acting as your subject. Not considering your feelings. Making you into a crown instead of letting you have your humanity. So, if we are to be friends, we need to start again. Because I very much need a friend too.
Young Queen Charlotte: You shall be my friend
Young Agatha Danbury: I will be your friend.

Young Queen Charlotte: This is not the life I wished for.
Young Agatha Danbury: We are women. And the men who hold our fates hardly conceive we have desires, dreams of our own. If we are ever to live the lives we want, we have to make them conceive it. Our bravery. Our force of will will be their proof.

Queen Charlotte: Love is not a thing one is able or not able to do based on some magic. Some chemistry. That is for plays. Love is determination. Love is a choice one makes. You take someone in marriage, and you choose to love them. You do not give yourself any other option. Because marriage is difficult. Full of pains. And the life of a royal is lonely. So you grab someone, and you hang on. You love, and you love hard, because if you do not, you are lost.

Young Queen Charlotte: [to Adolphus] You sold me off to be the Queen of England. I’m off to be the Queen of England.

Young Agatha Danbury: You cannot be here.
Lord Danbury: But I am not here.
Young Agatha Danbury: You cannot come in.
Lord Danbury: I have no intention of coming in.
Young Agatha Danbury: You must be quiet.
Lord Danbury: I will not make a sound. Because I am not here. As you see. And I’m not coming inside.
[he comes inside and they start kissing]

Young Queen Charlotte: I am Charlotte. This is our child. And we need you to be George again, or none of us are anyone.

Young Queen Charlotte: I care not for his sanity. I care for his happiness. I care for his soul. Let him be mad if mad is what he needs. You are finished.

Young Queen Charlotte: [to George] I have been suffering and alone and believing I am a failure as a wife and as your queen because you stay from me as though I am a disease. And then today, it suddenly occurred to me that perhaps there is another reason. A better reason. Perhaps you stay away from me because you care for me. Perhaps you stay away because you love me. Do you love me?

Young Queen Charlotte: Is it because you do not believe that I could love you? I do. I love you, George. I love you so much that I will do as you wish. If you do not love me, all you have to say is that you do not love me, and I will go. I will go back to Buckingham House. And we can live our separate lives, and I will have this baby alone. And I will make do, and fill my days, and survive. All on my own. I will do that. But first, you have to say that you do not love me. You have to tell me that I am utterly alone in this world.

Young King George: I am a madman. I am a danger. In my mind, there are different worlds creeping in. The heavens and Earth collide. I do not know where I am.

Young Queen Charlotte: I will stand with you between the heavens and the Earth. I will tell you where you are. Do you love me?
Young King George: I love you! From the moment I saw you trying to go over the wall, I have loved you desperately. I cannot breathe when you are not near. I love you, Charlotte. My heart calls your name.

Young King George: I wanted to tell you. I wanted you to know. This madness has been my secret my entire life. This darkness is my burden. You bring the light.
Young Queen Charlotte: George. It is you and me. We can do this. Together.

Prince Regent: You do not know us. Any of us. You do not learn about us. You do not care for what we care for. Our happiness is not your goal.
Queen Charlotte: Nonsense. I want what is best for you. As your mother…
Prince Regent: You have never been a mother.

Queen Charlotte: I have been an excellent mother.
Prince Regent: No. You have been our queen, but you have never really been our mother.

Young Brimsley: Reynolds, if it lasts, they would have one another. They will be together, have a marriage, grow old as one. We would serve them together.
Reynolds: A lifetime.
Young Brimsley: Yeah. A lifetime.
Reynolds: It is possible.
Young Brimsley: But truly possible?
Reynolds: I do not know. Perhaps. Great love can make miracles.
Young Brimsley: It can.

Princess Augusta: Losing a husband is inconvenient.

Young Queen Charlotte: The king does not wish to receive at this time.
Princess Augusta: You dare to speak for him. You are not the king.
Young Queen Charlotte: No. But I am your queen.
Princess Augusta: Well, you certainly have become comfortable.
Young Queen Charlotte: You chose me well.

Princess Augusta: [to Charlotte] How do you not know what I have always understood? From the moment a king is born, there is no hiding for him. There is no room for illness or weakness. There is only power. I have done all I can to ensure his power, and you are undoing it.

Princess Augusta: [to Charlotte] He is not even trying, and you are allowing it. You cannot allow him to hide. His Crown will not survive. He has a country. He has people. He must rule. Lord Bute is waiting. The government is growing restless and suspicious. George must face Parliament. This is on you now. He is yours.

Brimsley: Your Majesty, you are the greatest of queens…
Queen Charlotte: And mothers.
Brimsley: You are the greatest of queens, yet you share one trait in common with all of the people here in the palace. You serve one person. The king. That is not a flaw. It is a gift. Everyone serves the king. We all care for His Majesty, above all.

Queen Charlotte: Brimsley, you care for me.
Brimsley: Yes. And I will continue to do so until my last days.

Queen Charlotte: Brimsley, have you any family? Did you never marry?
Brimsley: No, Your Majesty. Who could I ever find who would be free to spend a lifetime with me? I am here. Everyone here cares for the king.

Young Queen Charlotte: You have babies. Tell me, does it hurt?
Young Agatha Danbury: Having children is the worst pain imaginable.
Young Queen Charlotte: I knew it. Wait, really?

Lady Agatha Danbury: I have loved and been loved. And that is all I shall say.
Lady Violet Ledger Bridgerton: That is all?
Lady Agatha Danbury: I am discreet.

Young King George: Perhaps I should sinoky surrender and offer them my head. Put an end to the monarchy. Let them call me Mad King George and laugh.

Young Queen Charlotte: [as she’s in labor] You are here. Stay.
Young King George: I am here. Whatever comes. Whatever you need.

Young Queen Charlotte: [after Charlotte gives birth] He is our next king. Could he be anything but perfection?
Princess Augusta: He is perfection.

Princess Augusta: [to Agatha, after she breaks down] I do not want to know your burdens, or hear what problems plague your life. Nor do I care.

Princess Augusta: There were no other options. So I endured. And over the years, I learnt I need not be content to surrender to the uselessness of female pursuits. Instead, I secured my son as King. I found a way to control my own fate.

Princess Augusta: I do not like you. However, you have been an admirable adversary thus far. Our battles bring me satisfaction. So this will not do. You are not allowed to come here and sob. You may not quit. Cover your bruises and endure. Do not lose control of your fate, Agatha.

Young Queen Charlotte: [after George fails to give his speech to parlimant] Well, what happened? What did you do? He seemed quite fine when he left here.
Reynolds: He was not fine! Your Majesty, forgive me. Only, he was not fine. He was not. That was merely hope.

Young King George: I am not a king. I’m no one’s king.
Young Queen Charlotte: You will do better next time.
Young King George: No. There is no better. There is no cure. This is who I am.

Young King George: You have half a husband, Charlotte. Half a life. I cannot give you the future that you deserve. Not a full me. Not a full marriage. Only half. Half a man. Half a king. Half a life.
Young Queen Charlotte: If what we have is half, then we shall make it the very best half. I love you. It is enough.

Young Queen Charlotte: I am your queen. And as long as I am so, I shall never leave your side. You are king. You will be king. Your children will rule. Together, we are whole.

Young King George: I am so sorry that I did not give you a choice. That I did not tell you the truth of who I was before we wed.
Young Queen Charlotte: You did tell me the truth. You said you were just George. That is who you are. Half king, half farmer, but always just George. That is all you need to be.

Young Queen Charlotte: It is a very nice portrait.
Young King George: A portrait for which I did not even sit. I am an insertion.
Young Queen Charlotte: It is still us. You and me.
Young King George: Yes, but not real.

Young Queen Charlotte: [as they are about to dance at their ball] Keep your eyes on me. Do not look at them. There is no one here but us.
Young King George: You and me.
Young Queen Charlotte: You and me.

Young Agatha Danbury: [to Adolphus] I cannot marry you, but only because I cannot marry anyone. You are a wonderful man, and something in me had been awakened. So I felt hopeful. I believe if I said yes, this could be different. Better. Likely it would be. You would’ve saved me from a thousand different problems. You would’ve rescued me. You would’ve listened to me and cared for me. Yet it does not change what I know to be true. I cannot marry you. I cannot marry anyone. I never want to be married again.

Young Agatha Danbury: I spent my life breathing someone else’s air. I do not know any other way. Now it is time that I learn to breathe all on my own.

Adolphus: This is a terrible mistake you are making.
Young Agatha Danbury: Perhaps I am making a terrible mistake. But it is mine to make.

Princess Augusta: I have only ever wanted him to be happy.
Young Queen Charlotte: He is happy.
Princess Augusta: You make him happy. Thank you. Your Majesty.

Queen Charlotte: Well done. Both of you.
Prince Edward: Victoria thinks it will be a girl.
Princess Victoria: I hope that will be alright with you.
Queen Charlotte: A girl is wonderful. And a strong queen is just what this country needs.

Young Queen Charlotte: [to Agatha] We are one Crown. His weight is mine, and mine is his. One Crown. We rule for the welfare of all our subjects. New and old. Rival and foe. Titled or not. You tell me my castle walls are too high. I tell you they must be. High as the sky, if necessary, to protect you. To protect all our worthy subjects. I suggest you shift your fear into faith and come to us with your concerns directly. To do otherwise would suggest we are incapable of addressing them. Unless that is what you believe.

Young Queen Charlotte: The stakes are too high. The fates of too many rest on us securing your line.
Young King George: [as she places his hand on her stomach] Our line. Charlotte. You and me.
Young Queen Charlotte: And them.
Young King George: And them.

King George: Edward is going to be a father?
Queen Charlotte: Yes. Your line will live on.
King George: Our line.
Queen Charlotte: Our line.
Young King George: Thank you.
Queen Charlotte: Thank you.
King George: [after they kiss] Fancy meeting you here.

King George: You did not go over the wall.
Queen Charlotte: No, George. I did not go over the wall.