Red, White & Royal Blue Quotes

(While waiting for the election results…)

June: Nora, what’s the math? I majored in nouns.

Bea: All this fund-raising for sobriety is going to drive me to drink. That’s drunk humor for you, Alex.

Amy: I have Bluebonnet and Barracuda, on the move.

June (to Alex): I still can’t believe you picked that for your stupid code name.

Philip: I still don’t think—

(Bea spills tea on his lap…)

Bea: Oh, I’m terribly sorry, Pip! (starts pushing him toward the door) So dreadfully clumsy. You know, I think all that cocaine I did must have really done a job on my reflexes! Let’s go get you cleaned up, shall we?

(She throws Henry and thumbs-up as door closes behind them.)

Catherine: I’m sorry, Henry. I’ve failed you. I’ve failed all of you. You needed your mum, and I wasn’t there. And I was so frightened that I started to think maybe it was for the best, to let you all be kept behind glass. Look at them, Mum. They’re not props of a legacy. They’re my children. And I swear on my life, and Arthur’s, I will take you off the throne before I will let them feel the things you made me feel.

Catherine (to Queen): We can have a real legacy here, of hope, and love, and change.

Queen (to Henry): The country simply will not accept a prince of his proclivities. I am sorry, dear, but to them, it’s perverse.

Catherine: Perverse to them or perverse to you? We haven’t even gotten a chance yet to see how people will react.

Queen: I have been serving this country for forty-seven years, Catherine. I believe I know its heart by now. As I have told you since you were a little girl, you must remove your head from the clouds—

Bea: Oh, will you all shut up for a second? Look.

(She shows the news on tablet – worldwide support and rallies for Henry and Alex)