Margot Robbie credited as playing...
Queen Elizabeth I
- Queen Elizabeth I: I was jealous. Your beauty. Your bravery. Your motherhood. You seemed to surpass me in every way. But now I see there is no cause for envy. Your gifts are your downfall.
- Mary Stuart: What now, sister?
- Queen Elizabeth I: You will still have my protection. Under my terms.
- Mary Stuart: Until you have me killed?
- Queen Elizabeth I: I will do no such thing.
- Mary Stuart: Wouldn't you? As Henry killed your mother?
- Queen Elizabeth I: I am not my father.
- Mary Stuart: But, you share his blood.
- Queen Elizabeth I: As long as you do not provoke my enemies, you have nothing to fear. Your fate rests in your own hands.
- Mary Stuart: If I seek to help your enemies, tis only because you pushed me to their arms. And should you murder me, remember that you murder your sister - and you murder your Queen.
- Mary Stuart: I have been abandoned by so many. I am utterly alone.
- Queen Elizabeth I: As am I. Alone.
- Mary Stuart: Be my sister. Be my boy's Godmother. Together we could conquer all of those who doubt us. Do not play into their hands. Our enmity is precisely what they hope for. I know your heart has more within it than the men who counsel you.
- Queen Elizabeth I: I am more man than woman now. The throne has made me so. But I have no enmity with you.
- Mary Stuart: Except to seed rebellion and to deceive me time and time again.
- Queen Elizabeth I: If you still seek my protection, you would do well to watch your words.
- Mary Stuart: I will not be scolded by my inferior.
- Queen Elizabeth I: Your inferior?
- Mary Stuart: I am a Stuart, which gives me greater claim to England than you possess.
- Queen Elizabeth I: Tell me what to do?
- William Cecil: We must make civil war in Scotland.
- Queen Elizabeth I: You would have me depose the sister monarch?
- William Cecil: It is either civil war there. Or civil war here.
- Queen Elizabeth I: I want to know nothing of it.
- William Cecil: The arrangements shall be mine, alone.
- William Cecil: Madam, we cannot let her name your successor. She has no right.
- Queen Elizabeth I: When I am dead and you are dead and she is dead, it matters not what names we did or did not say. The world will decide for itself.
- William Cecil: Mary is our foe! We must not bow to her as we bow before you!
- Queen Elizabeth I: You have the boldness to doubt my judgement!
- Queen Elizabeth I: No Prince's revenues be so great that they satisfy the insatiable ambition of men.
- William Cecil: This I understand.
- Queen Elizabeth I: Which is why you are the closest thing I shall ever have to a wife.
- William Cecil: [laughs] I shan't mention your proposal to Lord Dudley.
- [Elizabeth laughs]
- Robert Dudley: The news is urgent.
- Queen Elizabeth I: What news do I want from Scotland? Bloodshed? Go conspire among yourselves.
- Queen Elizabeth I: It is my choice. God would have a woman be a wife and mother.
- William Cecil: So you defy his will.
- Queen Elizabeth I: No - I choose to be a man.