Anjelica Huston: Rodmilla
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Queen Marie : Baroness de Ghent, you are forthwith stripped of your title, and you and your horrible daughter are to be shipped to the Americas on the first available boat... Unless by some miracle, someone here will speak for you.
[Rodmilla begins looking desperately at the other nobles, they look back coldly]
Rodmilla : [nervously] There seem to be quite a few people out of town...
Danielle : I will speak for her.
[Rodmilla turns around and sees Danielle dressed like a princess while the others bow]
Danielle : She is, after all, my stepmother.
Rodmilla : [kneels; quietly] Your Highness.
Henry : Marguerite, I don't believe you've met... my wife.
Danielle : [to Rodmilla, smiling] I want you to know that I will forget you after this moment, and never think of you again. But you, I am quite certain, will think about me every single day for the rest of your life.
Rodmilla : [quietly] And how long might that be?
Danielle : [looks up] All I ask, Your Majesties... is that you show her the same courtesy that she has bestowed upon me.
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Rodmilla : You are not my problem anymore.
Danielle : Is that what I am, your problem? I have done everything you've asked me to do and still you deny me the only thing I ever wanted!
Rodmilla : And what was that?
Danielle : What do you think? You are the only mother I have ever known. Was there ever a time, even in its smallest measurement, that you loved me at all?
Rodmilla : How can anyone love a pebble in their shoe?
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King Francis : Baroness. Did you or did you not lie to Her Majesty, the Queen of France?
Queen Marie : Choose your words wisely, madame, for they may be your last.
Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : [nervously] A woman would do practically anything for the love of a daughter, Your Majesties. Perhaps I did get... a little carried away.
Marguerite : Mother, what have you done? Your Majesty, like you, I am just a victim here. She has lied to us both, and I am ashamed to call her family!
Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : [pushes her] How dare you turn on me, you little ingrate?
Marguerite : You see? You see what I have to put up with?
King Francis : Silence, both of you! Good Lord!
[to Jacqueline]
King Francis : Are they always like this?
Jacqueline : Worse, Your Majesty.
Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : Jacqueline, *darling*, I'd hate to think you had anything to do with this.
Jacqueline : [pointedly] 'Course not, Mother. I'm only here for the food.
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Jacqueline : I wanted to be the peacock!
Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : Honestly, Jacqueline, the horse is one of God's noblest creatures.
Jacqueline : [sarcastically] Oh, well why don't I just pull the carriage while I'm at it?
Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : If you think it will get us there any faster...
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Jacqueline : Mother, it's only a ball.
Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : Yes, and you're only going for the food.
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Rodmilla : [after the laundry supervisor points out their work] Marguerite.
Marguerite : What?
Rodmilla : Well, you heard the woman.
Marguerite : So did you.
Rodmilla : Yes, but I'm management.
Marguerite : Like hell you are! You're just the same as me, a big NOBODY!
Rodmilla : How dare you speak to me that way? I'm of noble blood!
Laundry Supervisor : And you are getting on my nerves.
[knocks both of them into a vat of dye with a bag of laundry]
Laundry Supervisor : [chuckles briefly] Now get to work.
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Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : Darling, nothing is final until you are dead. And even then, I'm sure God negotiates.
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Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : Go... catch a chicken.
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Marguerite : I was not shrill, I was resonant. A courtier knows the difference.
Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : I very much doubt your style of resonance would be permitted in the royal court.
Marguerite : I'm not going to the Royal Court, am I, Mother? No one is, except some Spanish pig they have the nerve to call a princess.
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Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : Marguerite, precious, what do I always say about tone?
Jacqueline : A lady of breeding ought never to raise her voice any louder than the... gentle hum of a whisper in the wind.
Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : Jacqueline, dear, do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
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Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : Jacqueline, go and boil some water.
Jacqueline : Me? Boil water?... Oh I knew it! I just knew it!
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Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : Where did you put the gown, Danielle?
Danielle : [raising her voice] Where are the candlesticks, and the tapestries, and the silver? Perhaps the dress is with them!
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Jacqueline : Marguerite gets to do everything.
Marguerite : Oh, don't be daft, Jacqueline, the Queen doesn't even know you exist.
Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : What Marguerite does is for all of us, my dear. We are counting on you to help her get ready.
Jacqueline : Lovely. Next thing you know I shall be cleaning the fireplace with Danielle.
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Rodmilla : Some people read because they cannot think for themselves.
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Jacqueline : Next thing you know I shall be cleaning the fireplace with Danielle.
Rodmilla : Where is that girl?
Marguerite : Probably off catching rabbits with her teeth.
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Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : Where is the dress, Danielle?
Danielle : I don't know what you're talking about.
Marguerite : The gown? The slippers? They were in my room this morning, and now they're gone. You hid them I know it!
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Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : Oh, look who finally decided to grace us with her presence.
Danielle : What do you think you're doing?
Marguerite : Trying on my dress.
Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : Do you honestly think that after that performance this morning I'd let you go anywhere?
Danielle : [appalled] Do you honestly think these games, these intrigues are going to win you a crown? To hunt royalty like some sport, it's disgusting!
Marguerite : You're just jealous.
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Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent : Of all the insidious jokes, turning your mother into a Countess. Why it's almost as absurd as a prince who spends his days with a peasant who sleeps with pigs.
