The Six Wives of Henry VIII (TV Mini Series)

Catherine of Aragon (1970)

Annette Crosbie: Catherine of Aragon

Quotes 

• Henry VIII : I can bring a hundred learned men to prove that you are not my wife!

  Catherine of Aragon : Bring your hundred learned men! I can bring a thousand learned men from all over Europe to prove that I am you wife, I always have been your wife and I always will be!

• Catherine of Aragon : While my husband lives, I am his wife. His own true wife.

• Catherine of Aragon : I would rather die than go back to Spain unmarried. I would rather die!

• Catherine of Aragon : The marriage between king Henry's brother and myself was never consummated. I came a virgin to king Henry as he to me, and therefore, I am his lawful wife. If I were torn limb from limb for saying so, I would rise from the dead to say it again.

• Henry VIII : I promise you that no one will be unkind to you again. Word of a king.

  Catherine of Aragon : I would rather have word of a Henry.

  Henry VIII : Word of a Henry!

• Cardinal Campeggio : I know what a faithful servant of the church you have always been. If it pleases you to enter a religious life, the king assures me that all your dower rights would be preserved.

  Catherine of Aragon : Dower rights?

  Cardinal Campeggio : The king is very willing to agree that your daughter shall be granted the right of succession, immediately following his immediate male heirs.

  Catherine of Aragon : My daughter is the only legitimate heir to the throne! For my part, I have no calling to the religious life. While my husband lives, I am his wife, his own true wife. If it were not so, I would have been his whore and my daughter a bastard, and that I will never say.