Elsa Lanchester: Anne of Cleves - The Fourth Wife
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[Henry's fourth wedding night]
King Henry VIII : My wife? Huh... not yet.
Anne of Cleves : Poor mother told me... first he says the marriage is no good, and then he cuts off the head with an ax chopper!
King Henry VIII : That is an exaggeration, madam.
Anne of Cleves : Then why do you say I am not yet your wife?
King Henry VIII : Well, madam, uh, a marriage ceremony doesn't make us one.
Anne of Cleves : Mmm?
[shows her ring]
King Henry VIII : Oh, yes, yes, yes, 's all right, but you, uh, have to, umm, I have to...
Anne of Cleves : What?
King Henry VIII : Did your mother not talk to you about...
Anne of Cleves : What?
King Henry VIII : Oh Lord. Ohhhh, well, uh, madam, all that stuff about children being found under gooseberry bushes... that's not true...
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[Henry's fourth wedding night]
King Henry VIII : [shouting] Ah, what am I, what am I going to do with you!
Anne of Cleves : Chop my head?
King Henry VIII : Probably.
Anne of Cleves : You daren't.
King Henry VIII : Why not?
Anne of Cleves : Because in Europe I will make such a scandal as you never heard. Not the first time you have chopped the head. Henry the wife-butcher, that's what they will call you!
King Henry VIII : I don't care what they say, I'm not going to live with you!
Anne of Cleves : Well, why don't you divorce me, like a gentleman?
King Henry VIII : You would consent to a divorce?
Anne of Cleves : I would consent to a divorce.
King Henry VIII : You are a very reasonable woman. What are your terms?
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Anne of Cleves : Well, how's life?
King Henry VIII : Oh, it's rather sad, Anne.
Anne of Cleves : Oh, but why?
King Henry VIII : Well, I haven't got any friends, you know. I haven't got a wife. I haven't got any love in my life... I haven't got anything. Not even hatred.
Anne of Cleves : What you want is a good wife!
King Henry VIII : "Wife"?
[makes a slightly disgusted expression]
Anne of Cleves : I said a *good* one. Not a spiteful one like the first. Not an ambitious one like the second, and not a stupid one like the third.
King Henry VIII : And not a cardsharper like the fourth.
Anne of Cleves : No, and not a very young one like the fifth. I said a *good* one.
King Henry VIII : Where do you find them?
Anne of Cleves : I'll show you...
[opens a window, where outside Catherine Parr is tending to the king's children in the palace garden]
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King Henry VIII : When a hen lays an egg, it's not entirely all her own doing.
Anne of Cleves : You mean sometimes it was the cuckoo?
King Henry VIII : Yes. It was the cuckoo.
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Anne of Cleves : Are you getting the money?
King Henry VIII : Can't you give me five minutes credit?
Anne of Cleves : I play for cash.
