Scandal (TV Series)

Heavy Is the Head (2015)

Hilty Bowen: Princess Emily

Quotes 

• Abby Whelan : [chatting in the powder room]  You know whose life I need? Princess Emily's. That woman? Nothing but game. She was a human-rights lawyer. And now she gets to wear diamonds on her head. On her head, Liv.

  Olivia Pope : I think I'll stick with being me.

  Abby Whelan : [pressing on]  I wonder what that life is like. You know, one day, you're a regular person. And the next day, you're the most famous woman on the planet, and only because of who you're in love with. Suddenly, that's all you are, is somebody's...

  Princess Emily : [suddenly emerges from a stall]  I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to eavesdrop. It's just, people get weird when they see me, so I just... I was going to try and stay in there until you left, but then you started talking about me and I thought you'd want to know I-I was in...

  Abby Whelan : [jumping to her feet]  I am so sorry, Your Royal Highness.

  Olivia Pope : Why don't we give you some privacy?

  Princess Emily : Oh, wait a minute. You're Olivia Pope! You handled the press for my engagement. I-I watched you on TV.

  Olivia Pope : My friend didn't really mean anything by what she said.

  Princess Emily : Oh, oh, I've I've gotten used to it. For most of the world, I'm not a real person anymore. I stopped being a real person for people the moment the world found out I was marrying Richard. To them, I'm... I'm not human. I'm just... a spectacle. And I don't think they would say half the things they say if they knew they were hurting an actual person - do you?

  Olivia Pope : No, I don't think they would.