Peter O'Toole
(as Henry II)
Katharine Hepburn
(as Eleanor of Aquitaine)
Henry II:
What is this? I'm not mouldering. My paint's not peeling off. I'm good for years.
Eleanor: How many years? Suppose I hold you back for one. I can. It's possible. Suppose your first son dies, ours did. It's possible. Suppose you're daughtered next, we were. That too is possible. How old is daddy then? What kind of spindly, ricket-ridden, milky, wizened, dim-eyed, gammy-handed, limpy line of things will you beget?
Eleanor: How many years? Suppose I hold you back for one. I can. It's possible. Suppose your first son dies, ours did. It's possible. Suppose you're daughtered next, we were. That too is possible. How old is daddy then? What kind of spindly, ricket-ridden, milky, wizened, dim-eyed, gammy-handed, limpy line of things will you beget?
Peter O'Toole
(as Henry II)
Peter O'Toole
(as Henry II)
Peter O'Toole
(as Henry II)
Peter O'Toole
(as Henry II)
Peter O'Toole
(as Henry II)
Henry II:
Who's to say it's monstrous? I'm the King. I call it just. Therefore, I, Henry, by the Grace of God King of the English, Lord of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Count of Anjou, Brittany, Poitou and Normandy, Maine, Gascony, and Acquitaine, do sentence you to death. Done this Christmas Day in Chinon in God's year eleven eighty-three.
Peter O'Toole
(as Henry II)
Katharine Hepburn
(as Eleanor of Aquitaine)
Peter O'Toole
(as Henry II)
[Upon seeing his wife after she arrives for Christmas Court]
Henry II: HA! What shall we hang... the holly, or each other?
Henry II: HA! What shall we hang... the holly, or each other?
