"Marry whom your grace? For some say France and others Spain. And some cannot abide the idea of foreigners at all. I don't know how best to please you...unless I marry one of each?"
"You speak of the sanctity of marriage...and yet you are twice divorced and now upon your third wife."
Sir William Cecil asking the Queen's ladies-in-waiting to show him Her Majesty's sheets every morning to know all "her proper functions" (read: the Queen's virginity). Kat Ashley's face screams "Really, sir?".
All the funnier with Elizabeth having some passionate intercourse with Lord Robert right after this exchange.
Walsingham locking up the bishops so they won't interfere with the Act of Uniformity.
Elizabeth first meets the Spanish Ambassador in the confession box where he suggests she marries Philip of Spain (while he is still married to her sister). It's a rather shady and distressing moment for Elizabeth. So at her coronation, Sir William introduces her to the Ambassador and she responds, "how could I forget?" as she lets him kiss her hand.
De Foix's reaction when Anjou begins sleazily talking about sleeping with Elizabeth practically the second they first meet. He looks mortified.
He looks similarly embarrassed (and resigned - he's clearly used to the duke's...eccentricities) when Elizabeth discovers Anjou wearing one of her dresses.
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Walter Raleigh comes to court, telling Elizabeth of his journey to the New World.
Raleigh: We have claimed its fertile coast and we have named it Virginia, after our Virgin Queen. Elizabeth: "Virginia"? And when I am married, will you rename it to "Conjugia"?
Elizabeth getting Walsingham to eat a potato for her.
Philip II's entire character is so deranged and odd that he makes for a walking moment of funny, especially if the viewer is familiar with Spanish accents and can note how utterly alien the actor's delivery is.
It's a true challenge not to laugh with his not any less strange way of walking, best seen when he takes his small daughter Isabella to El Escorial's balcony.
In the way it seems like little Isabella is scolding her father, followed by her walking away and all of his retinue of bishops and cardinals following her, is also weirdly hilarious.
Philip II is sitting, alone, in a dark room, with a single candle, and he practically bawls his eyes out when the candle extinguishes due to gusts of air.
