Queen Christina
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1:05:00
Then why doesn't she
send the Spaniard home?

1:05:13
I have been driving in the streets
and I have seen disgraceful things.

1:05:17
How is it that we are not better policed?
1:05:19
In insulting our guests, they insult us.
Why is this not made clear to them?

1:05:24
The people resent this man, Your Majesty.
1:05:26
Not in his own person...
1:05:27
but as interfering with our hopes
of your marriage to Prince Charles.

1:05:31
You have fed them this hope...
1:05:33
when you have known all the time
that I have no wish to gratify it.

1:05:37
I hold you responsible. All of you.
1:05:39
Your Majesty is not considering
to accept King Philip's offer?

1:05:43
No.
1:05:44
In that case, the presence here
of the Spanish envoy is superfluous.

1:05:48
He could go home.
1:05:50
Why?
1:05:51
Do I peer into the lives of my subjects...
1:05:53
and dictate to them
whom they shall love?

1:05:55
Will I serve them less if I am happy?
1:05:58
What strangely foolish title is it
that calls me ruler...

1:06:02
if in what concerns me most nearly,
I'm to have no voice?

1:06:05
It is intolerable.
1:06:07
There is a freedom which is mine...
1:06:09
and which the state cannot take away.
1:06:11
To the unreasonable tyranny of the mob...
1:06:14
and to the malicious tyranny
of palace intrigue...

1:06:17
I shall not submit.
1:06:19
Know this, all of you.
1:06:30
General?
1:06:31
Your Majesty,
the crowd demands to see you.

1:06:34
They demand entrance to the palace.
1:06:36
Are you pleased, Count Magnus?
1:06:39
There's no cause for alarm.
1:06:40
I'm not alarmed, General.
1:06:42
The guards are ready and waiting.
Their guns are primed.

1:06:45
Shall I order them to fire?
1:06:47
No, General.
1:06:48
- Shall I arrest the ringleaders?
- No.

1:06:50
Then what shall I do, Your Majesty?
1:06:52
Let them in, General.
1:06:53
Your Majesty, you cannot do that.
1:06:55
But, Your Majesty...
1:06:58
Let them in.

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