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Funny / The White Queen

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Episode 4

Jacquetta is on trial for witchcraft and asks to call a witness — who does she call? Margaret of Anjou. Jacquetta then subsequently tears Lord Warwick's claims of her being a witch to shreds by explaining that Margaret of Anjou would be... ahem... displeased if anything bad were to happen to her. In the scene before in which she features, Margaret of Anjou talks to Anne Neville about the wheel of fate, which Jacquetta had taught her, meaning that Jacquetta's best bet for safety is the goddamn enemy!
- Even funnier? It works because Warwick just won't dare piss Margaret of Anjou off.
Jacquetta Woodville: Margaret of Anjou. Your anointed Queen.
Warwick: What did you say?!
Jacquetta Woodville: [Calmly, turns to address jury in the room] I think you heard me. I escorted Margaret to England for her wedding when she was just fifteen, I carried her train at her coronation, I was by her side when she gave birth to her son. I was her dearest friend. [Turns back to look directly at Warwick] If any harm comes to me, it will be your head she spikes on the city walls, I can promise you that.

Episode 5

This exchange between Anne and her mother before they board a ship:
Anne: [terrified] We'll never reach England! It's madness, sailing into this wind!
Countess Warwick: The captain claims it is safe.
Anne: With a blade held to his neck!
George makes a wisecrack about the violent manner in which Lord Warwick was killed at the Battle of Barnet.
Richard: And we are not savages.
George: [sarcastically] We were just the ones who put him to the sword a touch excessively, no?

Episode 6

In the courtyard, the York brothers fool around by playing a game where Richard is a cavalryman who climbs on George's back, his "horse," and they charge at Edward, an enemy soldier, who knocks them both down with his sword.
- This becomes even funnier when you know that the actors didn't know the camera was rolling and were genuinely messing around.
Richard's Eyebrow Waggle to George is very amusing because it's extremely rare for the former to drop his stern demeanour and be light-hearted.

Episode 7

The infant Edward of Middleham is calm and content in the presence of his parents, but the instant Countess Warwick enters the room, the baby cries his head off. It's almost as if he can instinctively sense Anne's trepidation at seeing her mother again and Richard's dislike of his mother-in-law, so little Edward reacts by wailing at the sight of his maternal grandmother.
One scene, after a whiplash of George accusing Elizabeth of being a witch, has Elizabeth walk in on Edward having a fitting... however, the two servants trying to dress him can't get his new outfit closed around his belly because he's just too fat.