Queen Christina1933

Christina:
There is too great a burden you put on me. I have grown up in a great man's shadow. All my life I've been a symbol, a symbol of eternal changelessness, an abstraction. A human being is mortal and changeable with desires and impurities, hopes and despairs. I'm tired of being a symbol, Chancellor. I long to be a human being, this longing I cannot suppress.

Chancellor:
And yet you must, you will. His hand is upon you, the King's.

Christina:
I have always listened to you with awe, Oxenstierna...Yet something in me cries out that this cannot be true, that one must live for oneself. After all Chancellor, one's own life is all one has.

Chancellor:
Yes, your Majesty, that is all one has. Therefore, you must give it up to your duty. Greatness demands all.

Christina:
Am I great, Chancellor? I feel so little and helpless and futile.

Chancellor:
Yes, your Majesty, when you are alone. But tomorrow when this great hall is filled with the pride of your realm, you will meet the occasion, you will do your duty, you will marry Prince Charles.

Christina:
Duty. Duty.

Chancellor:
My heritage, your Majesty, and yours.