Queen Lucy

[Lucy]
Linus, do you know what I intend? I intend to be a queen. When I grow up, I'm going to be the biggest queen there ever was, and I'm going to live in this big palace with a big front lawn and have lots of beautiful dresses to wear, and when I go out in my coach, all the people will wave at me and I will shout at them and...

[Linus]
Lucy, I believe that queen is an inherited title. Yes, I'm quite sure. a person can only become a queen by being born into a royal family of the correct lineage, so that she can assume the throne after the death of the reigning monarch. I can't think of any possible way that you could ever become a queen. I'm sorry, Lucy but it's true

[Lucy]
And in the summertime, I will go to my summer palace and I will wear my crown in swimming and everything, and when I go out in my coach all the people will cheer me... What do you mean I can't be a queen?

[Linus]
It's true

[Lucy]
There must be a loophole. This kind of thing always has a loophole. Nobody should be kept from being a queen if she wants to be one! It's undemocratic!

[Linus]
Good grief!

[Lucy]
It's usually just a matter of knowing the right people. I bet a few pieces of well placed correspondence and I get to be a queen in no time

[Linus]
I think I'll watch television

[Lucy]
I know what I'll do. If I can't be a queen, then I'll be very rich. I will work and work and be very, very rich and I will buy myself a queendom

[Linus]
Good grief!

[Lucy] Yes, I will buy myself a queendom and then I'll throw out the old queen and i'll take over the whole operation myself. I will be head queen, and when I go out in my coach, all the people will wave at me...

[Linus]
What happened to your queendom?

[Lucy]
Huh?

[Linus]
What happened to your queendom?

[Lucy]
Oh, I gave it up. I have decided to devote my life to cultivating my natural beauty