[MAJOR GRAY, spoken]

You will be perfect. Now, I’m a superb judge of character. I have to be

(sung)

The influential man must always be

Keen to pass his noble traits to posterity

The care that he must use

With the wife that he must choose

Is a matter of the utmost gravity

For she must live up to expectations

Nobody can doubt her loyalty

No questions and explanations

A woman of Christian tact and dignity

This is what a wife was meant to be

You know that I have traveled far and wide

Never found a woman that I wanted by my side

Most were rather plain, some were barely sane

They wanted me but I could not oblige

For it would ruin my reputation

To settle for a homely girl

Who did not live up to expectations

This is why I’ve asked you here today

To say the words you’ve always dreamed I’d say

For no one else fulfills my standards quite the way you do

And this is why I feel that I must offer this to you

(spoken)

This ring belonged to the Dutchess of Brunswick, my great-grandmother

[MARY, spoken]

I’m just so overwhelmed. I’m not sure I deserve you...

[MAJOR GRAY, spoken]

Oh, but you do. Even so, the crown prince will need to meet and prove of you before we announce anything publicly. But when he hears you sing, our names will be spoken all over London. And I know you won’t disappoint him... or me

(sung)

For you will live up to expectations