She was not so forbearing when it came to bad breath. After receiving one French envoy, she exclaimed, ‘Good God! What shall I do if this man stay here, for I smell him an hour after he has gone!’ Her...
Matilda managed to present William with ten children, which she probably could not have done had she been just over four feet tall.
It did not do to give your heart to a man so entirely, she thought. Men did not value what they came by easily. Once you loved, you laid yourself open to pain.
Former Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson also opposed Zionism. Acheson‘s biographer writes that Acheson worried that the West would pay a high price for Israel. Another author, John Mulhall, record...
Be well advised what ye put in his head, for ye shall never pull it out again.
At Sandwich, in 1579, she paid the magistrates’ wives a great compliment when, without employing a food taster, she sampled some of the 160 dishes they had prepared for her and even ordered some to be...
An organization which has the aims we have must be anonymous, must work silently,[52] and through education and infection rather than through force and noise.
The U.S. connection to Israel as one of the most critical issues in the world today, and one of the most urgent for Americans to understand. The
Since mediaeval times, the King had been seen as two bodies in one: a mortal entity and the King’s person, representing unending royal authority; monarchs therefore referred to themselves in the plura...
Only during courtship might a woman briefly gain the upper hand, as both Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour did, but woe betide her if she did not quickly learn to conform once the wedding-ring was on her f...
Life was good, and already she understood that to be aware of happiness when you were actually feeling it, and not just in retrospect, was to be happy indeed.
It is too dangerous to meddle in the marriage of princes,' he muttered as he withdrew. Arundel made a joke at his expense, saying 'He lost his post as Chancellor that day, for the Queen had usurped it...
I steel myself to ignore his taunts and his coarse language. I no longer care what he says or does. It doesn't matter anymore. I am detached, contained in my own private world where he cannot reach me...
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This was the culmination of all her hopes. God had seen fit to answer her prayers, and she was filled to the brim with thankfulness. She was to be Queen of England, raised by this magnificent young ma...
Agnus Dei;
Large and excellent joints, the delicacies and cleanliness customary in Italy were wanting
Anxiety.
If a ruler suffers subjects to be ill-educated, and then punishes them for crimes they commit in their ignorance, what else can we conclude but that he first makes thieves and then punishes them!
But Anne was asking herself why being queen mattered so much, when the chance for true love was hers for the seizing. And always she came back to the argument that the crown was hers for the seizing t...