If it was not in your interests to betray me then you would have been loyal.
I will make my own future, not predict it. I don’t need a charm to tell me what I hope will happen. I throw the gold charm which is like a wedding ring up in the air and catch it before it falls. This...
I was born to be Queen of England and mother of the next King of England. I have to fulfill my destiny, it is my God-given destiny.
I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?
I saw his glance flick over me, like a horse trader assessing the value of a filly. Whenever I looked up the king’s eyes were on me, whenever I looked away I was conscious of his stare still on my fac...
I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.
I must say tonight my greatest hope is to die in my bed, at peace with the world, as an old man.
I have the Sight, I should have seen it all, but some things are too dark to forsee. These are hard times, and England is a country of sorrows. No mother can be sure that she will not bury her sons. W...
How should I forget them? They are around me like wasps around a honeypot.
He knew then, as she knew always, that it does not matter if a wife is half fish, if a husband is all mortal. If there is love enough, then nothing—not nature, not even death itself—can come between t...
He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.
As I say—it’s not the plague. It’s this new illness. They call it the sweating sickness, a new plague that King
And I am much attached to my cock, brother. Make sure your sister can put another prince in the cradle, he says baldly. Save my balls for her, Anthony!
The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life as...
Никой не трябва да ме съжалява. Могат да ме обичат, или да ме мразят, или да се страхуват от мен. Но никога няма да позволя на някого да ме съжалява.
We will put the Howards so high they can never fall.
The smell of him and the touch of his skin, I feel my desire for him rise again and we move together.
Of the palace to inform me that Lady Margaret
You are lucky in your looks, she says. Your mother was always a beauty and you are very like her: fair, slender, skin like a rose petal and that wonderful hair, gold and bronze all at once. Undoubtedl...
You are a son of Melusina, I say, trying to smile. You sound like her when she had to be free to go into the water.