I do not grieve for him as a wife, as Anne Devereux has grieved for her husband William Herbert. She promised him she would never remarry, she swore she would go to her grave hoping to meet him in hea...
He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.
He likes to think well of himself, I explained, watching the turn of Anne’s head and hearing her ripple of low laughter. He could not bring himself to turn off a woman just because she’s become old. H...
For who could resist a woman who could fall from being queen to commoner and yet still carry herself as if greatness was within?
Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.
But I want to be loved. I have always been loved. I want my husband to love me with a passion, like in a troubadour tale, like a knight.
But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
But Elizabeth and I are accustomed to loss, we are Plantagenets—we dine on a diet of betrayal and heartbreak.
A steady love, a faithful love, a wife’s love is the best.
Think of his cupping my mother’s cheek in his hand and telling her that she is the cleverest woman in England and he will be guided by none but her; and then going his own way.
Pilgrims and swore an oath? Who rang the
Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.
War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
She has a smile that grows slowly and then shines, like an angel’s smile.
I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.
I don't think your God has ever advised you otherwise. You hear only what you want. He only ever commands your preferences.
All this is always for nothing, he says. Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided. But if Edward can defeat the queen, and imprison her al...
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...
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
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.