God has not given this false marriage his blessing. Every year he has turned his face from me and I should have seen it earlier. The queen is not my wife, she is Arthur’s wife.
Funny sky,' he said, squinting up at the thick-bellied white clouds and the sun shining so hot on them but not breaking through.'It feels as if there should be a storm,' I said 'but it was like this a...
For the first time it strikes me that it must be hard to spend your life in exile and finally win your kingdom by a thread, by the action of a turncoat in battle, and to know that most of the country...
For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would alw...
Every woman should marry for her own advantage since her husband will represent her, as visible as her front door, for the rest of his life. If she chooses a wastrel she will be avoided by all her nei...
Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.
Every scholarly history that was written before 1920 was written by a man who had been taught by a man, whose thesis would be examined by a man, and whose book would be published by a male publisher a...
Compared with the rest of us she was silver, while we were pewter, a common mixture of lead and tin.
But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
Because they will want me in Edinburgh to make sure that the Scottish king holds to the new alliance with England. They’ll want me to hold him in friendship with Henry. They’ll think that if I am quee...
As men have to fight, women have to wait and plan. This is your time for waiting and planning, and you must be constant and discreet.Honesty matters so much less.
As he catches my eye he beams at me, his dark face bright with affection. Anyone can see it who cares to look at him, he is hopelessly indiscreet. He puts his hand to his heart as if swearing fidelity...
Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
Any triumph she has is halved if I am not there to see it. And anything that goes wrong for me, any slight or humiliation, she is quick to perceive and she would even be quick to revenge—oh!—but insid...
Anne tried to dazzle him with her high spirits and her beauty. She kept her temper with him, though he was sour and dull. She danced, she gambled, she laughed, she skated, she was all joy, all light....
And those people like my grandmother, who are so free with their insults and their slaps, who say that it is a tremendous honor and a fine step up for a ninny like me, might well consider that a fool...
And swore that whatever the obstacles before me, I should be Queen of England.
All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
Ah, my dear. Sometimes God takes the most precious children to his own.
A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.