A haja szőke, a szeme szürke, napbarnított, nyílt, mosolygó arca csupa báj és könnyed elegancia. Ilyen királyt eddig még nem láttunk Angliában: ezt a férfit első látásra megszeretik az emberek. Tekint...
¿Qué mejor manera de pasar los últimos días del mundo que enamorándose?
With onions and carrots drawn up like a retinue
Who could deny the Pope when he held the keys of heaven in his hand?
We stood for a moment, handclasped in the warm sunshine, and I thought, like a lovesick girl: This is heaven.
She taught me that there is nothing in the world more powerful than a woman who knows what she wants and walks a straight road towards it. It doesn’t matter if you call it magic or determination. It d...
Quando se reconhece que o amado é tudo menos perfeito, tal constitui um verdadeiro teste ao amor.
Man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.
Keep her away from his brother. They say he had her locked in her room. But true love prevailed, and the young duke and the young widowed princess fell into each other’s arms. At all events, this vers...
In the water is a woman of such beauty that her skin is paler than the white marble and her hair is darker than the night skies. He falls in love with her at once, and she with him, and he takes her t...
Feel that deep joy of a writer seeing her work in print for the first time. The absorbing private work has become public, it has stepped out into the world. It will be judged and I am full of confiden...
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With this contradictory parentage of mine: solid English earth and French water goddess, one could expect anything from me. An enchantress or an ordinary girl. There are some who will say I am both.
Why not?’ She asks the most challenging questions that a woman can ask. ‘Why should I not read? Why should I not think? Why should I not speak?
What’s your family? he demanded through clenched teeth. Boleyn. What’s your kin? Howards. What’s your home? Hever and Rochford. What’s your kingdom? England. Who’s your king? Henry. Then serve them. I...
We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up. It...
We are both people of faith, he said quietly. Our enemies should be the people who have no faith, neither in their God, nor in others, nor in themselves. The people who should face our crusade should...
We are Plantagenets - we dine on a diet of betrayal and heartbreak.
We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.
We all had parts to play, we all had costumes to wear, we all had to be as merry as we could be, for the king was always laughing this winter and the queen never stopped smiling. The