We're going' Anne said firmly. So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.'Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.
The first go out to his brothers, George the golden young man, Duke of Clarence, and the youngest York boy, twelve-year-old Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who smiles shyly at me and dips his head when I...
She did not realize, when her father claimed the throne and her brother won it, that a price must always be paid for power, and it will be paid by her as well as the rest of us. She doesn’t realize ye...
Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and the time. I only know the year and the season, and I only know the season because my mother ha...
In the darkness of the forest he saw her, and whispered her name, Melusina, and at that summoning she rose out of the water and he saw that she was a woman of cool and complete beauty to the waist, an...
I prayed in silence that perhaps even now, the queen might have a son and might know joy like this, such a strange, unexpected joy- the happiness of caring for a child whose whole life was in my hands...
I am going to be Queen of England,' I protest. 'You make it sound like a battle to the death.''It is a battle to the death,' she says simply. 'That is what it means to be Queen of England. You are not...
He smiled at me, his wolfish smile. 'We are making a new order,' he said, 'a new world. Everything is changing, and here we are, at the very front of the change.''If I refuse?' I asked, my voice very...
Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.
Don't waste your courage on hating him. Keep yourself to yourself. And keep up your courage.
Another husband, another new house, another new country, but I never belong anywhere and I never own anything in my own right.
Terrible roar,
Much commented on. I have three new hoods to match, which
We will have to cut our coats to suit our cloth, and wait and see.
Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
She looks down at the ground to hide her smile of pleasure and to affect modesty, but when the dance brings them together and she takes his hand, her eyes come up to him and they gaze at each other wi...
Poor little girl. Poor little girl, Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whos...
It felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my s...
I say nothing, not one word, from beginning to end, and neither does he. If it were lawful for a woman to hate her husband, I would hate him as a rapist.
I feel no peace, I feel nothing. I think I will feel nothing forever.