Eleanor would have been indifferent to the immorality of her adultery, but would never have forgiven the stupidity of it.
And if Harry spun webs to make a spider proud, Eleanor could entangle archangels in her snares.
You might as well face it. You're not going to be able to fight for the crown. You'll just have to grit your teeth and let us hand it over to you at the bargaining table.
To call it a setback is like calling the Expulsion from Eden a minor misunderstanding.
The scene in the great hall was a raucous one, a cheerful mélange of knights, minstrels, servants, disreputable-looking women, and dogs, who were dicing, performing bawdy songs, responding to cries fo...
The last time Ranulf had run into Sulien, the older man had called him a misbegotten English Judas and spat onto the ground at his feet. Yet now that same man was approaching the bed with a jovial smi...
In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he’d lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again the enemy, his indifference and apathy drowned in a Cheshire pond.
I think the day might come, Bess, when all men will know of Dickon is what they were told by Tudor historians like Rous.Jesú, no! Bess sounded both appalled and emphatic. You mustn't think that. Whate...
But in all honesty, I do not find it so peculiar a notion, that a Welshman should rule Wales.
Between the two of us, we’ve got a family tree rooted in Hell!
As they lay entwined together afterwards, they both were sure their future was blessed, and it would never have occurred to them that Henry and Eleanor had once believed that, too.
For each age interprets the past in the light of its own biases.
The day that he accused a reigning King of murder was the day he signed his own death warrant, and he knew it.
Soldiers have many vices, but vanity is not amongst them. How could it be? What man is going to worry about his hair when he might lose his head?
It was a basic tenet of faith with men of Ranulf’s class that a knight, trained in the ways of war since boyhood, could easily vanquish lesser foes, as much a belief in the superiority of blood and br...
Will did not think that was fair, but he accepted that kings were often unfair and there was naught to be done about it.
The art of governing, Dickon, is that of making use of talent wherever you do find it. Trust is too rare an attribute to make it your prime prerequisite for holding office. If I relied only upon those...
That may be infidel wisdom, but it is wisdom all the same.
Simon said nothing, thinking of all the good men who’d died because this inept, faithless fool had been born a King’s son.
Removing his helmet, Edward knelt by the stream called Swillgate, a name that effectively quenched any desire to drink from its depths.