If disliking Richard be grounds for accusing a man of conspiracy, I daresay you could implicate half of Christendom in this so-called plot. Richard endears himself easiest to those who've yet to meet...
I know you do not care much for such revelries, but trust me—this one you will enjoy, Harry. You and I will sit at the high table, eating porpoise and swan, whilst we watch my male kinfolk eating humb...
How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby’s first breat...
Hell and furies! Eleanor had begun to pace, her skirts swirling about her ankles. What was he thinking?When does he ever think? Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wine cup from Raoul. If he were...
He could not change his nature, could not help being cautious, deliberate, introspective, not traits to be scorned by any means, but traits that seemed dull, bland—even to him—when compared with Davyd...
Geoffrey looked startled to see both his great-uncles bearing down upon him with such haste; he hadn’t realized men their age could move so fast.
Eleanor would have been indifferent to the immorality of her adultery, but would never have forgiven the stupidity of it.
As wretched as she was, she wanted Harry to be miserable, too. And yet, she was aware of an underlying sense of sadness. Theirs may have been the first war in which there were no winners, only losers.
A pity you were not born a woman in this life, Little King of Lesser Land, for you seek only to please and to be admired by all.
As was his way, once he acknowledged the problem, he set about finding a means to resolve it
Will did not think that was fair, but he accepted that kings were often unfair and there was naught to be done about it.
When does he ever think? Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used., Chapter 7
What is a thing worth, if it comes with no risk?
War was war and soldiers were the same the world over, although killing came easier to some than others.
They had gathered at Eastcheap to wait. At this time of day, the marketplace ought to have been thronged with people looking for bargains, moving from stall to stall, examining the fresh fish, choosin...
The Welsh were a god-cursed, stiff-necked, and utterly vexatious people, John said bitterly, but they did have an inexplicable ability to rise phoenixlike from the ashes of defeat, to soar upwards on...
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.
Rumors are the easiest of all crops to tend, Richard. You need only sow a few seeds about and in no time at all, you’ll reap a harvest of hatred.
Ranulf had spent much of his life watching those he loved wrestle with the seductive, lethal lure of kingship. It had proved the ruination of his cousin Stephen, a good man who had not made a good kin...