~My father says there are more than twenty thousand turned out for the king. It seems that most men think that we will win, that York will be captured and killed, though the king in...

Stars in the night,’ he said. ‘Something something something something, some delight

I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,”- Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville –

The most powerful men of the kingdom have dragged a duchess down and sent her out to be a marvel to the common people of London. They are so deeply afraid of her that they...

I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the...

A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to suppress her desires, to moderate her thoughts and to spend her days...

This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.

Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise…guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.

And now I want love. Lust is no good for me. I want love. His love.

This is George, my beloved George. D’you think I want to go to my grave knowing that at the moment of his trial he looked around and saw no one lift a finger for him?...

I was born to be your rival,’ she [Anne] said simply. ‘And you mine. We’re sisters, aren’t we?

The baby should always be saved in preference to the mother. That is the advice of the Holy Church, you know that. I was only reminding women of their duty. There is no need to...

For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment and something darker, the old sense between sisters that there is only really room in the...

I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.

And now I wnt love. Lust is no good for me. I want love. His love.

I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, I can’t do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart...

He is my brother,” I said. “I cannot desert him.””You can go to your own death,” William said. “Or you can survive this, bring up your children, and guard Anne’s little girl who will be...

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.

I am so tired; all I want to do is sleep. I want to sleep all the day, from dawn until twilight that every evening comes a little earlier and a little more drearily. In...