King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.