I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.

Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.

Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.