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

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.

Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.

There are many sorts of love. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.

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.

We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.