Occupation: Novelist Birth: January 9, 1954
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She l….
You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful cr….
...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George sa….
I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that h….
He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in ….
I have given my word that only death will take me from you..
I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at ….
...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will….
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..
If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go..
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian..
But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love..