Author of quotes: Christopher William Gartner

Maria and I... we're not quite normal sister. Too much pain between us, too many losses. She can't forgive me, although my only fault that I am the daughter of a rival of her mother.

Love the Elizabeth Tudor means to always want more than is possible to obtain. Eternally between heaven and hell, yearning for the unattainable. And in this sense I felt sorry for Robert Dudley. The image of Elizabeth, engraved in his heart, beckoning him to Paradise, but with the chains of the flesh he was chained to the gates of hell.

You need to find your own way in the new world, where I had settled.

Her love gave safe haven from the turmoil of these days, from court guile and my secrets.

In the mirror I looked a stranger - and now that stranger was myself. But now I know who he is, and will be able to manage it.

I never wanted a crown for his son. My husband would do anything for the throne, but not Guilford. I will save it. I will have to crawl on my knees. Maria is a woman, she knows the bitterness of loss. She will understand that the son should not answer for the father.

We're supposed to be enemies, but time requires us otherwise.

You can hit me if you want. But it will not help you reclaim lost forever. I was guilty of many things, but not me.

Far above the shore loomed the tower, a silent guardian of London, perched on the lap of the river. I couldn't see, but they knew every inch of those gloomy walls to protect dozens of guns. In the rays of the setting sun weathered stones it seemed stained with rust or splattered with blood - a stark reminder that within these walls no one is willingly.

By the time Anna came to the scaffold, and Henry took to wife, and lost Jane Seymour. The third wife gave the king the long-awaited son Edward. Henry married three more times. In our time, most quickly forget the dead.

Henry crowned Anne Boleyn, when she was in her sixth month of pregnancy. Supposedly God has blessed their Union, and the confusion into which they had plunged England. Do they know that the child in the womb of Anna will be the beginning of its end.

The history of Maria Suffolk then seemed to me emblematic for our time. The sister of a king is dying in obscurity, spending months in solitude in his estate Western.

Many believed that Anne Boleyn bewitched the king. She was a woman of strong will and convictions. The common people hated her, and many nobles also. She banished Catherine of Aragon, threatened to send to the scaffold a daughter of Henry Mary. Many close to the king have fallen out of favor, while others lost their heads at her whim.

... I would and did not pay attention, do not touch that story beloved sister of Henry VIII. It is often called the Queen of France. Bratty Princess, she has caused an international scandal when she married with Charles Suffolk. But her death, no one noticed - but she was only thirty-seven.