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- We pushed him into a hole and threw earth, he was still alive, and I thought: is this the fate of kings? In the morning he is the ruler of people, second after God. And in the evening he is left with mutilated flesh and shattered bones, and he suffocates from the dirt in his mouth. Is this a royal fate? ..
Quote Explanation: about Richard III and his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth.
- I am the son of King Edward IV and Queen Elizabeth Woodville! I survived the battle, I went through the flames and I will ascend the English throne!
- If it were Richard, and he is my brother, I would tell you about it myself. But he's here to kill the king and plunder England! If you fear the Lord, follow your king, Henry Tudor. If not for him, do it for me, daughter of Edward IV and Queen Elizabeth Woodville, who has just died! ..
The king does not take his eyes off the death of the traitor.
Before I die, I will say: you are not the king! And you can't be! With you, England is dying and people are suffering. Kill me and the thousands after me, those who will stand up and say, long live the king... Richard!
Quote Explanation: Henry VII Tudor.
- Do you have a choice? Do you think you are free to choose? I am the king and am not free!
A real king, not the one who considers himself as such, but the one who the world wants to see.
Will you leave darkness beside you? No, you cannot, because you are the king of these lands. You should be the light of hope for everyone, and in this case, let me take your darkness so that you can fulfill your plans.
You don't decide anything yourself, that's why everyone loves you so much. The last monarch to live with his mind was me, and so I was banished.
- You are a king from God. You are the king of England. YOU are my king.
- I lived the same way. Toys in the hands of ambitious mothers.
- Everywhere you look, the nobility conssues against me, the servants pass letters, laugh in my face, and threaten me with a dagger behind my back.
- That's what it means to be king! So it was with his father, so it was with Richard. They were threatened by you and the Lancasters and those who killed my brothers in the Tower.
- That's what it means to be king! So it was with his father, so it was with Richard. They were threatened by you and the Lancasters and those who killed my brothers in the Tower.
For two weeks I sat locked in my room, surrounded by books that were fashionable at the time (sixteen or seventeen years ago); I'm talking about books that talk about the art of making people happy, wise, and rich at twenty-four o'clock. And so I have digested, or rather swallowed, all the fabrications of all these interpreters of universal happiness, both those who advise all the poor to become slaves, and those who assure them that they are all deposed kings. It should come as no surprise that as a result I found myself in a state close to fainting or insanity.
- Cousins and cousins. And they lead to the death of kings and armies.
- That's not what we expected.
- Has the Pope disappointed you, Your Majesty? Did you expect to see gold and silver robes? In external brilliance there is a meaning, but hearts should be ruled by simplicity. We are all naked before the Lord. Even the Pope. Even the King of France.
- Has the Pope disappointed you, Your Majesty? Did you expect to see gold and silver robes? In external brilliance there is a meaning, but hearts should be ruled by simplicity. We are all naked before the Lord. Even the Pope. Even the King of France.
