Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All

by Candace Fleming

Katharine of Aragon is the old battle-axe; Anne Boleyn, the seductress. Jane Seymour is the good wife; Anna of Cleves, the ugly frump. Catherine Howard is the giddy bubblehead; Kateryn Parr, the stoical matron.

Henry always gets what he wants. He takes it as his divine right.”

What’s done is done. But I cannot stop the memories.

“Speak not,” the good saint writes, “lest it be for great necessity, or for great good.”

this scheme of yours works best if those who might defend me are implicated as well.

So feared was I, they willed me dead.

Just keep your eyes open and your thoughts to yourself. Find one friend who is true and trust no one else,”

How can the moments of a life last forever, while the years go by in a heartbeat?

“By changing a life, just one life, you can change the world. It is the only way anyone ever has.”

Always ask yourself: ‘With whom am I speaking? Who is listening? Who is spying for whom?’ ”