Nancy Bilyeau > Nancy's Quotes

“[I]f I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.”
― Elizabeth I Tudor

“When a burning is announced, the taverns off Smithfield Square order extra barrels of ale, but when the person to be executed is a woman and one of noble birth, the ale comes by the cartload.”
― Nancy Bilyeau, The Crown

“A faint acrid smell drifted in through the window, from the cannon fire. But through it all the walls of my prison cell never trembled. The walls of the Tower are the thickest in the land and they never, ever tremble”
― Nancy Bilyeau, The Crown