She-Wolves Quotes

“Amid the chaos and confusion, one thing alone was certain: for the first time, a woman would sit upon the throne of England.”
― Helen Castor, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

“. . . she at once put on an extremely arrogant demeanour instead of the modest gait and bearing proper to the gentle sex,” the Gesta’s author complained, “began to walk and speak and do all things more stiffly and more haughtily than she had been wont, to such a point that soon, in the capital of the land subject to her, she actually made herself queen of all England and gloried in being so called.”
― Helen Castor, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

“It was to kings, not queens, that Tudor sovereigns looked for example and warning. (“I am Richard II, know ye not that?” Elizabeth sharply remarked in response to Shakespeare’s meditation on the nature of kingship.)”
― Helen Castor, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

“For the first time in the kingdom’s history, all the contenders for the crown that Edward was about to relinquish were female.”
― Helen Castor, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

“His physicians did not know it, but an attack of measles, such as the one from which the king had recovered a year earlier, serves to suppress the victim’s resistance to tuberculosis.”
― Helen Castor, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

“King Henry—have exchanged her son’s inheritance for”
― Helen Castor, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth