Great Ladies Quotes

“The law in England forbade married women to write their last wills, but Katharine dictated a document similar to a testament in which she made several bequests and settled her debts.”
― Sylvia Barbara Soberton, Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens

“Although Henry’s death was obviously imminent, his own physicians were afraid to tell him he was dying because they could be arrested for treason under the Treason Act by predicting the death of a King.”
― Sylvia Barbara Soberton, Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens

“because a surfeit of sexual activity at an early age was believed to lead to an early death.”
― Sylvia Barbara Soberton, Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens