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Antonia Fraser _ King Charles II
People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them.
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Antonia Fraser _ The Gunpowder Plot
a modern definition of terrorism: 'the weapon of the weak, pretending to be strong'.
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Antonia Fraser _ Marie Antoinette: The Journey
This time the Empress was supposed to have asked the celebrated healer and pretender to miraculous powers, John Joseph Gassner: "Will my daughter be happy?" His reply was suitably gnomic: "There are crosses for all shoulders." 3
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Antonia Fraser _ Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Kings who become prisoners are not far from death.
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Antonia Fraser _ The Wives of Henry VIII
Gli emblemi potevano essere facilmente rimossi, ma la memoria e l'affetto erano più difficili da cancellare."
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Antonia Fraser _ The Gunpowder Plot
* Certainly, it is impossible to understand the course of the Powder Treason from now on unless one takes into account the magnetism of Robert Catesby.
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Antonia Fraser _ Mary Queen of Scots
very last answer which Paulet and Buckhurst were prepared to
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Antonia Fraser _ My History: A Memoir of
It is a fact that, being a quick reader, apart from enabling a person to study good books such as Macaulay and Gibbon, enables a person to read a lot of bad books as well.
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Antonia Fraser _ Mary Queen of Scots
sunken to that of an old woman in the harsh disguise
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Antonia Fraser _ The Wives of Henry VIII
She might be furious at such things, jealous too on a purely human level; but she would never consider that the position of mistress could or would be converted into that of wife. That to Isabella – or her daughter – was quite unthinkable.
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Antonia Fraser _ Marie Antoinette: The Journey
The real work of destruction had been done long before by satire, libel and rumour; Marie Antoinette had become dehumanized. The actual assault by a body of people inspiring each other with their bloodthirsty frenzy was the culmination of the process, not the start of it.
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Antonia Fraser _ Royal Charles: Charles II and
Though Charles II both craved and enjoyed female companionship till the end of his life, there is no question that by the cold, rainy autumn of 1682 his physical appetites had diminshed considerably. The Duchess of Portsmouth was, after all, more than twenty years his junior; and there comes a time in nearly every such relationship when the male partner is simply unable to fully accommodate the female partner. Or as Samuel Pepys tartly noted in his diary, "the king yawns much in council, it is thought he spends himself overmuch in the arms of Madame Louise, who far from being wearied, seems fresher than ever after sporting with the king.
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