Leanda de Lisle Quotes

• There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.

  Leanda de Lisle

  History, Doubt, Passing

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• If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse

  Leanda de Lisle

  Punishment, Faults, Youth

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• But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.

  Leanda de Lisle

  Kings, Sea, Water

  Leanda de Lisle, Leanda Lisle (2013). “Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family”, p.27, PublicAffairs

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