Excerpts from the Book 'The Fifth Queen Crowned':

... arm of his heavy chair, about to haul it back from the table to sit himself down. He had been standing thus when the King had entered with the brusque ...
... do what you will. It is well to be Queen. But we who are dirt underfoot, we cannot do one single thing.' And, because she was lonely, with only Lady ...
... coifed head. For a minute she was silent. Then great sobs shook her so that Katharine swayed upon her seat. From her hidden face there came muffled ...
... have been much less clamour against her???much less clamour against the Church of her Saviour. She forced her mind to run upon all the things that she ...
... form of the Archbishop's gentleman glided noiselessly behind her back. His eyes shot one sharp, sideways glance in at the door, and, like a russet fox, ...
... Queen gazed up from her writing to where the dark girl, her figure raked very much back in her stiff bodice, played daintily with the tassels of the ...
... meeting was very secret, and Norfolk was their head. But I have heard it said that not one of them was for the Queen.' The Archbishop shrank within ...
... countryside, a tenuous bleating of late-dropped lambs. Katharine Howard's beads clicked and her dress rustled as she came up from her knees. 'It rests ...
... of drink, and a poor Kern to guide him, running at his saddle-bow. He saw neither hills nor valleys, neither heather nor ling: he had no thoughts but ...
... hatching amongst the Radigund's men a little before the Pilgrimage of Grace, when all the north parts rose. For the Radigund's men cried out and ...
... and Sir Roger Pelham, as all men know, fell with his horse on Friday, and lies up still.' 'Then it was Sir Nicholas Rochford,' Lascelles persisted. 'Sir,' ...
... where his hands sprawled out. He said few words???only when the Lord d'Espahn's server carved boar's head for him, he took one piece in his mouth ...
... you will not care for yourselves.' Standing before her mirror, where there burned in silver dishes four tall candles with perfumed wicks, Katharine ...
... it was me he would have slain.' 'Body of God!' the King said sardonically. 'He cometh for no cheap goods.' He had so often questioned his wife of ...
... the drunkard in his great fist his eyes started dreadfully. The young Poins' lips moved, but no sound came out. 'This was my messenger,' the King ...
... less noble.' The Fifth Queen Crowned Chapter 1 ? The Queen was at Hampton, and it was the late autumn. She had been sad since they ...
... was of a bear-baiting that there should be in Smithfield come Saturday. Sir Henry Wriothesley matched seven of his dogs against the seven best of the ...
... since Solomon ruled in Jewry,' the shipman cried out. 'Is it, then, the Lords of the King's Council that ye are discontented with?' 'Nay, they are goodly ...
... the King had called out??? 'Body of God! mine own bedchamber!' as if he were hatefully mocking the Archbishop. The Queen leant suddenly forward??? 'Said ...
... maybe some poor simple souls???that would have this done. Each man is set to save his skin and his goods???and you are such a weathercock that ...