King henry Quote by Hilary Mantel
““To gentle pressure, King Henry capitulated; the White Rose, aged twenty-four, was taken out into God’s light and air, in order to have his head cut off. But there is always another White Rose; the Plantagenets breed, though not unsupervised. There will always””
![“...The underlying motive for the French wars [of 1562-1598] was not religious, but dynastic. By the mid-16th century, the Valois family of kings, who had ruled France since 1328, was losing its grasp on political power. Valois King Henry II died in 1559, leaving four sons, all too young or too…” quote by Fiona MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c92/fiona-macdonald-79385_church-service_the-underlying-motive-for-the-french-war_390803.jpg)
