Marriage Quote by Kirsten Downey

“She might be furious at such things, jealous too on a purely human level; but she would never consider that the position of mistress…

— Antonia Fraser

“As Norman bride and English queen she would walk a fine line between the interests of two rulers -- her brother and her lord.…

— Patricia Bracewell

“Because they will want me in Edinburgh to make sure that the Scottish king holds to the new alliance with England. They’ll want me…

— Philippa Gregory

The Queen made a great fuss of her future daughter-in-law, trying to demonstrate that she was interested in Diana for her personal qualities and…

— Ingrid Seward

“Why, if one were Queen, would one ever want to marry? If one is ruler, is it not better to both King and Queen?…

— Kathryn Lasky

“How strange it must be, I thought, to be wed not merely as husband and wife but Cruarch and Queen, trading men’s lives and…

— Jacqueline Carey

“The Queen’s family never understood that he had provided her with the companionship over the last decade of her life, which they themselves had…

— Shrabani Basu

“seemed to her that such a one abdicated all claim to enjoy the fruits of those friendly relations with people of good position which…

— Marcel Proust

“Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic…

— Jane Austen

“All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one.…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Sibylla, daughter of Henry I of England, and consort of Alexander the First of Scotland. This”

— Walter Scott

“She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she now therefore nothing to do but to…

— Jane Austen