First lady Quote by Philippa Gregory

“They say she has all the gentlemen of the king’s privy chamber, one after another. She don’t like delay so they all stand in…

— Hilary Mantel

“I am leaving in the morning Lady Grantham. I doubt we will meet again.” Sir Richard “Do you promise?” Dowager Countess Violet”

— Dowager Countess Violet Grantham

“Elizabeth?” Ian said in a clipped voice. She whirled around, her heart slamming against her ribs, her hand flying to her throat, her knees…

— Judith McNaught

“She was the royal princess. She had to start acting like one. She had to stop talking about being trapped, about being handed over…

— Liz Braswell

“I may be the Cinderella to put on the slipper after all.' Margaret”

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“The most powerful men of the kingdom have dragged a duchess down and sent her out to be a marvel to the common people…

— Philippa Gregory

“As I closed the door I caught a last glimpse of her through the round window, still sitting straight-backed and motionless with her hands…

— Tana French

“Victorian and touchingly respectable. “I have been crying,” confessed Lady Agatha. “I was afraid so, Lady Agatha,” said Emily.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once,…

— Anna Quindlen

“... a queen belongs to her people, not to herself.”

— George R.R. Martin

“And maybe I was a little intense. But not as much as the princess who marched into that court in a very unprofessional pair…

— Beth Fantaskey

“She had no idea, no better than my kitten, as to how she would survive in this kingdom of her enemies. She must have…

— Philippa Gregory