I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.