Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregoryis an English historical novelist who has been writing since 1987. The best known of her works is The Other Boleyn Girl, which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been adapted into two separate films...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 January 1954
queens might england
We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
boys mistress matter
It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?
summer
One never gets the same summer twice.
heart earth three
You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.
grace done ifs
If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.
queens way lasts
Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.
dream teaching people
I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
forgiving forget
But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
waiting enemy fool
Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
helping sometimes
Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.
son devil plot
To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
father love-you thinking
And – I think you know, don’t you? – that I love you, Anne.’ I feel as if I have been living in a loveless world for too long. The last tender face I saw was my father’s when he sailed for England. ‘You do? Truly?’ ‘I do.’ He rises to his feet and pulls me up to stand beside him. My chin comes to his shoulder, we are both dainty, long-limbed, coltish: well-matched. I turn my face into his jacket. ‘Will you marry me?’ he whispers. ‘Yes,’ I say.
interesting historical fiction
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
children love-you kissing
I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York’s broodmare.” I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. “You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn’t that sin?” His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. “I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,” - Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville -