Quotes About Legacy

He was therefore heir to a triple monarchy.

she kept religion and politics apart, putting the ideal of monarchy and of hereditary descent ahead of religion.

Mary's uncle presented the fifteen-year-old king with the scepter, the rod of justice and a ring

The lords realized that her position as the future queen of France

so refused to accept the usual title of Dowager Queen.

Instead, she insisted on being called Queen Mother for the rest of her life.

Mary Tudor, the English queen, fell mortally ill at the age of forty-two.

It was the classic dilemma for women rulers. Should they marry and have children

Lennox was furious with his son, who had brought all his plans of the past twenty years to the verge of catastrophe.

Her son, Prince James

of the kingdauphin and queen-

It was to taint the relationship of Mary and Elizabeth for the rest of their lives.

Francis was succeeded by his brother, Charles IX, who was only ten years old.

The Guise family's ascendancy was over.

more damaging loss to his reputation than that suffered thirty years before by his father, James IV

cut to pieces at Flodden Field by the father of the very same English commander.

He went to pieces when told that his heir was not a boy.

she continued so relentlessly to set her sights on recognition as the heir to a woman who was only nine years older

She was only twenty-eight. It was, wrote a chronicler

Yours is a loving spirit; it should not die with you

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has been the memory of what happened at Hiroshima. – John Hersey, quoted in Fallout by Lesley Blume

There is no peace in dying.

I love my father. It's not his fault that he made up a fear and, in order to make it feel more real to him, gave it to me. I was obviously built to receive it.

As a father now myself, it's sobering to think about how the smallest comments will ripple through your children's lives, with some leaving permanent warps. I must console myself in the certainty that I am helping them and damaging them in other ways I cannot see.