Quotes About Royal Court

Mary of Guise, herself barely a year older than Lennox and still one of the most beautiful women in Scotland

learned the sordid inner workings of the royal court in Modeg from a . . . courtesan. As my father used to say: "Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

Now at the end of the time specified by the king, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar.