Roland Hui > Quotes

“Henry VIII was a temperamental, fat, semi-invalid with a pus filled leg and a chequered history as a husband.”
― Roland Hui, The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens

“In February 1544, a new Act of Succession modified the one of 1536 that had settled the Crown on the children of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour. Edward was still first in line to the throne, of course, followed by any children the King might have with Katharine Parr. A significant change in the Act was that Mary was back in the picture, as was Elizabeth – though both were still considered illegitimate.”
― Roland Hui, The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens

“Among the expatriates was Henry VI’s half-brother Jasper, Earl of Pembroke, the son of Henry V’s widow Catherine of Valois by her second marriage to a Welshman named Owen Tudor.”
― Roland Hui, The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens

“Because of Suffolk, his daughter and his son-in-law had to die. Though Jane Grey and Guilford Dudley had no part in his treason, Mary, encouraged by Gardiner, came to believe that her Crown would never be safe until all threats had been removed.”
― Roland Hui, The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens

“While the Lancastrian line drew from King Edward III’s fourth son, John of Gaunt, the House of York sprang from Lionel, Duke of Clarence, the third son. Not only that, York also came from a fifth son of the old King.”
― Roland Hui, The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens

“Having had three husbands already, Mary Queen of Scots was ready for a fourth. As she surmised, her hopes lay not in Elizabeth’s promises - which had proved so empty – but on making a new match for herself. The bridegroom she had in mind was England’s premier nobleman, the Duke of Norfolk.”
― Roland Hui, The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens

“Margaret of Anjou. Where Henry VI was meek and mild, Margaret was fiery and fearsome. ‘She spareth no pain’, it was said, ‘to sue her things to an intent and conclusion to her power’.”
― Roland Hui, The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens

“Concerning salvation, it was not, as Katharine wrote, achieved through rituals but rather through a personal knowledge of Christ as Redeemer. In reading St Paul that ‘we be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the deeds of the law’,”
― Roland Hui, The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens