Margaret Anne MacLeod > Quotes

“Could any mother amongst us even contemplate such actions? I appeal to all mothers here.”
― Margaret Anne MacLeod, Marie Antoinette: The Courageous End

“If you see me leaving this palace, you have my permission to nail me to the wall.”
― Margaret Anne MacLeod, Marie Antoinette: The Courageous End

“My father continues to press me to return to Sweden and abandon everything, but I will never do so. I am absolutely determined, nothing in the world could persuade me to abandon you.”
― Margaret Anne MacLeod, Marie Antoinette: The Courageous End

“Adieu, I am all yours.”
― Margaret Anne MacLeod, Marie Antoinette: The Courageous End

“You will need money in the beginning. How much do you have in London? Can we use your diamonds as security?”
― Margaret Anne MacLeod, Marie Antoinette: The Courageous End

“It was barbarity to leave an unhappy and sickly infant, eight years old, in a great room, locked and bolted in, with no other resource than a broken bell, which he never rang, so greatly did he fear the people whom its sound would have brought to him.”
― Margaret Anne MacLeod, Marie Antoinette: The Courageous End

“[His guards] taught him the most horrible oaths and insults against God, his own family and the aristocrats. My mother fortunately was ignorant of these horrors. Oh, my God! What pain it would have given her!”
― Margaret Anne MacLeod, Marie Antoinette: The Courageous End

“For a long time now the factious have not bothered to disguise their plans of wiping out the royal family. If help does not arrive soon , only Providence can save the king and his family.”
― Margaret Anne MacLeod, Marie Antoinette: The Courageous End

“At last, about three o'clock, they finished questioning me. They had been questioning me since noon. I entreated Chaumette to let me rejoin my mother. 'That is not my decision,' he replied.”
― Margaret Anne MacLeod, Marie Antoinette: The Courageous End

“At last, about three o'clock, they finished questioning me. They had been questioning me since noon. I entreated Chaumette to let me rejoin my mother. "That is not my decision," he replied.”
― Margaret Anne MacLeod, Marie Antoinette: The Courageous End

“I have only been able to think of my loss. It is agonising to think that she was alone in her last moments, with no one to console her, with no one to confide in, with no one to whom she could pass on her last wishes.”
― Margaret Anne MacLeod, Marie Antoinette: The Courageous End