Alexander Larman > Quotes

“Like many witty and beautiful young heiresses of the age who had been much prized in town, she found herself out of sorts when removed from her urban milieu, sequestered either to her own family’s estate or to a cold, decrepit house in the middle of the countryside,”
― Alexander Larman, Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

“It was not simply the irritation at his life no longer being his own that stymied his ability to be a ruler worthy of the title”
― Alexander Larman, The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication

“Almost immediately after her husband died”
― Alexander Larman, The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication

“He was almost certainly suffering from what we now know as anorexia nervosa.”
― Alexander Larman, The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication