Andrew Gimson > Quotes

“The first great writer of English, Geoffrey Chaucer, was born in about 1343, the son of a London vintner, and early in life found employment at court, where he married a lady-in-waiting to the queen and in 1374 received from the king exactly the encouragement an author needs, namely "a gallon of wine daily for the rest of his life.”
― Andrew Gimson, Gimson’s Kings and Queens: Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066

“No English monarch has treated those close to him with such ruthlessness as Henry VIII. The older he got, the more often he behaved like a petulant, self-obsessed teenager with a loaded revolver.”
― Andrew Gimson, Gimson’s Kings and Queens: Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066

“No supermodel could be prouder of her legs than Henry was of his.”
― Andrew Gimson, Gimson’s Kings and Queens: Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066