Queen Anne Quotes

“Tell Anne..." I broke off. There was too much to send in one message. There were long years of rivalry and then a forced unity and always and ever, underpinning our love for each other, our sense that the other must be bested. How could I send her one word which would acknowledge all of that, and yet tell her that I loved her still, that I was glad I had been her sister, even though I knew she had brought herself to this point and taken George here too? That, though I would never forgive her for what she had done to us all, at the same time, I totally and wholly understood?

"Tell her what?" Catherine hovered, waiting to be released.

"Tell her that I think of her," I said simply. "All the time. Every day. The same as always.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“Sitting still all summer . . . was the height of my ambition.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“Whatever changes there are in the world I hope you will never forsake me and I shall be happy.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“I hope in the next world I shall be at ease, but in this I find I must not expect it long together.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“I am apt to think she was too artful to rail at me, but rather pretended to have a kindness for me, and like Iago gave, as she saw occasion, wounds in the dark.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“From now on Anne saw herself as someone indelibly marked by suffering. Her letters to Sarah often ended with an allusion to her tragic history of bereavement, for she took to signing them "your poor unfortunate faithful Morley.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“We are torn to pieces by parties and animosities. For my part I see no end to them.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“People may say . . . that all is made up and well again, but such breaches between great people are seldom or never so.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“Such vows . . . strike one with a sort of horror at what happened afterwards.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“Passing on information to a friend "was no breach of promise of secrecy . . . because it was no more than telling it to oneself.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“I had rather live in a cottage with you than reign empress of all the world without you.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“Anne declared that if Sarah abandoned her, "I swear to you I would shut myself up and never see a creature.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“The princess reiterated to Sarah that "her faithful Morley . . . will never part with you till she is fast locked in her coffin.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“To his distress, the Queen suddenly "burst into a passion of weeping and said it was plain [she] was to be miserable as long as [she] lived, whatever [she] did.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“I believe nobody was ever so used by a friend as I have been by her ever since coming to the Crown.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“So ended . . . a royal friendship which once could not be contained within the common bounds of love.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“I go out an honest man, but you stay in a rogue.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“Blackbeard the pirate was actually Edward Teach sometimes known as Edward Thatch, who lived from 1680 until his death on November 22, 1718. Blackbeard was a notorious English pirate who sailed around the eastern coast of North America. Although little is known about his childhood he may have worked as an apprentice on an English ship, during the second phase in a series of wars between the French and the English from 1754 and ended in 1778 as part of the American Revolutionary War. The war had different names depending on where it was fought.
In the American colonies the war was known as the French and Indian War. During the time it was fought during the reign of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, it was called Queen Anne's War and in Europe it was known as the War of the Spanish Succession.
During the earlier period of hostilities between France and England, some English ships were granted permission to raid French colonies and French ships and were considered privateers. Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined around 1716 operated from the Bahamian island of New Providence. Captain Hornigold placed Teach in command of a sloop that he had captured and during this time he was given the name Blackbeard. Horngold and Blackbeard sailing out of New Providence engaged in numerous acts of piracy. Their numbers were boosted by the addition of other captured ships.
Blackbeard captured a French slave ship known as La Concorde and renamed her Queen Anne's Revenge. He renamed it “Queen Anne's Revenge” referring to Anne, Queen of England and Scotland returning to the throne of Great Britain. He equipped his new acquisition with 40 guns, and a crew of over 300 men. Becoming a world renowned pirate, most people feared him.
In a failed attempt to run a blockade in place and refusing the governors pardon, he ran “Queen Anne's Revenge” aground on a sandbar near Beaufort, North Carolina and settled in North Carolina where he then accepted a royal pardon. The wreck of “Queen Anne's Revenge” was found in 1996 by private salvagers, Intersal Inc., a salvage company based in Palm Bay, Florida
Not knowing when enough, he returned to plundering at sea. Alexander Spotswood, the Governor of Virginia formed a garrison of soldiers and sailors to protect the colony and if possible capture Blackbeard. On November 22, 1718 following a ferocious battle, Blackbeard and several of his crew were killed by a small force of sailors led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard. After his death, Blackbeard became a martyr and an inspiration for a number of fictitious books.”
― Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

“If this had been France, and the Queen had been Louis XIV, it would have been done by now-but it was England, Parliament had its knobby fingers around the Monarch’s throat, and Whigs and Tories were joined in an eternal shin-kicking contest to determine which faction should have the honor of throttling her Majesty, and how hard.”
― Neal Stephenson, Solomon's Gold