Ashley Marchand

“And for all he begrudged Sophia Dorothea her murky birth, George got an early start on making his own pack of illegitimate children, knocking up one of his sibling’s governesses when he was just 16 years old. His mother warned him “not to have his name bawled from the housetops as the progenitor of bastards.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“she had so often told herself the fairy tale of her own greatness that it blinded her to her faults.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“On November 12, 1312, the 17-year-old queen gave birth to a healthy baby boy. She’d done her duty to crown and husband, and her position was secure. She had also accumulated enough political acumen to manage her useless husband and try to keep the nation from civil war. Edward”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“t could have been a storybook romance, if the authors were the brothers Grimm, or maybe Stephen King.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings