Antonia Fraser British Author Quotations

I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.

I enjoyed writing mysteries out of my imagination as a relief from all that research, and also because I could write them while traveling.

King Juan Carlos would be worthy of a full biography as a major player in his country's history. Alas, my Spanish is not good enough to offer myself!

Why waste time instructing others when you could be reading the manuscripts yourself? The only exceptions are matters of foreign language.

As the seventh wife of Henry VIII I hope I would have managed to do the old monster in-my cooking comes to mind, as I am a hopeless cook.

One couldn't help thinking of Princess Diana when writing some passages, although I don't make a mention in the text, which would be anachronistic.