Quotes by : Dan Jones

As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.

The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment

He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically....

Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien....

He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.

Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.