Song lyric of Bright Lights (2010), "Lights", written by Goulding, Ash Howes, and Richard Stannard
Interview with Martin Bashir on BBC Panorama (20 November 1995)
“By turns the woman and the queen,
And each as the other had never been.”
The Monthly Magazine
“We have been Trojans: Troy has been:
She sat, but sits no more, a queen.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 53
“There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.”
Letter 9 (August 25, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
“Sentence first; verdict afterwards." -Queen of Hearts”
Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing (1890)
Loud and prolonged cheers.
Speech in St James's Hall, Piccadilly, London (4 December 1866), quoted in The Times (5 December 1866), p. 7
1860s
Marlborough's message to Sarah Churchill scribbled on the back of a tavern reckoning while on horseback during the Battle of Blenheim (13 August 1704), quoted in Correlli Barnett, Marlborough (Wordsworth, 1999), p. 121.
