"To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it."

"I have good reason to fear, since I have been more than once under the axe."

"I will never be by violence constrained to do anything."

"I count myself as one of the best and most fortunate women in the world, that am yet alive, and not in such cases as I have been in."

"I am more afraid of England, now that I am queen, than I ever was when I was a princess."