Elizabeth, your wish will be fulfilled.

The king will repeal the law which was to compel you to give your hand only to a husband of equal birth." "Oh," cried Elizabeth, with flashing eyes, "then I shall, perhaps, some day be able to make him whom I love a king." Catharine smiled.

"You have a proud and ambitious heart," said she.

"God has endowed you with extraordinary ability.

Cultivate it and seek to increase it; for my prophetic heart tells me that you are destined to become, one day, Queen of England.