The great mistake in our earlier efforts was, that we were not present and could work only through go-betweens and confidants.

The king did not see you, and since the unlucky affair with Anne of Cleves he mistrusts likenesses; I very well knew that, for I, my child, confide in no one, not even in the most faithful and noblest friends.

I rely upon nobody but ourselves.

Had we been here, you would now be Queen of England instead of Catharine Parr.

But, to our misfortune, I was still the favorite of the Regent of Scotland, and as such, I could not venture to approach Henry.