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What phrases did Queen Catherine use?

* "When I am dead and opened, you shall find Calais lying in my heart."

* Spoken after the loss of Calais to France.

* "I die a Queen!"

* Her last words before her death in 1533.

* "All the English nation is but one beast."

* A reference to the English people's support for the Reformation and their rejection of papal authority.

* "I need not to put any difference between the King's mistress and his wife."

* A response to Anne Boleyn's rise to prominence and her eventual marriage to Henry VIII.

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