wfor argument. think everything is up for argument. let me put it this way, the way they came up with a £60 billion, 60 billion euros thing or whatever, they deducted certain things that they deducted certain things that the uk promised to do and it came out to 60 billion euros. now, whether that is going to be paid is another thing. it is not hard to find out what it is. it is a list. it is there. it does exist. it is all a lot of creative accounting going on. there are numbers all across these stories and you think, really, is it the full truth of what we have to pay? and whether we will have to pay for some of the other projects that it has already committed to pay for. if anyone thinks it will be clean, done and dusted... and that it will last two years. someone says, signed the cheque and then we will talk. finally, the fun of the sunday express, true blue passport reborn. a p pa re ntly express, true blue passport reborn. apparently the iconic dark blue passport that someone might remember

will make a comeback, and the conservative mp who chairs the flags and heraldry committee... did you know? no. he says it is a matter of identity, having the pink passport. are you colourblind? it is maroon. it has merged us into one european identity which isn't what we are. people were unhappy about giving up the dark blue passport. did you really? there is also a percentage of the population — i have never had won. i have a pink one, that is for sure, i don't like pink. burgundy, thatis sure, i don't like pink. burgundy, that is yours. liz hurley is looking forward to the return of the navy blue passport with the crest. she wa nts blue passport with the crest. she wants deutschmarks as well, she wa nts wants deutschmarks as well, she wants francs. does it matter if you are stopped and you have to join a

long queue? it is - nationhood exemplified by the navy blue passport. is it worth a 500 million at? you see, i am hugely suspicious -- £500 at? you see, i am hugely suspicious —— £500 million of effort? i think it would be worth much more. much more. that is it, that is the papers for tonight, thank you, anne and bonnie. it works so well because they talk to each other, you see? coming up next, meet the author. three sisters, three queens is a novel of the women who became queens of england, scotland and france and we re of england, scotland and france and were condemned to rivalry, family conflict and a bloody battle for succession. a novel doesn't have to invent that story, it was the real

story of the early 16th century after catherine of aragon arrived as after catherine of aragon arrived as a chewed or bride. philippa gregory has spun the story in a string of bestselling novels and this is the latest subject, three sisters, three queens. welcome. even by the 16th century standards it's a great story. how well do you think this bit of the saga is understood and remembered? in a way it's really classic of fiction and history put together, the story of three sisters, three queens is constructed. but what we are actually talking about is the history of katherine of arik on in the relative early years of her

marriage with henry viii and the quite separate history of her sisters. —— catherine of aragon. but asa sisters. —— catherine of aragon. but as a novelist i come to this story and say they are actually sisters, they know each other and as it happens the rise and fall of their su ccesses happens the rise and fall of their successes and the rise of them in their kingdoms and fertility contest and contrast almost exactly. so it's and contrast almost exactly. so it's a very nice example for me of what you can do in fiction that you wouldn't necessarily do in history. but of course the history itself, which hangs over the whole story, yourfictional which hangs over the whole story, your fictional account of it, is so extraordinary. the fate of nations hanging on the marriage of a rivalry, at unexpected death. it seems to me, i hope this isn't pushing it too far, but it is strangely contemporary, about how the fate of nations can change in

the fate of nations can change in the wink of an eye, whether it's a royal marriage or a referendum. one of the reasons i love the chewed a period so much is you get this enormous consequences from the decisions of one person. so if you look at the one person you really get away into the history, which is com pletely get away into the history, which is completely fascinating and so you do get this sort of big national story focused on, in this instance, the choice of james of scotland to marry margaret, henry viii‘s sister, which puts the two countries in the total unity and in the end produces the child who will unify the two countries. take us through the three of them. the rivalries that sort of entangled them in the course of a few years had huge consequences. we know the lives very well and there's been less work done on the sisters. almost no work done on the mistresses. i really think what you

see there is an example of the historical selection which goes, like, we don't want that many women in the record, thank you. we've got six wives, let's leave the sisters out of it, which means you actually really rarely for the tudor period you have these aren't old stories. so the story we do know is catherine of aragon and she arrives in the novel as she arrives pretty well at the english court as a princess from spain. immediately attracts in my version of events the jealousy and the sort of affronted envy of margaret, who until then was the top princess at the court. the other girl in the mix is mary, henry's are the younger sister, famously beautiful, famously wilful, who is married off to the very, very old king of france and recovers from

that really disastrous marriage, her political marriage, the beaumaris —— to marry the man choice. three very different stories about investors who are all married to make the alliances for their family and how they survive that experience. it's a question that you have come to know very well over the years. how much liberty to you feel free to take with the history for which you have so much affection and respect for?|j don't take liberty with the history. i know all those who do and i think they're right to take whatever choice they want to. that you are dealing with characters at a debt for which we can't know.|j dealing with characters at a debt for which we can't know. i believe i can go into fiction when i say if she did that, she must have been feeling this or she must be wanting to do this or this is an expression of this sort of character. so the

fiction comes out of the history, but first of all i look at what happened and then i say, if somebody behaves like that then they must be woman. . . behaves like that then they must be woman... i've been married to henry viii longer than any white! of these three women, the three sisters and queens as you describe them in the title, which one draws you the most? you say catherine of aragon because of the marriage to henry is the one that we know, whether accurately or not, which of them in traps you? which you like best is not the same as who is the most interesting, so you've got two things going on. i have great affection for catherine of aragon. i think she was an extraordinary and courageous woman. margaret, henry's sister, leaves an amazing life. she is married as a very young woman to james of scotla nd very young woman to james of scotland and then when widowed she

chooses her husband and she has to run away from scotland. she gets to england and divorces him, she marries a third husband. she is behaving as if she was in total charge of her own destiny. and of course the loss of her first husband is the fault of the english court. yes, it's played as a campaign by catherine of aragon, so you have this terrible dark side of the sisterhood, but they are always rivals and it is catherine of aragon's campaign that kills her brother—in—law. aragon's campaign that kills her brother-in-law. you can't read about these events, whether in straight history orfiction, these events, whether in straight history or fiction, without a sort of mind—boggling feeling of everything that subsequently came is determined by this almost can't events. i think the idea of history as the past, as another country, i think when you are an historian you get this real doubleview of it. on

the one hand you go, yes, it is almost completely separate from our world and completely different, yet you can see how the actions then produce the consequences of the day. imean, the produce the consequences of the day. i mean, the whole concept of nationhood, the way the reformation separates us from europe, the way england and scotland are absolutely committed enemies forcing jury is before the unification. you know, these are in a sense really current ideas, which were being worked out then and to which they came to some conclusions. and the union of the crown in 1663, about a century before the union of the parliament, came about really by accident because of what had happened in the period that you are talking about. absolutely. it is margaret's granddaughter‘s poorly. she of course links all the time that when she is queen of scotland and went catherine of aragon is failing to

have an airshe catherine of aragon is failing to have an air she knows the boy will be king of scotland and england and it is only henry's decision to marry on until he gets a male catherine of —— mail one that we accept his mother is at the next king of england. which explains why the fascination continues. philippa gregory, author of three sisters, three queens, thank you very much. thank you. april started just as the name suggests, with showers. heavy showers, with hail and thunder. but it did allow some fantastic weather watcher pictures to be sent in. this is one of my favourites. it shows the top of the thunder cloud. sent in from milton keynes. had plenty of other beautiful weather watcher pictures. this was at worcester earlier. in the face of a quite menacing cloud. what does the day

hold ahead of us? a much, much quieter day. very few showers and quite warm when the sun comes out. for that, it will actually be quite a chilly night. showers fading rapidly. little bits of mist and low cloud developing, so there could be filed in the morning. we may hang on to the odd shower in the north—east of england, but for most of us it's a chilly start the morning that we will notice. frost in the glens of scotland, parts of northern ireland, ground frost as well. a bit of mist and fog. otherwise it looks like the best of the sunshine for most of us will be through the morning hours. that's before the fair weather cloud builds up. that said, a few showers overnight in the north—east of england. there could be a legacy of cloud first thing. again, sunshine to get to work on that fairly quickly and blake it —— break it up. as we will do for monday morning. video sunshine around, despite the chilly start in northern ireland and

scotland. the rogue shower. it does look as if it will be dry for much of the day for most of us. to pick out a bit of detail, the fair weather cloud builds up inland as we go through the day. probably bright, rather than sunny, or more cloud than sunshine in the sky, but still a lovely afternoon. 13— 17 degrees, with light winds and sunshine. a lovely day. the best of the sunshine around the coasts. slightly cooler. the boat races go ahead. great for spectators and participants because it should be much calmer on the thames than last weekend. we had that choppy easterly wind. some sunshine for the premier league tomorrow in swansea and london. a bit more cloud building up into the afternoon. the cloud will potentially melt away under the high pressure tomorrow evening and overnight. again it will turn chilly and again we could have mist and fog for the morning rush—hour. but it is all change in the west for monday.

for northern ireland and western scotla nd for northern ireland and western scotland we have rain and strong winds, looks like england and wales will have the best of the sunshine. palo, welcome to bbc news. our top stories: a landslide kills more than 150 people in southern colombia. many others are missing or injured. the supreme court in venezuela has done a u—turn on its decision to strip the congress of its powers. britain says it will protect gibraltar from britain says it will protect gibraltarfrom any britain says it will protect gibraltar from any sovereignty claims by spain during brexit negotiations. and find out why hundreds of yellow cars have flooded this english village.