The Importance of Marriage to the English

The Spanish road was the complicated route that armies would have to take to get from Spain to fight the Dutch. Philip IV had installed his favourite, the Count Duke of Oliveres, one of those super famous names in European history. Oliveres saw the situation clearly and he made it clear to Philip that his policies contained a fatal conflict. Marriage to the English would commit them to restore the Palatinate to Frederick,. therefore they would be together with the King of Great Britain engaged in a war against the Emperor and the Catholic League.