How to Become Queen in Early Modern Europe
Not Just the Tudors
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What Is a Marriage by Proxy?
Hansburgs also like to hold what they called a consummation by proxy. Catherine of austria was told by her father, ferdinand and her brother maximilian, to get into bed with the polish ambassador. The two hapsburg wives of sigismund august had to go through this ordeal. So these ceremonies could be quite difficult. And most often what we get are slightly impersonal accounts of them where the queen is happy and the cesses ire just happy to be marrying the king.
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