How to Become Queen in Early Modern Europe
Not Just the Tudors
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Are Portraits of Women Being Sent to Women?
Most of the time we get the happy princessa. She's delighted, like, i think, with mary of england when she was marrying louis the twelfth france. So this is what we get most often. But occasionally, again, we get those moments of tension, where the princess is that she being either outright forced or sadly led into this. We get this great report about sigismond the old getting a of bonnasforzer and how his heart wept, or something like that, that he was so delighted that she was so beautiful. But this could go quite badly as well with, for example, anne of cleves and henry the eighth
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