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Elisabeth, "Isabel of the Peace": The Thirteen-Year-Old Bride of Philip II
She was thirteen when they gave her to her fiancé's father.
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Cymburgis of Masovia and the Habsburg Jaw
For three hundred years, Habsburg royals were painted with the same unmistakable jaw. Legend blames one woman for it. Her own statue doesn't have it.
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Isabella Clara Eugenia: Promised to Rudolf II, Ruler of the Spanish Netherlands
On 18 July 1552, a boy was born in Vienna who would spend his whole life refusing to marry anyone. A girl in Spain was promised to him before she could walk. She spent the next five decades building a life out of everything he never gave her.
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Mary I, the Loss of Calais and the Battle of Gravelines, 13 July 1558
Mary I lost Calais to France. Six months later, her ships were still firing at the French, for a war that was never hers. She got nothing back. Not the city, not her husband's loyalty, not even peace.
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The Murder of Eleonora di Toledo by Pietro de' Medici
The official story said she had fallen down the stairs. The people who had heard her knew perfectly well she had been strangled.
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Élisabeth d'Autriche: Queen of France for Four Years
She arrived in France at sixteen unable to speak French. Two years later she learned that the man she had married had ordered the massacre of thousands of his own subjects. She asked for her book of hours and prayed for him.
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Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk: The Marriage Proposal That Led to Tower Hill
The most powerful nobleman in England raised a reasonable proposal with the Queen's own council. Elizabeth did not find it reasonable. She found it useful, which is a different thing entirely.
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Thomas Stukeley: The Self-Proclaimed Son of Henry VIII, Killed at Alcácer, 1578
He told every court in Europe he was the son of Henry VIII. Henry VIII never said a word on the subject, which is either the most eloquent denial in Tudor history or the most expensive silence.
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The Spanish Habsburg Court: Etiquette That Let the Queen Catch Fire
The Spanish Habsburg Court: Where The Etiquette Was So Elaborate That The Queen Caught Fire And Nobody Felt Qualified To Help