Elisabeth de Valois, Queen of Spain and the Court of Philip II.
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Published: 1857
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... special cypher on affairs of state, the key to which was a secret even to their royal master. Chantonnay had some misgivings whether Elizabeth would willingly receive his homage, after the rdle he had so mischievously enacted at her mother's court.1 She, however, greeted him as a minister of Spain, who deserved well at her hands, and whose conduct had merited the approval of the king. With a want of tact, surprising in so clever a diplomatist, when Chantonnay had kissed the queen's hand, he commenced to offer excuse for his alleged disloyal deportment at the court of France, "assuring her majesty that his conduct had been maliciously exaggerated." Elizabeth, interrupting his discourse, said with much dignity, "that if for the future M. l'Ambassadeur desired to render good and welcome service to the king her husband, and to herself, he would do well to refrain from exciting altercations between the cabinets of Spain and France." The health of the queen continued to progress satisfactorily until about the second day of August. Elizabeth had then entered the fifth month of her pregnancy, and a fete was to be holden at court in celebration of this event. On the evening previously, Elizabeth complained of great sickness and headache, so much so that Philip postponed the rejoicings until a future day. She continued slightly indisposed during the following two days; but on Monday the fourth of August, her illness had so increased that the physicians deemed it necessary to bleed her majesty in the arm, and subsequently on the temple, which was accordingly done in the presence of the king.1 The queen, however, gradually grew worse; the most alarming symptoms supervened; and finally it was announced that her majesty having been seized with...