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By Jean Plaidy
Power-hungry monarch, cold-blooded assassin, obsessive monster—who may love this kind of man?
Set opposed to the glittering courts of sixteenth-century Europe, the Spain of the feared Inquisition, and the tortured England of Bloody Mary, For a Queen’s Love is the tale of Philip II of Spain—and of the ladies who enjoyed him as a husband and father.
Philip used to be a gloomy and stricken guy, who, like many royals, were robbed of his adolescence. His first marriage, a romantic union with childlike Maria Manoela, introduced him tragedy and a difficult son, Don Carlos. Then marriage with the jealously possessive Mary Tudor, a political union that finally didn't convey Philip an inheritor that might solidify the unified energy he so deeply wanted. and at last, marriage back to a tender bride Philip stole from his unbalanced son, sowing the seeds of brutal homicide. yet background is seldom what it kind of feels, and within the palms of loved writer Jean Plaidy, we listen one other part to the tale of Philip II—the strongest of kings who used to be straight away enthusiast, assassin, husband, father, and lover.
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They were such tales that Leonor had never heard. When they returned to the quiet of the palace in Valladolid it would be Philip who would entertain Leonor with his stories of the wonders of the world. He wondered if he might ask if Ruy could stay with him in Valladolid. He was desolate at the thought of losing him, though he would not show his grief if a parting were necessary; but how he prayed that this would not be so! Perhaps he could offer a prayer at the tomb of Torquemada or by the urn that contained the arm of St.
His eyes were bluer than Philip’s; his face was crisscrossed with many lines etched, not only by anxieties, but by wind and sun of Germany, Italy, and Flanders as well as Spain. His aspect would have been benign but for the heavy, jutting jaw, which implied that ruthlessness and cruelty would not be lacking if the occasion demanded it. To Philip he seemed to fit the picture of his imagination. There was power in the man and it emanated from him. Charles had eyes for no one but the boy. ” he cried.
He had heard voices other than his mother’s change when his grandmother was mentioned. He wished to know more about the mystery which surrounded her, the Queen who had brought the crown of Spain to his father. But Philip did not ask the question point blank. He already knew that if he wished to take people off their guard it was better to approach a subject by devious means. ” There was the faintest hesitation, which the boy was not slow to notice. ” For dead she was, thought Isabella, dead to the world, living her strange existence in the Alcázar of Tordesillas, surrounded by those who were really her keepers, frenziedly gay at times, at others lost in the depth of her melancholy.