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- Author: Rafael Sabatini
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1500492655
- ISBN-13: 9781500492656
- Format: 21.6 x 28 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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The tragedy of my Lord Darnley's life lay in the fact that he was a man born out of his proper station-a clown destined to kingship by the accident of birth and fortune. By the blood royal flowing in his veins, he could, failing others, have claimed succession to both the English and the Scottish thrones, whilst by his marriage with Mary Stuart he made a definite attempt to possess himself of that of Scotland. The Queen of Scots, enamoured for a season of the clean-limbed grace and almost feminine beauty ("ladyfaced," Melville had called him once) of this "long lad of nineteen" who came a-wooing her, had soon discovered, in matrimony, his vain, debauched, shiftless, and cowardly nature. She had married him in July of 1565, and by Michaelmas she had come to know him for just a lovely husk of a man, empty of heart or brain; and the knowledge transmuted affection into contempt.
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- Author: Rafael Sabatini
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1500492655
- ISBN-13: 9781500492656
- Format: 21.6 x 28 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
The tragedy of my Lord Darnley's life lay in the fact that he was a man born out of his proper station-a clown destined to kingship by the accident of birth and fortune. By the blood royal flowing in his veins, he could, failing others, have claimed succession to both the English and the Scottish thrones, whilst by his marriage with Mary Stuart he made a definite attempt to possess himself of that of Scotland. The Queen of Scots, enamoured for a season of the clean-limbed grace and almost feminine beauty ("ladyfaced," Melville had called him once) of this "long lad of nineteen" who came a-wooing her, had soon discovered, in matrimony, his vain, debauched, shiftless, and cowardly nature. She had married him in July of 1565, and by Michaelmas she had come to know him for just a lovely husk of a man, empty of heart or brain; and the knowledge transmuted affection into contempt.
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