Title: Dynastic pawn
Review: This book ( which I read in my imperfect spanish) was a tale of a little known character in history who died at 22 after nearly 7 years of constant pregnancies. She was an attractive girl, with great value as a dynastic pawn. Bargained off as part of a peace treaty, she was married to Philip II by proxy at the age of 13 and was sent to Spain at 14, barely able to speak Spanish and her husband, preoccupied, cold and nearly twice her age was uncomfortable with speaking French. Her underlying health problems ( nephritis caused by childhood scarlet fever) made the life of constant pregnancies, and given the limited understanding of her inherent weakness, made the life for which she was destined, certain death. She endured constant illness, importuning from her mother by a barrage of letters, and a distant husband.
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