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Identifier: magazineofamericv26stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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Charles V. was pri-vately engaged to Isabel of Portugal, which was the first sorrow experi-enced by the unfortunate Mary, and he was married before the end of thatyear. He was at that time burning with indignation at private intelligencewhich had reached him that Henry VIII. meditated a divorce from QueenKatharine, and the consequent disinheriting of her daughter Mary. Hejustified his own conduct by a sharp letter of reproach to Henry VIII.As time rolled on and the miseries of Katharine and Mary culminated,the whole European sky blackened with storms. The fidelity of the childto her mother was the assertion of a right to be next in succession to thecrown, and if Katharine escaped with Mary from England to the con-tinent it was clear that war would instantly follow. Thus mother anddaughter were forcibly separated. Emperor Charles V. hesitated aboutinterfering, as he did not wish to add Henry to the list of his enemies,with Germany unsettled, with the Turks in Hungary, with Barbarossas
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GRANDSON OF QUEEN ISABELLA OF SPAIN. (Facsimile of an engraving of the famous portrait by Titian.~\ 406 SOME OF QUEEN ISABELLAS DESCENDANTS corsair fleet commanding the Mediterranean and harassing the Spanishcoast, with another French war visibly ahead, and a renewed invasionof Italy. There were clever statesmen who tried to persuade him thatthe English king was the centre of all the disorder which disturbed theworld, but Charles knew better than they the magnitude of the dangerthey asked him to confront. He wished to befriend his mothers sisterand his unhappy cousin, but he had discouraged their secret departurefrom England when it was proposed to him, because if they were inhis dominions war could no longer be avoided. It was represented thattheir lives were in danger, and when Mary was prostrated with a dangerousillness no physician was willing to attend her, lest, if she died, he wouldbe accused of having administered poison. Katharine begged that hersick daughter might be under h

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