The pearl of princesses : the life of Marguerite d'Angoulême, Queen of Navarre . ta-tion. She was a blonde, without anything insipid abouther, with regular features, a beautiful complexion, and agraceful figure. A more unsuitable consort, however, fora valetudinarian monarch like Louis XII it would havebeen impossible to find, since she cared for nothing butdress and amusement and was a born coquette. The young princess embarked at Dover on October 2, accompanied by an immense suite, which comprised four of the chief lords of England, four hundred barons and knights, and a train of eighty lad
The pearl of princesses : the life of Marguerite d'Angoulême, Queen of Navarre . ta-tion. She was a blonde, without anything insipid abouther, with regular features, a beautiful complexion, and agraceful figure. A more unsuitable consort, however, fora valetudinarian monarch like Louis XII it would havebeen impossible to find, since she cared for nothing butdress and amusement and was a born coquette. The young princess embarked at Dover on October 2, accompanied by an immense suite, which comprised four of the chief lords of England, four hundred barons and knights, and a train of eighty ladies, and after a very rough passage, in which one of the vessels actually foundered with some loss of life and valuables, larfded safely at Boulogne.^ Here she was met by the Dues de Valois, dAlencjon, and de Bourbon, and other great nobles, who escorted her to Abbeville, where she arrived on October 8. ^ But in somewhat undignified fashion, as her ship having runaground on entering the harbour, she had to be carried on shore in thearms of a certain Sir Christopher Cornish. 90. MARY TUDOR. Arrival of Mary Tudor About a league from the town she was met byLouis XII, accompanied by a gallant cavalcade of noblesand ladies. The King, very antique and decrepit, leftParis to go to meet his young wife, wrote Louise ofSavoy, with concentrated irony, a propos of theseamorous nuptials, which were celebrated on themorrow with the utmost magnificence. Louiss wedding-present to his bride was a marvellous great pointeddiamond, with a ruby almost two inches long ; while onthe following day he bestowed upon her a ruby twoinches and a half long and as big as a mans finger,hanging by two chains of gold at every end without anyfoil—the value thereof few men could esteem. ^ From Abbeville the Court proceeded to Saint-Denis,where on November 5 the new Queens coronation tookplace, and on the 6th Mary Tudor, wearing a robe ofcloth-of-gold covered with precious stones, her fingersloaded with diamond
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