Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . brother, King Luis, who had been less severelyattacked by the poison. A dramatic scene took place a few nights later in the Privy Council Chamber. At thehead of the table stood KingLuis, only just convalescingfrom the malady which hasproved so fatal to his his side stood his father,the King Consort. Suddenlyturning to the Duke, alreadyreferred to, and who, byvirtue of his rank of officeand birth, stood immediatelyon his left hand, the youngmonarch exclaimed, i
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . brother, King Luis, who had been less severelyattacked by the poison. A dramatic scene took place a few nights later in the Privy Council Chamber. At thehead of the table stood KingLuis, only just convalescingfrom the malady which hasproved so fatal to his his side stood his father,the King Consort. Suddenlyturning to the Duke, alreadyreferred to, and who, byvirtue of his rank of officeand birth, stood immediatelyon his left hand, the youngmonarch exclaimed, in tonesof exceeding solemnity: Mon cousin, after consul-tation with our illustriousfather, and with the nobleshere present, we have deter-mined to confide the enar-dianship of our Royal personto your keeping. It is youwho will be held responsiblefor the charge, both toward those here present, and to thenation at large. You will spend the remainder of yourlife in close attendance on our Royal person, and byreason of the charge intrusted to you we can never permityour absence from Court. In token of our special good-will. QUEEN OF PORTUGAL. THE ROYAL FAMILY OF PORTUGAL. 321 we Will have appointed this day your daughter, the CountessLeonora, to the post of Abbess of the Convent of NobleLadies. We will surround the throne of Portugal wrhmembers of your family, and the seigneurs here presentwill answer for your fidelity. Two years later the Princess Pia, youngest daughter ofKing Victor Emmanuel of Italy, arrived at Lisbon to sharethe throne of the King of Portugal, who, however, neverentirely recovered from the effects of the poison, and re-mained an invalid to the day of his death, three years Duke, now almost eighty years of age, still retains hisposition at Court, which he held in 1861, and rarely absentshimself from Lisbon. His daughter, the Countess Leonora,is likewise yet alive, and rules the noble inmates of the Con-vent of which she is Abbess with a rod of iron. A ve
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