The Men Who Would Be King (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Elizabeth’s ambassador had written from Paris, early in 1573, “because they are rather thick than deep or great. They upon the blunt end of his nose are great and deep, how much to be disliked may be as it pleaseth God to move the heart of the beholder.” There had been little in such descriptions to arouse Elizabeth’s interest in Alençon, and it was not out of love for the pockmarked prince that she began to smile anew on his suit towards the end of 1578. The courtship was to become an emotional affair, but it began as a matter of expediency. Alençon had found himself occupation out of France, aiding the rebel leaders in the turbulent Netherlands, in return for a title and lands there; though it was a lone venture of Alençon’s, rather than an official French undertaking, Elizabeth found it disturbing. She had no wish to see a prince of France, the heir presumptive to the French crown, gain control in the Netherlands to the exclusion of English interests there, and it accordingly seemed wise for the negotiations for her marriage with the young Valois to be revived once more.
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