Time to Mount Spain
Colin Burrow: Prince Charles’s Spanish Adventure, 2 September 2004
The Prince and the Infanta: The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match
by Glyn Redworth.
Yale, 200 pp., £25, November 2003,0 300 10198 8 Show More
by Glyn Redworth.
Yale, 200 pp., £25, November 2003,
“... of Buckingham, set off for Madrid incognito. They wore false beards, and they called themselves John and Thomas Smith. Their mission was to win the hand of the sister of the king of Spain, the Infanta María. The courtly duo were not well suited to a life in mufti. The only coins they carried were of a suspiciously large denomination. A ferryman to whom ... ”