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,
“... Charles to believe that the marriage would go ahead, and in a letter of September 1622 which Glyn Redworth has unearthed in the British Library, he urged Buckingham that it was time for the prince to ‘mount’ Spain. In fact, Gondomar was seriously out of touch with opinion at home, and was more respected by James I than by his own king. He never ... ”
