edwardslovelyelizabeth: His passion…carried him at last beyond all bounds of reason; and he o
edwardslovelyelizabeth:His passion…carried him at last beyond all bounds of reason; and he offered to share his throne, as well as his heart, with the woman, whose beauty of person, and dignity of character seemed so well to entitle her to both. The marriage was privately celebrated at Grafton [on the 1st of May 1464]. The secret was carefully kept for some time: no one suspected, that so libertine a prince could sacrifice so much to a romantic passion. “History of England, from The Invasion of Julius Caesar to The Revolution in 1688” in 8 volumes by David Hume, esq, (1807) -- source link
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