latristereina:With Fernando, Isabel had established a highly effective modus vivendi, sharing a hist
latristereina:With Fernando, Isabel had established a highly effective modus vivendi, sharing a history, indeed a universe, as well as a highly developed mutual understanding and appreciation, a working partnership in the exercise of authority, and a mutual love and reliance, each fully confident of their conjoined power, of together personifying sovereignty and dynasty. At bottom, as Pulgar had seen, love held their wills joined. Their closeness and trust, there from the beginning, had since become widely recognized and admired, indeed was being written of as a marvel of the world.- Peggy K. Liss, Isabel the Queen: Life and Timesinsp. -- source link
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