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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: and averting public scandal, undertook to counsel the queen to
obedience, and accordingly waited on her in her private
apartments.
Now her majesty's education had been such as kept her in complete
ignorance of the world's ways. The greater part of her life had
been spent in the peaceful retirement of a convent, which she
left for her mother's country palace, a home scarcely less
secluded. Maynard, in a letter preserved in the State Paper
Office, written from Lisbon when the royal marriage was proposed,
says the infanta, "as sweete a disposition princess as everr was
borne," was "bred hugely retired. She hath," he continues,
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