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August 2006

Queen Catherine’s Illness and Court Politics

By Jeannine Kerwin

Here we had some discourse of the Queen’s being very sick, if not dead…

Pepys, 17 October 1663.

Catherine of Braganza regained some of her husband’s affection through a wholly fortuitous piece of good fortune; she almost died.

(Hutton, p. 204).

Continued…

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