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Originally Posted by issybird
I also liked the scene between Queen Anne and Buckingham, the stuff of high romance and in a way the fulcrum of the whole novel. Did the thwarted romance start the war and lead to everything else?
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The real Buckingham had a habit of ginning up wars to distract Parliament from impeaching him. He might have been the original Wags the Dog.
At one point, he tried to cut a deal with Richelieu that would have had England provide aid to Richelieu against La Rochelle in exchange for French aid in an English expedition against the Spanish occupation of the Palatinate. That actually made sense, as Charles I was married to Louis' sister and Charles' sister was married to the Elector of the Palatinate.