Zwei Adler, Ein Kaiser

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Originally Posted by Jimbrock

Ooh, thats a nasty one. But really, it was all very clean. Remember, Maria was not particularly attracted to him and was already engaged! Not to mention that publicly suggesting that would be severely, ah, discouraged...

Ha!
A scandal in italy including a king-to-be, a lady and a long object?
You cannot hope to hush down voices gossiping on the fact and making any kind of malicious lingering about it, and not even the testify of a dozen holy nuns and a fiery writing on the sky will convince the gossipers that that something had not happened.
Mind you, this does not mean that the population would respect him less.
Quite the opposite: subjects in his domains would be wickedly proud of him