It is the summer of 1500.
Maria, Queen of Portugal, opens correspondence from her mother, Isabella, Queen of Castile. It bears terrible news. Over the last three years, she has lost her brother and sister. Today, she learns that her sister, Joanna, was lost at sea during a journey from Flanders to Castile, or has fallen from a horse, or something. And that her nephew, the Infante Miguel, was too sickly to survive.
She is now heiress to her mother, and her eldest son heir to Castile and Portugal.
Thoughts?
Maria, Queen of Portugal, opens correspondence from her mother, Isabella, Queen of Castile. It bears terrible news. Over the last three years, she has lost her brother and sister. Today, she learns that her sister, Joanna, was lost at sea during a journey from Flanders to Castile, or has fallen from a horse, or something. And that her nephew, the Infante Miguel, was too sickly to survive.
She is now heiress to her mother, and her eldest son heir to Castile and Portugal.
Thoughts?