Druon, Maurice - The Accursed Kings 02 by Druon Maurice

Author:Druon, Maurice [Druon, Maurice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Thus they entered the presence of Donna Clemenzia; but their expressions of careless happiness disappeared as soon as they saw the old Queen-Mother Marie of Hungary. With her grand-daughter and Oderisi on either side of her, she was looking with displeasure at the portrait.

The two visitors went forward hesitantly, for everyone walked carefully in the presence of Marie of Hungary.

She was seventy years old. Widow of the King of Naples, Charles II, the Lame, she had had thirteen children and had already seen about half of them to their graves. These maternal activities had given her person a certain breadth, and her bereavements had marked the shape of her toothless mouth. She was tall, grey of complexion, white of hair, with a general expression of strength, decisiveness and authority which had not diminished with the years. She had worn a crown since her birth. It was this aged Queen, related to the whole of Europe, who had claimed the vacant throne of Hungary for her descendants, and had fought for twenty years that they might obtain it.

Now that the son of her eldest son was King of Buda, her second son, the deceased bishop, was on the point of being canonized, her third, Robert, reigned over Naples and Apulia, her fourth was Prince of Torrento, her fifth Duke of Durazzo, and her surviving daughters were married one to the King of Majorca, the other to the King of Aragon, Queen Marie, nevertheless, did not as yet appear to have finished her task; she was concerned with her grand-daughter, the orphan Clemence, whom she had brought up.

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