The marriage between Louis and Louise-Élisabeth was not apparently a happy one. Spanish accounts say that she behaved extravagantly and that she refused to live together with her husband - but maybe it was gossip intended to criticize the manipulation Philip V and Elisabeth Farnese exerted from the shadows on their son from their "retirement" in the palace of La Granja, not too different from Louis XIV's control on Philip himself during the first years of his reign.
The marriage between Louis and Louise-Élisabeth was not apparently a happy one. Spanish accounts say that she behaved extravagantly and that she refused to live together with her husband - but maybe it was gossip intended to criticize the manipulation Philip V and Elisabeth Farnese exerted from the shadows on their son from their "retirement" in the palace of La Granja, not too different from Louis XIV's control on Philip himself during the first years of his reign.
Leszczinska’s here now. Looking good.
But, although this hardly needs saying, what a horror the marriage market must have been. Not just here, but across all the Courts of Europe.
You promised us Maria Leszczyńska's portrait, but you forgot to enter the image, David.
How many died so young, how many political intrigues all around them.
Yes, you're right. I just uploaded the image. I'm not sure if it will appear in the email version, though.
Thanks, David!