Proposed Marriage
When he was three his father tried to arrange a marriage between him and Mary Tudor, the younger daughter of King Henry VII of England. However Henry VII rejected a marriage proposal as Massimiliano's father was hoping that Henry would help him against the French. Henry was only interested in peace not war after founding his new dynasty from the War of the Roses
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Famous quotes containing the words proposed and/or marriage:
“It looks as if we may be presented with a kind of vast municipal fire station.... What is proposed is like a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much loved and elegant friend.”
—Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948)
“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)