Note 22 — Chapter II · 1553-1554
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Antonio de Guaras, who was present in the Abbey. It was noticed by the Imperial ambassadors that Princess Elizabeth, who at the ceremony took the place due to a Royal Princess, with Anne of Cleves, exchanged significant glances with Noailles whenever she met him. In the course of the day she complained to the French ambassador of the weight of the coronet she was wearing. “Patience!” was his reply, “it will soon produce a better one.”—Record Office, Brussels Transcripts, i. p. 436.