Compared to the proud French, the Swedes are certainly not happy about such a scene.

As we have said before, the marriage between kings and their children in this era is only another form of political covenant, and the queen, or the crown princess, who marries into a completely strange country, is greeted not with goodwill, but with suspicion, consideration, and contempt.

According to tradition, the eldest princess should remove all her clothes and jewels, not even a ribbon, in full view of the women, and then, without even a handmaiden or a dog, trembling across the so-called border line to accept the service of the noble daughter on her husband's side.

When Queen Teresa got married, Louis reminded the ladies who had gone to greet the queen that there was no need to make such a scene—should the king's face be very bright if the nobles were allowed to use the queen's figure as a pastime to pass the time after tea and dinner?

Louis XIV did not allow anyone to despise Princess Teresa, let alone let the Swedes hurt his daughter.

When the Sun King stood outside the tent, probably only a dozen steps away from the eldest princess, no one dared to dictate the king's behavior, and around the eldest princess, several daughters of dukes and princes were used as maids (they all had to serve the queen mother and queen in the past), and most of the female officials of the Swedes were the daughters of earls or marquises— The Queen Mother of Sweden obviously intended to embarrass the new queen, but she did not expect that because of the difference in status, when she was in the tent, even if the French maid stepped on the border line temporarily replaced by silk ropes, holding a curtain so heavy that she couldn't see what was going on inside for the eldest princess to change her clothes, the female official of the Swedes was also speechless—there was only one duchess, she might be the so-called exclusive female official sent by the Queen Mother, and the female official of this status could almost be said to be in control of the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of the new queen's future- She was there to instruct the new queen on how to live in a strange court, but she was most likely a jailer and executioner.

The Duchess only took one step, and the Grand Duchess greeted her, although she could only be called the Grand Duchess, but her father was the Duke of Orleans, and her uncle was Louis XIV, after the Duke of Orleans returned to Versailles, the Duchess of Orleans poured into her body The dark things that the Duchess of Orleans poured into her body disappeared because of the Duke of Orleans's undisguised preference and value, she loved her father and her uncle, and she loved Princess Celestia who was like a sister to her.

She stood in front of the Duchess, the Duke and the Duke were also different, the Duke of Orleans was under one man in France, above ten thousand, and the king knew how conniving with his brother, and some people suspected that even if the Duke of Orleans wanted to sit on the throne of the king, he would gladly agree, and the Grand Marshire was now obviously protecting the Celestial Princess.

As soon as the Duchess saw the Grand Princess, she was about to say something, and she was absorbed by the blue diamond on her breast. Of course, the lady was not so short-sighted as she was suddenly speechless, because the blue diamond had once belonged to Philip IV, and had been brought to Austria by his daughter as a dowry, and that the Archduke of Austria, Emperor Leopold I of the Holy Roman Empire, had set it on the scepter for a while, and her husband, as a diplomat, had seen it, and had described it to her when he returned.

You could also say that it might have been another blue diamond – but not much different in size, shape, and colour from what her husband had described, and the Duchess had heard of it, because of the previous battle of Camnico. Leopold I, as the aided party, owed Louis XIV a large sum of money, and although he tried his best to raise and borrow, he still fell into a situation where he could not make ends meet, and although Louis XIV generously offered that he could also use the territory to pay for it, Leopold I seriously refused - he probably took some jewels to fill the hole.

The Duchess had no way of knowing whether the diamond had been sold by Leopold I and passed into the hands of Louis XIV or whether it had been given to the French directly as payment of the arrears, as if for fear that others would not be able to think of the diamond's origin, and the diamond was set in the style of an eye in the style of Ottoman Turkey.

Ottoman Turkey was a long way from Sweden, but since Louis XIV had defeated the Ottoman army of 250,000 and returned triumphantly, the soldiers and officers brought back a large amount of seizures and ransoms, including many jewels and ornaments, and for a time this exotic and beautiful style became popular under the impetus of artists and aristocrats. Artists love the new and hate the old, and the lady who goes to Versailles does not wear one or two pieces of Turkish-style jewelry on her body, which means that she is neither respected by her husband nor favored by men, or that her husband and lover are useless people who cannot get her a piece of jewelry with special significance.

The most common of these jewels is the "Devil's Eye", which the Ottoman Turks believed to protect them from the devil, and the French were even devils to the Turks, but this did not stop the devils from wearing them on their chests with great pleasure.

The fashion soon spread from Paris and Versailles to all parts of Europa, and Sweden was no exception, and the Duchess wore a brooch with the Devil's Eye, but it was neither a trophy nor made by a craftsman in Versailles or Paris, but a clumsy imitation of a Stockholm craftsman—in fact it was not so crude—but the Duchess involuntarily arched her back slightly, as if to hide the brooch on her shoulder.

"Please wait. Madam. She said kindly, "The eldest princess will be able to change soon." ”

She spoke Swedish, and with sophistication, you would have thought it was a Stockholm noblewoman speaking with her eyes, and the Duchess squirmed her lips as if she were going to say something, but the Grand Princess, who had turned around and gave orders to the maids—she had switched to French, and the Duchess had learned French, but at such a pace she ...... She couldn't quite understand, and with no way of knowing what else the French wanted to do, she hesitated.

She was the highest-ranking of the Swedish female officials, and she did not speak, because the Swedish maid who stepped on the soft and expensive beaver skin, and involuntarily stiffened her body, was even more helpless—the jewels and fur on the French noblewoman were comparable to those of the Queen Mother of Sweden, and not one or two, but a full twelve! When they took the clothes and jewels held by the Swedish maid, no one could resist.

That is, in the few minutes she hesitated, the eldest princess had already changed her clothes with the assistance of the fast-moving maid.

This kind of handover ceremony, which is really incomprehensible to the eyes of ordinary people, is analyzed by modern psychology, that is, a kind of psychological attack similar to destruction, how many princesses faint or cry incessantly after the ceremony because they have to endure such humiliation- At this time, she did not even have a familiar person, only the female officials and maids of her husband's country, and she had to rely on them, to accept their comfort or discipline, and this emotion would be brought to her court until the birth of an heir, and even until she closed her eyes and went to God.

Louis XIV's eldest princess may be the only princess who has not been in mourning and weeping in front of the crowd when she left her homeland, she showed a strong character, this strength cannot be said to be unique to her, and the tenacious princess is not without it, but there is absolutely no princess with a father like Louis XIV, who not only supported the independence of the eldest princess in words but also in deeds, so that she could maintain the dignity of a French princess.

After bidding farewell to her father, although she wore Swedish clothes and Swedish jewelry, she always held her head high, and she was very cold to the female officials headed by the Duchess, but relatively gentle to the envoys, not that she had any opinion of the Duchess, but from the Queen Mother and the Queen, generally speaking, most of the men in the mission who came to greet the princess were the king's cronies, and the ladies were mostly the queen mother or the wives of powerful nobles and ministers, who had come from the beginning with the idea of holding the new queen hostage, and for this reason, the eldest princess could not allow them to remain with her。

The Duchess had not taken the opportunity to complete the task assigned by the Queen Mother when she was alone and alone when the Celestia was unfamiliar with the situation in Sweden, but the next day, when she was getting up from serving the Celestial Princess—when it was still cold in Sweden, and the Celestia was wearing only soft bedclothes—she asked the Celestia to get up from the bed first, stand on the ground, and take off her bedclothes, so that they could put on her long underwear.

This may not sound like much to men, but Princess Celestia has long known that although it is said to be serving her to change clothes, this time can range from a few seconds to a few minutes, and even if the fireplace is blazing, it is enough to make her embarrassed.

"I'm going to change in bed," said Princess Celestia, "I don't want to get cold." ”

"But that's not in order. ”

"If there is any rule written in the book that your queen cannot change her clothes in bed," said the eldest princess, "then please show it to me." ”

The Duchess pursed her lips.

"I'm going to change in bed," Princess Celestia said politely, "this is the second time, ma'am." ”

"No, Your Highness. ”

"So," said the Celestial Princess, sweeping the room, "Lady Sbarre, please come and serve me, and I will change my clothes on the bed." ”

Mrs. Sbarley looked up a little stunned.

Speaking of the Swedish female officials around the eldest princess, they may not know that the list of the entourage here has just been decided, and the secret agent of Louis XIV over there has come up with a detailed information, the eldest princess has long known their situation during the long journey from Paris to Malmö, and to put it rudely, she knows them better than their husbands, at least their husbands will not know how many lovers they have.

The head of the female officials appointed by the Queen Mother was of course the first to bear the brunt, and the eldest princess did not estimate that she would have much chance of making peace with her, and she was the wife of the minister Al-Aqsa Oxenchena, a close confidant of Karl X and the right hand of the Queen Mother during her regency.