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 | | Isabella remembers: The Queen has had to overcome the misgivings, the doubts and the envy of her courtiers, the denun- ciations of heresy brought forward by the Church hierarchy, and even the warnings of her husband. |
 | | Isabella was supposed to choose between two other pretenders to her hand: Alphonso V, King of Portugal, a widower many years her senior, or Charles de Valois, a son of King Charles VII of France. |
 | | Isabella probably winced when she affixed her seal to the Decree of Expulsion of the Jews, as she would wince again two years later, in 1502, when signing the Decree of Expulsion of the Moriscos, submitted to her for approval by another man, the Most Eminent Cardinal Ximnez de Cisneros. |
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