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PS. - It has been a long time since we have last had time to enjoy each others company in my bedchamber. Please hurry back to your motherland safely and victoriously. It is so disheartening to be surrounded by graybeards and fanny peckers. They are the scum on a Catholic's shoe. I long for your favorable discourse and comforting words. As a loyal subject I value your opinion and as a loyal friend you are by no means less than my most trusted of advisers. It ales me to keep secrets but they call me the "Virgin Queen." I must keep up appearances or risk losing any respect I have garnered from the men who look down on my femininity. I hope you can understand that I do not deny you publicly out of malice but for the people of this country. I have had many suitors and I still wear the frog brooch I got from one of them. I am wearing it now as I write this. But I fear I have gone on far too long with my terrible scribbles. I hope that God blesses your return with victory and comfort.
Your dearest,
Elizabeth R.
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