sharp French pen chronicled it, has left a minute account of the ceremony. She says :
"
The Queen rode upon a curious Andalusian horse which the Marquis de
Villa Magna, her first gentleman-usher, led by the rein. Her clothes
were so richly embroidered that one could see no stuff; she wore a hat
trimmed with a plume of feathers and the pearl called the Pelegrina
which is as big as a small pear and of inestimable value, her hair
hung loose upon her shoulders, and upon her forehead. Her neck was a
little bare and she wore a small farthingale; she had upon her finger
the large diamond of the king's, which is pretended to be the finest in
Europe. But the Queen's pretty looks showed brighter than all her
sparkling jewels."
There
is a picture still extant of this queen which proves her to have been
pretty in spite of the disfigurement effected by some of her sparkling
jewels. Madame la Mothe does not mention what the picture shows,
namely, that the Queen's ears were weighted down by a pair of ornaments
as large as saucers which the Queen-mother had presented to her. Above
the earrings moreover were a pair of huge jewelled
