1-626-925 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Council of War, 1623-1624, (1893). The future King Charles I travelled to Spain in 1623 to arrange a marriage to the Infanta Maria Anna, daughter of Philip III of Spain. The trip was a disaster, with the Spanish insisting that Charles convert to Catholicism and remain in Spain for a year as conditions of the marriage going ahead. On his return to England, the outraged Charles asked his father, James I, to declare war on Spain. Broadside in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume III, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.