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ROMANTIC STORY OF
WHEN KNIGHTHOOD
WAS IN FLOWER

King Henry VIII, Of England, give
a tournament at Hampton Court il
honor of the sixteenth birthday of hi
younger sister, Princess Mary Tudor
and Charles Brandon, gallant Eng
lSh knight, just returned from thu
wars in France, overcomes all contest
ants, including the Duke of Bucking
ham. Brandon is summoned to the
royal box where the Princess gives
him golden necklace and the King
appoints him Capta OF the Roya
Guards At court, Brandon gains furth-
er favor by teaching the Princess the
newest dances from France and it is
quite evident that she has fallen II
love with the handsome knight.
But the Princes is onl va pawn in
the Kings game of imperial politics
and he bids her receive the ambassa
doris OF foreign monarchs seeking her
hand in marriage. King Louis XII, OF
France, bids highest, but when she
sees the portrait OF the decreplt old
monarch, Mary rcsents being married
to that withered wreck of king.
In her dilemma, Mary consults a
famous fortune teller in the disreput-
able Billingsgate section of London.
The Duke of Buckingham tries to
abduct her, but Brandon rescucs her
and kills two of Buckingham men,
For this he is arrested at a dance at
Hampton Court and imprisoned i'll the
Tower of London, but Mary secures
his release. Disguised as a boy, she
tries to elope with Brandon to Amer
lea, but they are overtaken at an inn
in Bristol and arrested after hight.
Brandon is condemned to die, but
just as he is mounting the block, and
the headsman axe is poised, Mary
wins his pardon by promising to mar
ny the King of France. She bargains
with her brother, however, that she
shall be peritted to choose her second
ushband to suit herself.
The beautiful English Princess rs
received with royal honors in Paris,
hut old Louis soon discovers that
lille he has bargained for a Queen,
he has not gained wife Mary leads
him cry chase and he soon dies.
But Francis /, his successor to the
throne of France, has fallen in love
with Mary and is determined to keep
her by fair means or foul. She is i'm
nrisoned in the palace, from which
brandon rescues her and they make a
wild dash thru driving rainstorm for
frcedonm and home Being cut off at
bridge by the pursuing French sol
diers they boldly leap their horses
over the parapet and so effect their
escape.
In England Henry VIII has just
been informed that Francis | wants
to marry Mary and will give even a
better price than his predecessor
when in walks the smiling Princess
Henry embraces her and says:
you must return to France, sister;
Francis seeks your hand.
would gladly marry Francis, bro
Their but my husband might object.
Cardinal Wolsey confirms the Kings
promise to let the Princess choose
her second husband, but the jealous
Duke of Buckingham objects that a
Princess OF. the blood royal can not
marry a commoner. Whereupon Mary
wheedles the King into making Bran
don the Duke of Suffolk.
Mary and Brandon having success
fully defied two courts and the ira
dition of ages, walk out of the palace,
and into a glorious kingdom of their
own, the realm of true love.
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