'It is not the sort of thing I would bother to know about, as a rule,' Jack said, 'but, as it happens, I've just come from an almost equally ruined land where every peasant knows the tale, and won't leave off telling it. That country is called the Palatinate and its lords, for a few generations anyway, were Protestant heroes. One of those lords married an English girl, name of Elizabeth – the sister of Chuck the First.'