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Spanish. The only known physical description of him comes from the pen
of Mary of Scots herself, who describes Phelippes, whose hair and beard
were blond, as "of low stature, slender every way, eated in the face with
small pocks, of short sight, thirty years of age by appearance."
Mary's unflattering comments betrayed her suspicions about
Phelippes—suspicions that were well founded. For Phelippes and his
master, Walsingham, were casting a jaundiced eye on Mary for reasons
that, in their turn, were
equally well founded. Mary was the heir apparent to the throne of
England. She was also nominally queen of Scotland, though she had
been ejected in a tangled series of - events and had been prevented from
returning by the opposition of the strong Protestant party there to her
indiscretions. She was a remarkable woman: beautiful, possessed of
great personal charm, commanding the loyalty of her subordinates,
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