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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: by the private overtures made him by Shaftesbury, and sustained
by the public prejudices exhibited against the Duke of York.
The proposed union between him and the heiress presumptive to the
crown was regarded by the nation with satisfaction, and by the
prince as an act strongly favouring the realization of his
desires for sovereignty. Cold and grave in temperament, sickly
and repulsive in appearance, blunt and graceless in manner, he
was by no means an ideal bridegroom for a fair princess; but
neither she nor her father had any choice given them in a concern
so important to the pacification of the nation. She, it was
whispered at court, had previously given her heart to a brave
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