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: being detained in town by reason of some important bills then
passing in Parliament, which it was necessary for him to sign.
He had, however, despatched his royal brother of York, then Lord
High Admiral of England, to meet her at sea, and give her
greeting in his name. Accordingly the duke had encountered the
fleet at the Isle of Wight, and gone on board the queen's ship,
when she received him in her cabin seated under a canopy on a
chair of state. His royal highness expressed his joy at her
arrival, presented "his majesty's high respects and his exceeding
affection for her," and paid her many compliments. Lord
Chesterfield, who had been appointed chamberlain to the queen,
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