You had recently married Maximilian, Archduke of Austria, but your newlywed life wasn’t happy. Your now husband had once been married to Mary of Burgundy, a virtuous and intelligent woman who had given him his only son and daughter, Philip and Margaret; he had loved her dearly, but she had died after a horse ridding accident while pregnant, and Maximilian had never recovered from her loss. Thus, he wasn’t kind to you.

“You may be more beautifully than Mary, but you will never be her.”