Ten Years Later Chapter 16 - Monsieur Becomes Jealous of the Duke of Buckingham

In which Monsieur finds himself consumed by vexation over the attentions shown to his young wife by an English nobleman, and seeks the counsel of his shrewd and influential mother, Queen Anne of Austria. With a mixture of tender maternal interest and political sagacity, Anne balances her son's jealous grievances against the weighty considerations of state and decorum in the unfolding delicate domestic affair.