_Sir William Stirling Maxwell describes this picture as "perhaps the most satisfactory existing portrait on canvas as he appeared in his prime. It is not impossible that it may be the work of Stradamus." "He wears a small rapier, the Order of the Fleece and a steel cuirass, slightly enriched with gold, with sleeves of chain armour, a band of red velvet being on the right arm and a pair of trunk breeches of some dark parti-coloured stuff, over which is a casing of crimson perpendicular bars (resembling velvet). That this outer covering or cage is detached from the lining is made evident by his dagger hanging between the lining and the cage. His hose and shoes are of light crimson, approaching to pink ... a helmet with a blue plume."_ Flemish School. In the Prado Gallery, Madrid. PHILIP II AS A YOUNG MAN 12 _Born 1527. Died 1598._ _Son of the Emperor Charles V and Isabel of Portugal._ _Married_ 1. _Maria of Portugal._ 2. _Mary Tudor, Queen of England._ 3. _Elizabeth of Valois (Isabel of the Peace)._ 4. _Anne of Austria (his niece)._ Portrait by Titian (1477-1576) is in the Prado Gallery, Madrid. LUIS QUIJADA, LORD OF VILLAGARCIA 37 _Died 1570._ _Specially photographed for this book from a picture in the possession of the Conde de Santa Coloma._ _A replica of this picture exists in Seville in the Palace of the Marqués de la Motilla, of which Don Emilio M. de Torres y Gonzalez-Arnao kindly sent a specially taken photograph._ EMPEROR CHARLES V. CHARLES I OF SPAIN, 1500-58. 45 _Son of Philip the Handsome, of Burgundy, and Joan the Mad._ _Began to reign 1516. Elected Holy Roman Emperor 1519._ _Abdicated 1555. Married Isabel of Portugal._ _This portrait by Titian represents the Emperor at the battle of Muhlberg (1546), where, an historian says, "he looked a warrior; he rode an Andalusian horse covered with a crimson silk cloth with a gold fringe. His armour was brilliant, the helmet and cuirass garnished with gold. He wore the red sash with golden stripes of the general of the house of Burgundy."_ _This armour still exists in the Royal Armoury at Madrid, and has been reconstructed according to the portrait with the most life-like results. The picture itself is in the Prado._ DOÑA LEONOR DE MASCAREÑAS 81 _As governess to Philip II and his son, D. Carlos, she exercised, by reason of her virtues and great discretion, much influence at the Court of the Emperor Charles V, who held her in great esteem. She was also the friend of St. Theresa, and founded the Convent of Our Lady of the Angels in Madrid, to which she retired._