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The third queen, Tar-Vanimelde, cared more for the arts than for government and effectively let her consort take over daily rule, which he then kept on her death.
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A good thing:
"The mediævals were only too right in taking nolo efiscopari1 as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers." (Letter 52)