| The ornamented gatehouse, garden, and royal tennis court further enhanced this favourite seat of the Scottish monarchs. |
| We have to remember that territorial states in early modern Europe were governed by absolute monarchs who regarded the state as their property. |
| But after the ignominious recapture of a king who appeared bent on internationalizing his plight, other monarchs were alarmed. |
| Although the Angevin monarchs no longer had most of their Angevin lands, their grand dynastic visions had not diminished. |
| He tried very hard to rescind the expulsion order, at one point offering the monarchs 300,000 ducats for a reprieve. |
| The English and French monarchs were kings and queens of the land and not the people. |
