I don’t think that I have ever truly revealed this before but…

… I chose the image for my novel with great deliberation after learning about this major ART controversy decades ago.

Diego Velázquez painting –

And the ART vs HISTORY collision came from –

I feel that this is a portrait of Marie.

She WAS in Madrid at the time. I’d tracked her hair-raising escape from France step-by-step. She WAS a guest of Felipe IV, brother of Anne of Austria. Ergo……..I claimed this painting as mine own :o)