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But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.

If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.