C. S. Lewis Quotes
We thought the Duke would have been pleased if the King's Majesty would have married his daughter, but nothing came of that--' Squints, and has freckles,' said Caspian. Oh, poor girl,' said Lucy.
Lewis, C. S. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Geoffrey Bles, 1952, p. 25.
With the death of the King, she, who was about 21 at the time, was pressured to marry Ay a nobleman and military officer who had acted as a type of regent for the boy king Tutankhamen. She did not want to and wrote this letter to the King of Egypt’s greatest rival—the Hittites. The Hittite King, after much consideration, sent one of his sons to marry the Queen and sit on the throne of Egypt. However, Ay had him murdered before he could reach the Queen, and she finally “agreed” to marry Ay who became the Egyptian Pharoh.
Clive Staples Lewis was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
