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Ambassadors were frantically dispatched to get the measure of the young rulers, alliances were tested, successions rethought, armies and navies readied.
Sometimes the result was war; at other times a sumptuous choreographed display of peacocking, as when Henry VIII of England met François I of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
The leaders of the world can talk to each other within hours of taking over, and few of them begin those negotiations by offering their daughter’s hand in marriage.