Ruy Gómez de Silva, or the prince of Eboli, was one of the central figures at the court of Spain in the sixteenth century. Thanks to his oily affability, socia

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An 18th-century portrait of the palace most recognized as an official home of several British royal family members focuses on the Hanover family during the reig