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Did Inés de Castro or Inez de Castro’s husband dig up her grave to have her crowned Queen?

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It is not true that he had her disinterred and crowned as queen, but that story was immortalized in a drama of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza. The romantic story of the love affair has been a favorite theme of Portuguese writers and has been much used by Spanish and other writers also.

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