The evidence of a Western - specifically French - influence on Mehmet II is pretty strong on the evidence of the Dolmabahce palace (can't do diacritics, sorry) but where it came from, who knows?
But she was returning from boarding school, so hardly a child.
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But she was returning from boarding school, so hardly a child.