within the spring of 1623 Charles, Prince of Wales, the younger inheritor to the English and Scottish thrones donned a fake wig and beard and slipped out of britain below the assumed identify of John Smith that allows you to trip to Madrid and safe for himself the hand of the King of Spain's daughter. His father James I and VI have been toying with the belief of a Spanish fit for his son on the grounds that as early as 1605, regardless of the profoundly divisive ramifications any such coverage might have within the face of the decided 'Puritan' competition in parliament, devoted to combatting the forces of overseas Catholicism at each chance. With the Spanish ambassador, the machiavellian count number of Gondomar's encouragement to 'mount' Spain, Charles impetuously took issues into his personal palms and because the negotiations stalled he departed secretly within the guise of Mr Smith to win together with his romantic and foolhardy bold what his father couldn't in achieving via international relations. The eventual failure and public humiliation that his trip to Madrid has been brought up as a tremendous impression on Charles's next improvement and regulations as king. before, there was no try and systematically discover the failure of the Spanish fit from an interdisciplinary viewpoint, together with what it unearths concerning the perform of international relations, the flavor, paintings, and get dressed of the interval, its literature and the long term outcomes for Anglo-Spanish family members. during this quantity major students from a number of disciplines examine the reactions and representations of Charles's romantic escapade and provide their insights into the affair. In doing such a lot of conventional assumptions in regards to the journey are overturned. by means of bearing in mind the political, social, spiritual and foreign dimensions of the development, and analyzing historic, literary and creative facts, this quantity paints a rounded, energetic and bright portrait of 1 of the main extraordinary episodes of the Jacobean age.