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Portugal's most famous love story revolves around Dom Pedro, son of Dom Afonso Y, who fell in love with his wife's Galician lady-in-waiting, Dona Ines de Castro. Even after his wife's death he was forbidden by his father to marry Ines because of her Spanish family's potential influence. Various suspicious nobles continued to pressure the king until he finally sanctioned her murder in 1355, unaware that the two lovers had already married in secret. @Two years later, when Pedro succeeded to the throne, he exacted his revenge by ripping out and eating the hearts of Ines' murderers. @He then exhumed and crowned her body , and (so the story goes) compelled the court to play homage to his dead queen by kissing her decomposing hand. @On Pedro's orders, the lovers now lie foot to foot in the Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaca so that on the Day of Judgment they will see each other as soon as they rise. |
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