He was aware of her real sentiments, no doubt, but he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage as Philip's sister.
An incident which occurred a few months after the minister's departure served, to show the general estimation in which he was held by all ranks of Netherlanders.

Count Mansfeld celebrated the baptism of his son, Philip Octavian, by a splendid series of festivities at Luxemburg, the capital of his government.

Besides the tournaments and similar sports, with which the upper classes of European society were accustomed at that day to divert themselves, there was a grand masquerade, to which the public were admitted as spectators.

In this "mummery" the most successful spectacle was that presented by a group arranged in obvious ridicule of Granvelle.

A figure dressed in Cardinal's costume, with the red hat upon his head, came pacing through the arena upon horseback.