At Segovia, Isabel was proclaimed Queen of Castile, December 14, 1474, by her devoted subject the governor, Don Andreas de Cabrera, then husband of her friend, Beatrix de Bobadilla. A noble company of ricoshombres, priests, and alcades, in their robes of office, waited on her in the Alcazar in the Sala del Trono, and escorted her, under a purple baldaquino, through the city, mounted on a Spanish jennet, preceded by an hidalgo on horseback bearing a naked sword.
“Castile, Castile, for the king and his consort, Doña Isabel!” cried the herald.
But it was Isabel alone that received homage as
queen and proceeded to the cathedral to return thanks. How far this omission pleased Don Ferdinand does not appear, but at least he had espoused the fairest woman in Spain—after her mother—and he possessed her entire love.