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and became involved in the affairs of state which made her very unpopular. Meyerin used her influence on the King to appoint her favourites to state positions. As a result, she was contemptuously called
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he found us sitting together, smiled and asked me if it's not the right time for us to deal with the matter on the outside, in the winter garden, as long as uberius coram de quo
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for an "exceptionally virtuous life". In 1617 during Władysław's expedition against Russia to regain the tsar's throne, he asked of her intervention in favour of
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to the King's children and supervisor of Royal Nurses, she was not held in high esteem among them (Urszula was especially loathed by a
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with a solemn burial ceremony, almost like a Queen. Her grave was plundered and destroyed by
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