Four Brothers and A Kingdom: A Brother Returns.

Is sibling love real?

Painting depicting the ill King surrounded by his three wives, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, c. 1605, the New York Metropolitan Museum.

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The King's life slowly ebbed away, his heart broken at the departure of R.

Meanwhile, Prince B. returned from his errand in the following days and observed that a pervasive gloom had descended up…