The Spanish Match is an 1865 three-volume historical novel by the British writer William Harrison Ainsworth.

[1] [2] [3] It was originally serialised in Bentley's Miscellany under the alternative title House of the Seven Chimneys, a reference to the English Embassy in Spain.

[5] Charles, Prince of Wales travels incognito to Madrid in the company of his father's favourite the Duke of Buckingham in order to arrange a dynastic match with the Infanta Maria Anna, the sister of Philip IV of Spain.

Complications ensue when they finally reach their destination, and the proposed marriage proves very controversial back in England.

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