The Danish Princess Engeburg, who became Queen of France, spent twenty years in monasteries and prisons. Why did the young king do this to her? Perhaps with her beauty she reminded him of the blasphemy committed the night before his knighthood. Then, in the temple, young Philip, instead of praying, lavished words of love on the statue of the Madonna, begging her to descend into his arms. A few years later, he was presented with a bride, whose face and figure were exactly copied from that very statue. Her only guilt was her resemblance to the Mother of God - and for this she spent twenty years in captivity! What is this if not a curse?..