Olivares

Politically Olivares was as worthless and corrupt as any of his rivals, yet he evidently had an attractive personality.

Strafford and Olivares, overthrown or defeated, aggrandized the immovable Richelieu.

But the young king was bent on ease and pleasure, and his minister Olivares did nothing to persuade him into more active kingship.

In the afternoon Buckingham and Olivares had a brief interview in the gardens of the palace.