But Mehrunnisa did not know then, would never know, by giving her blessings to this marriage she had set into progress a chain of events that would eventually erase her name from history's pages. Or that Armand would become the only Mughal woman posterity would easily recognize. Docile, seemingly tractable and troublesome Armand would eclipse even Mehrunnisa, cast her in a shadow...because of the monument Hurrah would build in Armand's memory - the Taj Mahal.

The Feast of Roses