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Mary, Princess Royal (Mary Henrietta Stuart; 4 November 1631 – 24 December 1660), was a British princess, a member of the House of Stuart, and by marriage Princess of Orange and Countess of Nassau. She acted as regent for her minor son from 1651 to 1660. She was the first holder of the title Princess Royal.
Mary became Princess of Orange in March 1647 when William’s father died. Mary’s relationship with her mother-in-law Amalia was not very good while the relationship with the rival court of Elizabeth Stuart – who was also her aunt – was very good.
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William and Mary were cousins, sharing King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria as grandparents. Mary was the daughter of Charles I's youngest son, King James II, and his first wife Anne Hyde. William was the son of Charles I 's daughter, Princess Mary and William II, Prince of Orange, in the present-day Netherlands.
Dec 24, 2016 · Mary of Orange – first Princess Royal. Posted on December 24, 2016. The eldest daughter of Charles I and his queen, Henrietta Maria was born in 1631. In France it was the norm for the eldest daughter of the king to be called Madame Royale. Charles gave his daughter the title Princess Royal starting a new English tradition in 1642 that the ...
Nov 4, 2012 · Mary Stuart, Princess Royal, daughter of King Charles I & Henrietta Maria, was born on this day 4 November, 1631. Mary was married (at the very young age of 10) to Prince William II of the House of Orange, who was fifteen, and already fast becoming a dissolute young man. Though her nightgown was sewn shut as a precaution against William’s ...
She acted as regent for her minor son from 1651 to 1660. She was the first holder of the title Princess Royal. The eldest daughter of King Charles I of England and Queen Henrietta Maria, Mary was married to the future stadtholder of the Netherlands, William II of Orange, at 9 years old in 1641.
In 1657, she became regent on behalf of her son for the principality of Orange, but the difficulties of her position led her to implore the assistance of her first cousin Louis XIV of France. The restoration of Charles II in England and Scotland greatly enhanced the position of the Princess of Orange and her son in Holland.
