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Henrietta Maria of France (French: Henriette Marie; 25 November 1609 – 10 September 1669) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from her marriage to King Charles I on 13 June 1625 until Charles was executed on 30 January 1649. She was mother of his sons Charles II and James II and VII.
Mar 12, 2024 · Henrietta Maria (born Nov. 25, 1609, Paris—died Sept. 10, 1669, Château de Colombes, near Paris) was the French wife of King Charles I of England and mother of Kings Charles II and James II. By openly practicing Roman Catholicism at court, she alienated many of Charles’s subjects, but during the first part of the English Civil Wars she ...
Nov 17, 2022 · Historian Leanda de Lisle’s new biography Henrietta Maria: The Warrior Queen Who Divided a Nation retells the formidable queen’s story. Atlas Obscura spoke with de Lisle about how the queen...
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Wife to King Charles I and Queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland, Henrietta Maria was a patron of the arts who oversaw Inigo Jones’s completion of the Queen’s House in 1635. Who was Henrietta Maria of France?
Born at the Hôtel de Louvre, in Paris, France, on November 25, 1609; died at Château St. Colombes, near Paris, on August 31, 1669; buried in the Church of St. Denis, near Paris; daughter of Henry IV the Great (1553–1610), king of France (r. 1589–1610), and Marie de Medici (c. 1573–1642); sister of Elizabeth Valois (1602–1644, who married Philip ...
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Mar 8, 2018 · From the Spring 2018 issue of RA Magazine, issued quarterly to Friends of the RA. When the French princess Henrietta Maria arrived in England at the Stuart court in 1625, she was just 15 years old and had never met her husband to whom she was married by proxy, Charles I.
Sep 10, 2019 · In France, Henrietta Maria was remembered very differently, as the daughter most like her father, the warrior king, Henri IV – known as Henry the Great. When Henrietta Maria arrived in England in 1625 she was the first French princess to marry an English king since Margaret of Anjou in 1445. Like Margaret, she was only 15.
