Henriette

Also known as: Madame Henriette · Family: English · Role: princess · First appears: Chapter 9

Life events

• The English fleet carrying Henriette arrived off the French coast and anchored between Le Havre and La Heve.(Chapter9 · 📍 Le Havre)
  • With: Duke of Norfolk
  • “the three, not venturing perhaps to enter the narrow entrance of the harbor, cast anchor between Le Havre and La Heve.”
• The Duke of Norfolk prevented Buckingham from disembarking the princesses because the sea remained too rough.(Chapter9)
  • With: Buckingham Duke of Norfolk
  • “I have undertaken to convey Madame safe and sound to France, and I shall keep my promise.”
• Comte de Guiche took Buckingham’s customary place beside Henriette, leaving Buckingham inferior by etiquette.(Chapter9)
  • With: Buckingham De Guiche
  • “This was the place Buckingham usually occupied; and when he entered the cabin, how profound was his unhappiness to see himself banished by etiquette”
• Comte de Guiche publicly claimed the right to accompany Henriette as representative of Monsieur and France.(Chapter9)
  • With: Buckingham De Guiche Monsieur
  • “From this moment, indeed, her royal highness belongs to France, and when she deigns to honor me by touching my hand it is the hand of Monsieur”

Chapter 9

• admirer: De Guiche (The princess is identified elsewhere in the passage as Madame Henriette.) “The princess, at this reply, was constrained to check an instinctive tenderness of feeling which the courage displayed by the count had awakened.”
• admired: De Guiche (The passage describes Henriette watching the Comte de Guiche.) “Madame Henrietta’s look a deeper feeling than that of curiosity.”
• admirer: Buckingham (The young man is Buckingham, and the surrounding passage concerns Madame Henriette.) “The young man overheard this remark, turned suddenly pale, and, letting his hands fall in great discouragement by his side, drew aside, mingling in one sigh his old affection and his new hatreds.”
• courtship with De Guiche “The princess, at this reply, was constrained to check an instinctive tenderness of feeling which the courage displayed by the count had awakened.”
• courtship with Buckingham “The young man overheard this remark, turned suddenly pale, and, letting his hands fall in great discouragement by his side, drew aside, mingling in one sigh his old affection and his new hatreds.”

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Extracted from the original text of Ten Years Later. Made with Rho MD.