Henrietta Maria

Also known as: Henrietta / Queen Henrietta / queen of England · Family: English royal family · Role: queen of England · First appears: Chapter 38

Life events

• Henrietta Maria reveals that Charles I. faces an impending decisive engagement.(Chapter38)
  • With: Charles I
  • “I must inform you that Charles I., my husband, is on the eve of a decisive engagement.”
• Henrietta Maria asks Mazarin to aid Charles I. or grant him hospitality in France.(Chapter38)
  • With: Mazarin Charles I
  • “if the king persists in remaining in England will you send him succor? If he comes to France will you accord him hospitality?”
• Mazarin defers deciding Charles I.'s aid or refuge to parliament.(Chapter38)
  • With: Mazarin Charles I
  • “I will go this instant and consult the queen, and we will refer the affair at once to parliament.”
• Henrietta Maria leaves Mazarin and takes De Winter's hand.(Chapter38 · 📍 palace)
  • With: Lord de Winter
  • “she went and took the hand of De Winter, who stood apart in isolation.”

Chapter 38

• parent: Henry IV “the daughter of Henry IV.”
• parent: Marie de Médicis “Ere the cardinal, your predecessor, sent our mother, Marie de Médicis, to die in exile, she taught us that language.”
• married with Charles I “Charles I., my husband, is on the eve of a decisive engagement.”
• enemies with Mazarin “the daughter of Henry IV. smiled as she advanced to meet a man she hated and despised.”
• with Lord de Winter (De Winter serves as Henrietta Maria’s support in her distress.) “she went and took the hand of De Winter, who stood apart in isolation.”
• with Mordaunt (Mordaunt follows Henrietta Maria's carriage.) “The horses started on a trot and took the road to the Louvre, which they entered. Before leaving the convent of the Carmelites, Henrietta had desired her daughter to attend her at the palace, which she had inhabited for a long time and which she had only left because their poverty seemed to them more difficult to bear in gilded chambers. Mordaunt followed the carriage, and when he had watched it drive beneath the sombre arches he went and stationed himself under a wall over which the shadow was extended”

Chapter 66

• with Charles I (The cross was a gift from Henrietta Maria to Charles.) “Then he drew from his breast a little cross set in diamonds, which, like the order, had been the gift of Henrietta Maria.”

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