Henrietta Maria

  • Henrietta Maria
    By Dominic Pearce

    Anne complained of her treatment by her husband Louis XIII, and told Philip IV, and her other brother, the cardinal-infante Ferdinand (now governing Spanish Flanders), French military secrets. This was known as the Val-de-Grâce affair, ...

  • Henrietta Maria: Piety, Politics and Patronage
    By Erin Griffey

    Thoroughly interdisciplinary in scope, this collection reconsiders Queen Henrietta Maria and her multi-faceted roles and responsibilities, ranging from her patronage of performing and visual arts to her sentiments at the outbreak of the ...

  • Henrietta Maria: Piety, Politics and Patronage
    By Erin Griffey

    2 The chapel had been planned as early as 1623 as part of Charles« madcap scheme to entice the Spanish Infanta into marriage. ... A Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians 1485–1714 (Aldershot and Brookfield, 1998), 2 vols.

  • Henrietta Maria: The Warrior Queen Who Divided a Nation
    By Leanda de Lisle

    Certainly not the French, who, in 1485, provided Richard's nemesis, Henry Tudor, with much of his invasion force: so one dynasty ended and ... Jonathan Spangler, Monsieur: Second Sons in the Monarchy of France 1550–1800 (2021), p. 53.

  • Henrietta Maria: Charles I's Indomitable Queen
    By Alison Plowden

    When the 15-year-old Henrietta Maria, daughter of Henri IV of France and Marie de Medici, arrived in England in June 1625 to marry Charles I, she could not speak English....

  • Henrietta Maria: Queen of the Cavaliers
    By Quentin Blane Bone

    "Henrietta Maria of France (French: Henriette Marie de France; 25 November[1] 1609 ? 10 September 1669) was queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland as the wife of King Charles...

  • Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
    By Leanda de Lisle

    Her estrangement from her son Henry is explained, and the image of the Restoration queen as an irrelevant crone is replaced with Henrietta Maria as an influential 'phoenix queen', presiding over a court with 'more mirth' even than that of ...

  • Henrietta Maria
    By Lady Elizabeth Hamilton

    Henrietta Maria

  • Henrietta Maria: The Warrior Queen Who Divided a Nation
    By Leanda de Lisle

    Dispelling the myths around this legendary queen, this biography of Henrietta Maria, queen consort of King Charles I, retells the dramatic story of the English Civil War from the perspective of this dynamic woman.