Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... HENRIETTA MARIA, QUEEN-CONSORT OF CHARLES THE FIRST, KINO 01 UfiEAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. CHAPTER II. Happiness cf the queen--Poems in her praise--Her portrait by Vandyke-- Queen "a want of sleep--Her pastoral festival--Prynne's abuse of the queen-- Mic intercedes for him-- Birth of the princess Elizabeth--Queen's reception of her mother--Her grief for Strafford--Queen's letters to the king in Scot land--Her conduct till his return--Betrayed by lady Carlisle--Invents the name of Roundhead--Forced from London by tumults--Her voyage to Holland --Obtains stores for the king--Adventures on her return--Lands at Burlington--Great dangers--The queen's pledge--Her march to York--Queen at Newark--Her answer to the ladies' petition--Meets the king in the vale o( Keynton--Medal struck in her honour--Her residence at Oxford--Hit illness--Journey to Hath and Exeter--Her privations--Birth of the prince* Henrietta--Leaves her infant at Exeter--Danger from the rebel army--Her sufferings and perils--Embarks for France--Her vessel cannonaded--Her diTspurate resolution--Lands near Brest--Adventures--Kind reception France--111 state of health. At the epoch when Henrietta Maria vat apostrophized by the most popular poet of her day as "Great Gloriana! bright Gloriana! Fair as high heaven is, and fertile as earth!" she had been heard to consider herself the happiest woman in the world, --happy as wife, mother, and queen.1 All was peaceful at this juncture; the discontents of the English people whilst Charles I. governed without a parliament, were hushed in grim repose: it was a repose like the lull of the winds before the burst of the typhoon, but she knew it not Henrietta Maria was not only the queen, but the beauty of the British court. She had, about...